#rorsarch

[mrgladstonegander]

hes gonna rotate him so hard that he gives up his luck himself

[stary-night]

I'm supposed to be working on a d&d character but I made the mistake of listening to Pandora shuffle and I heard "I'm Your Moon" by Jonathan Colton and it made me feel super nostalgic for like freshman year of highschool and now I'm vibing to Mandelbrot Set

[solace-seekers]

playing smash or pass with everything inanimate in a haunted house >>>>>>>

[tsekui]

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am I permanently horny or does it look like a page of the karma sutra

[astralleywright]

i do think its interesting to point out how Ashton physically hauling Orym and Fearne away from the fight reflects a continuing theme with the Hells, of them trying to balance respecting individual autonomy with preventing their friends from engaging in terrible self-destructive behavior. that's a very difficult subject to navigate in real life among people who love you and may even be trained to handle this kind of thing in some regard, so of course discussion of it in fandom often feels like its lacking nuance, or like a bit of a rorsarch test for someone's personal opinions and hangups regarding particular characters, relationships, or behaviors.

but with all that being said, i feel like if any instance of subverting someone's personal desires in the interest of keeping them from harm would be considered acceptable, it's "dragging your friend away from the bar fight against their expressed wish to continue fighting people at the bar"

[caleblandrybones]

Just watched the Passenger and I'm gonna be real with you king I wish I only knew the version of this movie I absorbed from your posts about it. I related to Benson in that I've been in an uncomfortably similar situation with a 'friend' like that for a while but otherwise I feel like I just managed to fail a Rorsarch test. I wish I saw what you did I really do

this made me so sad. anon I'm sorry I can't imagine living like this 😔

[ilovedirt]

you ever see a shape on a surface and fail a rorsarch test badly

[bhaalsdeepbat]

Sirens who lure people because they like to hoard, keep, and treasure objects of their desire. Their yearning song lamenting the subject of their desire, their eyes rorsarched in dark pigment until their eyes - the windows to their souls - are completely blacked out. Sirens snatching a mortal and dragging them leagues below dark waters, where the sun's rays can no longer reach, to their little treasure cove, where they store the bodies among their trinkets, decorating their corpses like dolls. Sirens trapping the souls of those they desire in their little menagerie of pretty things while they hunt for more, never satisfied with their hoard.

[professor-doc-emeritus]

so I know after watchmen came out there was then a massive slew of other "deconstructions" or "genre critical" comics or just plain edgy stuff. i know you generally prefer the more optimist played straight stuff, but is there anything of that sort of thing that you really like?

There's a couple of directions you can go with this ask, so I'll give you an answer for each

if you're just looking for my personal favorite meta take on superheroes, you wanna check out flex mentallo

a fictional superhero imagined by a dying kid brought to life, this mini series by Morrison follows Flex's quest to solve the mystery of the death of his fellow fictional superhero The Fact. Morrison is one of the greatest comics writer alive, and this is their definitive statement on the genre, a deep and intimate look at how the platonic superheros of your childhood deal with a world of death, sex, and suicide. Dark, funny, meta, and mercifully short, if you read nothing else I recommend you read this. You'll finish it in an hour and think about it for the rest of your life.

If you want something less so meta and more so just a really well written and gritty 80s comic, check out denny o'neil and deny's cowan's run on The Question

This run follows the physical, psychological, and spiritual journey of journalist and vigilante Vic Sage as he struggles to bring justice to the deeply corrupt Hub City. It features a much more zen and spiritual take on the classic ditko character, and has a lot of great appearances from some underappreciated members of DC's stable. This run in particular is a must read for fans of Watchmen imo. It features the character that inspired Rorsarch, and actually has a few tongue in cheek references to him during the run. More than anything though, you should read it because it understands something most of Watchmen's successors didn't: Watchmen wasn't great because it was dark and gritty, it was great because it was a smartly written story with something interesting to say, and so is this run. If you've got some pocket change to spare, pick up the omnibuses that released last year. They published the absolutely essential letters columns that most digital uploads of the run neglect, wherein denny hosts a mini book club about the literature that inspired the run.

If you want a meta superhero story that's actually about watchmen, check out 2019's Peter Cannon Thunderbolt

Peter Cannon was a Charelston character that never really found a home. A medical man and captain of industry imbued with ancient tribal knowledge that gives him the powers of the supernatural, he served as the inspiration for Ozymandias. This story is explicitly and unsubtly addressing and rebuking Watchmen: the core conceit of the story is the original peter cannon confronting a universe-hopping ozymandias (for legal reasons her another Peter Cannon) constantly re-enacting his final plan from Watchmen on different universes until it works. Though not as much a visual force compared to the others on this list, what it lacks in raw technical skill it more than makes up for in creativity and enthusiasm. In order to rebuke a work you have to understand it, and ironically this explicit refutation of Watchmen still understands and respects it better than most of it's direct heirs by being about something. Though at times a bit too meta for it's own good, if you care about comics this is one you absolutely have to read

If you just want to kick back and watch Alan Moore twist the nipples off the genre in another work, I highly recommend checking out his work on superman

everyone and their mom has read, or at least been recommended, For the Man Who Has Everything and Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, but not as many people know about Moore's third (and my personal favorite) outing with the man of steel: DC Comics Presents #85. A short team up (in the loosest sense of the word) between Superman and Swamp Thing, this story more than any other strips away the layers of myth and baggage around superman and exposes the raw psychological core beneath it. Very short, very simple, and probably not as good as his mircaleman run, but i have the benefit of having read this one so I can actually vouch for it's quality.

Finally, as you mentioned earlier, I tend to like reading more straightforward and optimistic stuff, especially when it comes to my capeshit. While some of the stories I've recommended here get quite dark, nothing really reaches the point of being 'edgy.' I haven't read, and thus can't recommend, the primo edgy content such as Preacher or The Authority (though I've heard good things!). But there is one mindlessly dark and edgy comic that I just can't help loving to death: the ever classic Marvel zombies

A beautiful example of a story that is exactly what it says on the tin: The marvel universe overrun by zombies. The only really original part of its take on the zombies is also the thing that makes it so much damn fun: they're all still intelligent, and basically themselves from before they turned, just with an insatiable and uncontrollable hunger for flesh. Gorey art, pitch black humor, and a lot of genuinely interesting and compelling story arcs you really couldn't do anywhere else, there's been about a trillion followups to it but I still love the original the best. It's not smart, it's not meta, it's not even a particularly good zombie apocalypse story, but it's fun, dammit, and that's a fair bit more than what most of the drivel that passes for good literature these days can say. best read when you're 12 years old and up way past your bedtime

[imeverywoman420]

I realized i actually do have an art style or Thing i always just say i paint random colors mixed together for fun and im not an artistic person or painter guy but my paintings are all very consistent theyre like colorful jewel toned rorsarch blots

[awakenedmaiden]

Of course. The reality is that the predictive ability of Rorsarch tests (just with many other projective tests) is something of debate. With research to support its capabilities but either research to suggest its pseudoscientific.

I, however, just think they're fun.

[plaguedoctorflashwing]

so basically

I was talking to a friend and made them take the femboy rorsarch test thar i made up on the spot. then i made a server. now theres lore? now its a proffessional server? HELP ME????

i included the link for anyone interested. (mostly for any mutuals that actually remember me)

[coquettedragoon]

even though im still unsure if i like or dislike the story yet, the couple times i did send asks about the characters you were like "are you reading my mind? you know them." so maybe these characters live in my head rent-free more than i'd even like to admit. i was tsundere for them... honey best girl tho idk why everyone says it's bell

theyre inside your walls oomfie...

bell and honey compliment eachother and are both best girl i think which one you like/identify with more is a rorsarch test

[pigeoninabowl]

I took a Rorsarch online test (or how my friend Diego pronounces it: rosca) for the funsies and the reference. I'm relatively healthy but "with some of the awnsers being peculiar...But nothing's wrong about having imagination!"

What the FUCK does that mean

[matt-eldritch]

I’m trying to get serious about colouring artwork and I’ve picked out about a dozen black and white comic pages to try colouring. I went with a darkish blue hue to suggest that Rorsarch is breaking into to somewhere in the dead of night and a grunge texture to make the place he’s breaking into a dark, grimy and seedy place.  Originally drawn and inked by Gary Frank for the DC Comics’ series “Doomsday Clock”, I don’t own the image. 

[c-o-n-f-l-u-x]

Church (2020) from Everything is Real #rorsarch #illusion #reflective #symmetry #photographytheory #truthclaim #smokeandmirrors #faith https://www.instagram.com/p/CCYc8mZn59I/?igshid=1u5j039nclwxr