#pentiment tag

[rugessnome]

i was looking for the one Klaus Drucker quote and found someone pointing out that St. Grobian says "A whole lot of inconceivable shit happens on this hell of an earth, Andreas"

which uh. reminiscent of "this bitch of an earth"—> WAS this line potentially influenced by tumblr (...or similar)?!

anyway I think possibly St. Grobian would do well on tumblr...

[astriiformes]

Hello friends and please behold my own personal masterpiece, an as-comprehensive-as-I-could-make-it "Which character are you?" quiz for Pentiment with thirty-six different possible results.

Please be warned that there are spoilers for the game within, in both the structure of the quiz and some of the descriptions in the results! That said, I have poured a lot into this and I am so curious to see what results people get, so I would love if folks gave it a look.

[merged2106]

Um, so this is from my very first playthrough and honestly I cannot remember the whole thing but I thought it was lovely so cannot help but share!

[dijon-mayonnaise]

They are like monk girls’ generation to me

[astriiformes]

Okay but I feel like by Renaissance standards he is much more of a dropout

Even though Andreas has a Master's degree, the Renaissance-era Master's degree was largely a continuation of the same trivium/quadrivum liberal arts studies that got you a Bachelor's degree (in universities that even offered a Bachelor's -- they didn't always, though I believe most German universities did). It's not like the system of today where Master's and Doctoral students are likely to have majored in something similar in undergrad -- until the Doctoral level, everyone was studying the same thing. In order to even begin in one of the areas of Doctoral study, you had to already have your Master's.

So while Andreas technically got a degree, it's a degree that largely would have allowed him to teach entry-level university students, or at a local Latin school. As far as his actual career goals (whether you choose Law, Theology, or Medicine), it's completely useless, and amounts to a lot of wasted time/money. Depending on when he dropped out, he might only have gotten a year or two of instruction in whatever he intended to study -- and after around six years of studying just to get to that point, too.

It's not a 1:1 but it almost feels a bit like someone doing fine in their gen eds and then completely burning out when they hit the bulk of their more relevant upper division coursework or around the time they were supposed to declare a major* than it does a modern grad student Mastering out of their PhD program, which I think adds a lot to Andreas being so worried about burning out as an artist, too.

*extremely US-centric metaphor here but it's the modern university system I'm most familiar with, there might be others that fit better

I love how everyone’s like “Andreas is a university dropout” but he has a masters degree

[such-a-fellow]

My piece for @palimpsestzine ! I had a wonderful time working on this alongside such incredible organizers and artists. I adore this game and I adored working on this project!

You can download the zine here! It was put together with SO much care and detail, and everyone's contributions are stunning. Any proceeds go to Librarians With Palestine!

[secrescaryat]

// pentiment spoilers (implied ig but still there)

more of these because i was inspired

[tractim]

still not over him

[evil-knight-oathbreaker]

deep in my heart i know i wasnt meant to be a girl at school. i was meant to be a balding, very rotund Franciscan friar who worked illustrating manuscripts in the scriptorium.

[pretendingday]

Stadt der Melancholie

[vesper100]

Can we please have more genderbent Pentiment content . For the masses

absolutely. SPOILER WARNING if u scroll

do you see my vision here

[callisteios]

I have a new uquiz for you, go on a pilgrimage with me. discover who you are.

[astriiformes]

Homework assignment for my next medieval and Renaissance medicine class includes a beloved Academic Paper from my Video Game Bibliographies

[livingintheighties]

love is the only reason to do anything in this life.

[linipik]

Pentiment 's Andreas Maler as the holy trinity. The son, the father and the ghost

Spend the last couple of days finishing this game, and I absolutely loved it

[such-a-fellow]

My piece for the Pentiment Winter Gift Exchange 2023! I loved working on this. the kids can have little a theft as a treat.