#the normal records

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

[mike-wachowski]

reblog and tag ur answer so I can see please :)

[birdmenmanga]

I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

[neytui]

Been reading a fic where Hiccup is the prince of a kingdom and I wanted to give it a try to portrait him like one

Lol so I didn't know you can't reblog with a video so I'll just edit it, here u have a quick speedpaint of it

[mobius-m-mobius]

Tom on more of Owen's s2 improv (x)

[drbtinglecannon]

In Knives Out Blanc wanted to do the murder mystery investigation with Marta so bad, but she was certain she was guilty so she spent a good amount of the movie avoiding/hiding stuff from him

Meanwhile in Glass Onion Helen was fucking carrying the investigation, even while accidentally getting drunk, and even went to investigation lengths Blanc was hesitant to do

[arlo-parks]

boygenius - the film dir. Kristen Stewart

[yuviur]

All these things I've tried, boy, be cute be dumb be wise be young So don't tell me what to fear in the darkness of this atmosphere Dirty Imbecile | The happy Fits

[theminecraftbee]

so i have a youtube extension to sort my subscriptions into their own categories, and one of them is all the hermits i'm subscribed to. and i am only consistently actually watching iskall, tango, and cleo atm, but i am subscribed to all the hermits. which means i get to see their episode titles and thumbnails and try to guess what they're doing. all of which is to say: etho, what on earth is bamboo frog storage,

[vitospaghetta]

RESIDENT EVIL: DEATH ISLAND

"Yeah, well... it's a livin'."

[hydrachea]

Do you think god lives in fear of what they've created.

[anotherpapercut]

the abolitionism leaving my body when I think about trump dying in federal prison

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

snf sob... his favorite regular... wailing in the club rn

[sadquickchristmassnowman]

they’re……. right behind me, aren’t they ☝🏻🤨

[sermna]

recorded this one, so video later!

lady in the mirror.

[tyrannicalgiraffe]

Seb is absolutely the baby girl in this relationship 😤😤