I just saw one of your fave games is What remains of Edith Finch and I’m so happy! I feel like its a lesser known game but i loved playing through it. I’m so happy to know more than just my small friend group know about this game!
Sorry this isn’t a question. Also want to say that you’re art is amazing and the development of the designs is so interesting to see. Also the way you draw intimate scenes have so much emotion to them. I love the Aj and rarity kissing comic so much, you can just feel their love for each other ;w;
Thank you so much!
I highly, highly, highly recommend What Remains of Edith Finch to anyone interested in narrative game experiences/"walking simulators." It's one of those games that was handcrafted with nothing but love. Every room you explore is just... real. The way the light flows in and makes the colors of the living room, the kitchen, the bedrooms glow. Playing the game is like walking through your childhood home as an adult and seeing how the dust clings to everything you once touched. Also genius-level gameplay mechanics, ones that can make you completely empathetic with the character you're embodying or feel completely complacent in their tragedy. It's really not fair to call it a walking simulator because it's so much more and so much smarter than that.Everyone talks about the fish one.
The theme of death and memory and storytelling and the burden of invisible trauma and self-fulfilling prophecies is so affecting too. The ending made me cry.
I think I get it. Like I can see what the writers were thinking? The siblings always chose each other over the world, saving and loving each other and trying to save everything on another day. And I think they mistook that for selfishness, and they wanted to subvert that. And, crucially, I think they were wrong. I think they sort of thought they were writing a show about power, and about people who had power that did not deserve it, and how that power hurts the world and cannot and does not deserve to exist, and controversially I think that would be super compelling if it was accurate. But it's not! The Umbrella Academy was about being a person who cares while being a person who experienced terrible things and also wanted to do better. It was about family and love and growth and, yeah, abuse. So ending it with "they should never have existed" reads as "abused people are fundamentally broken and should kill themselves" and I can see that they probably did not want to say that, but they DID say that, and it just makes me kinda sad. Anyways 6/10 I loved Klaus and Allison's whole thing until they both killed themselves I guess.
(i'm posting this a biit early because I don't trust myself to remember it before August first and I want to give folks some time <3 Y'all feel free to get started early if you need to - I know August is busy, especially for those of us still in school - but I won't start reblogging until August)
An arthuriana art writing song making gif-ing or whatever else challenge for the month of August!! I know the format isn't anything new but I tried to get original with the prompts lol
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Blood or No(1-5)-
Sibling and family week! The perfect time for Orkneys any sibling or family dynamic be it birth, adopted, or found!
Sick Leave(6-10) -
My personal favorite prompt! Be it whump, hurt/comfort, hurt no comfort, or angst, sick in bed or covered in blood it's time to hurt your faves!
Warm+Cozy(11-15)-
Now that we've whumped everyone it's time for some fluff! Bonding, cuddles, hurt with heavy comfort, just all the warm feelings.
Getting Heated!! (16-20)-
An argument, a romance, *cough*smut*cough*, a busy day in the kitchens.... or all four! Is it just me, or is it getting hot in here! :flustered:
Lady of the Hour(21-25)-
Enough of the knights, time for some ladies!! Everyone from Guinevere and Morgan to Adrivette and the Lady of Lys.
Visiting Knights (26-31)-
Or ladies, I'm not picky! This includes characters who have origins outside of Britain ex. Palomedies, Feirefiz, the French knights/du lacs, Morien, ect.
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Each prompt has five days except the last one has six. (This took me far too long to figure out lol) Be sure to tag with #arthuriana august, and if you want me to reblog it @caer-gai so I see it <3
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if wriothesley doesn't appear in any quest once we get to remuria, what even is the point?
the parallels between wrio and king remus are crystal clear. remus who descended upon meropis (a name very familiar to anyone who knows of the fortress of meropide) in his golden fortuna, the legendary ship of remus that is also called the bringer of civilization and glory (wrio who built a ship to deal with the misfortune upon fontaine) is an example of it.
wrio also has connections to hades with the cerberus motif as guardian of the underworld. it's curious that the tower in remuria is described not only as not built to receive heavenly oracles, serving as a guide to ships traveling between islands, but also as a border of reality and dreams. if this is not necessarily literal but a metaphor or allegory, it could fit very well with the idea of a portal between domains or realms, like life and death.
wriothesley also parallels another character in the genshin universe and that person is arlecchino. they were brought up as orphans, taken in by an institution with corrupted leaders, which they reformed and achieved a leading position of. and funnily enough, she has ties to purgatory (a place for punishment, much like the fortress). as i have said in another post, purgatory has been described by dante as a tower leading to heaven. but we also know that celestia in the genshin world is associated with the demon realm - archons being named after ars goetia, an anonymous grimoire on demonology. although the concepts aren't the same in theory, is it impossible that the game has used elements of both? wriothesley and arlecchino's themes are similar enough to overlap. even though i don't expect wriothesley to be lore revelant anymore, i do think his ties to remuria and his role as someone who punishes others for their sins, much like arlecchino, is very much purposeful.
fucked up thing about kendall is that he is so scared of becoming his father when it comes to being a parent, he became his mother instead. completely physically and emotionally absent and blaming the other parent for the childrens' problems, because they're in their lives, while never acknowledging how their own absence has contributed to it.
Never have I ever done one of these, so I'm hoping to all hope I do it right. I'm sort of using some of my friends intro posts as a base line here, if that makes sense :3
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HC that Jarlaxle told Zak he didn't know any surface languages; if he had to communicate with someone from the surface, either they'd have to speak an underdark language or he'd use magic or psionics.
Zak was pretty sure he was lying, but assumed it was because he was embarrassed or something, like maybe people would look down on him for taking the time to learn such useless iblith languages.
Actually, Jarlaxle was afraid that if he told Zak he knew any surface languages, Zak would convince him to teach him at least one. And if Zak knew at least one surface language, he might finally feel confident enough to run away forever.