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you know how much easier my life would be if people just told you exactly what they wanted from a friendship out of the gate. you know how easy it would be if direct communication wasn't painted as a social failing.
#spacie spoinks#ohhh my god.#I wish people were just like ''do this dickhead'' and then I would know what is required of me#I'm flying by the seat of my pants here#the autistic experience of wanting a script to follow for relationships 😭#no I just hafta assume that this is what I'm supposed ta do and if it isn't ppl just assume things about me#JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT#SHAKES YHE SCREEN TELL ME WHAT YOU WAAAANYLT#life would be dream if friendship contracts existed#and I wiiish I could ask peepol what they wanted without it seeming like I'm hitting on them!!#I just care about you stupid!!! I don't wanna suck your lips off!!!#what a dreadful visual#sorry about that#Anyway I'm good at following rules and routine please tell me your social rules I'm begging#none of this comes easy to me bro istg I'm so bad socializing mostly beecuz people aren't honest about what they want
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something about the main menu for life is strange genuinely makes me wanna collapse and sob
#like not just the music but the overall visuals yknow#it's like this gut wrenching#almost nostalgic ????#feeling that hits like a truck#especially after playing the full game#seeing how peaceful things could be is almost like#i dunno gives me that feeling of dread when you've done something you can't undo#seeing how good things could be but knowing you don't get to go back#sorta thing#it's just#something about beautiful pictures having gut wrenching back stories#does something bad to my brain#naturally#i dunno i'm half asleep and rambling#but yknow what i mean#i'm trying to put it into words as best i can#it's like#it really is just like what growing up feels like ig#especially when it doesn't turn out how you want#wanting to go back and warn yourself so you can hopefully make things easier and more ideal but obviously you can't#that's kinda what the menu feels like#music and all#especially those goddamn birds chirping#ok goodnight#life is strange#chloe price#max caulfield#lis chloe#lis max#pricefield
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Lake Mungo / Skinamarink
#lake mungo#skinamarink#horror#horroredit#comparison#not gonna lie i actually found the end of skinamarink very distressing lol#i did not even like pulling up the last scene of the movie to get this screencap#so as much as i feel pretty ambivalent towards the film as a whole it did actually do what it needed to do in the end.#same feeling of pure dread as seeing alice's ghost in lake mungo to me! just similar to me . emotionally and visually
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Omg idk if you talk Spanish or if it’s just XXC, but with that little and wonderful doodle you gave me the amazing headcanon of XXC being bilingual and just randomly speaking Spanish out of nowhere and nobody understanding him
[TL: XXC says "don't do coke in the bathroom"]
Shout out to the Spanish speaking MXTX fans. I don't think this is remotely what you wanted. (bonus below cut, TW: Drugs)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#xiao xingchen#xue yang#Ask#bonus comic#I'm not confident enough in my Spanish to really integrate bilingual XXC into the comic#but I love the enthusiasm and there are at least two ppl leaving spanish tags on my comics so...its soft canon here.#if spanish speakers want to throw good spanish memes at me for xxc I will do my best B*)#Maybe he transmigrated and tried to turn the tides of the story but met a even worse fate....#I like to think he teaches Song Lan Spanish to have a secret language like the SVSSS transmigrators with (broken) English.#The bonus joke here is that it doesn't matter what language the sign is in. XY can't read. He has severe dyslexia#Its not even real coke its just sugar. He's about to have a dreadful time. But the TW is just for the visuals#EDIT: THE QUEUE BROKE and I was outside with my hands in the dirt digging (around) tubers for my mum's garden. So i didn't notice#Happy Mother's day! To the mums and those without one this year <3
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between Dread continuing from a game on GBA (and really every game prior to that too) and Prime 4 continuing from 2 games on GameCube and Original DS, Metroid has the longest narrative endurance of any multi-creator series I've ever seen. Threads left in stasis decades ago when the series was shelved picked right back up once development resumes—an entire generation of developers later—like nothing ever happened
#metroid#time to play Hunters#I literally wrote like 2 months ago “if they do this right Sylux will be a series household name the same way Dread is now”#theyre doing it#honestly footage they showed looks like absolute garbage though.#utterly unevolved gameplay with worse graphics and animation than Prime Remastered#hopefully it's an extremely alpha engine version with overdeveloped visuals for a teaser.#pray it's another dread/luigis mansion 3/fe echoes scenario where the barebones trailer footage doesnt do the real game justice#currently a Prime Remastered romhack would look and play better than what they showed#and shots STILL dont even cast light. How are you supposed to have immersive environmental atmospherics without dynamic lighting#the Gamecube games UNDERSTOOD that. N64 GAMES UNDERSTOOD THAT#bloom and 4k rendering fog haze doesnt do anything but dilute atmosphere. clarity is what makes graphical engines feel rich#anyways samus' Prime 4 suit design is Peak. THATS Samus. not this form fitting “Zero Suit+Armor” early game bs from the new 2Ds (love u)#ALSO METROIDS ACTUALLY BEING DEPLOYED AS WEAPONS [homer rain gif]
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The more I’m thinking about it the more I want the Black Rook to have an ominous ass mask on the Chessboard. Let Shaw have some gender while on the clock.
#zeeposting#august shaw#one of my earliest ideas for the black rook involved incorporating a lot of nemesis items into his design visually#like… weapons of past grief to draw on the board#idk what I’m gonna. do with him visually but I know how he looks in my mind#dreaded ass persona …
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Can you expand on what you mean by Baron being "too cool" to really fit a horror monster? It's a very interesting concept and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Is it that they're too active/involved/tangible and it detracts from their scariness?
I feel like I should preface this with a wall of disclaimers lmao 1/I am a hardcore, down-to-the-marrow, avid, deeply sincere horror enthusiast, esp. horror creatures. this usually means my mileage is vastly different from the average populace's, and my scaredy bone has been disintegrated by longterm exposure. most things in a piece of horror media won't scare me! so I practically never use that on its own as the scale to talk abt horror experiences, but when something does scare me it's always a special occasion to be treasured. 2/canon d20 is never really meant to be horror horror, and for good reasons: it doesn't fit the company's output, it takes a kind of carelessness in production estimation that is always a huge risk, it's often vulnerable in a way that kinda goes against how TTRPGs usually facilitates vulnerability, and for most people it's just! stressful! d20, even with the "horror-themed" seasons, generally just plays with horror tropes and stays focused in its goal of being a comedy improv tabletop theater show. 3/fantasy high's chosen system is DnD, which as I've mentioned before is before all a combat-based game system, which means the magic circle of play is drawn based on stats that facilitate and prioritize combat. want or not this affects every interaction you have in the game, and given fantasy high's concept from the ground up (everyone's going to school of DnD stuff to get better at DnD) it's doubly relevant. 4/This Is Fine I have no quarrel with this. my meters are internal, I do not ask this show to be anything it doesn't advertise itself to be, and what it is is fucking great! I like it! when I expand on this ask's question it will be like a physicist going insane in a lab. that's the mindset we're going in with.
disclaimers done. my stance on horror as a genre is that it's a utility genre rather than a content genre or a demographic genre; it is the discard of narratives. it's the trash pile. horror, above being scary, is about being ugly and messy, it's the cracks on the ground any story inevitably steps over to stay a genre that isn't horror. the genre's been around long enough to develop a codex and a general language that medias and makers and enthusiasts of the genre can use to talk about and build onto, but if you go into individual pieces there's really no unifying Horror Story. one person's beautiful life can be another's horror story, it's just how it is.
this makes The Monster a deeply intriguing piece of the genre. thing is a monster is in a decent percentage of any story - it's just when the antagonist force steps into something past a certain line traced out in the story's world. monstrousness is in pretty much every western fantasy story, it's in any story with a hero and something to vanquish or win; more than anything it's a proxy of that thing up there. the line in a narrative's world. the monster is the guard of the unknown lands, where heroic, civilized people don't tread.
what does this mean in the context of horror? the genre is about that perceived lawlessness, that "unknown land" so to say. we're in the monster's home. that's the literary context that we often walk into a horror piece with; the monster knows more than you about where you are. it may not understand you, but it holds more information than you, and with that it moves swifter than you, has more covered than you, and is more assured in its existence in this context than you. it's a struggle to catch up to it, it's nigh impossible to get one over it, and you're never sure it'll 100% work, because you just don't have the information necessary to.
with that framing you can kinda see where I'm coming from here: horror's often about the breaking of rules. I always think a monster's most effective when it breaks well-established rules of both existence and visual storytelling. think Possum (2018) or Undertale's Omega Flowey or the Xenomorph Queen - unique change in medium, unique change in graphic, unique change in design language, etc. in that sense I actually really like how canon baron plays out: they don't really function like anything else in the fantasy high universe, the bad kids have not managed to kill them when they've felled literal gods, their domain in fhjy literally introduces new mechanics to encompass their existence! from an experience design standpoint they slap mad shit. BUT! I can't help finding their character, like as a character riz (and the other bad kids, eventually) interact with, to be very... coherent? in design. this is kinda hard for me to articulate in words, it's more often a sense you get once you've looked at enough of these scrumptious fuckers, their general design and the way they show up is just kinda too clean, so to say. always kinda newly made? fresh unboxed. it, once again, makes sense for their lore - they are looking for more about themself from riz - and their function - they're an antagonist in a game experience, they're meant to be interacted with in a way that produces results and meshes with the existing magic circle - but that shininess takes away from the implied history they should have dominion over and the person they're haunting doesn't.
from another angle there is kinda something there about how put-together canon baron is as a concept; the domain they call home is riz's deep-seeded fears, extremely vulnerable things he's drawn borders around to quarantine and refused to walk into. things that from his perspective would irreversibly shatter certain pleasant fictions his world is built on top of. canon baron, While Extremely Cool, I feel is kinda too neat to connect with and signify the apocalyticized mess that'd result from this paradigm shift. the part where they're in riz's briefcase and looking through every mirror is Very Cool And Fucked Up! but ultimately the show draws a line around them as well, by making game-physical, tangible spaces they're in (the mirrors and the haunted mordred manor) and put riz and the bad kids there only when they need to confront stuff. riz is meaningfully narratively away from baron's unknown land for most of fantasy high.
with that and all of my disclaimers in mind my conclusion here is if canon baron wants to be a Horror Monster they'd have to cross way more lines. be a Lot more invasive. hence (holds up my class swap baron like a long cat)
#ask#not art#tldr a lot of fantasy high's and d20's nature plays against having a Horror horror piece in it. there's no space for emptiness or dread#that's one of the most attractive things to me about horror. the monster signifying a new world you don't understand#you see something on the deserted streets and you realize: oh. the world doesn't work how I've been thinking it does#if u've noticed how much this has in common with queer experiences haha. yeag#man. actually I should also put the I Am Not White disclaimer in there too lmao a lot of the notion of The Monstrous is! traditionally#about maintaining and upkeeping a ''social order'' (read: the powers that be)#and a Lot of Wilderness Fiction is deeply and maliciously colonialist#so when I say ''the unknown land'' and ''the monster'' I am pretty much speaking From one of those unknown lands#and from the position of one of those monsters#the fear of the monstrous is so very often the fear of being consumed by - or becoming - the monstrous yourself#and well. when you're already there in the eye of the zeitgeist. You Can Do What You Want Forever#all that to say it Is important to me that baron is made of riz's lies. even more so in this funny class swap thing I make for fun#like as a horror protag he makes me insane. he loves lines! he loves lines he drew himself. he replicates these borders in himself#that mirror the world he lives in that's so hostile to him. that kid Loves rules. he bows to even the ones that hurt him#like. u get where I'm getting to right I did make a whole comic kinda near this subject he's Already The Other#baron is a monster's monster. baron is a mirror image. GODs I cant help but wish they were messier#it's kinda why I make class swap baron to be like. an ever nearing realization. like I warble abt all this but I genuinely do also find#canon baron to be just as visually coherent and thematically perfect as riz if not more. it's hard to beat how cool the mirror stuff is#it's hard to beat that doll face in iconic visuals! I have to strike according to my strength rather than trying to beat canon#so instead of reflection it's captured moments. instead of a blank face it's the lack of one. mmm. maybe I'm just kinda breaking things#for fun also but that's My prerogative in my house awooga <3#well. thats kinda my thoughts on the general subject. thank u for listening. I will bake something soon dyou want some
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you can't taste the bitter, the sweet, or anything at all?
i hope happiness comes to that kind of you. 🪽
#mellohi draws stuff#HOOOOLY SHIT I LOVE MY NAME IS TSUKASA TENMA#my name is tsukasa tenma spoilers#does. does it need tagging?? i'm doing it hoooly moly i have not stopped thinking about it since this morning#god it was so fun picking up on all the little details of things of what went wrong and the dread was so so cool#DUDE THE SEKAI CHANGES. THE HOSPITAL/SCHOOL SEKAI AND THE DESTROYED PLUSHIES ???#the mikus and kaito too godamn. jaw dropped knowing l/n miku was wearing what would've been saki's uniform and the part where she dies?#COOL AS HELL VISUAL#AND DASHO MIKU AND KAITO WITH THE DAZZLING LIGHT COSTUMES UEUEUEUE#tenma is so so real for just about everything involving that final fight they're so ☹️. they make me so sad it's unreal.#“who am i?” “you're my wonderful little sister!” GWAHHHHHHHHHHH#tsukasa tenma#saki tenma#tenma siblings#project sekai#prsk
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They're boyfriends, your honor
#cool kid cody#ckc cody#ckc peter#skatepizza#Anyone who has been following me since before like two months ago has just been watching me fall into neurodivergent insanity over CKC#I don't what I'd do without them atp#Frankly I am both overjoyed and dreading the finale because I love the content but hate the thought of it ending#Oh to love is to experience the highs and lows of having and losing something so wonderful#I am so happy to have been able to experience the amazing story visuals etc. of it all and I wouldn't have it any other way though
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not to be a milennial but harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban really is that bitch....
#mom wanted to rewatch the movies so we've been going thru them <3#talk about a movie thats just like. grief. i turn into the jamie lee curtis halloween trauma supercut#SORRY..... the visuals are peak like that IS the hp vibe to ME and i am BLOWN AWAY this movie was made in 2004 it feels ahead of its time#the first two are so whimsical and magical enrapturing and this movie is like. a well worn cardigan. this feels 2011 cozycore to me#sorry but the introduction of lupin becoming a comforting trusted guardian type of figure AND the dementors representing hollow depression#this 13 yr old whos been kept in the dark on so many things being extra vulnerable prey to them bc of the severe trauma#but getting lessons on how to withstand that creeping dread.. through happy memories... still bonding w lupin increasngly ouagh...#the grief between them both over james and lily. also btw ofc defense against the dark arts being fighting yr fears through laughter. aaaaaa#and then sirius. black. im. i know we meme on the twelve years of it! in azkaban! but as a bitch whos now closer to those characters in age#and can appreciate and understand them obv more than i could when i was. a tween. that just hits like ok shit. VALID#so valid and real to see the child of your friends you knew at that age but who DIED and then see the friend who betrayed them#to see like the best of BOTH of them mirrored and living on in him and be like yknow what???? you WILL be protected frm that same fate#hoooo the briefest moment where harry might hope things will turn out okay. w sirius' name being cleared and peter having to explain himself#and sirius being like hey i get it if you want to stay w your family that is fine but. if you wanna move in w me...#(harry relaying this to hermione later as well. dreaming of a place fr just the two of them somewhere in the countryside#somewhere..... sirius might see the sky..... bc he thinks he would like that after all those years locked up do not even touch me rn.......)#only fr everything to turn to shit two friends fighting w deadly force. the chance to set this right slipping off into the night.#a million dementors descending relentlessly until utter exhaustion and certain death. some strange salvation? fight for a second chance?#but then still havign to say goodbye when they only just GOT this. and everything still being so. god. and lupin having to leave as well.#the thought of sirius also WANTING that guardian type connection but being forced to live in 1. a cave barely living more freely than before#2. then being confined to the stuffy somber abusive home he ran away from as a teen w that portrait still up there and everything.. bitch...#oh man the way i KNOW when we get to ootp (my favourite) its gonna leave me blasted into a million little pieces#the way i know shit like the knowing wink the entirety of the wall tapestry room scene and of course nice one james is gonna DESTROY me..#dont even talk to me abt that dark turn at the end of gof and how everything after gets soooo. god. w everything just getting destroyed and.#i cant even think abt it i cant even talk about it. wah#i dont care btw that they aged those guys up undermining how insanely young these people died. perfect casting fr the remaining marauders ok
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Wake up guys, Superhorrorbro Dread Weight playthrough just dropped!
#more horror visual novels to cure my depression!#holding out hope for more gay cannibals in this game#what who said that#dread weight#cooking companions#horror games
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yeah totk probably just fucking. burnt me out on new zelda stuff
#im probably not going to touch eow for a while#delete later#like i still like the older stuff its just like. i do not want to look at the new stuff rn#its like cool eow seems like its apparently p good and like it doesnt carry with it a lot of problems that plagued its fuckass predecessor#but like. eugh. like not even the level of i just dont like that visual style which is a fuckin. nothing opinion and is just preferential#nitpit i think im just. exhausted with any kind of new zelda stuff to the point of kinda dreading what the new dtuff brings
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Yeah... just needed to make vent art.
#pixel spill#vent art#(headache's mellowing out at any rate...)#(almost didn't bother because tablet drivers were ALSO being fucky)#(but fixed that issue at any rate)#(maybe - MAYBE that got MOST of the Angry out of my system)#glitch art#(i suppose - did some databending for the visual noise pattern/overlay)#(aand nope - still fucking angry abt this bullshit in between assurance/ACP/lifeline fucking mess)#(i. want. to. scream. SO. fucking. BAD.)#(i wish my case manager wasn't out on medical rn... i could really use the help to get through this shit)#(sick of this 'right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing' shit from all the relevant bsns/orgs here gdi)#(don't know who the fuck to tackle first anymore)#(and i don't think i can keep my composure in a phone call w/ these people at this pt anymore)#(but i'm having the fucking dreadful feeling that i'm going to have to do this shit myself.)#(while still being left at the whims of these fucking agencies actually getting the story straight)#(i hate needing to have a mobile phone at all)
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also starts running around in a circle I love art where Solas sees his darling again and falls to his knees bc it's about the Vibes it's about The Energy but
listen. ik jackals the ones falling. 10 years ! of chasing his ass! they're so tired. all of the energy and anger drains out of them and they just. Down The Fuck They Go
#jackals barks#ship: dread wolf take you#i mean also theres the obvious visual shorthand of getting on your knees for a god which is part of what makes it sexy 2 me#bc he's NOT !!#and he doesn't want to be !!#he doesn't want to reduce jackal to just a follower either but he has in his own way an its like#You Will Face The Consequences Of Your Dumbassery Rat Boy !! And You Will Tolerate It !!
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Its times like these that I wish I could get a hug
or a therapist
#my brain keeps visualizing my existential dread and what it will be like on my death bed and the concept of ceasing to be and I hate it#and im scared#and I want comfort#and I want it to stop reminding me of my eventual fate#but I cant and it won't#I thought I stopped these thoughts a bit ago but they came back in full force#they're hurting my brain enough to make me unconsciously vocal stim to interrupt the thought
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[id: a digital drawing of harley and lancaster from find us alive. they are lying in bed and lancaster is spooning harley with his chin on his shoulder. harley is a black man with dreads and body code tattoos on his upper chest. lancaster is paler with short hair and glasses.]
"Orion?"
"Mm."
"If we get out..."
"I won't marry you."
"Oh c'mon, I'd make a good husband."
#find us alive#this art though no words it’s just sooooooo good aaaaaaa killing myself#with characters with established visuals i don’t usually id what they look like but without i do idk. someone lmk if that’s wrong#also my bad if they’re not supposed to be dreads was just what i thought
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