#guess we'll find out...

[wings-of-ink]

"you'll learn some fun things about Dov and Kip" 😨 they better not have secret dark sides 😭 I need these beacons of pure parental love 😭😭😭

[8r14r-r0s3]

Wait a god damn minute are they putting a whole ass trial room into the lab or are we doing this Distrust Demo style

[egophiliac]

So.... what are your thoughts on Ace's UM, if you haven't been asked this already?

sneaky magic for the sneakiest boy

no but really, I think it fits him really well! I had thought his UM would probably involve something kinda sleight-of-handy or pickpockety! and I looooved that it made such a nice loop-around back to episode 1. ❤️ I was. kind of half-expecting him to just run out and punch Riddle in the nose again. but instead this time 'twas he who offed the queen's head! it was great! and he did it while stone-cold terrified out of his mind! because Ace is the only remotely normal or well-adjusted person at NRC and therefore the only one who is like "we're going to literally die, this is super effed up". but he did it anyway!!!! I AM SO PROUD

[existaantbeing]

The whole Iskall-Joel obsession fiasco has perfectly demonstrated the difference between Iskall and False. Because when a prank on False by Iskall is blamed on someone else, it leads to the server devolving into a full-scale civil war, with ridiculously overcomplicated alliances and an actual battle rap. However, when a prank on Iskall by false is blamed on someone else, it leads to the server devolving into several homoerotic love triangles, with messy divorces and an extremely exasperated Geminitay

[fruitytboy]

trans guy holding your head in place while he humps against your face with his dick in your mouth 🥴💕

[laazytoaster]

hello hi i officially moved from @laazytoasty to this acc

[chipthekeeper]

No word from...your friend?

[saiainokage]

...happy pride month, everyone! shout out to @abyssal-voidful for the assistance in the conception of this absolute insanity

[eggdesign]

Maestro

Make a playlist out of your audio posts

This is a project I've been writing and rewriting on and off for a while now. After starting over completely from scratch last weekend, I think I've gotten far enough to share it.

It's still early, but so far it supports:

NPF and Legacy audio posts

Spotify posts

Keyboard navigation

There's a few more variations of audio post that I need to finish, but feel free to test out what is currently ready!

[yes-no-maybe-soo]

The hand holding 💞

[runicmagitek]

I can't breathe I'm laughing so hard

[egophiliac]

I'm very new to joseimukes, what happens when they reach the conclusion of the main plot? Do they keep the game going with a main story - part 2 and events to wring out every cents out of the audience or do they close down the servers and that's the end of it?? I'm scared for my twst obsession's future

honestly, this is the first game of this kind that I've played that looks like it's actually going to reach the end of the story without getting cancelled midway through, so...I have no idea! :') my gut assumption is that there'll probably keep being events and reruns for a while, until it finally stops being profitable enough to justify itself and they end service. but I am also interested in the answer, if other people more familiar can give their experience!

[melchinafan]

Massive kudos to the South of Midnight team for the attention to detail in environmental storytelling and character design! I know there's still a ton of stuff I can't even begin to guess at, but I've been able to glean a good amount just from the trailers, and it's all got me itching for more.

Some things I've been able to spot, just from these two screenshots:

I'd already kinda gotten the impression from Hazel's tattoo choker necklace and Lisa Frank-esque dolphin-rainbow tank top...but after seeing Lacey's half of a "best friends" heart necklace and jean jacket? I'd be shocked if this doesn't take place in or around the 90s. (Which is a solid choice, since it's a good way to limit having to worry about the question of cell phones.) Plus, if you take a look at their fridge, you can see magnets of the primary mythical creatures we'll run across! I listed most of them in the alt text if you can't tell what they are, but if I had to guess at the mystery cut-off one in the second screenshot...I'd say it's the Altamaha-ha from the announcement trailer. (Which I think is also maybe the purple-pink aquatic creature you can see for a split second near the end of the story trailer.) And...well, it's not visible in these screenshots, but in this scene Hazel also accidentally knocks a handmade mug off the counter. That mug has a bottle tree design on it, as featured in the game's logo and as important in-game magical elements!

Also fun is some of the detailing for Shakin' Bones:

His guitar has a Prospero license plate near the bottom (also seen on a half-sunk taxi that Catfish swims past in the gameplay trailer), which says CROS RDS (or "crossroads"). Below his arm you can see his name "Bones" carved into the face of the guitar, flanked by a couple Fleur-de-lis, and in a couple spots there's decorative blue paint (haint blue, I'd bet). Plus some short bits of bone (femur, at a guess), for both the bottom strap button and the tuning knobs. There's also a broken, rusted sawblade for a pickguard...which curiously has an elegant leafy design carved onto it. There's a similar leafy design carved along the top side of the guitar, too. Bones himself has a lot of different flora growing on him...at least two different kinds of leafy plants (small round leaves on his shoes, larger pointy leaves on his arms and neck), and some small brown mushrooms. And while I don't know enough about plants to recognize what those three might be, I'm pretty sure the flowers on his neck and side are swamp lilies. (The flower on his side is visible near the start of the announcement trailer, when you see him from behind. I'm also pretty sure I spotted some swamp lilies growing around Rhubarb's house in the story trailer, in their standard cluster form vs. Bones' unique singular flowers. Fun fact: for folks who play Secret World and remember a particular painting of some import in the Franklin Mansion, you may be amused to note that one of that flower's colloquial names is "seven sisters.")

There's also...well...these are a bit more spoiler-y, so I'll put them under a cut and try to keep it vague. But there's visual clues hinting at some secrets a few folks seem to have...

Less overtly secret, but still some story spoilers:

The most obvious thing at first glance in the first screenshot is the presence of Huggin' Molly's red yarn inside the broken wall. At second glance, and double-checking the start of the trailer to confirm the yellow paint and window style matches, this appears to be Hazel's house. But looking more carefully, one might notice that the exposed inner boards of the wall seem to have a little faded blue paint...suggesting that the house was protected with a hidden layer of haint blue (possibly in addition to the indoor wall paint that also appears to be blue), which wards off nasty critters. And with that ward literally broken, and Huggin' Molly being known in her real-world mythology to go after folks late at night, well... (Bonus fun fact: Secret Worlders may also be amused that the time on the clock in the first screenshot of this post is 10:10, as with Kingsmouth's clocks. Probably specifically 10:10 pm, not a storm-dark morning.)

And finally, a particular someone who seems to have deeper secrets:

(I linked the story trailer earlier, but the second screenshot is from the half-hour-long documentary.) The subtitles tell us this man is Laurent, and I'm curious about how significant his ear and nose piercings might be, given that he otherwise seems to be giving off airs of "responsible adult" (which typically does not permit such things). I have no idea who he is, exactly...yet his clothing choice and sense of decor are reminiscent of another design, which has shown up in the trailers and some promo/concept art that's been shared by the devs... But I'll let you dig up that connection on your own, if you're inclined to hunt down a bigger story spoiler.

[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

impulse's skin for this season should've been normal but instead of an i on his shirt there's a G

Artist rendition.

[junewild]

one of my favorite moments from this episode.

make some noise, season 2, “the wicked switch of the west.”

[anaxibiaclark]

After reading the "Devil's Minion" chapter, a thought hit me.

What if, the constant mind wipes done by Armand was the cause of Daniel's Parkinson's disease?

Hear me out!

Parkinson's is a progressive neurological disorder, which is caused by the brain producing insufficient amounts of dopamine, so the consistent rewrites that Armand possibly did to Daniel's memories could have thrown off the neurons in his brain, which then caused a chemical imbalance.

Maybe Parkinson's is what replaces the slow poisoning that Armand's blood caused in the book. Rewriting a human's memories has similar consequences, causing the brain to slowly deteriorate.

This is probably a far out there theory because we don't fully know Armand and Daniel's past history, other than the six day hostage situation in episode 5.

It was just a thought that came to me since it is a little ironic that the writers gave Daniel a neurological disease that slowly eats away at the brain.