#that’s so fucking eerie

[watchyourbuck]

If I was dating the doppelgänger of my dead wife and she suddenly asked “have you figured out why I look so familiar yet?” I would literally poop my pants

[hiruseki]

god i seriously am never getting over That Scene in orv. kim dokja has so little compassion for himself that the only thing he can think to do upon being confronted with the most powerless, frightened, vulnerable version of himself is to try and murder it with his own hands. even when everyone is sobbing and begging him to stop, even when everyone has already forgiven him without reservation, even when yoo motherfucking pilgrim of the apocalypse joonghyuk cannot muster any animosity, kdj will not stop trying to convince them this trembling little boy needs to die. it had been well established by that point that kdj is self destructive and self loathing, but he was good at maintaining some emotional distance from his actions. but the moment he steps off that train, recognizes his own drawings, realizes what's happened, that impassive veneer shatters and he becomes desperate and vicious. this man hates himself so much. seriously, can you imagine how it must have felt to be oldest dream? you're an abused, lonely, depressed child. profoundly alone in this world, betrayed by everyone you've ever loved. you are so frightened of everything you can't bear to live in reality. you meet yourself from the future, but even he has no sympathy for you. no, he hates you. he hates you so much he wants to kill you. he would point a broken sword at his own throat if it meant he could erase you. you don't know what you did wrong. you never do. all you can do is cower from the monster and hope he doesn't get you.

like it's so fucked up. orv is so fucked up.

[toffeenutcrunchlatte]

[chthonicmoons]

i wanna talk about the subtle but inherent horror in transistor. how it goes from “huh, the streets are unusually empty for this hour” to the game showing you towards the end that certain white blocks you passed throughout the game were actually people who had been fully processed. and just the sheer brilliance in storytelling of building this sense of horror as the scope of the process slowly unfolds, via the OVC terminals. the missing persons number slowly ticking up and up and up and not stopping for as long as you stand there until you open that terminal. the percentage of process spread to cloudbank increasing by each terminal you visit. the relocation request failing because too many people are trying to use the circuits. just the use of a news scroll in general is soooo haunting as you slowly see each district status listed as OFFLINE. administration saying “casualty reports unsubstantiated” followed by an urgent advisory to evacuate to the city perimeter and leave all valuables behind. the sudden and complete downfall of a city all happening just outside the scope of what we as red can see as she heads into the danger instead of away. we just see it all play out on the OVC terminals until there’s no one left to report it. it’s just so so so so fucking good

[cellgatinbo]

these damn cats.

[sleepy-crypt1d]

im not sure if this was intentional- or just a reuse of assets- but the subtle detail of the car that hit Simon following him throughout the game never fails to unnerve me.

the first time i noticed the car- the only one parked, the only one not piled or flipped over, the only one facing me- it made my skin crawl.

this thing haunting him throughout the entire experience, this hint towards what's really happening outside of the monsters his brain has created to protect himself, this acknowledgement that something is wrong. that he's being hunted.

its one of the creepiest details in the game to me and the more i catch the car in the sides of my vision, the more it freaks me out.

as to not clog up the tag im gonna put the rest of the pictures ive gotten of this thing under the cut :p

this is on Ronald Street, which is the first time I noticed it during my fourth playthrough?? I think? it scared me so bad i had to pause the game and take a second lmao

its also the car that the weird flesh tree thing throws in your path right after

this one is def just, reusing the assets they had but it shows up four times in front of the building sophie is on top of (fourth one not pictured is behind me but i promise you it's there).

even as it's becoming more obvious they're just reusing models, it doesn't make it feel any less gross to me, especially considering the context of where we are and why we're here.

its even in his own neighborhood several times.

IT'S EVEN PARKED OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE. it's taunting him.

like i know this probably isn't all the instances (pretty sure it's also at Saxon Avenue lol), i had some trouble with the game while trying to get these screenshots and have a feeling i missed a couple, but the sheer amount i WAS able to capture? upsetting. down right creepy.

i know- logically- it's just the same model being used throughout the game like all the other cars, but knowing that the thing that causes the events of the game in the first place is following us throughout it's entire run time is such a good detail i WANT it to have been intentional.

[buttered-toasty]

Forging of the Ring/The Proposal/Reflections of Self

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Till death do us part? You’re not getting out of this that easily.

And with that I think I’m done with my little marriage series (as I have been calling my bigger Sauron pieces)! I will post them all together sometime. Happy Halloween and remember not to separate out parts of your soul for the making of cursed jewelry!

Bonus thing with some extra portraiture under the cut, idk

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH ARTHUR BENNETT.. such a gorgeous and intriguing character. terribly burdened by a GRUESOME set of crimes, his light suffocated by a HEAVY century of GUILT. so tragic, so dark and broody, and yet PAINFULLY awkward in any social setting ever

[shortyinblue]

Music Video poster for Ice On My Teeth!

[anachronistic-falsehood]

the part of roier’s stream where i lost my absolute mind

[trainforanother1000years]

NOOOOOO THEY DESTROYED THE OLD SOULFIRE BASE NOOOOO

fuckkkkkk its so sad how empty and desolate it looks

[y-rhywbeth2]

Hey! Love your lore posts! Was wondering if you knew whether there was any symbolism attached to Banites covering their eyes? Is it simply to shield their identities or is it something to do with the Church? (perhaps a "see no evil" 🙈 type deal?)

I've never seen anything about them covering their eyes in lore (which isn't the same as it not existing, but if it does I haven't seen it). If it's about their in-game design then it's just a stylistic thing, not a lore thing.

Religious garb for the Bhaalists has them hiding their faces behind veils, and the Myrkulites behind skull masks and layers of corpse ash taken from the crematoriums. Both in black robes with deep hoods to further obscure themselves. Banites tend to *show* their faces (ritual facial tattooing (I think Gortash actually has concept art with facial tattoos?), gemstones worn on the forehead to denote high rank, that kind of thing) the closest to obscuring any of their face that I remember is wearing hoods at the regular evil meetings, and the fact that, due to the military nature of Bane's Church, armour has been a big part of the uniforms so some might have masks/visors on their fancy black spiky helmets?

Out of ceremonial garb, they must wear something black (at least one article of clothing minimum) and if possible a sash-belt in red with the Black Fist on it. Also two holy symbols (one on the neck, tucked in out of sight if needs be, one in the heel of their boot). No eye covering there.

'See no evil' would be out of character for Bane. He wants open tyranny and very much wants you to look at that evil. Dressing to honour your faith in Bane but hiding your identity feels incorrect in a way I can't articulate at 1 in the morning. But like Gortash standing in public with the holy symbol practically wearing a sign that says 'I worship Bane': their faith is legal and they're not the most subtle in dress regardless, so protecting your identity is ehh.

I'd go for obscuring your face for intimidation as an explanation, personally.

[doomdaysdecays]

y do ppl not get that when they put super long unnecessary captions on their liminal space pics it takes away the liminalness. just yap in the tags now ur whole post is ruined

[cellgatinbo]

btw. little thing i noticed. a pure coincidence, i happened to be watching quackity's stream but had cellbit's audio in the bg.

when the A1 egg died and the others met up to check on them, they immediately started theorizing about what happened and what it was, drawing the conclusion to the timer dungeon. cellbit was talking about "there's a project A1... A0, something." at the exact same time quackity warped right to and turned to face this.

[zomboivex]

Did anyone else also find the door scene particularly jarring?

With the sudden background music with a sort of eerie feel? And Rui acting casual af about it.

But then the sentence “As always, there was the door waiting for us beyond the darkness”.

Last time we saw the door was towards the beginning.

Doesn’t anyone else find it ODD they brought it up again? Briefly- but

Still.

I’m thinking too much on shit but idc

[roundclowns]

Unfollow me right now this is all im gonna talk about for the next 3 weeks.