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colleendoran · 2 years ago

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The Secret Language of a Page of Chivalry: The Pre-Raphaelite Connection

Adapting Neil Gaiman’s Chivalry is a decades-long dream fulfilled. The story as text can be enjoyed on multiple levels, and so can the art. You look at the pages and see the pretty pictures, but the pictures also have meta-textual meaning. Knowing this secret language adds to the experience.

Some people pick up the references quickly, but I’ll share with you some more of what’s going on under the surface.

In Ye Olden Days of Art Making, most painters made pictures that contained visual narrative cues. Flowers in a picture might be heraldic signs that signaled political affiliations, or could indicate purity, anger, or love. Purple was the color of kings. A dog in a picture might represent faithfulness, and butterflies could represent the soul.

There are Pre-Raphaelite paintings with so many symbols and ideas in them that you need a deep working knowledge of Victorian and Edwardian social mores to understand what’s going on.

For example, Ford Madox Brown’s Work, a painting which took some 13 years to complete, was first exhibited in 1865 with a catalogue explaining all its symbols and elements. There is nothing in that picture that doesn’t mean something.

I brought some of that visual meta-textual sensibility to Chivalry, (and I’ve written about the symbolism and meanings in the work in other essays.)

I also brought into the work direct Pre-Raphaelite art references.

From 1868-1870, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones created four paintings illuminating the tale of Pygmalion and Galatea, entitled Pygmalion and the Image, and wrote a poem with each line titling one painting:

The heart desires

The hand refrains

The godhead fires

The soul attains.

A perfect little poem for Chivalry, and I think of it often when some people present me with what I think is a very strange question: why didn’t Galaad just take the Holy Grail from Mrs. Whitaker?

It kind of breaks my heart that people would even ask that.

Burne-Jones painted two versions of this series of which this is the second.

In the first panel of this page, Sir Galaad kneeling before the Grail is derived from the figure of Pygmalion kneeling before Galatea: The Soul Attains.

Sir Galaad’s restraint even in the face of his greatest desire makes him worthy of his prize.

There are two Pre-Raphalite references in this page, the most obvious being in panel 2: it’s Sir John Everett Millais’s 1857 work A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford.

The painting was very poorly received on first exhibition, compelling Millais to redo significant portions of it. It was caricatured and ridiculed, and then ended up becoming influential and popular, and isn’t that the way it goes.

That’s an art career in a nutshell, really.

The Sir Isumbras image also influenced John Tenniel’s illustrations for the Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland novels.

Sir Isumbras derives from a 13th century Medieval romance poem about a good knight whose pride causes him to fail in his Christian duty. He is presented with a series of difficult challenges before he can find happiness again, reunite with his family, and be forgiven his sins. The painting by Millais is based less explicitly on the poem than it is on a later parody of the poem. (It’s complicated.)

My using Sir Isumbras as the base for the shot of Galaad with the children is obvious here. In the Millais painting, Sir Isumbras carries a woodcutter’s children across the ford. In Chivalry, Sir Galaad carries the children of Mrs. Whitaker’s neighborhood down the street.

While Sir Isumbras spent many years learning humility and Christian duty, Galaad has a long quest to fulfill before he can achieve his goal. And on the way to that goal, he’s humble and nice to children, too.

That the Millais painting was such a huge influence on many a depiction of knighthood over the years made it a perfect reference point here, and the story behind both the painting and the poem give it further layers of meaning.

The next panel has a far less obvious reference, but the source is Arthur Hughes’s painting The Rescue.

Arthur Hughes is one of the lesser-known Pre-Raphaelites, but his art is widely seen and influential. He’s certainly been a big influence on me, as many of his paintings appear again and again in Arthuriana references, as he was a prolific King Arthur picture tale teller.

The Rescue (1907-1908) was originally part of a diptych which was separated and sold back in the 1920’s. His style was becoming unpopular by the time Hughes painted the work, and little is known about this work except that one panel was in the collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber at some point. Maybe still is. Dunno.

Anyway, the diptych depicts a little child kneeling in prayer menaced by a dragon in one panel, and in the next, safely trotting away with a knight on horseback. I like that this is a diptych, a kind of proto-comic art form common in medieval religious art, so this was perfect to use here.

Another reference to Arthur Hughes is in this double page splash from later in the book as Galaad on his quest encounters the Hesperides.

I didn’t set out to reference this Arthur Hughes piece at first, but it’s one of my favorite paintings. When I realized my sketches for this scene kept echoing the Hughes composition, I went with it. The Hughes painting of Galahad is one of the most famous depictions of the character, so it makes me happy to have this referenced in Chivalry.

Kindly ask for CHIVALRY, published by Dark Horse Comics in the USA and by Headline Books in the UK at your local comic shops or bookstore. Written by Neil Gaiman. Adaptation and art by me.

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Colleen Doran Illustrates Neil Gaiman will be a solo exhibit at the Society of Illustrators in New York City this spring. Watch this space for updates.

Have a wonderful holiday season.

#neil gaiman #dark horse comics #king arthur #Sir Galahad #Comics #graphic novel #fantasy graphic novel #watercolor #pre raphaelite #pre raphaelism

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peachyuka · 1 year ago

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"OC color wheel!"

Hey! Here’s my first take on the Color Wheel challenge, I chose to draw some of my girl OCs! Here’s some info about them if you’re interested!

❤️Red: Charlie! She’s one of the main characters from my biggest project Chronothief!

🧡Orange: Xaco! The mischievous main protagonist of me and my bro’s visual novel “Xaco’s Office”. The link is in my bio if you wanna play it 👀 💛Yellow: Nata, the protag of an old video game project. She’s a hikikomori trying to overcome her fear of the outside world. 💚Green: Marilyn from “Marilyn and the seed”, a comic I’m working on! She’s resting with her cute plant :D 💎Cyan: my old persona… you might remember that random blue haired character if you were following me back in 2018. no, I’m not bringing her back 💙Blue: the kid. From another game idea I have in mind. She’s never seen her reflection. Maybe she’s actually not even real. 💜Purple: Tsubasa Kirigiri, an old OC I made for a Danganronpa AU involving cousins of protagonists. As you may have guessed, she’s Kyoko Kirigiri’s cousin. 💗Pink: Mona! The protagonist of a novel project I probably won’t ever finish, but that character means so much to me, I like drawing her every once in a while. She has a delicate soul but messed up feelings.

#chronothief #xaco's office #le cabinet de xaco #color wheel challenge #color wheel meme #my art #my artwork #OC #original art #Original Artwork #original character #Illustration #Digital Illustration #illustrator #digital art #digital painting #digital artwork #color wheel

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courtneysmovieblog · 11 months ago

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Ending 2023 with "The Color Purple"

No matter how bleak life seems, there's always hope for better times.

The new musical movie adaptation of The Color Purple reminds us of this, so maybe it's fitting that it was the movie that I wound up ending the year with.

Let's get this out of the way: it is NOT a remake. It's a movie adaptation out of the Broadway musical that was indeed made out of the movie, no different from Hairspray and the upcoming Mean Girls. Do not dismiss it as a cash grab when director Blitz Bazawule clearly puts his heart and soul into this film, and so did the cast.

Although in fairness, it is hard not to compare it to the original 1985 movie when it had such brilliant work from the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah, and Danny Glover. The fact that it lost out on the Oscars remains a travesty to this day that I neither forgive nor forget.

Yet this cast is just as spectacular. Fantasia Barrino's Celie more than lives up to Whoopi Goldberg's legacy while making the role her own. Her emotionally charged performance reminds us all why she won American Idol, and while she hasn't had the best of luck since then, I hope this film helps turn that luck around.

Taraji P Henson wows as Shug Avery, Celie's lover -- and yes, this version makes it crystal clear that they ARE lovers while the original movie just alluded it to it. I have to admit, part of me would have liked it if Jennifer Hudson reprised her Broadway role just so that we could have seen her and fellow American Idol alumni Barrino play a couple, but oh well. Danielle Brooks fearlessly takes on Sofia -- the role Oprah originated, and she couldn't have done a better job.

A special shout out goes to Halle Bailey, who plays Celie's sister Nettie (the teenage version, anyway) and proves that her Little Mermaid was no fluke. I can't wait for more from her.

Despite the horrific and heartbreaking events Celie and other characters goes through, the movie manages to be a pretty uplifting musical, with vibrant visuals and songs. It pulls this off in a way that feels genuine without being corny.

My only problem with the movie concerns the resolution between Celie and her abusive husband Albert (Coleman Domingo). For those that never read the novel or saw the Broadway musical, Celie winds up becoming friends with her abusive ex-husband. With all due respect to Alice Walker, I just can't get behind that. Not after everything he did to her. I preferred how the 1985 version ended it: with Danny Glover's Albert discretely doing right by Celie and nobody except Shug knowing. That, I felt, was believable: it didn't make up for everything he did to her, and he didn't expect it to. True redemption is doing the right thing without getting anything out of it.

But that's my opinion.

All that aside, The Color Purple deserves all the awards and acclaim that original deserved and never got. Your move, Oscars.

9 out of 10

#review #musicals #halle bailey

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fruiteggsaladit · 1 year ago

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I found nothing on Rena from yyh on tumblr here so I'm making one here (edit: I tangented! edit 2: I edited so it reads a little bit better)

ID: Two sections cut up from a manga side panel from YYH, vol 4, ch 27, pg 41. Right image is a portrait of Lena, smiling: "You're gonna buy it next month! (heart)". Left image reads: "Single-panel characters: Lena, the Angel of Death Friend of Botan. Nothing thrills her more than to spot a hot guy and tell him he's going to die." / END ID.

Lena or Rena (レナ), screenshot here from chapter 27 page 41 volume 4, wearing a headband with the character 死 (death). She appears in only this panel in the manga (I believe?) but she reappears in “Yu Yu Hakusho 100% Maji Battle" Botan Event (EDIT: a translated post about it here) where Botan speaks with her, impressed with Rena for having collected 20 souls that month alone.

"This is a job but I can't help but feel the transcience of human existence," Botan says. Building on her one-panel appearance, Rena responds, "Really? I'm the happiest when I announce a boy my type that he's going to die!" (paraphrased from translated quote).

ID: Botan and Rena in a 100% Maji Battle Event screenshot, similar to a visual novel. Rena (in Japanese): "When I announce to a boy who is my type that he is going to die, I am the happiiiiiest!" (translation: yyh4ever) /END ID.

Love her! Oh and her game appearance is given an orange scarf, I like that renewed design. Really intrigued that she appears to be the only ferry girl who doesn't wear a kimono or hakama; additionally her appearance in the game has an interesting blend of dark and bright colours, reminiscent of Ayame (her only colour-tie to Botan seems to be the eyes, both shades of purple - ferry girl trait? could be neat!) -

Which makes me think she's senior enough to just disregard regulatory uniforms, which is all the more intriguing to me! I also just like Botan having seniors, because she strikes me as young compared to what her job as a ferry girl (psychopomp) is and for how long it may have existed for (more on that on the bottom tangent of this post).

Headcanon section

Even more notable to me tho is that the scarf reminds me of someone...

ID: Images to compare characters Rena and Koenma from YYH. Rena wears an orange scarf, Koenma wears a red scarf. /END ID.

Koenma! Which was the big reason why she gives me Senior Executive Staff (a company president or a COO maybe); that the scarf isn't a personal preference, but a uniform cue for the rank she has within the Spirit Office. That being said...

She strikes me as someone who hides from the newbies how old she really is, because similarly to telling an attractive guy he's going to die, she gets a kick out of a new shinigami learning the truth about her after many months or years of knowing her, and having assumed that she might be their senior (senpai) but could also have entered the Office at the same time as them... although, they don't remember seeing her at orientation... and she doesn't really get bossed around like they do... (the rest of the Spirit Office are too scared to tell the newbies the truth, Rena Will Remember That and no one wants to be remembered by her).

She looks like she could be a mid-to-late 20s-something, but she could also actually be the oldest ferrygirl around. Not by natural age, but because she killed the eldest ones among them because she was younger and wilder back then and got a thrill from killing someone as strong as or normally stronger than herself.

Food for thought: What exactly is a ferrygirl, and do they exist separate from the Spirit Office, or can anyone become a ferrygirl? If they exist separately, when and how were they absorbed into the SO? What were they like and what did they do prior to SO employment?*

I just like her being the most dangerous person at the spirit office and she's turned out a little bit boring in her old age (ferrygirls being a relatively new job potentially, it could be unknown how old one of them could get?). She did some murders, she did some assaults, now she wants to gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss with a silk glove.

Also just really funny to think about Botan specifically never picking up on any of the little red flags Rena is waving. I might thinking of Rena like a shade of Akio from Utena? In the sense that she'd made a place for herself and others and she's displeased when the fun is interrupted. That seems like the right amount of crazy for a character who never appears canonically in the manga but exists all the same thanks to one side manga panel and one game event (two appearances in total across the manga, anime, games, and adaptive canons...).

Last Rena headcanon: Botan gets a lot of her mannerisms and work ethic from Rena, including that hand-pointing gesture.

* I think I remember a post where Togashi was asked about the Spirit World and how it related to Earth... Cannot find that post (I recall that it was yyh4ever who translated it?). I think I remember it saying how Spirit World was like a parallel reality/world of Earth's, prompting the interviewer(?) to ask if there were things beyond the Office in the Spirit World realm, similar to Earth (schools being one example), and Togashi said yes? It's very annoying I can't remember the exact phrasing or find the post!

Tangent on shinigami or ferry girls:

Several "fun facts abt YYH" articles link Botan to Charon, the greek ferryman carrying souls of the dead to Hades, and I thought I had read an interview with Togashi about his inspirations regarding Botan being related to that, but this must be a false memory. The myth from those articles probably builds on the localised translating of Sanzu River into Styx, and mine derives from believing the yyh wiki a little too much.

(Granted, she does carry an oar like Charon does, but until I find a proper quote, I'm disgarding this as nonsense.)

A comment on a FB post points to Wikipedia's page on the Sanzu River, the last paragraph of which (as of Sep 14 2023) refers to Jizou, or Kṣitigarbha. The Kṣitigarbha Boddhisattva Sutra mentions a Sacred Girl/Daughter (Brahmin), who through -

"“earnest and filial devotion of making offerings to the Buddha of Flower of Meditation and Enlightenment that [her] mother was relieved. Not only did [her] mother receive deliverance from Hell, but all sinners of the Avici 18 Hell also benefited from it, for they ascended to Heaven on the same day.” (...) She then knelt before the Buddha of Flower of Meditation and Enlightenment and expressed this strong vow, “I shall exercise my best to relieve people of their sufferings forever in my future lives of kalpas to come.”" (translated from Chinese to English by Ms Pitt Chin Hui, president of the Singapore regional centre of the world fellowship in Buddhism and a founder of Poh Ern Shih Temple in Singapore). Establishment that the translator belongs with reads a little sus to me, but I appreciate an English translation of the passage.

In her introduction, she describes herself as a shinigami. "I am what you call a grim reaper," (Eng sub; Japanese dub uses "shinigami"), which becomes a little more interesting. Shinigami in traditional Japanese myth apparently did not have as noble roots as the Sacred Girl did: classical literature from as late as 1841, "Ehon Hyaku Monogatari", includes a story of a malicious ghost. They do not guide as much as invite a human to death!

Loose extrapolation: It's a convenient way to explain suicide, maybe? I recall smarter people than me reporting that suicides are usually very spontaneous, and that one has a sense of immediate regret (when one is able to survive an attempt). Having the explanation that a ghost made me do itcould lessen the burden for my own and loved ones' state(s) of mind, because one investigates one's surroundings then from the perspective of "what can I do to avoid this ghost (sucidical thought) from overwhelming me again?" People become more alert to my moods, and check in on me, and the effort is probably reassuring. Also, there's the factor of being able to blame my lack of control on something other than myself: the social stigma being somewhat alleviated from it being the work of a ghost, rather than me being "weak-willed" or "-minded".

Remembering something now: I looked this up before and my eye caught at Wikipedia's entry on shinigami, "the Western notion of a god of death entered Japan, and shinigami started to become mentioned as an existence with a human nature". No particularly good source to find on the web for that one at the moment!

There was one more mention of a "death god" being confused with "god of paper" in one late 1700s play of a tragic romance, which would land the YYH ferrygirls, following this logic, to perhaps having existed for some 200-220 years. Not a very long time for a species, even fictional, or a job related to the Spirit Office, which has supposedly existed for thousands of years.

Concluding headcanon: Similarly to Spirit Detectives, Koenma developed the occupation of ferry girls to involve humans more with the Spirit Realm. (However noble Koenma thinks his intent was with this...)

#yyh things #ferry girl trio #Rena #Lena #yyh Lena #yyh Rena #yyh レナ #幽☆遊☆白書レナ #yyh ref #yyh manga ref #koenma

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evaludate · 2 years ago

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[Video Description: A clip from the visual novel Bustafellows, depicting the characters Teuta Bridges and Scarecrow sitting in a red car while it rains outside. Teuta is a young white woman with green eyes and braided ginger hair. Scarecrow is a young white man with purple eyes and short brown hair, wearing an oversized grey and green coat. Both characters stare forward blankly. The video has been edited to play a portion of the song Burning Men's Soul quietly under the sound of the rain, as if it was playing from the car speakers. Lyrics: "Check it out I'm in the house like carpet And if there's too many heads in my blunt I won't spark it I'll put it in my pocket and save it like rocket fuel 'Til everybody's gone and it's cool Then I spark it up with my brother His momma named him Mo, but I call him Mo' Lover And he's more than a cover, he's a quilt We're putting shit together like that house that John built On the hill, 'cause this shit's gonna feel like velvet, turtle My style fits tighter than a girdle If ya hate it then you can just leavе it, like Beaver But in a" The lyrics cut off at this point and the video loops. End Video Description]

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Good evening, lovely listeners! Tonight we are completing our discussion of Scarecrow from Bustafellows. If you have any questions about Scarecrow or his route, please Reply, or send your questions to our Ask box, so we can read and answer them at the end of the episode!

#Episode Announcement #Series: Bustafellows #Character: Scarecrow

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leilastarveil · 2 months ago

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Vtuber character information

Full Name: Leila Starveil

Age at death: 20

Year of birth: 1833

Year of death: 1853

Gender: Female

Physical appearance:

Leila has hip length, messy blonde hair with strands longer on her forehead, where she has dyed purple strands. She also has two dyed strands on each side of her hair. Her doll body is a bit shorter than her former human body, being 5’6 while it used to be 5’9. She assumes it’s because the dollmaker began working on the structure of it earlier on in her life when she wasn’t fully grown, so he didn’t really know how tall she’d end up being. Despite still not being short, she has a bit of a complex about her height and wishes she would’ve remained the same height. Even with the height difference, she still looks to be the same age as she was when she passed. Her body is a bit on the curvy side, and she has a pale skin tone. Her eyes are a striking red, and even in her doll form, she has the detail of everpresent bags under her eyes that came from the many sleepless nights she’d frequently have before her passing. Leila’s doll body was created by the dollmaker from a porcelain head, hands and feet for the sake of these parts looking more human, while her body is made out of leather on the outside and a wooden skeleton on the inside with flexible joints to promote more realistic, smooth movement. Despite her being made with material that are normally very fragile, she found that over time, tears and cracks can regenerate, most likely because of the presence of a soul in the body. Though the time required can take a while depending on how big the damage was, lowest amount of time being a few months, and the highest can even take years or decades. Her clothes tend to be shades of red and purple most of all, but she also wears pink and light blue quite often. Only recently was Leila able to begin wearing midnight blue again, due to a rather traumatic association she has had with the color. She enjoys wearing dresses that are extravagant and long, reminiscent of the style of aristocrat clothing from back when she was alive, showing her nostalgia for times when she lived far more comfortably than she does now. Interestingly enough, she either wears the aforementioned fancy clothing, or childish looking pajamas with bunny slippers, there isn’t any in between for her. Leila is also able to morph her face to show complex expressions due to her soul possessing the doll, although there are no actual physical articulated joints in her face that could allow her to do so. Still, because she wasn’t very expressive even before dying, her expressions tend to be limited, making the few that know she’s a doll assume she’s not physically capable of more than she shows.

Note: Below is Leila’s appearance on the apps REALITY and Hyper. Once I finish creating her Vroid model, I’ll add it here!

Hobbies:

Painting, dollmaking, knitting, reading, fiction writing, performance art, dancing, digital art, playing video games (especially horror games, visual novels and mobile gacha games), livestreaming

Personality:

Leila is an introverted person who tends to keep to herself in her day to day life, though she paradoxically deeply yearns for personal connections. She tends to prefer to communicate her emotions and thoughts to people in the form of art because it feels so much less confrontational than simply talking about them. After getting over her stage fright, she began taking comfort in performing on a stage for people, being especially good at acrobatics, dancing and acting. She used to make a living out of performing after turning into a doll and joining a circus troupe, but these days she tends to participate in this passion through streaming online. Despite looking like a serious, gloomy person, she loves humor and likes using it as a coping mechanism whenever she’s stressed. Leila needs freedom above else, not being able to stand the feeling of being controlled or manipulated. She’s a bit… Directionally challenged, let’s call it, having extreme difficulty spacially orienting herself even in the context of 3D videogames, far more in real life. Despite being very inventive and sharp, her usually having her head in the clouds can lead her to look airheaded. For someone who used to do acrobatics professionally, she can also be surprisingly clumsy when she’s too deep in her own thoughts. Leila is incredibly emotional, and although she hides it from people, this shows pretty often in how she plays video games. For example, for gacha games, she often ends up not waiting to have enough in game currency for the full pull that gives her an extra character, simply too excited to get a character earlier, despite it being objectively a bad decision. It’s something she works on, with minimal success. Leila is often plagued with anxiety, especially in social situations. This used to be true also when she was a human, but especially now that she’s a doll. She specifically limits social interaction with people to limit the chances of them realizing she’s not human, and whenever she does interact with them, she not only has the baseline social anxiety she always did but is also incredibly anxious over being caught, fearing most of all the specific scenario of being sent to a lab to be watched 24/7 and experimented on. She also is very afraid of fire considering how flammable she is, to the point that cooking is an incredibly stressful experience that she always avoids if possible. Leila has some severe trust issues, resulting in her being very attached and clingy to the few people that she does trust. Sometimes she has a selective memory, only remembering details of her past that aren’t unpleasant, and other times, she also has periods of thinking over her past far too much to the point she can’t focus on the present or future. Her trying to forget is especially evident when it’s about her former mentor that betrayed her, The Dollmaker. She doesn’t remember many details about him, not even his name.

Links: Chapter One of her backstory | Chapter Two of her backstory coming soon! | Linktree for all of my platforms | Spotify playlist for Leila

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syrupspinner · 3 months ago

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i just completed Aerial_Knight's Never Yield

can you believe some places dont include the apostrophe in the title? like it's not proclaiming who spearheaded Never Yield, its a statement

my only experience with runners, as a genre, is through bit.trip. I beat the first game and played a bit of the second. this game, which I'm gonna call AKNY for short, is honestly a pretty good second example.

the controls make a lot more sense that bit.trip. I remember complaining that duck was down but kick was Y so I had to switch to keyboard or something. in akny, you've got the colour-coded cardinal directions, which applies to both the dpad and face buttons: up is high jump (obstacles you need to high jump are always red), left is midjump (yellow), down is duck (purple), and right is sprint (blue). straightforward, easy to nail in a split second, this is good. it's a little silly that you have two jump buttons, because yes there are obstacles colour-coordinated to mid that you can clear high, but it's still pretty elegant with how simple it is to grasp

the plot is... uh, minimalist. there's no dialog, so here's what I've got. you've got the main character, who i just kinda called Runner in my head. he escapes from a tube in a lab and spends the rest of the game dodging the authorities about it. there's also another guy, implied to also be from the same tube situation, who I called Swords cuz he's always got some swords floating around him. Swords is king of the streets or something, he's the strongest guy around, and Runners out to take him out and claim the crown. that might be wrong, especially since it seems like the sequel is more fleshed-out, but the story isn't all that important anyway. watch the cool guy do something cool and then play a level about it

I really dig the style. if anything's gonna sell you on the game, it's the vibes. the music is ultimately a bit simple, but they're all really solid hiphop instrumentals. the design is... it'd call it comic-like, but it's more like a graphic novel almost. it's not vibrant but it's still colourful, y'know? oh, speaking of style, I love the level where you're running up a building and you've got this really funky camera angle, added such a cool visual flair.

that's kinda it! the game is pretty short, I beat the campaign in like 2 hours I think, and a lot of that is from killing myself when I missed that stupid coin in the school level. y'know when people call a fighting game character honest? that's what this game feels like to me. it's as stylistic and badass as the budget let's it, and I respect the hell out of it. totally worth playing.

and then there's endless mode.

I understand this was added in an update. you run laps around a gym dodging randomly spawning obstacles. youve gotta play for, according to my research, 30 minutes straight of this for all the achievements. woof. so... I just kinda got to it. it took me three days, across... I'd guess three or four hours of attempts. I put kitboga on my other monitor and reached the world's stupidest zen state, just reacting to the obstacles. if you wanna keep track of your progress without pausing all the time, I'm pretty sure it took me about 165 laps. thats a bit egregious. there's already an achievement for 30 laps, which I think works great as a threshold of basic capability. like, if you can do 30, you can do it forever, kinda like how crypt of the necrodancer only asks you to get a 10 run win streak before saying "okay it wasn't luck you can do this forever if you wanted to"

not enough to ruin the game by any means, especially since it's optional. this game has a great soul and fun gameplay to back it up, absolutely worth trying out! just a heads up, don't expect triple-a polish, keep your expectations realistic for an under-the-radar indie.

#aerial_kinghts never yield #completed

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dollhouseirl · 6 months ago

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A Game

As part of a Menhera Game Jam on itch.io, I am becoming a first-time VN developer. The Umineko tag is ambitious of me but it is the inspiration for what I'm trying to do. It's been an amazing rush for me; I still have over a month to finish and I am over two-thirds done with the first draft.

It is called Purple Prose for Purple Hearts. It is about Lucia, a witch who ensnares souls in conversation with her magic. Maybe. Or it is possible she is simply severely mentally unwell and in the midst of a world she, the player, and in all likelihood even God do not fully understand or cannot fully come to grips to. It is a one-woman show or began as such: Lucia is the only character with sprites at the moment with only one other planned. There is a second-person narrator, a silent mother (so far), and other mysteries besides that are not quite character-shaped.

I suffer from bipolar I. I came down from a manic episode over a month ago and I was already off work due to a serious medical problem that's taken me out of commission for a year. When this game jam was suggested to me by a friend, I saw it as a chance to render my thoughts, fears, hopes, dreams, and self in short form. I wanted a short game to point to to tell people where I see myself without reference to a much longer one about a much more difficult witch to understand or other infuriating alternatives I have found over the years. This project began on two layers: Lucia has bipolar and has been manic and you worry and worry is she really all there or not; Lucia is a witch and you worry and worry is she really all there or not.

I want to make more posts about this and share screens, design stuff, talk more and more about it. It'll likely be between 10k and 20k words to start. I have been lucky to get an incredible designer in niche media to design Lucia. I am making the best of royalty free assets and my meager skills as a creator who can only write and barely code but I think it will be quite enjoyable. This is the DollhouseIRL blog by DollhouseIRL aka Dorothy and I want to be a visual novel writer. This is my first shot at it.

#indie visual novel #menhera #umineko #game jam

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weevart · 1 year ago

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Okay, time for lore.

So if I wanna be posting my OCs on here, I'm gonna need to go over some lore. Now, I've been making up lore since sixth grade and there's a novel and a half's worth of it by now, and so I shall be only explaining certain chunks of it at a time.

Today's lore chunk is Orea's system of Aspects.

Let's start with how I even came up with this system. When I was redesigning Aftrist Castle, the centerpiece of Orea's afterlife planet, I figured it'd be cool to dedicate a tower to the Goddess, and another to her nemesis May to imply a more complex relationship. But as I did so, I recalled a concept for some mirror-themed force/entity that recorded the past that I really liked yet still hadn't fully developed at the time; by adding a tower for it, I acknowledged it as some sort of divine force. These towers were named as such: the Tower of Heavens, dedicated to the Goddess Jane Iceris, the Tower of Souls, dedicated to May Iceris, and the Tower of Dreams, dedicated to what is now Enaj, King of History.

As time passed, I developed the three gods' characters and abilities in such ways that divided them into distinct domains of power over the mechanics behind Orea's universe. This thematic division manifested itself in more and more small details, eventually leading me to believe I should take the opportunity to make something out of it: the Aspects.

So what are the Aspects, and how do they work?

The Aspects are basically Orea's equivalent to a universal element system. Each Aspect is connected to a god and Orb (I'll have to explain the Orbs another time), and is represented by a simple shape and/or visual motif, a color scheme, and even their own musical leitmotif that is derived from a simple, repeating arpeggio. The Aspects are all equal to each other and are equally prevalent throughout the Orean universe, none possessing advantage over the other and all depending on each other to function.

The Aspect of Heavens/Ice represents the physical universe: matter and energy, and the laws of physics as they exist in the real world. Goddess Jane Iceris belongs to this Aspect, able to manipulate matter and energy at her will. Heavens/Ice is represented by a diamond and a motif of sharp-angled lines accented by occasional round white opals, its primary color being cyan and secondaries being white and dark blue. The Song of Ice's arpeggio is a rising pattern, typically G A Bb C.

The Aspect of Souls/Fire represents life and death, as well as the souls of living beings. May Iceris, Lord of Fire belongs to this Aspect, her soul being not within her body, but instead being the Orb of Souls which controls and can even store all souls and soul matter within itself. Souls/Fire is represented by a circle and a motif of swirling lines that curl closely around small pale spots. Its primary color is magenta, accompanied by white, red and black. The Song of Fire's arpeggio rises then drops on the fourth note, often G Bb D Bb, though the fourth note is sometimes a half or whole step lower.

The Aspect of Dreams/Glass represents magic and memory. Enaj, King of History belongs to this Aspect, him and his planet being made of magic functioning as a glass-like material that responds to the will and memory of those who stumble upon his domain. Dreams/Glass is represented by an equilateral triangle and a motif of straight golden lines that weave over and under each other as they turn in 45 degree angles, only deviating the angle as they border triangular accents. Its primary color is purple, accented with gold. The Song of Glass' arpeggio dips down and back up, typically C Bb C Eb, though I usually use an alternative, more complex pattern that revolves around this shape.

I play around with the Aspects a whole lot when making art and music, so knowing and recognizing them makes it a lot easier to understand half the stuff I make.

Whenever I get bored enough to dump lore again, I'll have to go over how souls and magic work.

#oc lore #oc lore dump #writing #worldbuilding

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lynxgriffin · 2 months ago

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Are you interested in looking into the development of any souls takes (souls takes are Undertale prequels like Undertale Yellow).

I haven't really seen much of other games with the other souls, although I know there's a bunch in production.

But honestly? You know what I kind of wish? I wish that fan games looking at the different humans actually did different genres, instead of doing Undertale's bullet hell turn-based RPG mechanics again. Let's see a fighting game with the orange soul! A cooking game with the green soul! A visual novel with the purple one! There's all kinds of possibilities there!

#ask lynx stuff

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pollenallergie · 1 year ago

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eeeek oh my gosh i love this questionnnn

okay okay so…

Billy loves Studio Ghibli films because of their art style and the amazing storytelling.

He loves stop-motion/claymation movies for much the same reason (all the hard work that goes into them, the artistry, their art styles, the storytelling, etc.).

Billy loves horror movies and thrillers, but only the ones that are visually stunning/aesthetically pleasing, have plots with a deeper meaning to them, and that use a lot of symbolism, such as Get Out, Midsommar, Videodrome, X, Pearl, The Crow, Donnie Darko, Nosferatu, A Simple Favor, Hereditary, A Quiet Place, Shutter Island, etc.

Billy likes Wes Anderson films because of the ✨aesthetic✨ (and also because many of them are just genuinely good??)

Billy loves period pieces like Russian Ark, Anna Karenina, The Color Purple, The Theory of Everything, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 1917, Emma (2020), etc.

He also likes the classics, but only certain ones and he’s not pretentious about the fact that he enjoys old movies. Many of the classics he likes are musicals, but not all of them. Some of his favorites in this category include: Singing in the Rain, A Clockwork Orange, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, The Wizard of Oz, The Rocky Picture Horror Show, The Graduate, Help!, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the early Star Wars films, etc.

Billy loves most, if not all, of the films that come out of A24 (Room, X, Pearl, Midsommar, Moonlight, Waves, Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Green Knight, Hereditary, etc.)

He likes many of Sofia Coppola’s films.

Billy generally enjoys films with really really beautiful/really artsy/just really fucking good cinematography, like Her, Life of Pi, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Pan’s Labyrinth, Black Swan, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (one of the only, if not the only, Quentin Tarantino movies he likes), Romeo & Juliet (1996), etc.

He loves films with amazing scores/soundtracks, such as Fantasia, Guardians of the Galaxy, Forrest Gump, Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist, Avatar, Don’t Look Up, Soul, E.T., etc.

Billy love love lovesss Disney movies, mostly because he had a horrible childhood and Disney movies let him feel like a kid again without also having to relive the horrors and suffering of his past, but also just because many of them are just really fucking good!!!

Billy also loves coming-of-age/childhood movies, such as Stand By Me, Mean Creek, My Girl, The Lovely Bones, Moonlight, Super 8, Boyhood, Booksmart, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Mermaids, Bridge to Terabithia, Juno, Where the Wild Things Are, Dead Poets Society, etc. There’s probably some psychological reason why he flocks to this type of film (much like there is for his enjoyment of Disney films), given that he had a horrible childhood, but… we’re not gonna look into that rn, okay?

Lastly, Billy loveesss fantasy films. Really, he loves fantasy in general; fantasy novels, fantasy films. He grew up loving them for the element of escapism they offered. And now, as an adult, he loves them for their nostalgia and whimsy and, even though he’s very happy with his life the way it is now, Billy certainly still loves that sense of escapism�� especially when he gets to enjoy it with you.

I think he loves romance films, but only the ones that are warm and cozy, and he dislikes cheesy ones… except for the ones that are cheesy in a good way and still have really good writing even though their kinda cliché.

I also think Billy likes some comedies, but mostly just ones that double as another genre as well (think dramadies and dark comedies), the ones that are classics (old and modern) because of their good writing and/or cinematography, as well as almost any comedy with Jack Black or Robin Williams in it.

Billy also probably likes some superhero movies, emphasis on some. He loves the funny ones like Thor: Ragnarok, Guardians of the Galaxy (both the first film & Vol. 2), and Deadpool 1 & 2. He also likes the X-Men films because he’s always really liked the X-Men, it was one of the only mainstream superhero comics he read as a kid (of course he liked the more niche superhero graphic novels and stuff like that, but he didn’t ready many of the mainstream superhero comics because 1) they were expensive and 2) he usually found the storytelling in those to be kind of meh). Maybe that’s because he sees himself as a mutant/saw himself as mutant as a kid and/or just generally relates to being an outcast. Or maybe it’s just because Jean Grey and Professor X and Mystique and Storm are all cool as hell. He also really enjoyed Black Panther (and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) because of the beautiful visuals and the storytelling (like the part with the ancestors?? amazing. the fight b/w T’Challa and M’Baku, but also like the way they later band together, despite their differences, for the good of Wakanda as a whole??? just truly incredible. plus the general theme of like family/community??? he loves that!!!). He also likes the first Captain America movie because he relates to pre-serum!Steve (being an outcast, being deemed “undesirable” by most of his peers, being excluded, etc.) and because the themes of that movie are *chefs kiss* (camaraderie/community, determination in spite of all odds, the underdog trope, etc.).

This certainly does not encompass all the film genres and subgenres he loves and why, but like… this post is already v long, so I’m gonna go ahead and stop myself here. Besides, this is like all I’ve got rn. 😅😂

every friday night, you and billy knight spend the night in. you make homemade pizzas, cuddle on the sofa, and watch movies together.

#billy knight x reader #billy knight strike #billy knight #billy knight hc #billy knight hcs #billy knight headcanon #billy knight headcanons

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indiegamesofcolor · 2 years ago

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[Image ID: A gifset containing four gifs of the first person game Neon White.

Gif 1 shows a first person perspective of the player character, Neon White, in two different levels. One level is set amongst the rooftops of white buildings in the clouds and the player is using a Soul Card with the Stomp ability to jump off a ledge and slam down in front of an enemy. The scene transitions to a different level inside a building with warm lighting. One enemy points a read laser beam at the player as they destroy another enemy.

Gif 2 shows Neon White speaking to the character Neon Violet in a typical visual novel layout. Neon Violet’s text box says, “You can just really tell a lot about someone by how they’d like to be murdered.” Neon White asks, “So this is a question you ask a lot?” and Neon Violet replies, “On every date, yes.”

Gif 3 shows a first person perspective of the player switching between Soul Cards. The player first uses the Soul Card labeled as Purify, which appears as a purple card with an assault rifle’s silhouette on it, to shoot at enemies. The player approaches a ledge and switches to the yellow Soul Card labeled as Elevate, which displays a silhouette of a pistol, to float to the next part of the level.

Gif 4 shows Neon White and another character talking to the NPC Mikey. They are in a standard visual novel layout. Mikey appears to be an orange cat with triangular sunglasses on a floating cloud. A text box displays Mikey’s dialogue saying, “If you saw my true form you’re freakin’ head would explode!!”

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Neon White is a fast-paced first person game about killing demons in Heaven! Play as Neon White, an assassin plucked from Hell to compete with other demon slayers for a chance to live in Heaven. Collect or discard “Soul Cards” to use your abilities, uncover Heaven’s mysteries, and learn about your past life!

For Windows and Nintendo Switch.

Developed by Angel Matrix, whose dev team includes designers Aims Zhang and Justin Lu, video editor Tiffany Lockheart, narrative writer Samantha Ivonne Ortiz, illustrator Jorge Luis González Anton, and more.

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sleekervae · 4 years ago

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The Neighbour [2.1]

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A/N: OH MY GOD I LIVE!!!! Also, spoiler ahead for The Bastards graphic novel; not so much plot-wise but there are a few lines from the book. Indented paragraph is credited to Emerson Barrett and XoBillie.

“I have loved you from the moment you first smiled at me,

Giddy, mischievous, not ever looking for trouble yet somehow

Trouble has a way of always finding you.”

Remington stared wistfully at the view from Eva’s balcony, knowing how self-conscious she was when he watched her as she read a piece. In his lap sat Pluto, satisfied to have his ears stroked while he took his afternoon nap.

He couldn’t explain it, but somehow Remington found he was always transported to a new dimension when he heard Eva’s poetry. It was so soft and delicate, he could appreciate it the same way one does the petals of the first flowers of spring. Everything about her writing was so soothing, now a familiar notion that he never wanted to let go of.

“You’ve ignited a fire in my belly with embers sparking and popping

Under the intense pressure of your dark eyes

And the bubbling pearls of your laugh.

I loved you when I first ran into your open arms and marvelled

“My God, you feel just like home”

And with a few simple touches the open sores on my skin

Recede and heal, and their pain is a faint memory in comparison

To the electricity your fingertips carry.

I loved you when we were flying over the streets,

Vibrant yellow, orange and purple coating my eyes and

Painting you into Monet’s Twilight, Venice.

You’re a renaissance masterpiece that has been imprinted

Into the soft folds of my brain...”

Eva set her book down having finished the incomplete piece, watching her boyfriend with a dazed smile on his face as the echo of her prose sunk in. She simpered to herself with giddy.

“You know, I always have mixed feelings about reading you my poetry,” she said.

“Why’s that?” Remington asked, “It’s very good,”

“I know that. And you know that,” she smirked, “And I know that you know that I’m low-key inflating your ego with this shit,”

Remington chuckled, reaching out across the small table to take her smaller hand in his, “Would it put you at ease if I told you my ego is too far gone?”

Eva rolled her eyes and snapped her notebook shut, “Maybe I should start writing poems about the things you do I find annoying?”

“You say that like it’s bad,” Remington shrugged, giddy when she shook her head in dismay at his teasing.

Pluto continued to lie motionless in Remington’s lap, assuming the sphinx position as he had his ears rubbed. However, the tabby’s eyes sprung open when a guttural vibration shook through the small wooden table, disturbing the peaceful afternoon.

Eva glanced at the familiar glare of ‘Blocked Caller ID’ appearing, refraining from showing little disdain as she declined the call. Remington however was curious; for the past few months he’d seen Eva decline calls like that over and over again. The first few times he figured it was telemarketers, or scam calls. However, he noticed how they came frequently in the weeks; more prominent on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

“Who is that?” he asked.

“I don’t know,” Eva shrugged, “It’s blocked for a reason,”

“But if you blocked the caller... then you have to know who it is so you could block them,” he reasoned, “Right?”

Eva responded in silence, taking her phone and quickly tucking it beneath her thigh. Remington stared at her pointedly.

“Eva, you get these calls nearly every day,” he said, “If it’s something bad... you know you can trust me with anything,”

“I know...” Eva nodded slowly, exhaling, “It’s my mom,”

Eva had been exceptionally non-forth coming when it came to her life back in Seattle, only remembering hearing about her friends and family once or twice. He respected her privacy, though he couldn’t help but be a tad curious. She fit the overall profile as someone who was running away from her problems.

“You blocked your mom?” he asked, somewhat in disbelief though from what he understood of their relationship he shouldn’t have been surprised.

Eva nodded, “Yep. Either she can’t take a hint or she’s way more stubborn than I am,”

Remington looked across the street to his own house, the gentle breeze billowing through the sheer curtain in the living room he remembered his mom helping him and Emerson pick out.

“Why don’t you speak to her?”

“Why don’t you speak to your dad?”

“I told you already,”

Pluto then leapt off of Remington’s lap and landed on the table, crossing over to his owner and staring at her with his big, soulful eyes. Eva smiled and gently scratched his ears.

“She showed up to my graduation, which would have been fine... but she showed up with her new husband and a kid,” she admitted.

Remington raised his eyebrows, “Her own kid?”

“Yeah. She got married to her co-pilot and they have a ten-year-old son together. She abandoned our family and started a new one,” Eva shook her head, “I guess being married to a chem teacher wasn’t as exciting for her,”

“What did your dad do?” he asked.

“That’s the best part. He knew about it and chose not to tell me. I just couldn’t believe it,” she replied, “But the fact that she just... she disappeared for years and then showed up again with a new family -- at my college graduation! How could I possibly celebrate after seeing that?”

“And you haven’t spoken to her since?” he asked tentatively.

“No. The way I saw it, she walked out of my life with no qualms. So... I walked out of hers. And it doesn’t matter how much she phones me; I don’t have time for disingenuine people,”

Remington reached over to take her hand that was resting on the table, stroking gently over the bumps of her knuckles, “Did you... did you meet her son?”

It was then Eva looked truly bummed out, “I think that’s the part I regret most. I mean -- he’s a kid. It’s not his fault his mom is a flake,”

Remington nodded, “Do you still love your mom?”

“I don’t know,” Eva shrugged, “Call me a coward, but avoidance is just easier to deal with,”

“You’re not a coward,” Remington assured, “I get it. But... speaking from experience, you can only avoid your issues for so long. As hard as it may be, you might want to address these problems sooner rather than later. I promise you won’t regret it,”

“Rem --”

“She’s your mom. And obviously the fact that she’s still blowing up your phone should tell you something,”

Eva sat quietly, letting his words sink in. She knew Remington was right; knowing what she knew about him she also knew that he wasn’t just talking out of his ass. She appreciated that he understood where she was coming from, she just wished that his solution could be as easy as it sounded.

“I will call her back... eventually. My dad wants me to come home for Christmas, I guess I have to,” she chuckled sheepishly, warranting a sympathetic smile on his part, “Just... not today,”

“That’s okay,” Remington said, gently squeezing her hand, “It’s all gonna’ work out, Eva,”

“You can’t promise that,” she pointed out.

He shrugged, “Let’s not call it a promise, then. Let’s call is a whim,”

July had faded into August, as did pandemic fatigue. The streets were becoming busier, the business’ were seeing more intake in revenue, and people were slowly coming back out to try and enjoy was little of a summer was left.

And while most people were doing their best to social distance and keep safe, the cases continued to grow. Safe in the confines of the house, Eva sat at the table and read over the final print draft of the band’s graphic novel. Eva was blown away, completely immersed from the plot line to the artwork. She was supposed to be working with Emerson on his latest project, yet afforded herself a small break.

Across from her, Emerson was reading through Eva’s Tumblr blog, blown away at the amount of work she had posted since mid-June. Every prose and line was so vivid, painting a clear picture of her emotions. On the one hand, he couldn't help but be a little uncomfortable, knowing the sensual poems he was reading was about his older brother. On the other hand, everything was so poised and punctual -- he figured he may borrow some stuff to try on Shy some time.

Eva turned to a new page littered with more text than it was visuals, but on the edge of the left page was a stunning, very accurate sketch of Remington. His hair looked so different in the form of a basic sketch, yet those eyes, that face still captured all the majesty and curiosity within. She was unable to help that her fingers glossed over the lines that made up his torso with all his tattoos visible, tracing down the length of his arm to the vanity beside him and back up again. The cold paper singed her fingertips as she read the prose beside the sketch, a small smile creeping onto her lips with every word that echoed in her brain.

“...Emerson thought that if hell and heaven had a bastard son, that it would be Remington. His brother had an angelic-looking face with big almond-shaped eyes. His eyes were brown but could shift into black, and melt into the iris. It was a look that Emerson though the angel of hell would be proud of. But then, in the right light, those dark eyes changed and came to glimmer like the purest of gold - a look angels would swarm for. Apart from the eyes, his face was the feature of him that seemed to never change no matter how brutal this world was to him...”

Eva had to give credit to Emerson for his writing, capturing his brother in such a way that she herself would have. And like the flip of a switch, the memory of Remington’s eyes flashed through her mind, shining of gold and beauty the way the words had echoed to her.

In another blink his eyes turned into the eerie shadow of black, flashing a look he’d throw her way when his lust for her consumed him. In one paragraph, Remington had been portrayed as a killer from hell, offering flowers to his peers instead of knives.

Though, all romanticism was put aside as Eva read the paragraph again, noting the last line she had skimmed over quickly:

“...his face was the feature of him that seemed to never change no matter how brutal this world was to him. The rest of him was not...”

There as no denying how cruel the world had been to Remington and his brothers, though the more she pondered the more she realized she had never seen the type of dejection in his face the way Emerson had described. He always appeared -- not happy, per say -- but content with his life.

Emerson looked up from his tablet, noticing the way Eva’s eyes were glued to her own reading, her hand placed protectively over the sketch of Remington.

“You okay, Eva?” he asked.

She glanced at the youngest brother, shaken by the break in silence. But she smiled reassuringly and flipped the page, despite not having finished reading the last.

“Oh, yeah,” she nodded, “It’s absolutely beautiful. I did make note of a couple grammatical errors... I hope you don’t mind,”

“It’s fine,” he grinned, “Deadline for rewrites is on Friday,”

“If you'd like, I could go through the rest for you. I’m in between articles right now,” she said.

“Are you sure?”

“Of course. Promise I won’t post spoilers for fans,”

“Might have to get you an NDA,” he giggled merrily, “I’ll send the file over. You ever work with InDesign?”

“A few times, yeah...” she trailed off, a new train of thought lingering in the back of her mind, “Emerson... can I ask you something sorta’ personal?”

Emerson raised an eyebrow, “How personal?” he asked.

She breathed out carefully, “Remington had told me about your dad --”

“What did he say?” Emerson asked quickly, his cheerful demeanour quickly souring.

“Just that he hadn’t been in the picture for a while,” she said assuringly, “Nothing else,”

Emerson began to relax a little, “Okay. What’s your question, Eva?”

“Say he out of the blue started making an effort to get back in touch with you... would you take that offer?” she asked.

“Nope,” he replied shortly, “Because if he wanted back in our lives, it would be for his own gain,”

Eva stayed silent, his quick answer all she needed to know that she shouldn’t push the envelope. Emerson saw the fall in her face, feeling a tad bad for being so short with Eva.

“Sorry...” he grimaced, “I just... I don’t like to talk about my dad,”

“I understand,” Eva nodded, “I’m sorry I brought it up,”

“... Why did you?” Emerson asked curiously.

Eva exhaled, her fingers picking at the edge of the glossy page, “Just getting room different perspectives. My mom and I don’t exactly have a Gilmore Girls kind of relationship. I’ve just been thinking ‘cause she’s been trying to get a hold of me for so long,”

“Was she nice to you? When you were younger?” he asked.

“I don’t really remember,” Eva replied truthfully, “She was -- superficial. There but not really there,”

He cocked his head, his wispy black hair falling over his eyes, “So... you’re trying to figure out if you want a relationship with your mom?”

Before she could reply, they both turned when they heard footsteps echoing in the hall towards them. Michael had appeared, panning his camera around for new footage for the band’s Youtube channel. Eva was unsure whether she pay attention or turn back to the book and pretend not to see.

“What’re you two working on?” he asked, focusing the lens on Emerson so Eva was just out of the shot. Michael respected that Eva was a touch camera shy.

“Top secret,” Emerson replied promptly, “And if we told you, we’d have to kill you,”

“I won’t unleash that wrath,” Michael chuckled, “Don’t have too much fun!”

“We’ll try,” Emerson muttered as he sauntered into the next room.

Eva closed the book and pushed it aside, sighing to herself as she pulled back her laptop and opened Emerson’s project. The youngest brother watched her unabashedly, picking off the air of uncertainty swirling around her.

“Does Remington know your mom keeps calling you?” he asked.

“He was kind of curious as to why I kept getting all these blocked calls,” she replied.

“What did he say?”

“That everything was going to be okay,” she nodded slowly, “You don’t know how many times I’ve heard that in my life and... it’s not. So, I’m super inclined to believe him,”

Emerson swallowed, “My brother has a tendency to want to take care of everybody. And it’s not a bad quality. But he also doesn’t know how he can make it better,” he said.

“It’s not up to him to make it better,” Eva declared.

“But he loves you,” Emerson stated, “And just because of that, he’ll want to help you find your way out of this. When Remington commits to someone, he tends to go one-hundred-percent all in,”

Eva simpered to herself, “I appreciate him. He’s -- definitely been a plot twist,”

“Good or bad plot twist?”

“Very good,”

Emerson smiled as she started to type on her keyboard, some of Eva’s vexations visibly released when the topic had changed to Remington. As she appreciated Remington, Emerson appreciated Eva for all that she’d done for him. He had this gut intuition, a simmering notion that Eva was going to be sticking around for a long time. And he had absolutely no problem with that.

“Can I ask you a serious question, though?” he asked.

“Of course,” Eva nodded.

“Do you like his blue hair...?” he asked with a drawling disdain.

The young brunette turned her head in the direction of the distant chatter of the boys.

“I take it by your tone you’re not a fan,” she said.

Emerson scoffed, “He’s taking me back to the Kool-Aid dye trend,”

“Oh, Emerson,”

#palaye royale #palaye royale imagine #palaye fanart #palaye positivity #Palaye Royale fic #remington leith #Remington Leith imagine #Remington Leith fic #emerson barrett #sebastian danzig #band blog #band imagines #band imagine blog #poetry #domesticity #original series #original story #original female character

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delta-experiment · 4 years ago

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Star and I were talking, and we just realized something kind of cool: The Human Souls in Undertale can all be associated with different genres of video games!

Orange (Manly Bandanna and Tough Glove): Fighting / beat-em-up games. Street Fighter, etc. (Manly Bandanna is also a Mother 3 item, which is neat.)

Blue (Old Tutu and Ballet Shoes): Dance / Rhythm games. DDR, etc. Also platformers, being associated with jumping.

Green (Burnt Pan, Stained Apron): Cooking games. Burgertime, Overcooked, Cooking Mama, etc.

Yellow (Cowboy Hat, Empty Gun): Shooter games. FPSes, bullet hells, western-style shoot-em-ups, shooting galleries, galaga.... (Also, possibly referencing Flint from Mother 3?)

Purple (Torn Notebook, Cloudy Glasses): Text adventure games, visual novels.

Red is likely the JRPG genre itself, judging by Chara’s association with Stats.

Cyan is likely the “tutorial” section of JRPGs, judging by its placement in the ruins with Toriel, and the fact that the Toy Knife is meant to be a starter weapon before getting the Real Knife (or Worn Dagger).

Let us know if you like hearing theory stuff like this. There’s plenty to cover. :)

#undertale #theory #souls #human souls #undertale theory

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redglassesgirl-maruma · 4 years ago

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Hello Everyone!

A day like today 20 years ago the first novel of our beloved series was published in November 2000. This is an incredible anniversary and that’s why we’ll celebrate the whole month with events!

I hope you can join this special occasion and contribute a little bit by sharing your posts and art here in tumblr.

This is not the first event run by this blog, if you want to see what we did in previous years you can visit my tags MA Event, MA Event 2017 and MA Event 2018.

The dynamic of the events is to have some deliver themes and inspiration divided in different sections. This event will run weekly, except for the last week of the month when we’ll have daily content shared to inspire you even more.

Please save the date around the last weekend of November for our Live Chat! I’ll post more information about the exact date and time along the next weekly posts.

Update: Live Chat Sunday 29 at 1am Buenos Aires timezone GTM-3 You can check online comparing with your time zone here. We’ll meet and chat, share opinions, and play some games or draw together!

20th Anniversary MA Event - First Week Activity Share your MAlove, share your MArt! From November 1 to November 8

This week we’ll draw fanarts, write fanfics or make any other kind of media to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series. We have list of 365 prompts in case you need a little bit of extra inspiration, please check under the cut and try to mix anything you pick with a festive mood to make it really special ;D

Remember to tag your posts with #MAnniversary 2020 and #MA Event

Links to the weekly event’s posts:

Prompts:

01. Introduction

02. Love

03. Light

04. Dark

05. Seeking Solace

06. Break Away

07. Heaven

08. Innocence

09. Drive

10. Breathe Again

11. Memory

12. Insanity

13. Misfortune

14. Smile

15. Silence

16. Questioning

17. Blood

18. Rainbow

19. Gray

20. Fortitude

21. Vacation

22. Mother Nature

23. Cat

24. No Time

25. Trouble Lurking

26. Tears

27. Foreign

28. Sorrow

29. Happiness

30. Under the Rain

31. Flowers

32. Night

33. Expectations

34. Stars

35. Hold my Hand

36. Precious Treasure

37. Eyes

38. Abandoned

39. Dreams

40. Rated

41. Teamwork

42. Standing Still

43. Dying

44. Two Roads

45. Illusion

46. Family

47. Creation

48. Childhood

49. Stripes

50. Breaking the Rules

51. Fanart

52. Deep in Thought

53. Keeping a Secret

54. Tower

55. Waiting

56. Danger Ahead

57. Sacrifice

58. Kick in the Head

59. No Way Out

60. Rejection

61. Fairy Tale

62. Magic

63. Do Not Disturb

64. Multitasking

65. Horror

66. Traps

67. Playing the Melody

68. Hero

69. Annoyance

70. 67%

71. Obsession

72. Mischief Managed

73. I Can’t

74. Are You Challenging Me?

75. Mirror

76. Broken Pieces

77. Test

78. Drink

79. Starvation

80. Words

81. Pen and Paper

82. Can You Hear Me?

83. Heal

84. Out Cold

85. Spiral

86. Seeing Red

87. Food

88. Pain

89. Through the Fire

90. Triangle

91. Drowning

92. All That I Have

93. Give Up

94. Last Hope

95. Advertisement

96. In the Storm

97. Safety First

98. Puzzle

99. Solitude

100. Relaxation

101. Hello World

102. Fear

103. Anger

104. Regret

105. Happiness

106. Love

107. Family

108. Friendship

109. Home

110. Childhood

111. Adulthood

112. Birth

113. Death

114. Me

115. You

116. Thoughts

117. Emotion

118. Sun

119. Rain

120. Thunder

121. Noon

122. Midnight

123. Twilight

124. Rooms

125. Window to the Soul

126. Games

127. Halo

128. Serenity

129. Firefly

130. Phone

131. Movie

132. Television

133. Plants

134. Freedom

135. Forgetfulness

136. Remembrance

137. Memorial

138. War

139. Fight

140. Loss

141. Winning

142. Losing

143. Nature

144. Hurricane

145. Storms are brewing

146. Lightning

147. Colors

148. Bravo

149. Punishment

150. Picture

151. Another Wolfs

153. The Life You Dream Of

154. Dreams

155. Tears

157. Smiling

158. Laughing

159. Crying

160. Looking in the Mirror

161. Steam

162. Candy

163. Cats

164. Dogs

165. Glasses

166. Orbit

167. Satellite

168. Stars

169. Jade

170. Emerald

171. Gems

172. Dreaming Out Loud

173. Insomnia

174. Rabbits

175. Snake

176. Borders

177. The Year

178. This Time

179. Last Time

180. Forever and a Day

181. Sometimes

182. Always

183. Power

184. Weakness

185. Green

186. Purple

187. Blue

188. Sight

189. Blindness

190. Hurtful

191. Stages of grief

192. Arguments

193. Country

194. Frog

195. Forest

196. River

197. Flying

198. Mountains

199. Snow

200. Goodbye

201. Heart of Glass

202. My Life

203. Me In a Nutshell

204. Forever Yours

205. True Colors

206. My best friend’s girl

207. Impossible Love

208. Forgiveness

209. Fibers of Our Lives

210. Challenging Dream

211. Living My Dream

212. Forgetting Myself

213. Saving Grace

214. Lonely

215. Unbalanced

216. See-saw

217. Math

218. Match Making

219. Beyond Good and Evil

220. Second Sight

221. Double Take

223. Upon Review

224. Losing You

225. Baseball

226. Shouting

227. Farmland

228. Heartland

229. Brick Wall

230. Glass Houses

231. Eyes

231. Ring

233. Circle

234. Square

235. Boxes

236. Moving

237. Well Being

238. Insanity

239. Repetition

240. Learning

241. Class

242. Flowers

243. Special

244. Snowflakes

245. The Man They Call Jayne

246. Malicious

247. Pretty on the Outside

248. The Outside

249. Thankful

250. Neglect

251. Remorse

252. Embracement

253. Reflecting on My Life

254. Space

255. Constellation

256. Collection

257. Magic

258. Thrill

259. Attack

260. 20 Seconds to Mars

261. Unable

262. Foolish

263. Science

264. Sign of Life

265. Motto

266. Me

267. Balloon

268. Self Esteem

269. Narcissism

270. Ideology

271. Pageantry

272. Keeping Up With the Jones’s

273. Crack in Your Armor

274. Spilling Your Guts

275. Lean on Me

276. Crippling Emotion

277. Biggest Fear

278. Prejudices

279. Fresh

280. Corn

281. Sugar

282. Ice Cream

283. Accents

284. Speech

285. Writing

286. Doom

287. Shape

288. The Real You

289. My Name Is ____

290. Who are You on the Inside

291. Hidden Hatred

292. Hanging

293. Jacket

294. Jail

295. Stepping Up to the Plate

296. Star Player

297. My Hero

298. Castle

299. Losing Yourself

300. Finding Hope

301. Pirates

302. Fallen Angel

303. Drowning Lessons

304. Ghosts in the snow

305. Rawr.

306. Pidgeons… Birdy

307. Broken Hearts Parade

308. Paranoid

309. Vampires

310. Betrayal

311. Emmi&Rumura

312. The three friends

313. Horror

314. Mirror

315. Candlelight

316. Spider moneky

317. Devil

318. Flowers

319. Teddy Bear

320. Mist

321. Kingdom Hearts

322. Ferret

323. Vanilla

324. Thunder

325. Pinto Pony

326. M&Ms

327. Killer

328. Grass

329. Peace

330. Chibi

331. Mr. Klaw, polite Lion

332. Eternal

333. Star girl

334. Hats

335. Calvin & Hobbes

336. Misery (A cup full of something… unknown )

337. Hot chocolate

338. My Chemical Romance

339. Light in the darkness

340. Laughter

341. Nightmares

342. Necklace

343. Fire

344. Clorotaint and Treegirl

345. Swirls

346. Pokemon

347. Friends

348. Double Trouble

349. Do not cross

350. Unknowing

351. Chocolate

352. Time

353. A phone

354. Little kids on a playground

355. Darkness

356. A purple lady

357. Writer’s block

358. The dark corner in my room that I go to cry at (and a unicorn)

359. Sunglasses

360. The sun relaxing by an air conditioner

361. A girl fleeing from her nightmares

362. A girl staring at a blank canvas

363. A visual representation of poetry

364. Trolls

365. A hat

#kkm #kyou kara maou #kyo kara maoh #maruma #ma event #MAnniversary 2020

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