#the pathology omg

[mutiny-huyutiny]

clarakovsky brootp save me

[mars-shifts]

i wish people talked about me like this

[dancefloors]

trying not to get irked by swiftie media illiteracy. I've retired! I'm out of the game!! but some of you are very stupid

[bauliya]

i keep seeing annoying posts by (mostly white) people about how you're not obligated to talk about every thing in the news, it's okay to be traumatised, doesn't mean u don't care, etc, etc, and honestly good god no one is fucking stopping you from talking about middle aged pirates fucking each other raw on this website, even as there's an ongoing genocide in palestine. no one cares! you do not need to make it into an entire tirade! the most ""politically active''" people on here keep sharing stuff about their blorbos or pets or fanfics in between posts about gaza. stop acting like it's a giant burden to do something as simple and basic as acknowledging an ongoing ethnic cleansing on a dying website you spent far too much time on and if you feel guilt over not doing it, perhaps that is something that needs introspection rather than long-ass posts that are really just requests for external absolution.

[shmowderslut]

I recently started a "im going to read EVERYTHING" bachelor playthrough, and im surpriced i havent seen anyone talk about the many-legged fugitive side quest. Im sick and feel like my brain is filled with rats, so here's my unorganized and unholy feelings about it.

MINOR MECHANIC SPOILERS BELOW!! PLOT SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

First of all the house you need to go in is *not* easy to find, it is not the nearest house to the staircase (also theres two of them!) and definetly isnt visible from the stillwater. I have to confess, i needed to look it up online, and even the guide had misplaced the marker! As always, the frustration fuels me, and makes my love this game even more. And this is day 1! Its a nightmare and i love it. If youre stuck here, its okay, it seems like so many people were too.

Plot and character spoilers under the cut!

Okay now into the juicy stuff. Technically not about the quest yet, but we're getting there.

You get the quest talking to Lara Ravel, after learning about her from talking to Yulia in the main mission. A thing i dont think is mentioned a lot is that Yulia dislikes Lara Ravel. Now Yulia being a queer woman in stem (i will not accept criticism on this) She raves about all the other women like theire goddesses (they are) but she sees Lara as ungenuine and almost sad.

"She pities everyone she comes across, for she knows they will all die just like her dearly departed. She sees a corpse in everyone she looks upon"

And maybe i havent been paying attention, but this is very different from how Lara is usually portrayed, as a literal angel and a philanthropist. She always stood out to me as a surprisingly simple and good character is pathologic, so i was exactic to find out this detail of hers. Also the relationship says a lot about Yulia and her no-nonsense attitude, that she values honesty over good deeds.

Then we finally get to the quest in itself, where Lara tells you the children have brought an old dangerous game back. They used to play doctor using a dangerous mix of medicine and pretend healed eachother. She asks you to find a secret stash these kids hid and destroy all the shmowders (again, i went a lil insane trying to find the house). Unfortunately the bachelor is just too late, again, and the stash has been distributed among the children.

Theres 2 dogheads you can talk to, one of them tells you more about shmowders. That they doent believe in shmowders and its the little kids who are playing epidemic with deadly conjuctures. They blame Capella for distributing them, and all the kids should just go to the polyhedron to stay safe.

The second doghead tells you that yes, the shmowders do work and they came in use the last outbreak. That the kids were safe in the polyhedron, but some of them wandered out and made shmowders. Shmowders that were stored in this stash, but have now disappeared. Also as a fun fact, he tells you the spesific people who made the shmowders. Now i dont recognize these, but if you do please tell me.

"The original ones were made by Catchfly, but they were no good; the disease would pass, but the person would pass away along with it. But then Beaker's brothers made some nice ones. Crowfoot's weren't too shabby, and neither were Flanky's..."

I just think its neat to have an in universe reason the pumpkin girl sometimes carries a shmowder. Also this plays into what i think is the most prevalent pathologic theme, two impossible truths existing at the same time. The shmowders are a live saving medicine AND poison. Its childrens imagination AND real. You get the jist, my head hurts and im going to sleep

Also if you read this far, thank you?!? I am in no state to check this for clarity, but im pretty rambly (battling to not write a fanfic about this quest) and this is not my native language

[whollysensei]

it took me so freaking long to figure out what kind of curtains the mad artist who worked on textures in paho classic decided to put on poor Eva's dress

then i very quickly gave up

and drew the real curtain thieve

[mayormimii]

I just dreamt that Khan was having a birthday party at the Crucible with a bouncy castle and balloons, and all the kids in the town-on-Gorkhon were invited. Maria was tasked with babysitting them but threatened Peter Stamatin at knifepoint to do it for her. He was shaking like a leaf the entire time he kept an eye on those kids

[danielisanevenbiggerdumbass]

I love Pathologic because the game is so so serious and then the fandom is just like

“oh yeah those two are definitely in love”

and it’s two men who hate each other so much that when the player doesn’t intervene they spend the entire game trying to kill each other

[eclairfair98]

“You can be my wingman any time.”

“Bull****! You can be mine.”

[glitteringpoet1685]

I totally get why people wanted to destroy the Polyhedron not because it's a perversion of the natural order of the world or anything but because it's so difficult to draw omg.

[meirimerens]

i remember you said yesterday that you'd release the hounds if you saw anyone being racist to Artemy in terms of his depiction inside of the pairing with Dankovsky and their size difference... well i think i just heard howling

i actually said that almost a week ago but the hounds don't rest. oh well

[haharuspex]

still trying to figure out how to draw burakh but anyway here's my boi in an au where EVERYTHING stays the same but artemy wears s beersaur t-shirt

[leather-field]

extremely vague spoilers for pathologic 1 and 2 endings‼️‼️‼️

So. You know how Pathologic 2 Haruspex route is pretty clearly portrayed as, on some level, a play being staged in the Theater? I mean, you start the game backstage after a failed production, and in the (implicitly canon) Diurnal ending you end the game by exiting into the wings. Plenty of characters refer to you very literally as an actor, including your own “replacement” on day 11 (who you even meet on a stage!), and the events of the Deal & Late endings (and all your deaths) serve to further cement this fact. Plus, on a more metaphorical level, the Haruspex is portrayed as a character who is not entirely opposed to the idea of having a prewritten fate. Like, he understands that he is not in control of the story, but ultimately he doesn’t need to be as long as he’s in control of his own actions? He just needs to know his Lines (hee hee hoo hoo). There’s also the fact that the Haruspex is connected to the Town (seeing as how saving the Town is his ultimate goal) and the Theater is also representative of the Town. The Theater is the Town in microcosm; any event which takes place in the Town takes place on the stage, and vice versa. The backdrop of the stage is literally the Town itself flanked by the two Mistresses. 

We know the Haruspex is an actor in the Theater. That’s the context in which his story is framed. But—hear me out—it’s not how the other two healers will be portrayed. They’re going to have different meta explanations, for Character Reasons, and also because the Haruspex route doesn’t have either of the secret endings from Pathologic Classic (which made me suspicious).

I think the Bachelor’s route will be the one to utilize the angle about the Powers that Be. First of all, it’s intrinsically connected to the Polyhedron, which is in keeping with both his canon ending and his parallel to the Haruspex. Second of all, it’s just a way bigger slap in the face for him—he’s the one who wants to overcome inevitability, so discovering that he was never in control of his actions at all would of course be the worst epiphany ever. In the Haruspex’s storyline, the Bachelor might be an actor, but in his own storyline he is a puppet for a child as they play a meaningless game with his life. Also, it would make sense for his prologue to start in (or maybe at the base of) the Polyhedron, and for Measly and Thrush to take the place of Mark Immortell (so they can berate him for doing a terrible job at stopping the plague). In his canon ending he could also end in the Polyhedron (where Measly and Thrush could “dismiss” him in the same way), ‘cause the Polyhedron is the most significant location for him and it’s also…basically the only thing left in his ending. The same applies to all his deaths and whatnot. It’s mechanically similar to the Haruspex’s route, but narratively it fits the Bachelor much better to have his route framed in a way that emphasizes the futility of his actions. 

As for the Changeling route’s framing device… Well, she’s always been the one who was most aware of Pathologic’s meta, right? So, yeah, she’s gonna be in a video game. Canonically. She’s gonna get death penalties and pro/epilogue explanations from the Tragedian and Executor who represent the developers. It fits, okay?? She’s connected to the game’s world as a whole rather than any specific part, she’s often alluded to as a vessel of some higher power who is incomprehensible to any of the characters, uh…there are…two of her…? I don’t know. It made so much sense in my head and I got so excited about this idea. I’m too tired to explain every little detail in a coherent manner, so just, like…fill in the gaps, I guess? You can do it. I believe in you.

Anyway, yeah, that’s my Pathologic 2 prediction. I’m sort of…half-expecting this to actually happen, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if it didn’t. I just think it would be cool, y’know? 

[mezucore]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Мор. Утопия | Pathologic Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Artemiy Burakh | Artemy Burakh/Daniel Dankovskiy | Daniil Dankovsky Characters: Artemiy Burakh | Artemy Burakh, Daniel Dankovskiy | Daniil Dankovsky Additional Tags: Time Travel, Daniel Dankovskiy | Daniil Dankovsky Has Issues, Angst, Possessive Daniil Dankovsky, artemy burakh's company as a way to cope with the horrors, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Kissing Summary:

The one thing Daniil Dankovsky has consistent control over during the Second Outbreak is Artemy Burakh. He chooses to take advantage of that, again, and again, and again, and again—

[suckmyemergencyinductionport]

im so excited i literally might fucking cry

[theha1r]

this is the most fitting/appropriate 'radar' sidebar thing i've ever had on any of my blogs ... ever -