#it’s midnight in elsewhere

[saradrewitt]

Last year I worked on a project in my old name, I managed to print out a snippet of this comic. I wanted to share one of the best parts I think was the highlight of this comic’s creation. I’ve never made a offical cover so I am happy to share it with finalized versions of designs and my new name. Please enjoy!

[breakbleheavens]

TAYLOR SWIFT photographed by Beth Garrabrant for her tenth studio album ‘Midnights’ (2022)

[iamfuckingsorry]

Thinking about that mural from DE

You know which one

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD, FOR THE NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US. WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS

The next world mural. In the game, you encounter this piece very early on if you interact with everything available, you probably see this mural before you've ever even heard of Dora or before you've started to get really serious about your commie tendencies, if that's how you choose to play. And the reaction is like, "wow, this is kinda profound actually". Or maybe it's like, "oh lol, this game really is commie af isn't it" (even though later on it turns out that the game is much more critical of communism than you'd think at first). And the story in the ledger provides some insight into Harry and Jean and how they work together too, so it feels like it makes sense, it fits in very well at that moment in the game and that's it.

But looking back at this mural after you've played through the entire game, knowing what you know of Harry's relationship with Dora...

It's Harry's own fucking love story in a way, isn't it?

Him and Dora came from very different backgrounds. He's genuinely poor, grew up checking the trash cans on the streets for tare and edible food, spent his teenage years running around with a bunch of kids who all OD'd or got themselves killed one way or another over the years. He had dreams of getting an education, getting a chance to use his creativity and curiosity and learn about all that that is worth exploring in this world (which is everything), but those dreams are long dead. She's solidly middle class, with access to all the education and art and music he's always dreamt of, with her family to always fall back on. She's everything Harry's ever dreamt of growing up. She might as well be living in another world.

They fall in love with each other and she moves to Jamrock to live with him. Jamrock, the biggest fucking ghetto in Revachol, full of tweakers and gangsters and just thousands upon thousands of poor people permanently down on their luck trying to get by, with no proper aid or government and a police station so understaffed and underfunded they never even stood a chance. And they can barely make ends meet even living in Jamrock, moving from shithole to shithole, never knowing when they'll have their electricity cut, when something will happen that gets them thrown out, desperately scrambling for a new place to stay. And Dora could never do that, not really - she never actually lived in Jamrock, she always had the possibility of leaving, of going to work across the river and visiting her parents whenever she felt like it or just escaping, packing her shit and getting on the tram and never going back. And as long as she knew she wasn't really, truly stuck in this miserable shithole forever, she wasn't ever really living in Jamrock. And it could never be enough for her.

And she wanted more - for herself, for Harry, for their family, who even knows. Maybe she saw Harry struggling trying and failing to make a difference as a gym teacher and thought he could do more good with the RCM. Maybe she was getting desperate, living in this fucking shithole, and thought they needed more money. Maybe it was something completely else - but what is certain is that Harry ended up joining the RCM, and the 41st, and everyone there is on speed, everyone is miserable and desperate and always running behind playing catch up with the case load, with the crimes, with the drug addicts and rapists and murderers, and Harry, who's always been like this close to a genuine mental breakdown, just fucking falls apart. He needs to help people, needs to make a difference, and working at the 41st, with the budget and case load and staffing situation and the pure fucking misery in the area. He goes out and meets a miserable person after a miserable person and he can't do anything else than be nice, make their day a little bit more manageable, do his best- but he knows that no matter what he does, his best won't be enough. He won't be able to make a dent in the pure fucking misery that is Jamrock. But he needs to, so he drinks, he smokes, he does drugs, he loses any semblance of control he ever had over the voices in his head, the dude telling him to hit shit and the dude telling him to forget everything and just get fucked up and Revachol herself screaming at him about her imminent death. And in the end Dora can't stand it anymore and she leaves (and, honestly, good for her. I'm happy for her. But this is about Harry, and Harry isn't, he isn't able to be happy for her at this point in time).

And like. I personally doubt that she'd have left just because of the money if everything else was good. I honestly even doubt that the money was that big of an issue for her to start with, it was all the other issues first and then the fact that they couldn't even rent a fucking VHS and play it at times became just one more thing on top of this already massive pile of shit that broke the proverbial camel's back. But in Harry's mind, he was never rich enough for her. She was always the middle class girl who settled for the poor fuck, and he was never gonna be good enough for her because he was just a broke dude from Jamrock. She was perfect and so so beautiful and at one point her love was the only thing keeping him going, and then she left because he couldn't even

And from what we can see in the game she was the only person he's ever really, truly loved.

But in his mind, they could never be together again. They could try as they might, but it was never gonna work out, because she was a rich girl and he was just a poor miserable fuck. He grew up looking for change on the streets, she took piano lessons in a fancy part of town. The difference was just too large to ever truly be bridged.

So for post-breakup Harry, prior to Martinaise and even during the events in Martinaise, true love was never actually possible. It is possible only for the new people, in the next world. It was too late for him - he had his chance, and it was an impossible thing, it could never have worked out and now he's wasted it. Because of the inherent differences between different social classes. It is too late for him. So yeah, fuck it, wreak havoc on the fucking middle class. Fuck those rich bastards who took Dora from him, and fuck Dora too.

On another note, this was also one of the most recent cases him and Jean worked on prior to Martinaise. I don't remember the date exactly, but it was in his last ledger, it must have been pretty recent. Do you think he saw the mural and thought about it the same way I did? Maybe this was the one that truly pushed him over the edge? The impossible love. It truly was too late for him. The only way to fix it is a new fucking start. And how do you get that?

After life - death. After death - life again.

[bonefall]

If the clans pieced together that the seasonal gods are, yknow, gods, would they pull a roman empire and start going "ok so heres why OUR religion is still correct" and assign the gods to a mythological figure? (Like deciding that One-eye was actually Sunpelt and Sol was Mouthclaw as example)

Also does anyone ever visit Midnight while on salt patrol? With how each god is getting more and more involved in the lake territory books and with how (iirc) you changed the badger attack to something else, it sounds like she isn't getting much to do beyond the sundrown prophecy. Which isn't bad!! I think she should take a backseat and just in the background someone should be going on patrols taking some tunnelbuns to Midnight and sitting down with some tea to just spend time with her yknow. This is 100% not me feeling bad that shes lonely and trying to get her a friend :(

When they ram up against a god or other supernatural entity, like One Eye, the Clan cat response is to go "NUh UH. Our OC is so much cooler and stronger than yours. We just wrote about our super cool guy beating them in a fight"

So it's more like a Christian response than a Roman one. "Through StarClan all things are possible, so, jot that down."

ANYWAY MIDNIGHT

Don't worry, Clan cats actually do visit her during Salt Patrols, occasionally. She has gotten a lot more company lately; I imagine that she's seen as an odd guru. It is known she is magical, but many cats fear her powers as blaspheme.

Reminds them too much of the Dark Forest. They trust StarClan and fear other sorts of entities.

Some warriors seek her out more than others. Ivypool for example is very fond of her, I imagine she goes on most salt patrols just to talk to her. Something about the connection she feels she has to her sister, I think.

[gaemms-chamois]

ASHLOCK BIRTHDAY

[atram0rte]

happy 25th birthday to guilty gear btw  🖤

[applecherry108]

Unsure if the boop’o’meter is this year’s April fools gag or just a silly new addition to tumblr, but I’m so happy it works on mobile for once.

[dragxnfruiit]

say goodbye to your mr. nice guy, you got your wish, he’s rotting in hell

(fifth show in the books has me emo, so enjoy this collage of cody from ‘17-now)

[msvelawciraptor]

When you think about Ava's conclusion about the nature of the diner in the season finale, looking back on episode 2 becomes interesting. If the diner's entire purpose is to heal the damage in the universe, offering the murder beast coffee and some soothing music ostensibly did something to help. We will never know what, but it's something. And I think that's lovely.

[cowboylikedean]

what do you think Suburban Legends is about?

The same thing the rest of the 1989 vault is about. Harry's non-committal trifling ass being non-committal and trifling and Taylor realizing that she wasn't going to be An Exception... that it wasn't going to magically be Different This Time and that she had to walk away.

[stawbzz]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND MIDNIGHT TOPS DOPAMINE 10-1, HE GOT BROKE

[saradrewitt]

Myss Mysterious (offical concept designs)

Because Myss Mysterious has been revealed it’s time to share the small amount of concept art I did when finalizing her character design/story. I already knew what I wanted to design when I first wrote a draft of her. In order (I think) from dates cuz I like know when I designed things. Please enjoy this character from It’s Midnight in Elsewhere Vol 2

[yume-fanfare]

? someone in the tags of the contact syncing post complained about whatsapp doing so and i feel like we have fundamentally different usages of the app

[alliluyevas]

can’t believe i made a whole playlist on spotify about people traveling around the country specifically for use on our utah trip and my friends did not let me listen to it and instead forced me to listen to bad modern country music for most of 2 different 5-hour drives

[goldensunset]

i feel like i am about to become a villain

[agstricker18]

Corresponding phone wallpapers to the desktop ones. (These actually came first). (More to come)