#phantasmagoria

[shapelytimber]

Once again a dating sim with a lot of extra steps-

[COMMISSIONS]

I did *not* expect Phantasmagoria 2, this fmv point and click from the 90s, to be 1) this good 2) an office romance and 3) this explicitly queer ?? Like I'm not kidding when I say this was one of the queerest games I've ever played- I knew that it featured the first bisexual protag in video game, but I thought this would be a quick mention or hidden thing, not an unavoidable central theme and major plot point ?? Color me surprised and impressed ! You may not have sex scenes with Trevor (one of your 3 love interests), but you *do* go on multiple dates with him, he is the character you interact with the most, he gets the most impactful scene of the game and you talk to your psychiatrist about your confused and repressed love for him. And also he is relentlessly gay, written with care and with an active sex life ?? Once again : game from 1996, was not expecting that ???? Also I have to say this game has such strong TMA vibes that I am convinced Jonathan Sims has played it, this many similarities can't be accidental fjfjfk

You don't need to play the first one, it's 5€ on steam (and always on sales so closer to 3€.... And I'm sure you can find it for free if you go looking), it's less than 10 hours long... Please play this game, you won't regret it :))

Played it while on vacation with @quijicroix and we are now both unwell fjkfkfkdkd

[weirdlookindog]

Paul Rieth (1871–1925) - Phantasmagorie

illustration from Jugend #35, 1899

[enchantedbook]

Illustration from Lewis Carroll's 'Phantasmagoria' by Arthur B. Frost, 1884

[sennamaticart]

Zineoween 5 & 6, Phantasmagoria, and Feast

[prozrel]

“Phantasmagoria” 2024

[endlessmazin]

Full set of Phantasmagoria GIFs made in 2023-2024 - can be found in #ditheriumdei tag

[cimmerian-war-shrine]

[slbindery]

Apparently it’s fanfic writers appreciation day so I thought today would be a good time to share these gift binds I just finished. This may look like a bit of a Mallstars fangirl post (and I am!) but I also Appreciate (with a Capital A) Every. Single. Fanfic writer out there.

Follies of an Ornamental Hermit by Mallstars and art by Phantasmagoria

“You will absolutely drown in Harry, and it will be warm and golden and wonderful , the tea leaves seemed to say, and it was all Draco could do not to vanish the lot of them in a huff.”

This was a real labor of love to turn Phantasmagoria’s art book cover into a printable design for the HTV, especially when I’m staring at these quotes. How can you not turn into an absolute puddle with prose like this?!?

Save the Date by Mallstars

“What do you feel when you look at me?” Draco asked and Harry caught it, the shift in tense, into the present. The weight behind the question. It burned in Draco's clear eyes.

“Everything," Harry said, willing his voice not to waver, for no cough to escape his body and cut into the moment. "I feel everything.”

Time to go reread both of these fics.

[iamdangerace]

[retroscifiart]

Ad for Phantasmagoria, a one person art fanzine by Kenneth Smith that ran 1971-77

[drarrymyheart]

Favourite Tumblr artists for Drarry?

Oh oh I love this ask. Here are some of my favorites:

@kyuini - Kyu puts out INCREDIBLE art and they share tons of other great drarry art as well!

@basiatlu - I cannot even express how much I love Basia’s work- it is so unique and full of feeling while still quirky and magical and really just go feast your eyes.

@littlewinnow - winnow’s art is SO PRECIOUS and often so funny and sweet I love it so much

@meemoop - I am LIVING for these little Drarry comics they absolutely MAKE MY DAY.

@fantalfart - Lory’s talent is BEYOND. I love their Harry and Draco 🥹

@longdaytogo - absolutely ICONIC drarry art

@valoale - just fantastic. Really love their sensual pieces.

@creeeee - I am clearly obsessed with creeeee’s Harry and Draco (they are my header on here)

@itsphantasmagoria - okay first of all if you haven’t played their visual novel Dating Draco stop everything and go play it it’s incredible. Their work is so compelling and playful and sleek and lovely.

@morihuori - truly gorgeous and iconic drarry art- I love

@upthehillart - another absolutely iconic drarry artist- everything they put out is *chefs kiss*

@bananacat890203 - I recently discovered this artist and their work is so fun and lovely!

And then I can’t not mention @uncannycerulean @starquestingfordrarry and @apricitydays-lazynights because they can’t simply be amazing writers they have to be fantastic artists as well.

Who are your favorites??? Please tell me!! I can never follow enough Drarry art.

[anim-ttrpgs]

Songs for Eureka Sessions: Investigation Scenes (tense/creepy) Part 2

Masterpost of Eureka song lists & how to choose good music for any TTRPG session.

Disposable Entertainment – Little Nightmares II

Silver Lights – Coconuts

Crush – Hotline Miami

Videodrome – Hotline Miami 2

Ghost – El Huervo

Disturbance – Hotline Miami 2

Black Tar – Hotline Miami 2

Welcome Back – Peturbator

ZebraBackground – Hotline Miami 2

Soggy Doggy Tunnel – Lost in Vivo

A Place to Drown In – Lost in Vivo

Spooky Music Dude – Lost in Vivo

From Dusk Till Dawn – Parasite Eve II

All Burnt Away – yatakiya

I Don’t Even Know My Name – yatakiya

Abandoned Mine – Parasite Eve II

Track 2 - Nightmare Creatures

Track 3 - Nightmare Creatures

Track 5 - Nightmare Creatures

Ambient Cementery - Resident Evil 1 Remake

Creatures of the Night – Resident Evil 1 Remake

Moonlight Sonata - Resident Evil 1 Remake

Max’s Nightmare - Max Payne

Unclean Kitchen - Resident Evil 1 Remake

Behind the Mansion - Resident Evil 1 Remake

The Second Floor - Resident Evil 2

Basement - Phantasmagoria

The Library - Resident Evil 2

Clues 06 - L.A. Noire

Clues 07 – L.A. Noire

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[peachdues]

*sigh*

reuploaded bc of a typo lmao

[fmth3rd]

"you're not very manly for a trans guy"

The cis men who inspired my gender goals:

[batbetbitbotbut]

(ID: photos of a chunky blue hardback book "The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll", plus "The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition" and a beautiful gilt-edged copy of "The Hunting of The Snark".)

My best charity shop find in some time: the complete works of Lewis Carroll, 1232 pages, fully illustrated, in perfect condition, for £3! I have miscellaneous poems of his in other anthologies, but he might now have earnt his own corner of bookshelf somewhere.

The Alice books are in here of course, but there are so many dozens more poems and stories which I had never read before. I have started off with Phantasmagoria, a dialogue between a man and the ghost who comes to haunt him, and was particularly delighted / horrified by this pun and this stretched rhyme:

ID: two photos of text. First one:

"Inspector Kobold came to you -" / The little Ghost began. / Here I broke in - "Inspector who? / Inspecting Ghosts is something new! / Explain yourself, my man!" "His name is Kobald," said my guest: / "One of the Spectre order: / You'll very often see him dressed / in a yellow gown, a crimson vest, / And a nightcap with a border. "He tried the Brocken business first, / But caught a sort of chill; / So came to England to be nursed, / And here it took the form of thirst, / Which he complains of still. "Port-wine, he says, when rich and sound, / Warms his old bones like nectar: / And as the inns, where it is found, / Are his especial hunting-ground, / We call him the Inn-Spectre."

Second one, bolding mine:

"And when you've learned to squeak, my man, / And caught the double sob, / You're pretty much where you began: / Just try and gibber if you can! / That's something like a job! "I've tried it and can only say / I'm sure you couldn't do it, e- / ven if you practised night and day, / Unless you have a turn that way, / And natural ingenuity.

And it also turns out that Carroll's style remains even when writing a serious logic textbook (Symbolic Logic) under his actual academic mathematician name Charles Dodgson:

ID: photo of text:

(3) When you come to any passage you don't understand, read it again: if you still don't understand it, read it again: if you fail, even after three readings, very likely your brain is getting a little tired. In that case, put the book away, and take to other occupations, and next day, when you come to it fresh, you will very likely find that it is quite easy. (4) If possible, find some genial friend, who will read the book along with you, and will talk over the difficulties with you. Talking is a wonderful smoother-over of difficulties. When I come upon anything - in Logic or in any other hard subject - that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!

Some wisdom from 1897 for us all. RIP Carroll you would have loved rubber duck debugging, idk how you have such faith in my not getting irritated at my own stupidity though

[prozrel]

From the series “Phantasmagoria” 2024, pigment printing