#very much inspired by fear and hunger termina

[moonamite]

Guys new au in the works

MI/MAW infection au (Human exposure disease)

[reitziluz]

Oh? Oh ho??? I am instantly curious about your opinions and thoughts regarding Fear & Hunger, as your insights are incredibly enlightening and I'm very much interested about your take on their mythos. Pretty please elaborate as you wish?

i barely have any thoughts, because i'm still in the middle of chewing through the delicious delicious id candy haha! also i have only scratched the surface of termina so far, so my understanding of the lore is very much Incomplete. despite that, i'm at a loss to where even to start, because there's so many things i could comment on. (please ask me more if you want to hear more!)

but yeah my opinion is that it's great. like the actual yikes and jank are surface imperfections that could be filed off and the core of sincere madness would remain the same. tho i feel it's also 100% one of the cases where the creative expression and power would not have had a chance to happen if there had been much more restraint. it's gleeful "wouldn't it be fucked up if —?" with an earnest side of "isn't it tragic that —?" that bypasses rational thought and hits you right in the pathos. you could dismiss it with so many different words — grimdark, edgy, immature, gratuitous, fake-deep, pretentious, the list goes on — but like. no. it's not in good taste, as in it's not trying to be tasteful or subtle or highbrow, and that's good. it's the kind of thing that would not work if it cringed and flinched away from itself even a little bit. but it doesn't, not even when it's silly and strange, and that's the cherry on top.

the first thing that gets censored about it is the sexual horror, but that's the highlight for me. porn and horror are such sibling genres. experiential. about taboos and what's monstrous and what's proper. combined, they form a holistic drain cleaner to unclog your subconsciousness. the gutters of my mind have been powerwashed.

but damn, the mythos. do i even have a take on it? again, i don't know much about termina yet, just some basic stuff and how it seems most of the endings of the first game are somewhat canon.

the gods. i don't know where to begin with the gods. please ask me to elaborate on specific ones. i know i have a lot of thoughts but i don't know where to start.

the shit that's inspired me is the way ascension works. how new gods are all about trying to make a difference, take the power back from the gods into the hands of humans, but inevitably burn out and become a part of the hall of the gods. the vibe i get (though i may be projecting my own preferred shit) is that power of that level does not just corrupt, it erodes. how neither of the most successful ones weren't fully human to begin with, and at least one of them was intentionally manufactured.

i could talk way more about the different endings and the different takes on ascension in them. but i'm going to explode if i try to fit all that in one post.