#i thought we left that behind

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Oh god, please tell me the rumours about TTPD being mostly about Matty Healy is a lie.

[sems-diarie]

death is insane. wdym i’ll never see my grandmother again

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS Disco Elysium AU part 2 - Psyche Skills

Part 1 - Part 3

[tryingonametaphor]

my villain origin story is these being sold as NFTs instead of physical figurines

[liesmyth]

would you be able to give examples/explain more about how race only impacts gideon in the tlt-universe? not being facetious or condescending, genuinely asking. thank you!

Hi anon! If you mean my tags to this post, I wrote

#earth conception of race doesn't impact any character in the series except the canonically brown main antagonist

By which I mean my Worstie and main antagonist of the series, John Gaius (PhD).

I don’t think TLT as a series engages with race in any especially meaningful ways. It’s set in a post-Earth society with entirely different social norms, and there’s no concept of race and ethnicity within the population of the Nine Houses. Physical descriptions of the characters are scarce to say the least, and they rarely spell out the kind of features that suggest specific racial connotations, because the POV characters don’t seem to think it’s something worth remarking upon. iirc, it takes until halfway through HtN for the narrative to confirm that Harrow has brown skin.

[See also Tamsyn’s GtN characters description post. It quotes passages from the book, and you can see how minimal the descriptions are, and she repeats several times that her characters’ appearances are up to the readers’ interpretations. It just doesn’t seem to be a big concern of hers]

Then there’s John, who grew up in twenty-first-century New Zealand and IS explicitly Māori in a way that absolutely impacted his character arc. It's not A major theme of his Nona chapters, but it’s there if you read between the lines. The boarding school he went to, which IRL had a high percentage of low-income Māori students on scholarship. The depth of his climate anxiety, his uncompromising “Nobody left behind” stance before the cryo project was halted, and his fervent hatred of ‘the trillionaires’ afterwards... these are all informed to some extent by his background as an indigenous man imo, and so was the global reaction to his developing powers. The “We were going to put you fellas in jail, weren’t we?” the way his initial attempts at publications are all flat-out ignored by the scientific community and dismissed as culty gimmicky faith healing until he leans into it.

John being Māori is just one of the many pieces of his backstory, and far from the most impactful to what eventually went down, but my point remains that he is the ONLY character in TLT whose racial background 1) affects his story arc and 2) is relatable to the audience. Everyone else is ten thousand years removed from Earth, and I’m just not very interested in using racial identifiers when exploring these characters and their dynamics, because the characters themselves don’t care and neither does the narrative.

[buqbite]

I like to imagine that her gentleness is genuine

[ride-a-dromedary]

You're not a doppelganger, are you? Trying to study me, learn all my secrets so you can take my place?

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

Are you still active on tumblr?

YES I am!! Sorry friends for dropping off the face of the earth, I got a job and I had to move and it was a lot. But I am less stressed now and I hope I can get back to posting more regularly!! I really missed it (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

I will never leave tumblr because there is no other place on the internet where I can tell people that 80% of the time when I try to introduce myself to someone in the office that I haven’t met yet I get so focused on smiling and holding eye contact that I forget the part where I actually have to introduce myself (°□°)

[dreamaruu]

Hi so whats the deal with our two appearances of the Lich so far being associated with bonnie

[p4nishers]

he's right behind me isn't he? (skinny aziraphale)

[firefly464]

Two souls. Both given a second chance. Both waiting for a third.

Some bonus versions under the cut :D

also shoutout to @fishcop for listening to me ramble about this idea and then showing up with a beautiful drawing like. an hour later :D

[willowser]

okay but keeping up with the angst of it, even if they didn't find you chances are theyd find hints of you that youve dropped for katsuki, he's told you how important it is to find DNA, hair or even a scent and theyd see all this and he'd know that you're still hoping he'll find you, you're still doing the most you can for him to find you

YOU'RE RIGHT we already tried to give him a description of as much as we could 🥺 and you're RIGHT we would try to leave lil evidence 🥺 that we're alive and still holding onto hope 🥺🥺🥺

[bloomingsalma]

i think one of the most disappointing things is to see that your childhood friends have grown up to represent the kind of people you're disappointed in

[beybuniki]

I think it's so funny that when I said dehydrated Jeff the killer that you thought I meant AFO but I actually meant Shigaraki and didn't grasp how generally applicable that description was in the moment shddjfsjsfss

he has eczema and ocd and trichotillomania he literally can't help that his skin looks like that. afo, on the other hand

[tehohaews]

Billkin & PP in เท่าไหร่ก็ไม่พอ - Bell Supol

[drakothedragon55]

Discovered The Friends We Left Behind/Imaginary Friend Asylum, and proceeded to make this goofy goober.