#sounds really cool

[sparkdoesart]

youve awakened the beast.

so pathologic is a game about a strange town in the russian steppe where a seemingly sentient plague ravages its people over the course of 12 days. the three protagonists are all doctors trying to find a cure for the plague.

the first doctor (the bachelor) is an out-of-towner from the capital city who is kind of a douchebag and tries to develop a vaccine with his scientific knowledge, but people don't trust him and frustrate his attempts to help

the second doctor (the haruspex) is a surgeon who didn't finish his training and is the son of a local herbalist who devised herbal cures for illnesses, and continually gets blamed for murders around town. he tries to find a panacea that will cure the illness outright rather than preventing healthy people from getting it

and the third 'doctor' (the changeling) is a strange girl who comes out of a hole in the ground in the cemetery and can heal the sick with her bare hands, but people in the town are convinced she is CAUSING the plague, so she has to do as much good as possible to preserve her image as she cures people

and there's all kinds of weird ass crazy lore about the town and the native people that live on its fringes and within it. there's a giant centuries-old mound called the abattoir that used to be a temple but now serves as a slaughterhouse for the town's meat industry, and a gravity defying... Thing ... called the polyhedron on the town's west edge. the town and its people are weird as hell

pathologic 2 is just the haruspex's route but refined into a much more fun and engaging game. instead of just doing fetch quests you have to like brew the herbal remedies from your father's recipes to treat the sick. there's much more emotional weight to the story. because of the nature of the games' stories, 2 is both a sequel and a remake at the same time, so you don't need to play 1 to understand it at all

the defining gameplay loop of the game is being given a TON of shit that you need to do RIGHT AWAY but there's literally not enough time in the day to do it all so you're running around trying not to starve to death or die of exhaustion or get the deadly incurable plague while the clock is FUCKING TICKING. CONSTANTLY

the bachelor and changeling's routes will presumably be made later. :]

Smiling so big seeing this ask

:] ill definitely see what its all about. Maybe buy it when ive made up for the quarry

This does sound really interesting tho

Thanks for telling me about it :DDD

[bluberimufim]

My brain keeps telling me to rewrite "Black and White" as one of those novels that are more like a collection of documents (whatever tf it's called) and I'm like!! Bestie, writing a novel as a series of documents is exactly what made me write the second draft as third person in the first place!!!!

(ok technically it was just Darius's normal POV + Diedrich's diary for some reason, but still!!)

[razzafrazzle]

literally my favorite aspect of sock opera is bill calmly but repeatedly failing to buckle his seatbelt. like its funny enough that Bill Cipher of all people is putting on a seatbelt but its so funny that he keeps fucking it up. but he's still just smiling like a dumbass the entire time

[girlboyburger]

i was extremely sleep deprived yesterday when i discovered the dragon survival mod which was LIFE CHANGING when you're on three hours of sleep so of course i made a whole custom forest dragon texture in one day about it. and. just for fun, some concept art i made for it:

[silicon14blog]

Only played the demo so far, but when I heard the reason non-rescue corps castaways were on PNF-404, this image came into my mind.

[bixels]

The Ryoko Kui interview's reception is such a disaster over a pretty normal (yet still flawed) interview between a non-Japanese fan and Japanese artistic. This is discourse for discourse's sake, and it's no surprise that almost every Twitter user I've looked at who's using this interview to parade Kui around as a goated mangaka standing strong against Western ideology is anti-trans.

Like, I do think the interview was kinda wonky with its focus on fandom culture, which Kui clearly didn't have much interest in. But sometimes that happens. Sometimes interactions between two people, especially a fan and a creator, two people who view and interact with a piece of media in completely opposite perspectives, don't click. Does this really need to get blown up into a "West vs. East culture war" issue.

Anyways, Kui saying "I don't consider my audience's interpretations when writing. I leave it to their imaginations, but I have my own read on things too" is the healthiest, most normal thing an artist/writer who wants a non-parasocial audience could say. Artists and writers use this line all the time. If Kui didn't enjoy autistic Laius or Farcille headcanons, she would have probably voiced/signalled her discomfort, like she did on the topic of Senshi fanservice. Overall, Kui handled the interview really well. Props to her to sticking to her guns and keeping a healthy disconnect from the fandom. While I think the interviewer could've/should've been more tactful and restrained, the flaws in their questions is not a symptom of the woke mind virus trying to wriggle its way into the pure Japanese psyche. It's the sign of an over-eager fan who sees a piece of fiction differently than its creator.

[cemeterylight]

NSFW

what steve would see every morning if eddie woke up first (eddie is never up before 9am)

[ectonurites]

CHAPPELL ROAN THE LATE SHOW [2.15.24]

[pigswithwings]

pig i need you to know i had a dream last night where i played a game that was a really violent and bloody first person shooter and the bosses were all angels but all the angels looked like cutesy pastel anime girls except when they reached the final phase of their boss battles the anime girls peeled in half like a gory banana type thing and revealed a glowing ball of light with infinite arms and legs that like unfurled from it as it shed its skin. anyways thought you’d like that

OH LORD... that's incredible

[fritzmonorail]

The doctor really spent the entirety of season 10 trying to get to the worst planet ever just so he could show Jo a really cool rock. And when he managed to drag himself back in one piece Jo was just like “oh yeah cool, goodnight.”

[thequibblingking13]

Fearne Calloway, the woman that you are

(Zoom for better quality bc this file is big as fuck)

[babblingbonnabel]

🥁 | hurray for Imp and Skizz!!

Other Hermitcraft x Soul Eater designs: Stress + Iskall

[bacchuschucklefuck]

pygmalion and galatea for aroace people

you should tell your friends what I look like, riz gukgak.

[canisalbus]

The Hawaiian language doesn't attach gender to pronouns, but it does have a complex set of relational pronouns, so you can use a particular pronoun to note for example "all of us (except for that guy)"

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[biblically-accurate-dca]

au where moon fills in while sun is "on vacation" and nothing bad happens

[g0nefischin]

MERSKELES PART 3!

Definitely not mermay anymore but here's the last 3 sirens I wanted to do

and some explanation on why I choose what I did under the cut

(little warning for parasites on fresh's section)

So from left to right

Dream is a golden colored koi carp fish, I picked it because they are very pretty and they represent a lot of positive things like luck and fortune, some people even wish on them to make their dreams come true :> I also thought of the legend where a golden koi fish climbs a large waterfall to turn into a dragon, so they have some mythical legends as well. In terms of the actual fish, Koi are very sociable and sturdy, they also live for quite awhile.

Nightmare is a coelacanth, he should probably be an octopus considering he has tentacles, but I really wanted to make him a coelacanth because I think they are neat. Coelacanth's are very old with the latest fossils being over 400 million years old, they were thought to be extinct until one was found in 1938, grandpa nightmare. They are also nocturnal, sleeping in caves during the day, they live deep in the ocean as well. 

Fresh is actually a two in one, he is a rainbow parrotfish with a tongue-eating louse in his mouth. Out of alI the bright fish I did a parrotfish because I really like their gradients, and I think the magenta fins fit his jacket. He's a parasite inside of a Sans body, so I picked a fish parasite to go along with the fish half of his body. I chose the tongue-eating louse, a type of parasite that replaces a fish's tongue. It first severs the blood vessels to the tongue and once it falls off takes its place. feeding on nutrients and acting as a new tongue for the rest of the fish's life, very cool and terrifying.