#coldwind

[andstuffsketches]

[Drawing of a Spider-sona, "Orb Weaver". They are a person with pale skin and short, curly red hair. They are sitting in a wheelchair that is gray with gold wheels, with two versions: "normal" mode (see below), with a manual wheelchair, and "super" mode (see above), where the wheels have separated into pieces and unfolded into spider legs. In super mode, the wheelchair also has a tall "thorax" back made of teal hard light, and more hard light screens Orb Weaver is tapping at. The back of the chair has a zig-zag shaped "signal" coming out the top, mimicking the shape of orb weaver spider webs. Small signals come out of fly-like drones as well. Orb Weaver is wearing a yellow suit with black gloves and boots, a gray torso, and zippers down the sides of the shirt. There is gold accents and their face is uncovered, with big Spider-man glasses.]

@coldwind-shiningstars's Spider-sona, Orb Weaver! They work from the shadows with their technological skills! 🕸️

[lonleytea]

dbd is weird. one moment your a god at looping and next match you’re already second phase on hook after getting one tapped by legion

[peachsequence]

Dead by Daylight Writing Prompts - Coldwind Farm

echoing squeals of farm animals being slaughtered

mildew climbing up white siding

blood soaked into hay stacks

sunlight filtering through the barn's rotted roof

the creak of a rocking chair

rusty farm tools nailed to the barn wall like trophies

soil wet with blood

the buzz of flies swarming rotting pigs

a boot stuck in a deep mud patch

the scent of manure and rotting flesh

claw marks across the barn door

broken weather vane

wind chimes

hoof prints of long dead livestock

wooden floor boards splitting under pressure

rusted scythe hanging on a tool wrack

burning barrels filled with wood

cattle gates clanging shut

pale curtains fluttering in an upstairs window

the sudden thud of something falling in the attic

[atari-phantom]

How it feels to load into Coldwind 5 games in a row

Screenshot from @bacondaddy

That EXPRESSION though

[haveyoureadthismcytfic]

You need a AO3 account to view: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50028673

Summary:

Cleo's learned to expect the unexpected when on a Life Games server. Sometimes, though, things are really unexpected, like... a potion effect turning her teammates into babies? Or, fandom tropes exchange, "age regression/de-aging" version!

Author: @coldwind-shiningstars

Note from Submitter: ZombieCleo is saddled with baby versions of BDubs and Scar and the show (Limited Life episode) must go on. Brilliant metafiction that makes me cringe!

[littleblondesoprano]

You've been thrown into a Horror Media location and have to survive there for a week. Click this link to find out which one!

Can you make it?

(Treat all locations as if the Main Plot is happening while you are there. Have fun!)

[wolffyluna]

🎀🌅📚?

🌅and📚 answered here.

🎀 how do you decide when something is done?

Another advantage of outlining: it makes that question relatively easy. If I've fully prose-ified and written everything in my outline, done an editing pass for 'does this sound good' and then another for 'do I have any dire typos,' then I am finished and the thing can get posted.

...this is for shorter things. Longer things that require structural edits... well. The workflow is similar. But there is also the secret third criteria of 'am I sick of looking at it.'

(fic writing ask game)

[fatalism-and-villainy]

top five Hannibal episodes, maybe?

This is an ever-fluctuating list, but:

Mizumono - best episode of the show, point blank, in my opinion. It's so full of suspense but doesn't feel rushed or like it's cramming too much in. Everything has time to breathe and let you feel its weight. Things like Alana's feeling of violation from Hannibal's deception aren't just remarked upon, we stop and watch her get slowly submerged in black water, her nightmare come to life. Will's struggle with himself is fully internal, but so perfectly conveyed through visual storytelling - the parallel conversations with Jack and Hannibal, each representing one side of him, and then the two halves of Will's face coming together as if they're both a mask, with no one, least of all Will himself, knowing which one is "real." Will being visited by GJH, the spectre of his own darkness, right before the destruction of the family that Hannibal stole from Hobbs. The callbacks in the visual motifs in the final sequence to the first episode, but this time Hannibal isn't helping Will keep Abigail alive. The way their confrontation isn't really a fight, it's just emotionally raw and desperate, with Will's veneer of detached confidence cracking for the first time in this arc. The most perfect encapsulation of how gentle all the violence between them is. Its only structural flaw is that the Abigail reveal isn't well handled, but I'd chalk that up to structural problems with the whole season. The rest of it is perfectly set up by the rest of the arc, like meat falling off the bone.

Coquilles - the first season 1 episode that's really, really good. All the moving parts seem to come together, with the case of the week smoothly establishing resonances with Will's issues and Bella's. Aesthetically, the murders capture the true essence of the show - grotesque yet sacred, committed with complete and utter earnestness on the part of the killer. The vigilantism and obsession with salvation for his victims has significant parallels to how I imagine Will might function post-canon, and it's telling that this is the first time we get foreshadowing for his potential transformation. And I love the inexplicable magic realism of killer's visions of his victims heads' on fire, and how that strangeness gets folded in on itself even more with the symbolism of Will's head on fire, within his own hallucination. Wonderful bizarro arthouse feel with beautifully human performances from Laurence Fishburne and Gina Torres to ground the whole thing.

Su-zakana - One of the best episodes for balancing complete absurdity with pure poetry. The woman inside a horse with a live bird inside her chest, as a symbolic rebirth, is totally insane and yet! It works! It's beautiful! It's macabre humour married to sweeping romanticism! It's Will's love for Hannibal that can't die no matter how much it's buried! Peter and the social worker act out an absurd, deliberately-credulity-straining pantomime of Will and Hannibal's dynamic - completely with the absolutely ludicrous, fantastic imagery of the social worker crawling out of that horse - and yet in its absurdity it paints such an effective contrast, really shows that Hannibal cares for Will, in his own twisted beautiful way, in a way that Ingram never cared about Peter. "I envy you your hate" hits so hard. Also it introduces Margot and features heavy-handed fishing metaphors, which is fun. Only downside is we have to watch Hannibal and Alana have sex, which is not my idea of fun.

Yakimono - I'm so attached to this one, despite not being the biggest 2A fan. Really the centerpiece of this one is the framing of Chilton, which yields some of the most superb black comedy of the entire show. The OTT shock and horror on Chilton’s face when he looks up and sees Hannibal standing over him all murder-suited up. Hannibal saying “one moment, please” to the federal officers knocking on the door while he is chloroforming Chilton unconscious. The whole hilarious sequence of Chilton wandering around the carnage in his house with that pitch-perfect music. The chase at the end with him running ineffectively from Jack. Absolute masterful comedy work from Raúl Esparza. Also throw in that gorgeous flower tree tableau empathy sequence with Will carrying the heart to the sculpture and making it beat and Miriam Lass’ weirdly kinky summation of her time in captivity… it’s just so high up on my list for enjoyment.

Antipasto - I’m not sure whether this is strictly top 5 for me BUT I do feel like I need some 3A representation on this list given how much I love that arc as a whole, especially episodes 1-3, and how much space it takes up in my imagination. Of those first three episodes, this is really the best one, imo - I love the way it captures a dreamlike, fantasy version of Italy, with all these dark fairytale undertones (especially with scenes like Bedelia in the bath - the sense of getting pulled into this fantasy as frightening and yet compelling, like being on the edge of the sublime). I love its subtlety in engaging with Will’s absence - it’s not over-the-top in establishing Hannibal’s loneliness, and Will’s absence is only mentioned once, in flashback at that, but it so neatly ties together all the subtextual threads woven through most of the episode that his usual shenanigans aren’t satisfying anymore without an equal partner, and that Bedelia isn’t filling that role. And the final shots of Hannibal folding origami on the train are soooo good.

[mayasweetpoulos]

its a feature not a bug!

[deliluck]

Small demo compilation from a game yesterday

[plasticine]

older dbd fans are so blinded by nostalgia about the old HUD even hearing people say the current looks like a mobile game (whatever the fuck that even means) . Like the HUD from directly after that update was insanely terrible but how is something people miss and genuinely want back

versus current HUD (ignore my low resolution it's a YT video lol)

[6qubed]

Advanced Tactics And Stratagems in the field of murdering defenseless teenagers, actors, witches, et al

I call this my "Not A Pig" fit. this, combined with Thick Fog Sauce, should hopefully provide enough of a survivorly profile while crouched that I can get close enough for ambush strikes

inaugural results from Larry's Loony Bin are promising

bonus:

sneakin'

[thenwothm]

Burning Sun joins forces with Metalizer Records

Hungarian Power/heavy metal band have announced on their social media that they have signed to Metalizer Records! The time has come to finally lift the curtain and proudly announce that we have signed a deal with Germany’s Metalizer Records for the release of our second full-length record on both CD and VINYL formats!With our second record, we will present you with a longer, darker, heavier, yet…

[deadandwalking]

look i’m just saying, sometimes you trust a group of british people that play scary games with you more than your own mother and that’s ok

[janice858916]

Distressed Moments

In the heart of the city, under the neon light, Where dreams are, but out of sight. Distressed moments, they come and go, Like a river relentless, ceaseless flow. In the silence of the night, when stars are bright, The mind is a battlefield, a constant fight. Tears are shed, hearts feel the blow, In distressed moments, sorrows grow. Life's a puzzle, a twisted maze, In distressed moments, we…

[wolffyluna]

For the ask game, 1, 14, 30!

[let us all pretend this did not sit in my inbox for awhile :P]

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

a. Reading Fulgrim by Graham McNeill at the age I did set off a whole 'for want of a nail' cascade that lead me here, both in the sense of "being on tumblr" and "being in fandom."

b. I ended up joining an ocean science class in high school for various logistical reasons that are too long for this margin to contain-- and through another set of 'for want of a nail' cascades that lead me to being a geologist

c. when I was a baby, do you want to know what the first thing that happened to me after I came home from the hospital? A cat sat on me. (The cat was quite startled when the "lap" she was sitting on went squeak.) That definitely shaped me. (...both figuratively and maybe literally.)

14. what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?

Hmm. I'm trying to think of something that's that, but also isn't something I'm literally in the process of doing? I can't say 'travel on my own,' for example, because I'm literally doing that in less than a month.

...solder something? My high school workshop classes were a bit of a poorly set out mess, which combined with me finding the concept of soldering freaky (hot things! poisonous things! aah!) meant that I have never ever soldered something, despite it technically being in the curriculum. And there are some crafts I want to make where the blocker is "...and then I'd have to solder those pieces together, and soldering still involve heat and poison. Also, I don't have anywhere to use a soldering iron."

Maybe one day.

30. what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

pls_rember.mp4