#personal recommendations

[daydreamgalleries]

I don't think there's any sort of official promotion post for this game on tumblr, but I ran across this while browsing Steam stuff!

The developer is the same person behind The Weather Channel podcast and Ill-Advised Records. According to them, this game is inspired by a combination of Stardew Valley and World of Horror.

Ill-Advised Records trailer [here] Primary development youtube channel [here]

[mamuttuth]

Do you guys heard about Radiant by Tony Valente? It’s a French fantasy manga with beautiful characters and good humor.

And I thought that Izuku and Seth would be best friends if they met.

I draw them in each other costumes *he-he*

[timetravelingmilkshake]

If analogue horror is your thing, I would hella recommend the children under the house. It's a startlingly fantastic story and I am obsessed with the style and the voice actor is amazing.

[callisteios]

hii i recently fell in love with movies again so i made a uquiz where you can find out which actor would play you in a film about your life.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[donutdrawsthings]

Can we talk about this? I feel like not enough people talk about this happening in the movie

[twofoursixohjuan]

please elaborate in tags :)

[all-my-ocs-are-evil]

[insert poetic title here]

fun fact: this did not start out as isat fanart

(rambling in tags)

[rixareth]

As requested, I have examined my fondness for terrible characters, and I have concluded that I like them because they're terrible and I'm not sorry.

[bixels]

It's crazy how Dungeon Meshi's manga can feel more cinematic and emotional than the anime to me, even when they're practically the same. Compared to the anime, this moment is such a heartbreaking gut-drop. The way Kui uses negative space and flat compositions to create a sense of horrific stillness is so key.

The way the text (Senshi's monologue) is sequestered to an empty corner of a panel or huddled away from the edge of its text box is not only a great way of showing Senshi's headspace (fearful, isolated, dissociating), but creates a visual representation of pause, as if you hold your breathe after each line. The first panel puts us directly in Senshi's perspective too (compared to in the anime, which puts us as an outside observer over Senshi's shoulder). The detail of the door and bricks so effectively implies that he stared at it for so long, waiting and hoping, that its image is burned in his memory. The wood grain, the brick arch, the number of rivets. The lack of dialogue in the second panel shows a moment of realization too –– "he's dead" (also a great example of the Kuleshov effect). And it's that pause that creates a beat and sets a great rhythm to his headspace, like a music rest: "He never came back." (oh god.) "I'm all alone." Finally, the third panel's negative space, cropping Senshi, shows how truly alone he feels. Without his family, the world ceases to exists. Under shock, he traps himself in a 1-foot radius, too scared to even perceive a world outside its boundaries; a world that can hurt him, kill him, make him disappear with it. There is only his body, the stone beneath his feet and against his back, his thoughts, and that awful bowl of soup.

Even though they're a series of flat images, there's an implicit reading of silence in Senshi's realization and horror. Kui influences your experience to slow down and take your time.

Compare this to the anime, which fills every shot with dialogue. The pacing is fast; we never get to sit in silence like we do with the manga. The horizontal frame allowed the boarders to add Senshi, turning the composition into an over-the-shoulder shot, which takes us out of Senshi's POV. They also added a zoom-out in shot one, which adds unnecessary energy to a very somber scene. The tightening on Senshi as a close-up reaction shot also dulls the moment. In the original panel, Senshi stares ahead at the empty space to his left as a shadow surrounds his mind. It not only shows how Senshi's senses are dulling and his world is shrinking (setting up panel three), but shows how terrified Senshi is of what's in front of him, how the air itself becomes pitch black and opaque, how Senshi is surrendering himself to fear. The pacing is understandable and necessary; this episode packed a lot of story content together. It's just a shame because it really (imo) deflated one of the most nauseating moments in Dungeon Meshi.

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

[you-were-meteowrong]

reblog for bigger sample size

[mamuttuth]

I’m not old, I’m experienced 👌

Gertrude and Larry now my best friends I love them

[ciderjacks]

thinking again about how much trust he had to have in Laios to recommend his own daughter in case he dies

[pencilscratchins]

sorry i stopped posting, i got medicated and also engaged

[dalekinapaintedparadise]

Another reason to cry about the Temperance ending: Johnny feels like V is still out there somewhere.