#rtmis

[thesquirrelqueer]

you can love me but you’ll never posses this, my R T M I S!

[captmickey]

Flufftober Day 30 - "Forever?"

"You love me?" He asked, sniffling away the nightmare he had.

"Of course we do, kiddo." Guybrush answered. "That's not even a question."

"We love you from the moon and beyond." Elaine added, gently brushing his hair back.

"Forever?"

"And ever."

[arcanetrivia]

[kursed-curtain]

With a revamp of my Guy n Elaine designs, Boybrush (specifically my older design for him) also gets a lil revamp! Cuz I love him

[clarasteam]

It's far beyond the stars It's near beyond the moon I know beyond a doubt My heart will lead me there soon

We'll meet beyond the shore We'll kiss just like before Happy we'll be beyond the sea And never again, I'll go sailing

[dominustempori]

REPLAY!

Honestly, you watch a fan video of gameplay, and realize there's STILL unexplored dialogue options..literally months since I last partook of the supreme goodness that is "Return to Monkey Island!"

(And let's be real...I could listen to Dominic and Alexandra as Guybrush and Elaine for hours on end, they're that awesome.)

[marley-manson]

wait are there beejhawk fics where bj is jealous and insecure because i've been looking for shit like that and requesting recs from people and i've never found anything except for like a few excellent beejhawk-y fics written by some of my mutuals lol, and a fic series from a little further back that ends up in poly i think which i'm not into and didn't finish

i don't mind if it's lazy characterization i'm here for angst and especially fucked up porn

[cicaklah]

Ya girl watched saltburn and will never be the same again.

[gamingofkenna]

Playing Thimbleweed Park, finding it absolutely delightful, and then going online to see lots of people complaining about it? Baffling. I wasn't planning on making a post-game thoughts post, but now I am anyways

*mild spoilers follow*

I'm particularly primed to enjoy meta storytelling, apparently. I don't know why, but often when I see people complaining about meta stuff in stories, it's the kind of stuff I find enjoyable or interesting. This is a meta story and maybe some aspects are annoying and I just can't see because Gilbert and I have the same style of humor

Thimbleweed Park is not an 'ironic' game, it's not making fun of gaming or 'punishing' players for buying into the game situation (a wild take imo, did we play the same game?)

Thimbleweed Park is a game that loves games. it's a game that loves making games and playing games. it's all about how fun these kinds of games are. poking fun at gaming logic even as it's completely reliant on it; it's saying 'this is silly. isn't that so fun??' you're collecting dust because isn't it fun to collect pixels?? we set up these elaborate puzzles to entice you to the ending because aren't elaborate game puzzles fun??

I don't know how to properly verbalize my thoughts on this topic, just to say that, to me, the characters acknowledging openly that they're in a game doesn't feel a like a cop-out. It feels like it was making genuine what was, up until that point, just a joke. at no point in the game was it not commenting on being a game, from 'the corpse is pixelating' to 'that highway was long, i hope we dont have to walk down it again' to 'heres a flyer about a hintline, i have no idea what that means'. but all of those comments are just kind of jokes. we laugh at the cosmic irony of knowing something the characters don't

once the characters know it, it's not ironic anymore. it's a thing that's always been true, that they've always kind of known, and that's getting directly addressed finally. and once it is, we can start thinking about the vehicle of the game medium in how the story is told

because on the one hand this is a story about free will, kind of, but it's not about how these characters don't have it because they're in a game

like, what really sells the ending to me is how every character's personal quest gets completed. we're in a game and everything's going to get wiped? well I finally got the evidence I needed to clear my father's name, and that's how I'm going to spend my last twenty minutes. Ransome spends the whole game being a scumbag, and his last act before everything is over is to acknowledge that there is a lesson to be learned from this, and to try to make up for it

my interpretation is that it's about the free will to be a better person. Uncle Chuck uses and abuses everyone around him and throughout the ending there's a part of him that's fighting the 'evil' side to beg his niece to free him. it's cheesy and overdone, but the whole genre is cheesy and overdone. Ray and Reyes are direct foils, cold and condescending vs warm and enthusiastic, but even Ray's personal quest ends by giving someone an award for being Good At Games

maybe I'm overthinking this, but for a game that spent so much time expressing how much it loved games, and fun, and cheese, saying the 'its all a game' ending is a 'so it doesn't matter' ending seems to be missing the point. it's all a game; isn't that fun??

(and I want to add that the 'final boss' of the game being the game itself, which I imagine some people will think contradicts my point, really just seems like a continuation of the theme. the characters act like this is going to work even though the player knows 'shutting down' the game isn't going to destroy it - because they're still in a game, and I still want to be able to play it

the real villain isn't the existence of the game itself, but the ideology of 'its just a game so our actions dont matter'. Chuck's evil side is brought on by the AI revealing the nature of the game (though he was a dick long before that); he kills Franklin and Boris because 'this isn't real so my actions don't matter'. he orchestrates this mystery to get Delores to break into the wireframe and shut down the whole game... but of course the game recovers itself. because the game wasn't the problem. it was the dismissal of people and their well-being that was the problem)

[businesstiramisu]

imagine your OTP

[pagesofkenna]

anyway just thinking about how much I loved Thimbleweed Park and I loved Return to Monkey Island and would shake R Gilbert's hand for distilling pure love for the format into the format itself

[thesquirrelqueer]

oh my godddd I just realized the first letter of the names of the RTMIS members spells out RTMIS

Riya is R

Tiny is T

Miyeon is M

Ivy is I

Sonoma is S

[captmickey]

Happy Two For One of Talk Like A Pirate Day AND Return to Monkey Island (a.k.a Boybrush's birthday)!

[arcanetrivia]

Return to Monkey Island-ish artstyle 16-color EGA-mode pixel art of Secret of Monkey Island opening screen by Stefan Holmqvist (Brightcolorguy) on Twitter

[kursed-curtain]

Lil boybrush before I start my requests! ^^

[clarasteam]

Dream lover, where are you With a love, oh, so true And the hand that I can hold To feel you near as I grow old

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Dream lover, until then I'll go to sleep and dream again That's the only thing to do 'Til all my lover's dreams come true