#and it came so easily

[bluegiragi]

johnny soap mactavish, now starring as your dead wife

[atompalace-official]

[o0kawaii0o]

"I've been thinking of a new recipe lately.."

[remxedmoon]

y’know what? fuck you. *UNGRAYSCALES YOUR ISATS*

no wait come back there’s greyscale versions under the cut :(

[king-of-docks]

@summer-of-bad-batch

Week 3: Give me your hand

[littleghostblogs]

Wes’ epic training montage.

I just sorta feel like they’d be friends, their vibes just mesh so well to me. Wolfgang probably knew plenty of clowns, and a mimes not that different.

Putting my initial sketches at the bottom this time. I’m having so much fun.

[sail-not-drift]

"I did not then, nor will I now, discuss the career of Dr. Cook in his later days. I am wholly unfamiliar with the facts which led to his imprisonment, and I have no desire to know them or have an opinion regarding them. Even had I known that he had been guilty of baser crimes than those with which he was charged, I would still have felt my duty and my inclination to be the same. Whatever Cook may have done, the Cook who did them was not the Dr. Cook I knew as a young man, the soul of honour and kindness, lion-hearted in courage." - Roald Amundsen, My Life As An Explorer (1927)

Graphic text from Not Easily Conquered by dropdeaddream and WhatAreFears. Photo citations in alt text.

[elvyn]

Justice

[imadhatt3r]

Am I insane or are Joker and Akechi low-key equivalent to Adam and Eve in the 3rd semester

- Maruki's palace has some heavy "Garden of Eden" themes, with it essentially being a paradise where people live free of suffering and strife but also in a kind of blissful ignorance of themselves. The highest structure is LITERALLY named Eden, with a garden and an apple tree with a snake and everything. Maruki oversees everything as God, one who gave this wonderful place and unburdened lives to people.

- 3rd semester Akechi was born out of Joker's cognition thanks to Maruki, just like how Eve was born out of Adam's rib; There's also the fact that Joker wanted Akechi alive again so that they might try starting their relationship over and due to his regret over how their relationship ended up- which parellels Adam's desire for a companion. Joker and Akechi are the only two people in Maruki's reality who feel that something's not right (at least at first), making them truly uniquely cognicient beings, kind of like how Adam and Eve were uniquely intelligent among all the other life in Eden (given that they could talk and were chosen to be the caretakers of all other creation).

- In the bible, it was Eve who convinced Adam to eat the apple and gain awareness; In the game, it's Akechi who manages to convince Joker about the truth of what's actually going on around them.

- Once Adam eats the apple, he and Eve are banished from Eden by God, forcing them and all the other humans in the future to live on Earth, where they have to suffer from hunger, illness, pain, and all the other things they never felt while in Heaven. Joker and Akechi go after Maruki with all the other phantom thieves- their consciousness allowed them to disobey their "God" and destroy his reality, causing them and all humanity to return to the original world, where they have to suffer from heartache and other emotions they were free of in his "Paradise". Not to mention that they themselves will suffer too- Joker will have to live without Akechi, mourning the relationship they could have, while Akechi will literally stop existing. If they obeyed, they could still both exist together (even if it would be in a way they don't want).

- Adam and Eve are, of course, positioned as a "pair of opposites", given that Abrahamic religions see men and women as opposite "forces". Almost every aspect of Joker and Akechi mirrors eachother, from designs through personalities to places they occupy in their lives. There's also the fact that Adam and Eve were sort of destined for eachother, made for eachother by God, just like how Joker and Akechi were destined by gods to be rivals and opposites.

- "Rebellion" in general is one of the main themes of the game, and Adam and Eve can be seen as humanity's first rebels by going against their creator (or at least that's one possible interpretation). Joker and Akechi are P5's protagonist and deuteragonist, the two main thematic characters of the game; Them being united together AS A DUO (unlike during the Shido situation, where they had the same goal but mostly worked separately) against a shared God-like opponent who is trying to take away their free will is kind of like if God wanted to take Adam and Eve back and wipe their minds, and Adam and Eve fought together like hell to stay free.

- This is really minor, but there is a Mementos dialogue about Akechi eating a single apple for lunch every day... 👀

[benisasoftboi]

Look, getting a Midnight sequel is cool and all, but WHEN will I get my follow up episode to 1965’s Journey Into Terror, episode four of serial sixteen, The Chase, in which the Daleks fight robot Dracula, lose, and the Doctor leaves genuinely believing that the whole thing took place in an alternate dimension created by the collective unconscious of human fears, before the camera pans over to reveal that they were actually just in a fairground haunted house in the 1990s (he never learns the truth). I NEED to see the robot Frankenstein’s monster that suplexed a Dalek make a return and I will be camping outside your house, RTD, until you make it so

[funsizedcrow]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE VIDEO GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[erinwantstowrite]

jason is lashing out at bruce because he can't come to terms with his mother being the reason for his (their) death. she died in the warehouse too and when jason came back he latched all that anger onto the one parent figure he had left even though a part of him knows it wasn't bruce's fault, but sheila's. he's angry at sheila. he's angry at sheila. but she died and placing that anger at a dead woman has nothing to hold on to so it's just bruce. which if it was written better would mean that jason was acting out against a parent he knows cares about him and he feels safe with, and would be recognized in the story. he wants to die but he's scared to do it alone so he's being reckless and making bruce watch him and be there. he wants to die but he wants bruce to be there with him so he's not alone. because he died knowing bruce wouldn't make it. and he's angry at sheila for being the parent that was there. the one that didn't love him. if sheila hadn't sold him up to the joker, bruce would have met up with jason. it's sheila and joker's fault.

[azure-bluet]

"sounds like you're asking me on a date", the extended cut

transcription below

Zam: So yeah you're not planning on dying anytime soon, right?

Bacon: Are you worried about me?

Zam: Am I worried about you?

[cut]

Zam: So, I don't know! [...] My mindset's shifted a lot. Because, when I killed you, I felt bad, I felt terrible about it, y'know? But... I think in the moment I definitely did, like, [...] enjoy it. I regretted it, [...] but my heart was pumping, getting ready to storm that room. I was expecting more of a fight, though, but, I mean, like, it's fine. [...]

Bacon: You could, uh, you could let me know, though, before you get there, and we can have a little bit of a fight?

Zam: Yeah, maybe I will. [...] I don't really regret it as much anymore, I don't think- I think I got over my regrets the day of, but now it's like really gone, y'know?

Bacon: I'm glad to hear you don't regret killing me.

Zam: Mhm.

[cut]

Zam: I feel like, [giggles] I feel like it'd be cool if I, I dunno, [...] if I got to kill you more, maybe. [...]

Bacon: Sounds like you're asking me on a date.

Zam laughs.

Bacon: I don't wanna make it weird, but, you really said that- am I crazy, or did you actually say that like...

Zam: I don't- I think you're crazy, but, that's fine.

Bacon, clearing his throat: Kinda sounded like... I don't think I-

Zam: No, I- I wanna do anything I can to protect the server, and, I mean, like, I don't normally like, y'know, beating up players that don't really have that many hearts, but. I mean, if I can, and, like, the opportunity arises, then... Yeah, no, I think that it'd be cool if I got to kill you

Bacon: Oh, nice. [Zam: Yeah.] Very sweet.

Zam: Mhm. At the risk of it sounding like a date, I think I would- Y'know. [...] [Zam laughs] Now that you said that I gotta, like, re-think how I wanna say this. [...] I just feel like it would be cool if, out of everyone- 'Cause you're planning on doing this until you get banned, right?

Bacon: That's the plan.

Zam: Yeah. Well, then- in that case, I'd like to make sure that I'm the one to ban you.

Bacon: Huh. [Zam: Yeah.] [...] That's nice, that's- that's cool, um. I'm, uh, kinda planning for success.

Zam: You're gonna plan for-? Well, yeah, obviously. I'd expect you to. I want you to live a very long time. I don't want you to die, y'know, too soon. [...] I want a battle that's actually enjoyable, and I think with you I can have that, so.

[cut]

Zam: I just feel like I have a nice understanding of you, and I don't feel like anyone else on my team does. [...] I feel like, because of that, it'd be nice if I was the one who got to kill you.

Bacon: Hmm.

Zam: Yeah. [...] And I did say that I'd never ban anyone, 'cause, y'know, "lives are valuable" or whatever, but Derapchu does have eight revive beacons, lying around…

[buggbuzz]

THERE IS NO WAY WE GOT INEFFABLE BUREAUCRACY THAT EASY AND THEN—AND THEN THEY JUST

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD IM NEVER GOING TO FUCKING RECOVER

[lorebird]

In which Ford struggles so badly to relate to other people that he wonders if he’s really human at all. The more isolated he becomes, the harder it is to reconcile with his own humanity.

[pastelsketches64]

🎉 The Gang's All Here! 🎉

⬇Alt Colour Palette Under the Cut⬇

Version with the official colour palettes! (AKA: no eyeballing, just eye-dropping XDDD)

...Aaaand a little GIF to show the difference between the two!