The thing I would be most heartbroken to lose if tumblr were the close are gifsets. Nothing recommends a show to me better than a gifset. Nothing lets me appreciate a show like a gifset. The minute facial expressions, the colouring, the set design, the dialogue, the gif maker's own twists and artistic additions, I love it all so much and you just can't get it anywhere else.
I am having an aggressive emotional hangover after playing the To The Moon Beach Episode and need to talk about it. I want to talk to other fans about it but alas, I am alone in my fervor rn.
Polite spoiler break (just in case) but tldr I am satisfied with the end but also an aggressive romantic so I've just been CRYING
How dare Neil say the things he says and do the things he does? The man's been dead since the first game? And yes this whole series has always been about managing grief and loss and living life to the fullest and we knew, we knew, we KNEW he was going to die but the undying flame of hope still burned in my heart for a sliver of happiness for these two but we instead get to see our beloved Eva crumbling and broken in the wake of her closest confidant's passing and how she has to keep going on despite that. Yet she keeps crawling back into the comfort of his last gift to her and ruminating in a world that'll never be. I'm aching FOR these sweet characters never being canonically able to express their feelings, to share a shred of their reciprocated feelings... and that's okay.
Part of me wants to read and write fan fiction where they get to simply be. The fantasy and all... And that's part of what fan fiction is for... At the same time, I jokingly wonder if that would be doing the same thing as Eva, ruminating... It's a dramatic stretch I won't linger in but I hope my intention comes through?
And what really got me was how dare this man only tell her he was in love after he died? And by his computer shadow self? That must have been so devastating for her to hear. Though she doesn't say I love you too in the game she's upset that he made that decision for her and is so reluctant to let him GO? That she fights with the virtual version of him to have the one she actually loves even if it's only an echo of the self? It's so MUCH.
something about how the game lets you decide when to end it all and come back to reality. press esc to leave. how it would be up to eva how long she'd stay there on that beach, but knowing she could never remain there forever. just a little while longer. something about how it greets you with the same image if you decide to open it again. the truth is, i never actually felt that way. do you begin the cycle again or do you find comfort in that temporary ending? and i just can't get past that it's the one i didn't want.
something about how player's actions represent eva coming back to the machine searching for closure. did she find it? will she? will we?
while it was only my first (of many) playthroughs, i think the way the game portrays dealing with grief is really heartwrenching and beautiful in how real but fleeting it all is.
atelier falls ... apprentice witches dipper and mabel, as well as brimhat bill
under the cut is me rambling abt the designs (plus bonus drawings)
idk if its noticeable but i wanted like... their hats to resemble their associated symbols (dipper with the pine tree - pine tree shaped like tassels??? mabel with the shooting star - long ribbon with a star charm on the end)
added constellations to dipper and glitter meant to mimic star clusters to mabels dress... i like associating space with the twins, also wanted to keep their core colours
bill's ink wand/cane is made out of birch! since he's often associated with birch trees in the show .. also the little eyes i thoguht would be neat. also idk if they make ink wands this big but i imagine he's very precise with it ??
the leaves are birch leaves... silhouette is meant to mimic a triangle.... just a ton of eye imagery here. the tassels of his hat is meant to mimic his triangle forms little hands LOL which leads me to this doodle
often doesnt use his own two hands and relies on these tendril-like little guys... to do gestures, to apprehend people, etc. i got inspired by engendale and his leeches kind of