#ENA: Dream BBQ

[tyrelpinnegar]

How it started:

How it's going:

[elfcollector]

ENA: DREAM BBQ — releasing in 2023.

[audart]

I am very excited and proud to announce that my newest shirt for Fangamer has just been announced, and is available now for purchase! It is called "Blood Hub" and is official merchandise for the upcoming ENA game "Dream BBQ"!

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

(sees the trailer Ena: Dream BBQ)

aaaaaa this is awesome! ... I should actually watch all the Ena vids, huh.

(watches all of them, goes back and watches the Dream BBQ trailer again)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[antifathomable-shapeshifter]

liminal spaces/the backrooms are the perfect setting for an exploration-focused video game. i've seen some attempts, but its all very early on, and so what i'm hoping for doesn't quite exist yet (as far as I know).

something with an interface like weirdcore edits (a la yourlocalbreadman's shorts), set either in the backrooms, or within a collection of liminal spaces similar to the backrooms, and any character interactions should be like weirdcore text (see above) and/or like Joel G's ENA project.

i am hoping ENA: Dream BBQ will be at least pretty close to what i'm dreaming of, at least, the way Kane Pixel's Backrooms series is pretty close.

i just want a (Joel G + breadman + Kane Pixel) x the online backrooms community in video game format

maybe i should bite the bullet and learn how to manage projects.... then i could hire people to fulfill my vision.

[lilliesofinspirationvalley]

(about the dream bbq post) aren’t daturas like… the worst hallucinogen known to man? Known to give people horrifying trips with effects that linger for months/years? I wonder if that’s significant. I saw someone else point out the fork frog guy looks like a mad cow disease prion, + the spirals in the ballerina scene and the paper streamers also resemble prions. Both these things feel similarly related to losing one’s mind.

Ayo, you’re onto something!!!

This is an ask I recieved relating to my first ENA: Dream BBQ analysis I posted! Be sure to check that out if you haven’t already! I definitely plan to write more up ;p

Let’s look into what Mabel (I shall call this user such based on the first part of their username) brought up~!

Make Me Delirious

Daturas are a hallucinogen, more specifically a deliriant. Here are summaries about deliriants and delirium I found from Wikipedia

Already, we can see some fascinating points being brought up.

Deliriants inhibit the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is a key part of the autonomic nervous system (aka, how our body and brain react to our surroundings). It’s an internal transmitter in the sympathetic nervous system (which is responsible for the fight-or-flight response), and the primary neurotransmitter/final product of the parasympathetic nervous system (which helps you calm down and bring your body back to normal). It’s primary function is activating muscles… so shutting that down is pretty dangerous (especially in high doses).

Deliriants are known for causing… delirium (what a shocker lol). Delirium causes psychomotor changes (hyperactivity/hypoactivity/mixed), emotional and perceptual disturbances (such as hallucinations and delusions), and disrupt sleep-wake cycles.

Most plant deliriants are part of the Solanaceae/Nightshade family, which include plants such ad belladonna/deadly nightshade, and brugsmania/angel’s trumpets. Arguably, the flowers in the trailer also look like brugsmania… but whether they’re brugsmania or datura, they’re both deliriant flowers, so all of this still applies.

These plants have historically been used by indigenous cultures in the Americas (likely in extremely small doses) for assistance in traditions/rituals involving altered states. Such rituals involve communicating with ancestors, divination, and rites of passage, and are always used under supervision of a Shaman.

Prion for Info

First and foremost, what the heck is a prion? 

In case you haven’t taken biology yet, or forgotten those lessons from high school, the brain has a lot of normal cell proteins called prion proteins. They're an important part of our brain function... though we're still figuring out their specific purpose. Normal prion proteins look like this (pictures are from this video):

However, there are also misfolded, abnormal prions that look like this:

These are usually referred to simply as "prions" (we specify the normal, healthy ones as prion proteins), and they're able to spread their abnormal/misfolded structure onto the normal variants of the prion protein. This chain reaction is a major causative of neurodegenerative disorders, primarily via spongificatioxn of the brain (destroying the brain's gray matter). This can lead to severe symptoms such as rapid dementia, ataxia (loss of limb control), and insomnia. Once the disease starts, it's incredibly rapid and always fatal.

One of these neurodegenerative disorders that is especially prominent is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, also known as BSE or Mad Cow disease. As the names suggest, this disease primarily harms cattle... but humans are able to become infected by it.

How? By consuming contaminated beef.

What do you usually eat at a barbecue?

"Where is my mind" by the Pixies at full blast

In all seriousness, all of these connections to literally losing your mind and dying from madness are all very concerning. BBQ!ENA is going to go through so much more (as if the two other forms of her didn't allude to that already), and I'm very worried about her.

[thefreaklovesmusic]

xinhua - Indie Mix (OFF, LISA, UNDERTALE, ENA)

[zeravera]

Ena landfill

[revastera]

Hatsune Miku ENA!

Miku ENA designed by me! :)

[v1x-holo]

Peruvian ena yeeeeeee

Inspired by @/evie_swag95064

[chronocrump]

ena!

[epicwizardpics]

Wizard from ENA: Dream BBQ - Official Trailer

[twiggyart6]

WAKE UP NEW ENA VIDEO !!!!!!!!! some really cool guys in this one <3 god I can't wait for dream BBQ ..... I'm going crazy.

[discobowser]

FORGET YOUR PAST

that 4 panel twitter art thang

[colexicana-draws]

ENA SWING BBQ!!!

[aloofwizard]

fucking love this wizard, they casting pussy spells