#they edited the og post and added this but it didn't show up in reblogs

[finally-figured-it-out]

On this post I am putting my longest and most banger tags

[ghoooooooooooooooost]

i only shared it w a friend before but can i tell you all my death mark 2 au/rewrite... here (spoilers obvi, also body horror + insects warning)

(edited so theres more details smile)

most things r the same except for the departed (and no naked girl cgs OFCOURSE)

making it so that the departed pretends to be daimon instead of the two high school girls

normal daimon is around but he’ll gradually get sick n every now n then something weeeeird happens (as in yashiki accidentally talks to fake daimon. also maybe you see the weird bug ghost that hovers above everyone near endgame with him first)

crowbar scene happens w fake daimon while real daimon is actually passed out somewhere. mashita comforts yashiki n then they both realize its a fake

(that's what these doodles were referencing)

my dearest friend chip suggested the departed could also be konoe so n that would make sense n make him more present in the plot so byeah

we both agreed that they didn't push the bug + mold horror theme far enough so i tried my hand at it. mold can be really gross irl ewwww

my design for departed daimon is actually toned down from the og tho, just bc i thought the weird spider face was more goofy than scary. personally bugs are scary to me when they're crawling on you n burrowing into your skin n making holes n laying eggs in there - like the bees in death mark 1. there was some real-stories tv show abt that specific thing happening that aired when i was a kid n it freaked me out a lot

why was hime's mold just ourple swirls boooriiiiiiiiiiiing

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edit july 15th 2024 adding this into the main og post since wonderful chippard linked it (basically a neater rewrite of everything i just said + what i said in the reblog addition. i rewrote it for a solo zine hence the proper capitalization lol)

Instead of Himeko and Michiho being The Departed, it’s Daimon and Konoe. Normal Daimon is still there but every now and then he’ll start acting strange or feeling sick due to The Departed’s possession. The “love” aspect would be shown through Daimon specifically too so Doctor Duo ship is canon in this. Konoe basically uses Daimon to try to get to his Dear Husband. In place of going into a coma like in the original, his behavior intensifies and condition worsens until he suddenly runs to the bathroom. When he comes back… dun dun dun… that’s The Departed – Yashiki doesn’t know…! Crowbar scene ensues. But!? After Yashiki tells Mashita, they see Daimon perfectly alive in the infirmary. Yasuoka found him collapsed in the hallway at some point.

The plot would play out basically the same with some changes (no fanservice girl cgs; more Konoe screen-time; Michiho + Himeko act differently; Saki or Abe partner? more school-related ghosts...).

Maybe the game could be longer to give the new characters more time to shine while not removing the returning ones. Not sure how that would work exactly… One possible solution would be to have day segments where we get to play as Yashiki while he's actively teaching (which would also address the "why'd they even pick a school setting" problem bc damn they barely did any school specific plot shit outside of Hanako & Kashima). Would be awesome and in-line with how the first game brought up war if they kept addressing problems with the education system. Also I think I wouldn’t have any unavoidable human casualties after Hanako’s chapter? All the unavoidable deaths made my friends confused about if they were doing something wrong or not and it honestly felt off to me too. It would be compelling if after failing to protect the first student(s), Yashiki actually successfully protects the rest of them in the good route. Making him feel like he’s become more steadfast after the first game and staying true to his word. Especially if Naomi survives in my opinion - ‘she almost dies but is spared if you make the right choices’ or something like that. She could even be in the room when Yashiki sings the school song.

Not sure how I'd make The Departed feel even more connected to the school... Maybe there's a romantic superstition popular among the students that's based off their "wedding ceremony" -- but it's innocent enough to not give away how they died.

[grvmpysunshine]

So I updated some tags yesterday and somehow broke a post? I wanted to separate my old edits from my new stuff, but then one of my posts disappeared from my tags all together. I panicked for like 20 minutes before I found it through the mass editor, so I didn't accidentally delete it, but it does not show up when I click my mine or gifs tag links at all.

I've tried everything from removing all the tags and slowly adding them back to erasing the caption. No matter what I try it does not show up on my blogs tags, BUT when I checked on mobile the original post shows up there.

I ended up reblogging it and re-adding my tags to see what happens, the reblogged version now shows up on my tags, but ONLY the reblogged version. On mobile both the reblog and OG post show up. Whyyyyy?? 🥴

[artikgato]

I posted 2,877 times in 2021

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2817 posts reblogged (98%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 47.0 posts.

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#will atlus make sutble hints at souyo being canon that only us diehards will actually pick up on

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

It's Pokémon Day, and to celebrate I wrote a Souyo Pokémon AU!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29739258

It's SFW, aside from a little bit of cursing. Enjoy~

10 notes • Posted 2021-02-27 18:32:21 GMT

#4

14 notes • Posted 2021-01-01 05:49:01 GMT

#3

Don't buy Harvest Moon games people and also do your damn research

Video games journalist that has done 0 research: (describes the plot of every single farming game that isn't Farming Simulator 6000 or whatever) Oh hey that sounds familiar *wink* like Stardew Valley or Harvest Moon right? Me: Yeah, gee, I wonder why that is, I sure do wonder, and I sure do hope this journalist isn't implying that Story of Seasons is ripping those titles off because if they had bothered to do LITERALLY ANY RESEARCH- YES they all start out with a city dweller inheriting their Grandfather's farm, that's how it's been from the OG Bokujou Monogatari on the SNES, because any time Marvelous tried anything different the fans complained or the game didn't sell well. YES they all have romanceable NPCs and marriage because the one or two times they DIDN'T the fans complained and the game didn't sell well. YES of COURSE they all have crops and animals and cooking, why wouldn't they?! What is the point in going "oh wow these games sure are all the same hurr durr" that's the POINT you TROGDOLYTE JOURNALIST. Would you wink wink nudge nudge if another Halo game came out and WHAT A SURPRISE IT HAS SHOOTING IN IT? Would you be surprised if another expansion of Minecraft had SQUARE THINGS in it?! Would you go "oh hey look more adorable monsters to catch" if the next Pokemon game had MORE POKEMON IN IT?! Hi, my name is Arti and apparently I get very angry about small, insignificant things like this. Don't fucking give Natsume any more money, they stole the Harvest Moon name and put out shitty games every year as cash grabs and now people don't take localized Bokujou Monogatari games seriously any more.

Anyway I'm gonna go play my premium edition of Olive Town now

28 notes • Posted 2021-03-28 13:52:12 GMT

#2

I like the fact that you can play as a boy or a girl

New professor is hot

200+ Pokemon is a pretty good number, even if it’s less than ¼ of the total number of Pokemon in the franchise… maybe they’ll add more as updates or expansions?

The scenery in this game looks amazing, and the thing I like most about it is that they didn’t go for a real-world hyper realistic look, but very much a Pokemon world hyper realistic look (if that makes any sense at all)

If they put out this trailer now, what in the world are they going to be showing off on Pokemon Day in February?!

Also, Meganium is much bigger than I thought

39 notes • Posted 2021-01-14 15:39:07 GMT

#1

I love the 2020 Graffarts P4 merch, but the weird smirk on Yosuke's face in this one always kind of bugged me. I know it's just supposed to be him smiling a big smile because he's hugging his bro, but the grin is crooked in a way that makes him look kind of psychotic, so I decided I wanted to tweak it just a little. And I added extra blushes because of course I did. Anyway, disclaimer that this is obviously not my art, all I did was spend like 5 minutes in photoshop on it lol. Feel free to use with or without credit.

84 notes • Posted 2021-02-09 19:30:31 GMT

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