#death games

[craycraybluejay]

Hold a loaded gun to my helplessly masochistic head and tell me I can only say two phrases while you rape me; "i want you to shoot me" for when i need to cum and "i want you to shoot inside me" to encourage you to finish sooner so i can be safe. And if I cum you paint the ground with my brains. Obviously.

[naksushadows]

Lee Jae Wook the versatile actor that you are ✨

[single-malt-scotch]

for character suggestions: this one may be a tad stupid but hear me out. grim reaper etho or nebris

(i remember next to nothing about death games but what i do remember of their povs was Sure Something)

anonnnn anon im sorry i took a while to respond bc i actually just started bursting w ideas off of this ask lol. its become a even more fleshed out concept as it brewed in my mind.

basically it got me thinking like more aesthetically and mechanically in the Death Games.... whoever is in the lead (as per season 3 where getting kills piled up) or had the most kills (as per season 4) would gain the 'grim reaper' appearance- the intensity of said affect increasing in time. tho for minecraft lore reasons i decided to take some inspiration from withers and soul related things in the game....

basically i kinda see the death games as a "curse" game? you sign up and youre cursed now. and basically every person/soul is like a point in the game. features become a bit different- dulled colors, glowing blue/white eyes, slightly translucent skin where u can see the bones... idk something like that!

while i didnt have the energy to design Nebris rn (or i would take way longer to answer lol), i feel like he and Etho would be opposite in handling this effect. Where as Etho covers up in order to hide it (bc he wants others to not know if hes in the lead or likely to kill them), Nebris would totally flaunt it instead and not care lol.

[brightbeautifulthings]

Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons

"'You're more likely to get eaten by an alligator than die in a plane crash, which is twenty-nine million to one, by the way.'"

Year Read: 2023

Rating: 3/5

About: When they were kids, five friends started a mysterious game called Meido. Only four of them survived. Now in high school, the remaining four are summoned by the ghost of their dead friend to complete the game by dawn or be trapped inside its uncanny Japanese underworlds forever. I received a free e-ARC through NetGalley from the publishers at Tor Teen. Trigger warnings: character death, body horror, gore, captivity, violence, fires, drowning, spiders, neglect.

Thoughts: This is such a great title, isn't it? I would have picked it up based on that alone, but the premise of a horror game really grabbed me. I forget sometimes how hit and miss that trope can be, and it's not my favorite here. The readers don't know the rules because the characters don't know the rules, so there's never any sense about what's working or not working in the "game" or when/why they're going to be punished for breaking the rules. Everything is sort of hastily (and sometimes wrongly) explained after the fact. The game structure ultimately ends up being a bit flimsy, and I feel a little bait and switched into reading what's more like a standard other-world dark fantasy novel.

And we know I struggle with fantasy. It was extra hard for me here because each time the characters "level up," I had to reinvest myself in an entirely new setting with new monsters and NPCs. The chapters are plenty long enough to do this, and Simmons excels at world-building and descriptions, but it didn't stop me from feeling bogged down in all the changes and details. I suspect this has far more to do with me not really being a fantasy person (not even horror fantasy, unfortunately) than anything the novel does wrong. The Japanese folklore elements are really interesting and creatively done, and that was probably my favorite aspect of the book.

The characters are enjoyable and distinct enough, if not terribly memorable. The book relies a lot on their past friendships to ground the group, but given that we're not present for that and they all hate each other now, it's not as effective as it could be. Then there's also the fact that the game makes them randomly start forgetting things, so they suddenly start acting like friends again. There's not a lot of consistent development among the five of them, aside from a couple shaky romantic subplots. I did like the build-up to one character reveal far more than I liked another. It works well the first time, and the second time I was just bothered that everything kept changing. Pick a plot point/setting/backstory and stick with it, please. I suspect most of this would come clear on a second read, but I'm not invested enough for that, nor to continue with the series.

[virovac]

As death games fad gets worse

I kinda do think need more comedy subversions of them picking the wrong person who ruins everything

There was a manga I heard with the premise that someone kidnapped for a death game had just escaped from some isekai fantasy world ...and as someone said “Imaging if Jigsaw managed to capture Clark Kent and quickly realized something is very wrong.” I think there could be a lot of fun seeing insufferable smug masterminds running these things pull their hair out

[otpcompendium]

Tw injuries/death mention

Stuck in a death game where they're linked to feel each other's pain and share each other's injuries, A and B must survive being hunted down by other pairs and try to figure out a way to unlink themselves and escape before one - and both - of them loses their life.

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[k4nn4-k1zu1ch1]

One time I was looking up death games and I saw this series thing that was based on a roleplay of some kind. I can remember that on the image I saw for it, there was a welcome banner and a girl that was standing there, inviting people to the island(?) And then she was turned off or knocked out (I'm pretty sure she was a robot) and was replaced with this guy with a stoplight for a head(?) Coming up from the podium. I think the name was _________ Island? Could someone tell me the name?

Also the girl kinda looked like Teki

And KAngel

But much more like Teki. She still had KAngel vibes though I guess?

[tariah23]

The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

[chloesimaginationthings]

In every FNAF universe William Afton can't count

[prokopetz]

Doctor Robotnik is a fun one to throw into those "what would [media character X] do with [cursed artifact Y]" hypotheticals because the answer is always "misunderstand or disregard its intended purpose and use it to power a giant evil robot". The One Ring, the Death Note, the Necronomicon – it doesn't matter. Evil robot. The question isn't what he'd do with it, but how it's going to go horribly wrong.

[single-malt-scotch]

very normal relationships on mindcrack

[0zeeraa0]

I will defend them with my life

[virovac]

Has there been a non-cannibal cooking-based death game series yet? I feel there's lot of dark comedy that could be done with dangerous ingredients and booby-trapped kitchen utensils

[church-of-lilith]

an eventful january 9th

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in the Hunger Games and the only other person alive was Lin-Manuel Miranda, and he was freestyle rapping everything he said. He killed me with a spear while singing something from Hamilton.