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[murderenjoyer]

[dcmultiverse]

"Always confident, always kind, always cool. Dick Grayson-- The Multiversal Constant.”

[magefeathers]

idk if this has been posted anywhere yet, but I wondered how the Crows would react if a Crow Rook saved Minrathous instead of Treviso, and it was as bad as I thought 🥲 so I figured I'd upload it for anyone else who was curious and didn't want to do it themselves

[deimcs]

Could I convince you to kill someone less useful? No one is getting killed, I swear. We're just two friends talking. So -in the spirit of theoretical questions- if you had to take a bite from one of them, who would it be?

[bugsdraws]

lucy maclean ♡ ily

.. ╱|、 (˚ˎ 。7 |、˜〵 じしˍ,)ノ

[ageofthedragon]

"For the glory of pineapple on pizza reborn!"

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Thanks to @thatsushichick for the winning caption 😂

[clairenovaking]

It’s a rare, precious little find.

The record player case had poked up and out of the dirt- inside, somehow salvageable, is a genuine record player with a handful of vinyl records, somehow undamaged. Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Johnny Cash- it’s a selection after his own heart, in another lifetime.

Lucy, as always, is curious as a kitten.

or, Lucy and the ghoul slow dance. rated K. inspired by this fanart.

[marshmurmurs]

gonna give her a silly lil staff for funsies, she deserves it

between being a witch and her connection with tenos, kara is very magically inclined. why should i not give her a funky lil staff for magic convenience? the gems help channel more powerful magic

speaking of powerful magic karas gonna play a huge role in abyss rescue mission. girlie has the omniscient on her side she is locating jordan whether he likes it or not. though the abyss is outside the vault gods protection, tenos still has the advantage of Knowing. acting on that is not their strong suit, but thats where everyone else comes in.

[legylou]

YANPLATTER SIM OST P1

worked on the songs 4 a vn thingy regarding YANPLATTER SIM (aka the side story of my bugaloos au which takes place in 2012-2013) in fl studio. & a new logo i made 4 it

(characters/shows/franchises arent mine. only these songs, concepts ive made & the art are mine)

[NOTE: I DO NOT SUPPORT/CONDONE YANDEV & THE THINGS HE DID!!]

[bbt-yjtt]

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[murderenjoyer]

[bumblepony]

I was like I am not going to get into this ship, I refuse!

And then...

Maybe just a little peek...

Ah shit!

So like…this ship and hands…..

I’m going to be unwell forever

[wayfaringellie]

What’s up with this Craig Mazin dude giving long-winded explanations for the show that no one asked for? Like dude, we have eyes. We can see what’s happening. Art speaks for itself, you don’t need to prattle on. If you feel the need to explain every “emotional” scene, you ain’t doing it right. Periodt.

[himluv]

I'm having a lot of thoughts and feelings about Lucanis's quest line. This all started when I was talking myself through what I consider critiques of the game - things I didn't like (which is a whole other post tbd). And I sort of stumbled into how I felt in the initial moment when I realized Illario really had betrayed Lucanis.

My immediate reaction was... Disappointment. And I thought I was disappointed because it felt too easy and out of character, but as I talked myself through it (verbal processing ftw) I think I stumbled onto the truth of the matter. Or at least, it feels true to me.

I read The Wigmaker Job and The Wake multiple times before VG released. Lucanis was my #1 hope for a companion before they were announced. I know and love these idiot Dellamortes.

So when the game took every opportunity to tell me Illario betrayed Lucanis, I didn't believe it. It was TOO obvious, too heavy-handed. And Illario loves his cousin, so surely there must be a twist.

I kept waiting, kept denying, until Bloodbath when it became pretty fucking clear that Illario was, if not directly responsible, definitely involved in Lucanis's imprisonment in the Ossuary. The betrayal was real. And I screamed at my TV and threw a pillow and had to take a break.

Now, here's why I think this is actually an example of brilliant writing:

The game told me over and over and over again that Illario betrayed Lucanis. And, because I did my homework and read the tie-in media, I liked Illario too much to believe it was him. Because I am trained by a lifetime of consuming narratives to believe that the obvious culprit is NEVER the actual culprit, I denied the reality the game kept presenting.

I said, "nope. No way. Not Illario."

Just.

Like.

Lucanis.

The game manipulated me into a similar (if not identical) viewpoint as Lucanis, until we were both forced to accept and face the truth. The terrible thing is not only possible, it's true. It happened. And no amount of lying to yourself will change that.

Which is also the entire theme about Spite. About acknowledging the trauma you've experienced and then finding a way to live with and through it. You can't keep hiding from it. It won't go away.

Lucanis's whole story is: the terrible thing happened. You can't undo it, can't unsee it. If you do nothing, then you will never be free of it. So, what do you do now?

And that's what Illario's betrayal is - an external version of the inner struggle Lucanis is battling.

Basically, once I realized how beautifully the writing maneuvered me through this narrative, I stopped thinking about any potential "bad" writing. This game is brilliant and I will not be taking questions at this time.

[mask-of-prime]

VG Bonus Art: Friendly Fire

Synopsis: Vitani is overwhelmed from trying to wrangle her disputing Lion Guard and tending the needs of on-edge Pridelanders terrorized by foes. On top of that, Vitani and Nuka's spirits have been fused for far too long until the possession becomes a parasitic inconvenience. The Fiercest, highly stressed and agitated, has been fueling her newly-found Fire Roar to the point where she can't control it, and neither can Nuka. At some point, the fire evolves into destructive, molten lava -- a new power she'd discovered on her own. Will her Lion Guard find a way to extract Nuka's spirit and cool her tumultuous temper?

It's, well... pretty past Halloween, now, but it is a special day nonetheless, it's the 5th Anniversary of when Vitani and her pals officially became the new Lion Guard (Return to the Pride Lands was aired on TV on November 3rd, September 2nd was their DisneyNOW/WatchTLG release). So I guess I'm celebrating the anniversary of them becoming a team by... tearing them apart...?

I have no idea if this would be an AU or if I can actually manage to fit this into the Vitani's Guard storyline somehow. Come to think of it, it kinda makes me imagine if Nuka's spirit would've remained within Vitani the first time they ever fused, like if a prolonged possession lasted several episodes/chapters (I wanna say the duration of Shouting Match to Speed Run?) until it became too much for both of them, disaster ensues in a manner typical of tropey werewolf episodes of cartoons, or at worst, an Akira type of disaster in which aggravated emotions and emotionally-charged supernatural powers fight each other to make for some gruesome body horror visuals (in this case, becoming a living volcano).

The lava dripping from Vitani's mouth lowkey reminds me of rabies, maybe this constitutes as an Infection AU like what everyone's been doing lately? lol

The title is a pun on the term "friendly fire" meaning to kill or harm a soldier who's on your side (Shabaha here seems to have been on the receiving end of that). I became aware of the term after the release of a Linkin Park song of the same name.

[iidsch]

@fluffiestclouds I don't think op is talking about comparing different mediums as much as she's comparing stories on themselves, because comparing stories based on what medium they are written in is nearly impossible given how different they are. Disco Elysium only works as a game because it was written as a game (albeit a very novelized one), while something like Crimen and Punishment or The Picture of Dorian Grey works as a novel because they were written as novels. And putting any of these stories in a different medium would involve making numerous changes that often make the story not as good because you have to take into account the qualities of the medium you're using to write your story. It's like adapting a Rembrandt oil painting to watercolors: sure, you can do it, and you can copy the poses and composition to a T, but you will have a really hard time getting the deep dark and contrasting atmosphere so characteristic of his paintings because watercolors can't do that easily.

This is why so many people say "the book is better than the movie", not because books are inherently better than TV but because a story that is written for a book can't be easily adapted to TV unless it loses some of itself. Horror books show this perfectly because in writing you can describe the monster through what feelings it creates rather than describing it yourself, and you let the reader imagine the horror themself (and imagination is always more powerful). But in a horror movie you almost always have to show the monster's appearance and feelings are harder to evoke so you have to use other tactics to make it scary (dark lighting, jumpscares, tense music, etc.). Fantasy books and movie adaptations of them suffer from this too.

And this logic applies to other mediums too! This is also why adaptations aren't just a matter of recreating the same story in a different medium, you have to make changes in how you tell the story using the new tools at your disposition. It's basically like doing a translation from one language to another. And just like languages there isn't a superior or better medium. Video games have interactivity and different endings, but novels use the power of words and imagination more effectively. What works in one may not work in another and that's the beauty of it.

What op is saying (if I'm not misinterpreting her) is that if you put the story of Disco Elysium next to the stories of other games with allegedly spectacular writing you realize that DE is in an entirely different league, and that the bar for good writing in video games is actually not that great. Of course video games can compete with other mediums but there are very rare attempts at that because most video game studios don't push the medium to new heights. I watched a video a while back comparing the David Cage's games with Disco Elysium, and how one success at being mature, deep and meaningful while the other feels like a child's understanding of what maturity and depth are (aka shallow political ideas, "morally grey" characters and decisions and sex and violence without any reason behind them), but that's not exclusive to the David Cage's games, that's a big chunk of the gaming industry.

To put it in another way, if you made video game adaptation of the story of, I don't know, the Odyssey, the story itself would still hold most of the quality that makes it an evergreen classic worth of endless analyses, but if you adapted the story of Metal Gear Solid 2 into a novel it would not be anywhere near the best novels in history.

i do think that everyone on earth should play disco elysium at least once just to see if it provokes any irrevocable changes in their soul like it should be issued to you for free at birth