#tumblr plays disco elysium

[tubrplaysdiscoelysium]

YOU - Ask again.

KIM KITSURAGI - Your brain sends the signal to your lips but they refuse the order. Something is paralysing them. You're pretty sure it has something to do with the lieutenant's eyebrow.

VOLITION [Medium: Success] - The eyebrow is exercising *psionic* control over you.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[kikicolors]

got my heart broken in Revachol 

[bardicbird]

Working on my own Disco Elysium skills! Individual art pieces and descriptions (in the style of the game) below the cut :]

DIALECTICS

Examine verbal landscapes. Get to the truth of the matter.

Cool for: Logicians, Philosophers, Asshole Devil��s Advocates

Dialetics urges you to look beyond the basics of conversation. It encourages you to discuss theories, truths and falsehoods, until you exhaust everyone around you with your sheer affinity for taking the most convoluted routes to your deductions—but, hey, it works! Those people are only *really* annoyed because you very accurately psychoanalyzed them.

At high levels, Dialectics will help you reason with even the most convoluted of situations. You will be an unstoppable detective, who may occasionally suffer from some unintended side effects such as: your brain and mouth moving too fast, overcomplicating little things, becoming an insufferable jerk, and joining your local debate team. With low levels of Dialectics, you’re going to have a difficult time seeing through both worldly and interpersonal deceptions. You may find yourself being taken advantage of. 

EVOCATION

Recall emotions and imagery. Paint complete pictures of the past. 

Cool for: Visualizers, Chronic Observers, Witnesses Of Crimes

Evocation allows you to call forth memories that may otherwise be lost in the recesses of your mind. Previous instances of sound, touch, taste, feeling, sight—all of these are at your beck and call: able to be summoned within and around you in a great miasma of experience. You will be able to relive important events, even those that were only mere seconds, and examine them closer to reveal what you couldn’t comprehend in the moment. 

At high levels, Evocation will help you reimagine scenes that may have happened years ago, lasted the length of a blink—or, perhaps, even allow you to picture memories that you were not present for. You will find yourself constantly transported to the past: a single whiff of a familiar perfume enough to completely derail your senses. With low levels of Evocation, you’re going to have a hard time remembering simple conversations and potentially important visual details. You will have to rely on others in such scenarios. 

BODY OF LAWS

Know your rights. Remember fun courtroom trivia. 

Cool for: Lawyers, Law-Evaders, Stick-In-The-Muds

Body Of Laws is responsible for your ability to follow the law at any given time—or don’t! Just because you know the rules doesn’t mean you have to play by them. Regardless, it certainly allows you to recall a, frankly, embarrassing amount of your government’s regulations, and may encourage you to ‘stay in your lane’, so to speak, regarding them. Governments aren’t the only entities that enact rules, though: you will also find yourself privy to understanding unspoken boundaries set by people, nature, and even your subconscious self.

At high levels, Body Of Laws will either make you an *extremely* insufferable goody-two-shoes, or a *wildly* effective cheat-of-the-system. You may end up feeling suffocated by all these restrictions you can so clearly see, causing you to become complicit with the movings of the machine—or potentially apathetic to why we need some of these restrictions in the first place. With low levels of Body Of Laws, you may find yourself accidentally violating boundaries you didn’t know existed—whether they be legal, personal, or cultural. 

[bureauen]

Another night on the balcony 🌒

[shhawwww]

On with the investigation…

[bemp0]

hiya, just saw ur art requests post ab disco elysium and f&h!! sorry if I'm coming off as rude but could u draw ruby and klaasje?? or cahara and the girl going thru The Horrors and comforting each other if u feel more funger

also have u played termina yet??

How about both?

[gardenofradiostatic]

whirling-in-rags, 8am (audio on)

[mjhartwork]

Terrier Du Bois.

I know that "harrier" is already a dog breed... but he looks more like a terrier!

[tmbatcat]

this is what happens when im left to my own devices

yes, he says the ":(" out loud (becourse I say so)

[vooder]

Disco Elysium Self Portrait found on my blog? Fork found in kitchen.

[tubrplaysdiscoelysium]

YOU - What's... happening... to me?

KIM KITSURAGI - "Something the matter, detective?"

AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - This guy's got Authority off the charts. With just the flick of his eyebrow he's able to make you his thrall.

YOU - So what can I *do* about it?

AUTHORITY - *Nothing*. You better hope he doesn't abuse his authority. There's *a lot* of it.

[howljenky]

small sketch of Klassje from a while ago

[chabric]

1am disco Elysium epiphany

[thevagueambition]

Kim/Harry as a ship isn't canonicaly, but it is a direct reaction to textual elements of the story.

We know Kim is gay

We know Harry thinks Kim is "devastatingly cool"

We know Harry is attracted to men without himself being able to identify those feelings as attraction

(Some people may argue this point, but I really don't think there's any credible way of reading Harry's interactions with The Smoker On The Balcony that don't include Harry's repressed attraction to him. Futhermore, the fact that the places Harry's possible repressed sexuality is brought up are so disparate also points to this being the intended reading of his character)

There are various things that can be read as attraction or interest between Harry and Kim. These can admittedly also credibly be read in other ways imo, particularly on Kim's part

(but then, we're not in Kim's head -- we're in Harry's, so it stands to reason that we'd be more clear on Harry being attracted to Kim than the other way around)

That is to say, Kim/Harry isn't shipper goggles, it's just shippers doing what they do with something right in front of them

A gay man being a rock for a repressed bi man in crisis? Of course people are going to ship them. The devs seem to understand that, too

Outside of shipping, I don't think a natural continuation of Kim and Harry's relationship would involve romance. Harry's too much of a mess and Kim would IMO be very reluctant to get involved with a colleague (also, let's be real, Kim could do better, lmao)

But that's not really what shippings about, particularly not slash shipping. What's canonical and what's interesting to explore are often at odds -- what we explore in fic often goes places we wouldn't want canon to go

Don't get me wrong -- if we'd ever gotten a DE sequel where Harry and Kim appeared, I would certainly have liked if something happened between them, but I also wouldn't be upset if it didn't. If it did, I'd also expect it to be messy and grimy and hard to define -- the way the world of Disco Elysium is in general

[f4rfields]

if evrart claire weren't fat and disabled (he has type 2 diabetes from growing up in poverty), a lot of people in the DE fandom would like him a lot more or at least not constantly come at him like he's some obviously greedy freak who MUST be just pretending to be a socialist for his own gain.

also the fact that people take harry's assessment of how much of an actual socialist he is as being correct is also very funny. harry "are women bourgeois?" du bois is not a reliable narrator on that one.