#will do it next time

[nekohrine]

david tennant

[ontologicalsynaesthesia]

I really, really love that we know basically nothing about Dora Ingerlund.

We know a handful of basic facts about her life and her relationship with Harry, but we know nothing about who she is as a person. Our only Dora Primary Sources are a short 20-year-old letter and a phone call. We only see Dora filtered through Harry - and not even filtered through Harry's concrete memories, because he doesn't have those anymore. We only see her filtered through his emotional memories and his dreams. I think it's likely that Harry's dream conflation of Dora and Dolores Dei bears very little resemblance to the actual person Dora Ingerlund; she's become a symbol of his own self-loathing and regrets.

By doing this, the narrative avoids placing blame on either Dora or Harry for Dora leaving. Was Harry awful to her? Was she awful to him? Is Harry right that she didn't want to deal with his poverty? Was she driven away by his alcoholism? Was it just an inevitable clash of their personalities and/or external factors that made things fall apart? We have no real idea. And it doesn't matter! The problem isn't what happened, or who's at fault; the problem is that Harry can't let go. The amnesia can be a gift, if Harry lets it - it's much harder to self-flagellate about his mistakes and agonize about might-have-beens when he literally doesn't remember them. It's impossible for the audience or Harry to know the truth of what happened, now; and that was always true, because human memory is deeply subjective, but the amnesia made that much clearer.

Disco Elysium is about how people are shaped by their circumstances and their past choices, and it's also about how people always have the agency to make new choices. The narrative is deeply compassionate to people who make bad choices; it doesn't shy away from the negative impacts those choices have on others, but it's not about blame or fault. The substance of the past shapes you - your perception of the past shapes you - but moving forward is what matters.

[aretarers]

mantra when you fuck up is "i'm in my early 20s it's literally not a big deal"

[obsob]

i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[eydilily]

small victories ^^

[katsinspats]

Thematically appropriate comic for Make a Terrible Comic Day!!

I saw the original post this morning and it made me get out of bed to make something, so thank u Pseudonym Jones mission accomplished

[teamunee]

twitter absolutely ate these up so heres some moshang sketchies

[chloesimaginationthings]

Happy one year anniversary to this FNAF post,,

[nidbaesenpai]

Happy one year anniversary ISAT! To celebrate I wanted to share the lil strips I made for my friends when they reached the end of the game! They're all meant to be snippets of life post game and a glimpse into the world I'm making for Loop.

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[hinamie]

dead man walking

[bluebeesknees]

They’re being obnoxious at work 💙

[lotus-pear]

charm stat at debonair ‼️‼️

[communistcephalopod]

hypothesis: vampires are magically vulnerable to light originating from the sun

observation: moonlight has no effect on vampires, despite being a reflection of the sun

conclusion: this aversion is not a result of light or its origin, but some property of sunlight only present in direct contact

hypothesis: vampires are extremely sensitive to uv radiation