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what a lovely pair of gal pals im sure nothing bad will happen

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What are y'all's favorite minor DE characters? And I mean REALLY minor characters. Not like Trant or Titus, I want the real small characters who pop up once but still left an imprint on you.

I personally love the old lady on the radio, Yvonne. No idea why but I wanted to continue chatting with her. I hope she's having a nice day <3

Please feel free to add your own characters. I wanna hear all about the tiny background characters

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it is tempting to assume btw that harry is "the most mentally ill man in the world!!!!" or whatever, but he's probably the average level of mentally ill for people in his situation. he isn't this uniquely monstrous wreck who abuses more substances than anyone else ever has. in martinaise alone you can meet like 5 people who are doing even worse than harry. kim says several times that he's seen much worse than day one harry and i BELIEVE him. i think harry wasn't immediately fired from the police after the unsolveable case bc this stuff is relatively normal for cops to do in precinct 41. disco elysium isn't pointing at harry and going "gawk at this uniquely awful man for no reason!! isn't he horrible in a clownish way!!" they're making a point abt the effects of capitalism and imperialism on the disenfranchised poor

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"She's hot (and has a big heart)"

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So, these days I was checking Kim Kitsuragi's Wikipedia page and I noticed that the page was protected due to vandalism, so you couldn't make edits if you didn't have an account.

By "vandalism" I thought that someone was just messing with it, right? Writing funny stuff, referencing something, so I checked to see and apparently, someone was repeatedly editing out the parts that said Kim was "gay", arguing that he could've been "just joking" when he talked about being part of the homosexual underground and that claiming that he's gay is just "LGBT propaganda"

So yeah, that happened.

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More than partners,✨friends✨

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Here is some Gideon art from last year!

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Guys I know I already posted a version of this but I’m starting to feel like I’m a dumbass for not sharing the one with Cuno’s maximum velocity rock in it 🥲 which one is better?

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Cuno Doesn't Care - Disco Elysium Animation

Thanks for watching! Check out my playlist of Disco Elysium Animations here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXhLS2Ci3XU2D8c6vz3I_i4EdypZ1vP2P

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Oh.....

enlightening comment on this disco elysium fanart

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will forever be a diehard fan of side characters rhat the rest of the fandom chooses to ignore for no reason .i will die on this hill they r so endearing to me

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also final word on this probably- I *like* Joyce Messier a great deal as a character. I think she's cool and interesting. I find it fascinating that she tends to approach things very bluntly. the words she uses and the manner in which she analyzes things, this is sort of an instance of a character who knows exactly *what she is* and articulates it in a manner congruent with the writers of the game. she is, as she says wryly but honestly, "a bourgeois woman". i cant think of too many rich people who would without prompting and prodding, self identify with marxist social taxonomies in this way, even with a thin veil of ironic self deprecation. She's educated. she knows the words and the motivating logics of class analysis. and shes *cool*. harry picks that up. honesty is cool. bluntness is cool. cynicism is cool. she is quite open about her place in the world and how she conceives of it. unlike a lot of other powerful figures in the game, i dont think shes completely swallowed by self justifying rhetoric the way, say, sunday friend is. or she is up to a point. she knows about countercultural movements and she has affinities for them and is also aware that they inevitably are consumed by capital. (this, by the way, is kind of complex in that like. ok its a depressing reality but also i think if the de team was fully bought into that line of thinking, they would not make this game. it is telling that joyce of all people would critique cindy on the basis of capital subsuming revolutionary art. I dont think joyce is wrong per se, but i think she is drawn to that line of thinking because it is *very comforting for someone of her class position to dismiss the value and power of revolutionary art and critique of capital* just a thought) She's disgusting in that her power is not rightfully hers. her position is not rightfully hers. she is actively repressing and oppressing others in service of disgusting, semi-fascistic, hypercapitalist forces. shes enjoying the comforts and benefits that such a role allows her. shes disgusting shes frustrating shes profoundly arrogant (as her clash with evrart claire proves definitively). Her self satisfied idiocy is what allows her to play with fire and foolishly assume she cannot be burned. She's smart but her comfortable position puts the blinders on her and so she's also pretty fucking stupid. and shes also deeply deeply sad. I empathize. I pity her. She's so fucking sad. I don't think she is drawn to self medication and self destruction through constant pale exposure or all that rueful nostalgic rumination for no reason. She knows what she is to the world and she knows what she's doing and she's too cowardly and comfortable and self interested to change, but she's too self-aware to ignore it completely. I think she probably dislikes herself to some degree and i think its destroying her. Like most of the cast of the game, she's complex and deeply human. She's hateful, but I also think she is too well realized to hate, at least not for me.

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*cue sad violin music*

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i keep forgetting to take my pills so i made this and now i'm passing it on to you