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incomplete list of Fallen London things that remind me (hauntingly) of The King In Yellow

the recurring theme of doomed/sickly/obsessive/undead/undying love

the blurring of lines between life and death

a city that has gone "dim" (Carcosa is called dim, London was taken underground)

the sun haunts the narrative and features prominently in situations where people are going insane

artists. artist models. artists and artist models.

generally, the idea of a bohemian lifestyle

symbols and words that burn themselves into your mind (the Yellow Sign/the King In Yellow play if you read the second act, the Correspondence)

I can draw a line between the Masters' robes and the Yellow King's "tatters"

dreams. dream lovers.

yellow honey that takes you into dreams about dream lovers

dreams being a physical place you are transported into (kind of happens in Demoiselle D'Ys and in that one story about the guy in a church. what was it called. In The Dragon's Court? at the VERY least there's a blurring of lines between the dream realm and the physical realm, I say that counts)

a woman featured in a plot about tragic romance turns into stone

cats being linked to appalling secrets (The Repairer of Reputations. that one story about the guy who takes a neglected cat in and follows it to its dead owner.)

misfortune largely having a mundane character and being highlighted by the eldritch rather than brought on by it

there's probably something in the poems section of the book but I don't remember them that well so I'll just go "haha! poetry!" for now.

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This video has cursed me for all eternity and now whenever I think of be more chill I think of the Minecraft frogs walking to Michael in the bathroom.

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Silent lonely protagonist with their object friend

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CW: goopy guy

Blood in the Bayou Episode 1: Homecoming

Ink on Bristol 11x17

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I love you bitb

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I'm relistening to Wolf 359 so it's my duty to remind tumblr about Alan Rodi's soundtrack titles

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Go ask your dad

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So insane about the platonic relationships in wolf 359. The way the character writing is so strong they don’t need to rely on romance to make any connection convincing, compelling, and above all else fucked up and codependent.

The way Eiffel and Minkowski just Get each other, regardless of their previous hatred of each other. We go from Minkowski hating Eiffel’s guts (valid) to them truly needing each other. With them being the only two they can rely on in deep space, it makes such a compelling narrative that has you questioning whether they would even be friends in any other universe. The way their stories work, they could even be your classic enemies to lovers (looking past some marriages and how their characters just. Aren’t.) but wolf 359 shows us that they don’t need that relationship status to have one of the most compelling and delightfully codependent friendships in the podcast. We get Hera squeeling over them calling each other “friends” for the first time, (same, hera, same), narratively treating them with the same level of respect as you would a romantic pairing.

Maxwell and Jacobi hit this similar beat for me, they have no romantic tension but have grown this reliance and deep trust in each other. The scene where Maxwell slaps Jacobi what has to be like 7 times in a row and cusses him out for flaking on her before they dissolve into giggles really defines their relationship to me. They’re horrible people. They know it. They’re monsters. Together. And besties yay! In other media their relationship may take a backseat, and while theirs isn’t the forefront it’s certainly never minimized in impact on their individual characters. These two go together, need each other. (They’re a set do not separate)

I’d even extend this to commonly headcanoned romantic duos like Kepler/jacobi and Hera/eiffel. The podcast doesn’t rely on romance, even if there’s implication, but gives us the strongest damned character relationships. The best possible use of characters in each others own and intertwined stories. The bone chillingly good codependency that can only be built by truly Knowing a person, even the horrible bits. Even liking the horrible bits. If this isn’t peak fucking over relationship anarchy I don’t know what is.

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There is an expression in the wasteland

"Old world blues"

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No, actually, i want cables and not bluetooth, i don't want touchscreens, i want buttons and knobs, i want to be able to take the battery out of my phone, i want to charge my phone and plug in head phones at the same time, i want a cd drive in my laptop and not have to buy an external drive, i want a car without a display, i want to turn on the lights with a switch not with my voice, i want to have a paper cinema ticket not a QR code, i want to listen to illegally burned music on a 00s cd player, i want to watch movies that i actually own, i want to read news once a day on paper, i want to aimlessly flick through magazines and not doomscroll on social media, i want to write emails and not talk to chatbots, i want to own stuff without hundreds of digital subscriptions, i want

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Obviously this won't apply to everyone but I love bringing my aggressively girly energy to video game fandom. Heck yeah I'm going to get really into the costume design choices and swoon over the hot guys and talk about which female characters I most want to get brunch with.

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Sweet Mother said it's MY turn to throw it down

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I've been meaning to make this for a while, but now i actually did it! so heres an animation to Eu Sem Você by Lilian Knapp these are two characters from my zombie comic im writing (haven't made a lot of progress but im working on it!)

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the dnd party went to a fancy party there was dancing, drinking, flirting, and some people got murdered. It happens!

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"This time, it can be different."

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My honest reaction after I realized that I spent around two and half hours explaining my stories and characters to a loved one and they genuinely listened and asked perfect follow up questions :

( Art Not Mine )