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entirety of the new pathologic trailer would have been much more compeller if daniils voice was like a frantic whisper. the lines feel written so obviously to be desperate but we’re being served up a slice of monotone moonpie instead

awlso am I going bonkers or does the investigators voice at the end sound so so robotic like either terribly spliced or ai or smth. Ipl baby let me edit your audio for these lil trailers for free just so we don’t get this again

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good news gang I think this one is soon to be fired off (gotta edit, might explode it all if I don’t like it), thank you yakov little nation for believing in my busy ass!

be honest will I still go to heaven if I write mr. little unrequited pining one shot

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reminder from doctors Wonder Bull and Burakh: take care of your health!

eat vegetables, drink water (try not drink twyrine), do exercises every morning and love yourself and your bull (this is the most important thing)!

(there is no plague in this blog btw everyone alive and happy)

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me when I spent my last money on a bull because I was told that he can talk

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gotta post more art before I can complain about something else again, did not know the can of worms I was opening with the height thing and I do NOT want to be a discourse blog I just like complaining

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tap tap

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when people take into account height in video game you have to consider walking speed- daniil and clara being shorter makes them walk slower compared to artemy (which is why link is small in botw to make the world feel bigger), so my guess for why daniil is tall is because marble nest was the test for artemy's route and they needed to have a specific walking speed

wait this is big thinking I didn’t even consider but also the funniest scenario ever. everything comes back to marble nest its all about those two hours.. . .

off topic —> don’t get me wrong I loveee the marble nest (don’t get btwn me and the marble nest) but ipl was really like ‘what if we demo ARTEMY’s route using an original one shot focusing on DANIIL??’ like come on, you can’t be picking a favorite child like that.

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i 100% agree with your pathologic height post but someone and ipl said daniil was like 6'0" and artemy was 6'8", and that artemy was taller than rubin... fucked up right?

it feels like every time I hear abt canon heights it’s always a different number, like 6’8” Artemy???? king got drafted for the wrong battle, should’ve been on the courts not the campaign!!!!! I agree, quite fucked up.

real talk tho I kinda don’t subscribe to random-value-list canon heights because I’m a firm believer in eye-level height theory? i.e. I’m not gonna retroactively think of a character as being tall as shit if I’m not looking at the tops of everyone’s heads while playing the game. which is why I’m like yeah temy is tall, but damn not That Tall!

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everyone bitching about how daniil gets unrealistically shrunk by the fandom… no one talks about how artemy gets gigantified….. he’s not That big… . …….

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Biblical beef in a single still.

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Honestly this gets at my chiefest complaint/frustration/discomfort with fandom as a whole. Which is: in their rush to defend the artistic merit of fanworks I think a ton of people have really valorized transformation and remixing and reinterpretation in and of themselves, when imo those are all quite neutral actions. When done well, they can expand and build upon and subvert meaning in really powerful and thought-provoking (and fun!) ways. When done poorly, they are just as likely to flatten and oversimplify and decontextualize and completely erase meaning. The simple act of changing something does not imbue the choice to do so with creative validity. It is entirely possible for a cover song to be bad (or just boring!). To exactly the same degree that it is possible to transform a pretty shallow and straightforward work into something deeper and more nuanced and subversive, is possible to transform a work into a vastly shallower and less interesting shadow of itself. As with nearly everything in art, it's all about the execution!

But the second you voice this position (which should honestly be a pretty uncontroversial one imo), you get people shrieking at you about being gatekeep-y and pretentious and betraying the sacred fandom etiquette of Don't-Like-Don't-Read.

And like...listen. I was not raised in a barn. I am 150% capable of quietly back-buttoning out of a fanfic I think is bad or boring - which is exactly what I do when I encounter them - and I am obviously not advocating for stupid ships wars or any kind of harassment or leaving hatemail in people's AO3 inboxes. (Which some people will also accuse you of the second you say anything less than lavishly positive about fandom, in true piss-on-the-poor fashion.) Literally all I am saying is that you can't have your cake and eat it too - that if fandom and fanworks (in the broadest sense) have artistic merit then fandom and fanworks (in the broadest sense) are fair game for artistic critique. Which means, in practice, that I can go on my own blog and make a post exactly like this one - critiquing broad trends, or stating that some interpretations are bad actually, or pointing out that subverting or talking back to or reading against the grain of canon is very different from simply ignoring it, or saying "fandom's culture of collage/remix/fuck-canon-I-do-what-I-want can lend itself to to really creative and interesting art but also to a lot of really bland homogenized cut-n-paste art, not to mention some pretty troubling decontextualization." And that if you feel this rains on your personal parade, you are then free to DLDR by back-buttoning out of my blog and/or blocking me so you never have to see my hot takes again, rather than clamoring in my notes about how I should let people enjoy things.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Мор. Утопия | Pathologic Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Artemiy Burakh | Artemy Burakh/Daniel Dankovskiy | Daniil Dankovsky, Daniil Dankovsky | Daniil Dankovsky/Yakov Little | Yakov Little Characters: Yakov Little, Daniel Dankovskiy | Daniil Dankovsky, Artemiy Burakh | Artemy Burakh Additional Tags: POV Third Person, Daniel Dankovskiy | Daniil Dankovsky is Bad at Feelings, Minor Artemiy Burakh | Artemy Burakh/Daniel Dankovskiy | Daniil Dankovsky, Minor Character(s), Sand Pest | Plague (Pathologic), Hospitals, Hospitalization, Video Game: Мор | Pathologic 3, Video Game: Мор | Pathologic 3: Quarantine, Yakov Little has a massive crush on Daniil Dankovsky Summary:

Yakov recounts the time he spent with Bachelor Dankovsky. Daniil recounts the time he spent with Mr. Little. After their exchange, Daniil no longer knows what to do. He consults Artemy regarding his feelings and what to do.

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I'm not done posting about Clara and Artemy's relationship. Here are some of my favorite interactions of theirs

They're so funny

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The heretic at Bone Stake Lot.

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I haven’t made much progress on yakov little character analysis one shot (aka the most unaware man falls in love with a homosexual who’s only into bears) but rest assured yakov little nation I will get to it once I stop having a fucking math test every other day! I

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I know this probably isn't what the Pathologic fandom wants to hear but I'm kinda down bad for Yakov and his sycophantic bullshit, and I kinda want him to have a little thing for Dankovsky only to get rejected (because of his work and Burakh) so that he gets so demoralised that he suffers a horrible fate

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day 9, in which Atropos pulls the trigger.

Atropos ("the Inevitable") is the Moira that cuts the thread of man's life at its end in greek mythology. Moirai are also known as Parcae in Latin (and Fates in english), and the Parcae appear on day 9 of the Bachelor's route in the quest titled "The Three Parcae: Lara Resorts to Murder, Yulia Plays With Fate, Anna Participates", in which, well. you know ;)

the Erinyes (or Furies, ancient chthonian goddesses of vengeance and retribution) in the corners of the frame are inspired by those painted by the "python" painter (image 1, at the top of the image), one from an early 20th drawing alledgely depicting an actor dressed in Fury costume, and those from Peter Hall's 1983 staging of The Oresteia (masks by Joycelyn Herbert)