#third circle

[izzywhisker]

hahahahahaha.........

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LOOK AT THEM LOOK AT THEM THEY LOOK REAL THEY LOOK REAL!!!!!!!!

THEY LOOK MORE REAL THAN I COULD EVER MAKE THEM IN THE SIMS

OH HEROFORGE

DEAREST HEROFORGE

WONDERFUL @madangel19 FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTENTION

LOOK AT THE BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOOK AT THE DETAIL IN THEIR STUPID FACES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU CAN FREAKING CHANGE THEIR FACIAL EXPRESSIONS!!!!!!!

The ONLY downside is they didn't have bunny ears for traebit so i had to give him pink horns instead.

also, anyone who's interested can get their butts over to HeroForge.com to make characters to scream about.

Also tagging members of the toliki and/or traebit fanclub who are busy and might miss the post.

@akabendyfan @tommy-thomas

[mask131]

Dante’s Inferno (game): Gluttony

After the purple of Lust, the red of Gluttony: the third circle of Hell.

Gluttony, in Dante’s original poem, was just mud and rain. Lots of rain. Lots and lots of rain. But you can expect that something coming from the mind of Barlowe will go one step further. So, the third circle of Hell in the video game “Dante’s Inferno” is all about digestion. Literaly.

What best to depict the realm of Gluttony than making the landscape a literal digestive system? There are rains and puddles here, yes - rains and puddles of stomach acid. The ground you walk on, and the walls you climb on? They’re muscles and stomach lining. The mud? It’s feces. And regularly you will have lovely organs ornating the place, and trying to kill you - from mouths that try to bite you, to anuses that blow fire in attempt of burning you... It is a level of intestines and fat and stomachs, it is a visceral hell, quite literaly, “the bowels of the Beast” as the design team put it. 

This process of depicting food and the act of eating in its more organic, grotesque and repulsive side reaches its culminations with the main “ennemies” of this circle, the Gluttons, damned souls that indulged in their vice even in the afterlife, becoming disfigured monsters of corruptions. These Gluttons are obese and bloated creatures who spend their time constantly eating, and rejecting what they eat. They eat everything and everyone they can find - they eat so much their eyes and ears were shrunken in size to allow their maw to take more place on their face, and instead of hands they have jaws that bites and tongues that lick. And what I mean by “rejecting” is: vomiting and defecating. This is something the Gluttons regularly do, as a reflection of their constant and excessive eating, and they even use it as an attack, burying their victims under toxic feces and acidic vomit. You cannot do something more revolting than that. The other antagonists of the circle are giant worms that suddenly burst out of the muddy ground to devour the player if they’re not careful. 

There is one exception to this entire circle - a break from the “body” world to enter the “mind”. It is actually a trap that Satan designed and placed specifically to capture Dante - a pocket dimension inside the Circle, called the “Hall of the Gluttons” (because at its centers the Gluttons feast on damned souls). This level is one of grey stone and grey mist, clashing with the red viscerality of the Gluttony circle - it is actually a geometrical puzzle, a cubic structure of doorways and staircases, each with its own gravity, a clear homage to an Escher painting - here applied so that only a maddening logic could help you escape. The designers did call it a “mind trip”, and it is actually quite nice that they decided to break the “unity” of the Circle’s theme by brinking this one little tidbit of purely mental and geometrical puzzle-game, so as not to be overrun with gore. 

The final boss of this circle is, of course, Cerberus himself, the “great worm”... literaly. Cerberus design is another proof of Barlowe’s genius. He took the three-headed dog idea, he took the denomination “great worm” from the original poem, and he sparkled it all/fused it with the aesthetic of Hell as painted by Bosch and the absurd hellish pictures of Bruegel. The result? A grotesque, pale, humanoid head walking on two arms - with nothing else for a body. And when it open its mouth, a monstrous, giant, three-headed tapeworm spills forward, each head covered in jaws but without any eyes, snapping blindly at everything around it... You can’t make more Bosch-nightmare than that. 

[sopuu]

back to my undertale roots

[hinamie]

shows up a day early with a nobara birthday tribute

[aestheticallynotdeerlightful]

I was gonna wait and post these till I had more doodles but I’ll just post them now it’s fine. I’ll just explain stuff in the tags as per usual

Some Raz poses and some Dion and Adam stuff

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(Please do not use or repost my works anywhere without explicit permission from me thank you)

[itscherryterry-again]

you better get to your knees (and bark like you want it)

[donutdrawsthings]

I need to see how you draw the third doctor looks like pleeeeeease! He’s my favorite!

I offer you this doodle of him and Jo Grant🤲

[ginerva-mollyweasley]

i do love how the circle is basically three love triangles + hodge

[witchofthemidlands]

need a ten minute montage of frank returning & decimating every corrupt cop in nyc then beating fisk with their remains <3

[ask-spiderpool]

Dear mod. I just wanted to ask how you're doing atm? Are you eating good food and sleeping well?

Oh bless you, anon! Regrettably, neither of those things, no. My appetite has been very poor since my surgery, and I'm more than a little sleep deprived with all the jobs I'm juggling at the moment - buuut... I'm alive. My head is good. My work is good. Always manage to make everyone happy, oh, yes sir, but can't wait to pass out for a whole day and then hang out with some friends. It'll heal me.

[queeniehostapasta]

ahaha look at these dummies guys like get outta here (jokingly)

[izzywhisker]

found tony hawk game that i hadn't played for years.

made toliki.

regretted making toliki.

[kurogoesinthedas]

“Is it really you?” “You need to stop asking me that”

the changeling angst is always good :3c (Lyria/Lys is @anna-draws-stuff)

[feyrescourt]

Never trust a bitch who doesn’t like acofas.

[cyanistes-caeruleus]

have severely slacked re:posting - term happened. it was a lot. finished up my last supervision essay of term this morning. since my last post i've nailed down three chapters of my dissertation. nine essays + a dissertation in an eight week term isn't for the week. hence my absolutely pathetic posting consistency

fingers crossed i'll have more time for tumblr-ing over the easter break. term ends on thursday, i go home on saturday. there is indeed a light at the end of the tunnel! yippee!

[thedubiousdallon]

God damnit have another half-baked cluster fic idea. Taylor gets shoved into the locker and something happens to immediately exact karmic retribution on the trio. Maybe someone from E88 has beef with Sophia and decides to go for her out of costume, maybe some unrelated cape violence trashes the school as collateral damage, I don't know, just something incredibly dangerous and traumatic happens that catches the trio up while Taylor is still in the locker, and you've got a brand new cluster - Taylor, Emma, Madison, but decidedly not Sophia, because she already got her powers. So, so many ways that the existing dynamic between the four of them could be flipped on its head.