#so many details

[taimanzano]

One of one. One, alone, one.

[monkeyart]

Happy Star Wars Day ✨

Fox and Temple Guard/Sith apprentice Feemor and the others for @blackkatmagic 's fic I have lived with shades so long.

[artkaninchenbau]

I love The Girls

Especially Girl^2

[heavenlymorals]

The Deeper Meaning of Loan-Sharking

Warning: spoilers for both Red Dead games

The complexity of RDR2's story blows me away every fucking day because oh my god- the characters, the themes, the symbolism, the call backs to other medias and so on and so forth.

But here is one thing that stuck with me when I realized it for the first time-

The deeper meaning of the loan sharking missions.

The main purpose of those missions were obviously to show a change of character in Arthur Morgan- from a heartless enforcer, a plague to the down-trodden, to a heartbroken man, ashamed of his actions, and trying to remedy what he can without the hope for forgiveness because he knows he doesn't deserve it.

The loan sharking missions are the most obvious and in your face representation of Arthur's redemption arc.

But at its core, it felt like a nod to criticisms that the 1800s romantics and naturalists had towards the concept of civilization, a direct call back to Dutch's philosophy all throughout both RDR and RDR2.

What do I mean by this?

All throughout the game, the gang tries to fight civilization in an almost Robinhood esque way- these American knights wrecking havoc for the dreams of their outlaw king. They rob the rich, who Dutch sees as the reason for America's moral failure, and those who protect these rich men because they add to those men's power. It all sounds very noble but it's a useless and bloody fight.

Mac and Davey get killed, Jenny gets killed, Sean gets killed, Kieren gets killed, Hosea and Lenny get Killed, Molly gets killed.

This gang life for a dream that'll never be realized kills people and consumes them until there is nothing left but husks of people who had dreams of their own.

The romantic dream will only be a dream and the only place it can be a reality is in books and philosophies. Civilization is the truth- it saves humanity from the hell that is anarchy or so it seems.

The gang fought against the encroaching civilization that threatened to devour the West and Arthur followed Dutch and showed the same sentiments regarding civilization- and by following Dutch, he followed that same ideal, even if his heart wasn't fully in it.

The gang life- coming to an end and no longer sustainable- showed the impossibility of this beautiful dream as it destroyed everything but that wasn't the thing that killed Arthur in the end.

Tuberculosis killed Arthur. Tuberculosis from loan sharking.

"It's legal work, Mr. Morgan." Strauss to Arthur.

The legal work killed Arthur in the end, not the shootouts or gang feuds. The civilized work killed Arthur in the end. The civilized world beat Mr.Downes, a poor, dying man trying to do his best for his family. The civilized world killed Arthur Londonderry.

The civilized world and this legal work sucked the life out of the poor so rich men can get richer and take everything they can around for their greed can not be satiated.

The civilized work, the legal work killed Arthur Morgan.

The hypocrisy of it all is so heartbreaking because despite all the bad things the gang did, the philosophy, the too idealistic and romantic philosophy they fought for, that could never be realized in the world they lived in, held truth.

And that small monocum of truth kept Dutch fighting and fighting until he no longer could by commiting suicide.

Good God I love this game.

[emikumaarts]

new arcana card wip <3

lineart busted my ass but i love these two too much to be mad

I FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE CLOSEUP LINEWORK IM JUST BARKING OVER REN

[abilai]

Im afraid he and his roommate got to me

[sleeplesssmoll]

Inspired by @definesanity I went through some of the sounds in the level select stages and really listened. I silenced the BGM and left on sound effects to get a better picture.

Mountain Echoes (mineral insight) has echo effects and faint percussion

Starfall Locale (star insight) has twinkle effects! It also has an effect like raspy whisper or breath?

Sylvanus Shape (plant insight) has running water sounds and wildlife sounds. Birds and such.

Brutes Wilds (beast insight) sounds like metal clinking (reminds me of mining). Also a wind effect and creaks.

The Poussiere stages have birds chirping and animal noises. There is wind and waves as well.

Mintage aesthetics has a low hum and a clinking noise. Bells? Lots of metalic sounds and chimes. There are also deep voices vocalizing in the background (at least that's what it sounded like to me). I couldn't hear it until the BGM was off.

Harvest Prime is dead silence.

Artificial Somnambulism is wild without the bgm. It's like being underwater and in outer space at the same time. There are occasion mechanical noises too. It has a musicality to it...

In In Our Time Ch 1, the rain doesn't begin to fall until Stage 13, The Rattenfanger (Where Forget Me Not reveals his true intentions and The Storm).

In Ch1-7 Scorched Woods there are Critter sounds(?) and frogs. Birds and stuff. Woodsy sounds!

Ch 3 has children's voices and a mechanical hum to it.

Ch 3-2 doesn't have the children, but it has nature sounds and gulls. The mechanical whirring is louder too.

Ch 3-6 Black Sheep wall, it begins to rain...

The rain and children's laughter are gone again in ch3-7 Scottish. It's just the gulls, waves, wind, and the machine.

In 3-13 A Yard, you can here pages flipping

3-14 Lost Lambs has a thumping sound? Or maybe a tapping sound, like placing something down.

Ch 4 also has various wildlife sounds and the machine whirring

4-8 Both sides of the table has people's voices. This plays in a few other stages.

Ch 5-1 Bon Voyage very heavy rain! Makes sense. Ch 5 has lots of ocean sounds in general. And wildlife sounds

[nosleepgummitato]

Time to share my artfight art I guess <:)

Character creditssss >:)

(Blue haired dude)Sona: @linconarc

(Girl in pink dress)Mariee!: jamjamsickle

(Grumpy clown gecko)Leon!: jamjamsickle

(Goofy ahh rizzacular rat)Jeremy: Bagel_Bitez

[virtualcamelselfies]

Details and doorways (AC Mirage)

[untoldsoup]

Drawing Luigi's house is my villain origin story.

[nalyra-dreaming]

Some comments, in order of the images:

The gravel that looks like what the tree is standing in in the reading room? In a coffin?? And... blood being poured onto it??? And Louis coming up from that gravel???? Okay, I might be totally wrong here, but what if that is what the show does with the Merrick ending? OR that is when Louis is entombed and Armand revives him. But... 👀

This is post biting. Blood down his throat and down the shirt, as if someone attacked him. Or... as if someone bit and didn't mind the spilling.

Armand does seem to look at Louis there. And he seems quite vulnerable.

The coven master. The bored coven master. "The vampire is bored." (Alright, maybe Armand is not really bored here - BUT given how certain events work out because Armand is ready to let his coven go...)

Talk about a power setup/shot of the table.

Seems like this is a revenant given the background. Too bad, I had hoped it was Allessandra^^

Madeleine hurling the flat iron through the window where someone put a swastika on - I love it (as in the reaction), but of course it's going to be quite bitter to watch all that I bet.

Lestat screaming for Nicki. This is just a small taste of what's to come season 3 and ... we are not ready.

This shot with Lestat behind stage - that is the opposite direction that we got in the other trailer, and the caption of "memory is the monster" all over it. These... *beep*. Talk about visual storytelling. Contrary POVs and all that. This show, seriously. Down to the friggin' trailers and the sequence in which they are released.

That is probably before Armand offers his wrist. Interesting to include this here since it doesn't really add to it all. Or seems to.

And ... Lestat. Can I have hair like that? Pretty please? Louis gave him such a glow-up in his mind, seriously....

"What would Christ need have done to make me follow Him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair."

*grumbles*

[call-me-pup2]

I think its funny when people come into my dms with a huge first message all about themselves like its some sort of job interview

[ravensmusings]

"Cocolia, Mother of Deception"

"You know nothing of the plight of this world…. nothing of the wait for its final end!"

"Even if we are doomed to destruction, we will go bravely, walking hand and hand into the darkness" -Cocolia and Bronya

[evermoving]

ok but tell me how can i be normal and engage in activities and responsibilities and do normal things this month when there's gonna be new hacks episodes every thursday i-

[dreamtigress]

Amazing art!!

The stunning art that I commissioned from @mysticmiav is now up on Zelfliefde! She absolutely knocked this out of the park, and it is so soft and lovely. The piece is of the bed snuggling scene in chapter 4, where Kaz & Inej are in bed with Krai cat.

Peep the art under the cut!

Seriously, SO GOOD. Look at the crows! Inej's knives on the dresser! Kaz's cane! Krai cat! She nailed the details! Thanks, @mysticmiav!!