#obscure developer

[hindbodes]

[serpentface]

Here's what typical vestment for The Odomache looks like.

The pelt of the lion that was originally sacrificed and worn raw for her incarnation is retained throughout the years of service, preserved and fashioned into a headdress and cape (obscuring a helmet). This can get dreadfully hot in the summer but no one ever said that being a hollowed out pathway for God's spirit was easy.

The body is always obscured near completely, barring the hands, feet, and parts of the face (philosophically, these are the body's least vulnerable parts as its modes of Action, though this is in large part a practicality). This is partially a matter of psychological enforcement that this person is not Just a human, and partly a matter of protecting the part of God's living spirit that's in a wholly human body. Conceptually, the Odomache Enables tremendous power rather than being intrinsically powerful in of herself, so all manners of protecting the metaphysically vulnerable human body are of tantamount importance in her case.

The complete obscuring of any identifiable feminine form is also notably important to the underlying philosophies and biases involved. It is necessary that she is female, a condition ascribed a unique malleability to change and transformation (for good or harm), but the act of female/non-male sex and gender assignment also serves to uphold an underclass in a patriarchy that she By Necessity must be distanced from. This extends beyond the masculinized social and dress performance of Odonii to a masculinized social performance with dress that utterly obscures any part of the body that could be gendered, and dress that is not gendered in of itself (women do wear less revealing clothing than men and skirts of similar length, but the act of Fully covering the body in this form exists outside of the bounds of gendered dress).

[[It should be noted that on a historical level, this role is largely a descendant of a variety of 'celibate and/or masculinized female religious authority' figures in pre/proto-Wardi societies stretching back centuries, rather than an emergent property of contemporary religion and philosophy. This is an adaptation of older roles and worldviews to securely fit the contemporary zeitgeist, and that's part of why many aspects of this role Superficially clashes with said zeitgeist.]]

The relatively undecorated white cloak and robes in comparison to culturally favored displays of color and opulence further emphasizes a sense of the Odomache's separation from humanity. The Wardi image of God is not a human lord, but rather the world itself and the functions of the world distilled into the forms of animals. Human hierarchies exist Within God rather than God having a place within human hierarchies, so in this philosophy it's natural for this particular person of high authority to not closely resemble a Human Authority.

This is still ultimately a human body existing at the top end of a human hierarchy (and in the dimension of religious thought, it a human body holding aspects of God most specifically concerned with maintaining concepts of 'right' civilization and hierarchy), so public-facing garb like this will still include a few mundane trappings of lordship such as this fancy gold khattanocuy displaying an image of an enemy being trampled by the Face Odomache as the guardian lion. Purely ceremonial garb for the Odomache hides the body in its entirety beneath the white cloak and forgoes all decoration save for the obligatory weaponry.

A sword and dagger is worn at all times as a matter of being the ultimate physical bastion of her society's military might, and she is always accompanied by a retinue of 'lieutenants' (Extremely elite servants/squires) who carry whatever other elements of her perpetual armament are not currently in use. These weapons are Completely ceremonial in nature (to the point that they're made or plated with gold rather than anything like, durable) and there is absolutely zero expectation that the Odomache will ever directly engage in combat (the times this has happened historically have been when things have gone horribly wrong).

Her face is usually masked in public, though this is not a strict necessity of the role and is forgone for some ceremonial purposes. On these occasion, it's standard to paint the face red to still partly obscure human features in the same fashion of battlefield Odonii. As the color of blood, it positively evokes bodily vitality and strength, the living spirit of the world itself and the mode of connection to God (and will also be reminiscent of the rite of incarnation during which she is Actually covered in blood)

[flowerakatsuka]

some random ship & oc charts i filled out recentlyyy

blank vers : 01 + 02 + 03

[mossspond]

I think Expedition 33 deserves all its flowers and more in so many aspects but I'm so SAD that these otherwise impeccably written female characters cannot escape being defined by the men in their lives. Like I cannot believe they only get a handful of scenes with each other in which they MOSTLY talk about Gustav.

It's kind of driving me insane that I haven't seen any discussion about this online yet because imo it's kinda egregious.

[firadessa]

Mark Cote Info Reveal- Silvermist's Quest

(Long Post Warning)

Me and a few friends are doing our own searches for information on the elusive Tinker Bell draft. We were able to secure an interview with Mark Cote, who was on the film for both a 2d and 3d version. Unfortunately, we were not able to save many recordings in good quality and mine has no audio. I also failed to transcribe our meeting, but hopefully this will not be our only meeting.

Before the original movie was put into 3D, it had several character quests all linked to the narrative to save Neverland. I thought it would be like Disneytoon's failed Enchanted Tales series, but unlike Enchanted Tales or Cinderella 2 the segments wouldn't be so self contained. It was like the movie Fantasia, but connected through a larger plot. There would also be a ticking time bomb in the form of the worlds of the mainland and Neverland combining due to the theft of pixie dust by Tinker Bell and friends before they earned it messing up the natural order. He told us that all 5 character quests would have to be approved by management, so he experienced delays in production. Several quests were greenlit but they had a hard time when they got to Silvermist and Iridessa.

We asked in a riddle, what brings water life? It took a while to get an answer, but @princessquinnella was reminded of water fairies in the books. The thing is though, Silvermist was conceived pretty differently from Rani. Despite being a water fairy, she was a repressive and pragmatic character. If you had a Disney Fairies DVD that came with the toys, you might remember the line "Still waters run deep" in reference to Silvermist. The pond and lotus where she lived, is implied to be "Stillwater Springs" or Lilypad Pond from what we know. x Here is the description from the illusive "pitch book"

Firstly, Mark told us for this "epic story" Silvermist's quest would be next to last. None of the fairies can fly because of the magic has dissipated. The story starts in her home of Stillwater Springs/Lilypad Pond, she creates a magical cloud named Tempest to fly. Tempest is an opposite to SIlvermist, he's a joyful and free spirited cloud like a impish child. Like in the final cut, there are 4 seasonal areas? There would be 5 themed areas in Pixie Hollow where each fairy lived. Many inanimate things live here in this word inspired by Art Nouveau.

She needs to fly on Tempest to reach the "water of life", and she travels to Pixie Hollow in a harsh desert area. She has a small glass vile to collect the "water of life" and flies over the stretch of desert looking everywhere. There's a color script of this segment somewhere on AODF (dont know where to link), where it is blurry and you can see the desert.

Silvermist and Tempest even meet other clouds on their journey, but they are grumpy and stern adult clouds.

Here, on the color guide- we see things a bit different. There seems to be some sort of snowdrop-esque flower in place of Tempest- but also some clouds, so I'm not sure what it could be.

Silvermist has been in the sky for a while now in this desert, but cannot find the water of life. Suddenly! Tempest, the child cloud starts to die. Silvermist is scared, because her friend is dying and she hasn't found the water of life. She sits down defeated... and starts to cry.

He showed us a piece I am very familiar with:

It is then, when she is at her lowest- when she cries... Tempest is resurected, and she is able to save her friend and collect the Water of Life, the quest item she needs to save Pixie Hollow.

Lastly, I should say the desert like areas in Pixie Hollow remind me of the elusive art from the mysterious artbook "The Art of Judith Holmes Clarke" (excuse quality, its a short frame in an IG video)

Now it's time for the next quest to reveal information about, there should be 2 left with more info to share with you...

This one shall be fill in the blank:

"------ is the key that opens every door."

Fly with you later!

[1eatboys]

I keep seeing the odd post here and there mentioning that Ballister Blackheart is white in the Nimona comic and it hurts my heart a little each time I see somebody say that bc he’s actually not! Ballister Blackheart is canonically Asian in the comic, he is East Asian and simply has light skin.

I just find it saddening and wrong (granted I’m white myself so maybe it’s not my place to have an opinion on) to erase a character who is canonically a poc just because they have light skin :/

This is not a diss to people who didn’t know or people that were mistaken, that’s sort of the reason I’m making this post, so more people can know the truth rather than be misinformed or assume incorrectly.

(Context of the photo attached is that it is from a QnA Nate did on the Nimona comic years ago)

Edit: added alt text of everything written in the photo

[randomthefox]

FUCKING KNEW IT

I FUCKING KNEW THAT SHIT WASN'T REAL

"Oh even Japanese fans hated it and Sonic Team admitted they went too far" NO THEY DIDN'T, BITCHES LIED

NO APPEAL TO AUTHORITY FOR YOU!

[shortnotsweet]

THE THRILLING AND NOT AT ALL REPETITIVE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MAN AND KID DANGER: “A CHRONOLOGY OF ENTIRELY TRUE AND HEROIC EVENTS COINCIDING WITH THE END OF HISTORY” [1] [2] [3] [4]

Henry Hart returns from Dystopia. He grew up and his hair grew back out, but it’ll take more time to get refamiliarized with the mundane.

[ Henry’s figure is ominously silhouetted, staring at Ray with the whites of his eyes and a glare of light where his heart should be. Ray smiles invitingly, and stands with his hands on his waist, wearing only a towel. A laundry basket sits next to him. Posters are mounted on the wall to his back, including Captain Man merchandise, motivational material, and a reference to The End of History and the Last Man. ]

Following the resolution of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama argued in his 1992 political novel The End of History and the Last Man that global democratization and the expansion of Western, liberal values would bring about a post-war, post-development society. Democratization was the process in which civilization reached its final form; it would mark not only the end of communism, but the end of history. No more glorious revolution. No more hunger. The world could remain where it was. Fukuyama was, of course, wrong.

To be a hero is to know: there will be no end of history. You may hope for one, but you act as if it will never come, because it won’t. Otherwise, what is the point? There will be crime, and war, and hurt children. No amount of blood or money can save us for-ever. Your symbols cannot finish what has been started, but they can keep you alive until then; when you fight for long enough, it is hard to return to the repetitive things:

To living with people again.

To walking in the daylight without flinching, and, most importantly—

To laundry.

[hindbodes]

Slowly filling in the proposed heads-up elements of Decagod's main overworld display.

[beneathsilverstars]

one of my irl besties i follow on twitter and i do NOT get her posting style. irl our senses of humor play so well together that we have been complimented by strangers at the store on how funny our idle conversations are, but i look at her posts and feel nothing but confusion. i can't figure out what it means OR what's funny about it. i don't know if i'm misreading the tone, or if her online circles just have a totally different posting style than mine, or what, but her posts are incomprehensible to me!

anyway i think this is what following loop on socmed would be like.

[mimble-sparklepudding]

A Little OC Ask List of Difficult to Describe Emotions.

Some emotions are difficult to explain clearly. Perhaps your OC has experienced one of these? Can they remember a specific example? If they haven't then can they imagine what it might be like to experience?

Sonder: The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

Opia: The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that's usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Jouska: A hypothetical conversation you compulsively play out in your head.

Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you've always had - the same flaws and weaknesses that you've been gnawing on continuously for years.

Greng Jai: A feeling of unwillingess to accept help from someone, out of concern for the trouble it might cause them.

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things than one does.

Dolce Far Niente: A feeling of pleasure from doing absolutely nothing.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push other people away, even close friends, lovers or those that you trust.

Enouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in what was once the future, seeing how things turned out, but being unable to tell (or warn) your past self.

Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by exposure to acts of senseless violence.

Exulansis: The urge to give up trying to talk about an experience, because other people are unable to relate to it.

Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know another person.

Attriage: The state of having lost all control over how you feel about someone.

Wildred: The feeling of haunting solitude in extremely remote places.

Mudita: A feeling of joy at another person's good fortune.

Aulasy: The sadness that there’s no way to convey a powerful memory to people who weren’t there at the time.

Ioia: The wish that you could see statistics overlaid on every person you encounter, perhaps to check the strength of their compatibility, measure their trustworthiness, or even just know for certain how they’re really feeling.

Yeorie: A certain scent that has the power to sweep you back into memories of childhood.

Thrapt: Being awed at the impact someone has had on your life, feeling intimidated by how profoundly they helped shape your identity.

Dolonia: A state of unease prompted by people who seem to like you too much, which makes you wonder if they must have you confused with someone else — and feeling vaguely disappointed that they’re unwilling to spend the time it takes getting to know the real you.

Antiophobia: A fear experienced while leaving a loved one, wondering if this will turn out to be the last time you’ll ever see them, and whatever good-bye you tossed their way might have to serve as your final farewell.

Harmonoia: An itchy sense of dread when life feels just a hint too peaceful.

Dolorifuge: Something which brings about a feeling which banishes or mitigates grief.

Compunctious: Feeling remorse or regret, but wishing to avoid actually apologising.

Callosity: A lack of feeling or capacity for emotion.

Mimeomia: The frustration of knowing how easily you fit into a stereotype, even if you never intended to do so.

Pronoia: A strange, creeping feeling that everyone’s out to help you...

Awumbuk: A feeling of emptiness or heaviness after someone else departs.

[treason-and-plot]

OCs as OBSCURE ASSOCIATIONS

I was tagged again by @helenofsimblr, thank you very much! This time I chose Mia, because I miss her dearly.

ANIMAL: Dolphin

COLORS: Daffodil yellow

MONTH: Summer months

SONGS: Satisfaction- Benny Benassi

NUMBER: 69

PLANTS: Frangipani

SMELLS: Vanilla and bacon

GEMSTONE: 💎

TIME OF DAY: after midnight

SEASON: summer

PLACES: Mia can't wait to return to Paris and Pablo!

FOOD: anything loaded with salt and sugar, fat and carbs

DRINKS: sweet and fizzy

ELEMENT: air

ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Gemini

SEASONINGS: Vanilla extract

SKY: Cloudless

WEATHER: always sunny

MAGICAL POWER: can go all night

WEAPONS: her resilience and gift of the gab

SOCIAL MEDIA: Simstagram

MAKEUP PRODUCT: Cherry Chapstick

CANDY: Ferrero Rocher

METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: Plane (especially the Mile High Club)

ART STYLE: primitivism

FEAR: Raj and Cookie getting married

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: Mermaid

PIECE OF STATIONERY: Mia is insecure about her literacy and writing skills, or lack thereof, and stationery has negative connotations. So, none.

THREE EMOJIS: 😛🍒💋 

CELESTIAL BODY: Milky Way

I'll tag the last 5 gorgeous people in my notifs- @oasislandingresident @nectar-cellar @happy-lemon @nessysims and @mercury101!

[captorcorp]

fun behind the scenes posts from the dream machine facebook page i was browsing :3 (another katya interest internet deep dive bc i like a chance to ramble about my interests. for the video game the dream machine this time not the dream tech stuff i was looking at last time lol)

they post so many 'chapter planning stickynotes' pics but they're all too blurry to zoom in on and half of them aren't in english T-T some of them i can like. almost see words but barely. might look more in depth later to see if i can get anything lol

when i saw this i was like 'woah dream machine pronouns reveal????' (because this is meant to be the machine's human-frankenstein'd-form from ch5) but in retrospect i think they're doing the thing where people don't want to use singular they and are just using multiple for spoiler-free ambiguity 😔diversity loss

(i might keep it as a headcanon tbh. i mean its constructed body has one boob one flat breast in one of the design iterations, and both a phallus and a uterus from the diagram in-game; it can have new creative ways to be multigender :p)

the game and some of its development materials were featured in a video game art exhibit in 2015 :o can't get much detail from the sketches but can read the summary at least

the machine development progress album!!! i haven't seen this before on their other social medias so was excited to find some previous iterations of it - i found the commentary here really neat too, i noticed that its cables looked like spider legs earlier so it's nice to see that was intentional.

also in another image they mention that the red color is from an anti-rusting paint they found because they thought it'd be accurate to the setting which is a cool detail ^^ taking notes for if/when i make my own figures of the characters...

hell yeah we get more organic components lore >:3 there's potentially a whole brain in there... which i honestly am not that surprised about given the consciousness.

one of the concept arts that also has spinal columns mixed into the cords, that's where the one on the blueprint came from probably ^^ yayyy fleshware (i looked up what that meant and it wasn't what i thought it was so then i looked up what a machine with organic components would be and apparently it qualifies as a cyborg)

i didn't get screenshots of them and i'm worried facebook will explode my computer if i go back for them but they have like. so much development progress pics for some of the chapters?? mostly alicia's boat from ch3 (they had a bunch of pics of the lifeboat like 'oh haha we spent so much time on making this and never used it in her dream, what a shame' but then ended up using it in ch6 so lol)

but they also have like, inspo boards and such for some of the other dreams like edie's and martin's which is fun. i hope they post some of them elsewhere too...

also shame half the external links to like interviews and such no longer work because they're from a decade or longer ago </3

i'm assuming this is a development sketch on the right too(?) but they didn't elaborate in the post besides this being a google images screenshot, and then the facebook page started lagging/freezing too much to continue scrolling ^^;; felix morton has died badly. if they have any more of these 2d concept arts they should post them though

anyway. yippee new content :) very excited for the definitive edition still and anything new they put on patreon

(i just realized this is like 70% infodumping about the machine and then 30% of 'yeah they showed other characters too' at the end. spot katya's favorite character challenge hjkdfs)

OH WAIT i almost forgot. they linked this youtube video and i thought someone had already done my idea of explaining dream science using dream-based video games (an idea i was having but have barely started lol). but then it was just 5 minutes and focused more on emotional content in dreams and stuff and not most of the stuff i wanted to cover

[amicus-siderum]

I like to imagine that all playable characters in genshin are at least aware of eachother.

I don't care that they've never interacted in canon! I think it's really fun to make up an elaborate story linking two completely unrelated characters, and I think we should all do it.

Here are some off the top of my head:

Rosaria and Ningguang - Rosaria was going about her business, crossed the Liyue boarder accidentally and beat up a bunch of treasure hoarder ass. The Qixing has eyes everywhere, Ningguang calls her to the jade chamber, not to scold her though, but rather to express great interest in future dealings. They now have tea whenever Rosaria feels like strolling to Liyue again.

Kaeya and Itto - penpals. Kaeya sent a letter addressed to Diluc during his 4 year rampage, it got entirely misdelivered ended up in Inazuma. Itto found it and decided to open it to see who it was from and if it was important enough to try to get delivered. Wrote Kaeya a letter back, saying something like "wassup bud, just letting yk your bros letter didn't make it to him. The 1 and Oni Arataki Itto (das me) found it, opened it up 2 tell you I did :D Love, Itto, coolest oni you'll meet AND the boss and founder of the famous Arataki Gang (named after me) ps. Congrats on the promo to calvary captin... I definitely know what that is and it sounds cool but not as cool as the gang. Lmk if you want to join :)" And Kaeya wrote back, because why not. Now he's got contacts in Inazuma too and is an honorary member of the gang repping it in Mond.

Collei and Sara - Tighnari had business in Inazuma, took Collei with him as her carer and superior. While he was doing his thing, Collei got lost and walked up to the nearest authority figure who just so happened to be Kujo Sara. She helped Collei get to where she needed to be. It's a one time encounter.

I am getting carried away because they're honestly really fun. I can understand why people have rare pairs and shit, even though all of these are meant purely platonically.

[hey-heigo]

a/b/o as a trope annoys me sometimes. enough smut fics i wanna see that fool get a hyserectomy. go on beta hrt. go through boy menstruation and boy menopause

[geekcavepodcast]

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Xbox Developer Direct 2025 Trailer

Sandfall Interactive's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics set in a fantasy 19th century France. The members of Expedition 33 are on a quest to destroy the Paintress so that she cannot paint death again. Each playable character will reportedly have their own mechanics as well as the game having passive effects to equip on your character.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launches on April 24, 2025, and is available Day One on Game Pass.