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something I did a few months ago lol

My take on “I Was Lost Without You” by Sam Hulick, or better known as the romance theme for Mass Effect 3. This is really a beautiful piece of music. The score for all three games was amazing, but this is a personal favourite from the third game. All of the sounds are from Garageband, bare for the piano, which I played in studio earlier today. This version is a bit (slightly) different than the original, but it’s not bad for automated sounds, haha. The tempo is a bit quicker because I’m a bit of a fool and got excited. I can transcribe sheet music if you want a copy of this version, as I learned it by ear. All of this was done in one day. Listen with headphones.

Enjoy! :)

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…I’ve been going thru this guy’s twitter for the last hour

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Hey, Lara, do you ever go on any other expeditions? And if so, does Sam tag along?

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shameless reblog from the mainblog lol.

Chapter 4 updated to TAL(s). I am loving all the kudos and comments you guys are leaving on this story. Happy, fluffy stuff isn’t really my forté (if you haven’t already noticed) but this is so much fun to write because they deserve all the happiness and love in the entire world :3 

Lemme know if you have a prompt or any ideas for things you’d like to see in another one-shot potentially! Hope y’all are liking it thus far :)

Enjoy! :)

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requested by durinling

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Can I just talk about what an amazing character Kate Marsh is? Like, we see Christianity all the time on TV and in movies, right?  But it’s never actual Christianity, with the trappings and burdens of Christian culture.  It’s a priest at a wedding or a pastor at a funeral, a backstory, a childhood to run away from, dark things in the basement after service, or petty interpersonal politics at the coffee meetup.  TV Christianity has little to do with the actual experience of active Christian youth. And then there’s Kate Marsh in Life Is Strange. In a pretentious hipster art boarding school, she’s running around in a knee-length pencil skirt, a white button-up buttoned all the way up, and a navy cardigan.  Her long hair is swept up in a Toph Beifong level old-fashioned bun.  She wears a big cross and her primary hobbies are, on the surface, youth group and evangelism.  And all her “plainness,” which yes is a buzzword in her subculture, an ideal for both men and women, causes her to stand out.  It makes her a target.  And she’s what all Christian youth are taught to grow up to be.  We’re told the harassment makes us martyrs, and the fact that it was her first time at such a party where she got victimized is the exact kind of narrative we’ve been fed, that such is the punishment for even a single lapse of sin.  Just like how bogeymen will take you in the dark for staying up too late, it comes from a certain amount of truth but is taken to an extreme. And that’s how it really goes: humans don’t live to be martyred.  Kate wasn’t just embarrassed by the video or burdened by the bullies: she was terrified of her own home, her family and church community, because she didn’t want her video to replace M1028 when it’s time to convince the youth group to skip on the Halloween parties.  And because of the narrative of being strong martyrs and confessing your sins, Kate was expected to take it all on, alone.  They don’t mean to make you do it alone.  The adults always say they’re there for you, but it only takes one time for what you confide in secret to get out to ruin your reputation.  No one wants to be seen as impure. If you talk Kate down, in Episode 4 you see that she’s been surrounded by support.  It takes a suicide attempt to make that support happen, and it’s pathetic and disgusting and how things really work, but if it can make even just one person realize they can’t just pay lip service to the morality play of Kate’s life and truly be there for her, I guess it’s an outcome to accept and move on. And that’s what it’s really like: the pressure and that sense of awkwardness, that hovering at the edge and also still being just a teen, with t-shirts and pajama pants and doodles and pets.  And I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it outside a specially branded “Christian” product before.

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I swear Warren could burst into the dark room, kill Mr. Jefferson, save Max, bring Chloe back from the dead and then punch the tornado into space while still having time to find that one guy’s cat pictures and return them….and people on tumblr would still probably hate him

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And I’m already shittin’ kittens fearing for Max’ and Chloe’s safety and happiness.

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Chloe Price - being protective 

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Life is Strange details

I was replaying episode 4 to look for things I may have missed and I actually paid attention to the projector in Nathan’s room this time. Now, I may be wrong here since it’s been a while since I’ve watched it, but those look like stills from an actual movie, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”. If this is the case, it’s actually pretty brilliant. The movie is from 1920, and it’s about a hypnotist who hypnotizes a somnambulist into committing murders. The movie is typically seen as an attack on the wartime German government post World War I, with the hypnotist representing brutal authority and the somnambulist representing the common man who is conditioned to kill but is also a victim at the end. Another theme of the movie is insanity and the subjective perception of reality.

This ties in perfectly with what we now know of Nathan’s situation of being manipulated by his father and Mr Jefferson to participate in the horrific activities of the Dark Room. I thought it was a really great easter egg added by the developers. 

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Max: Chloe is my... friend.

Fandom: ... okay... that sounds fake but okay...

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A Life is Strange Theory on Chloe’s (Possibly Impending) Death and its Symbolism.

So I totally just wrote this in the tags of one of the posts I just reblogged, but what if the butterfly picture is the one Max has to rewind to? She burned the picture of her and Chloe as kids so that she wouldn’t go back to the time where she’d saved William, and there are no other selfies with her other than the one they’d taken in Chloe’s room after the midnight heist. Maybe, because she saw the outcome of saving William, she understood that Chloe will die either way, whether it be by bullet or illness, and she knows that the only way to save Kate, Victoria, possibly Rachel, and basically anyone else that comes in Jefferson and Nathan’s way, is to let Chloe die? Because if Chloe gets shot, then Nathan gets imprisoned and Jefferson no longer has a scapegoat. Nathan’s mental health is an obvious shield that he can use and exploit to cover his tracks. Maybe, Max can find the body of Rachel and then link it to the police, and maybe there’s some evidence there (like DNA or something) that links to Jefferson, or maybe David Madsen has some dirt on the teacher, too with his constant surveillence.

Perhaps even Rachel Amber had powers like Max, and that was why the doe was a constant recurring image and theme during the game. There’s still the theory that Max is Rachel but from a different reality - a reality in which she’d failed at unveiling the truth behind Jefferson maybe? That could explain why on Max’s shirt at the start of the first two episodes, she had a deer on the chest and why in the third episode, she wore Rachel’s clothes? It could be her alternate persona or a deceased Rachel warning her of what’s to come.

It seems a bit far fetched and all, but I can’t help the nagging feeling that Chloe is meant to die, and that the whole “alternate reality” thing was just proof to Max that she can’t change Chloe’s destiny (as she repeats this several times during the episode) as well as her own. With Chloe’s death, the Prescott’s influence on everything would be destroyed and the girls who follow would be saved from Jefferson’s wrath. I’m curious to know what brought it on, though. I remember overhearing the phone call in episode two and listening to how tense he had been during the call, like as if he were in trouble (this is what spited me to believe that he was the real culprit behind this, not Nathan).  

The only thing that remains is the storm.

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Life Is Strange Episode 4 Summed Up

Max: im in love with like 5 people at the same time

Chloe: gun

Victoria: i fucked up im sorry everyone

Rachel: ded

Warren: FITE ME

Kate: i am still a innocence cinnamon roll too pure for this world

Frank: I AM SUCH DOG TRASH K

Nathan: FUCK SHIT BALLS IM CALLING MY DAD

Mark Jefferson: that's what you get for not submitting your photo bitch

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Everyone has pain. It’s not black and white. 

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Finally finished Dark Room.

I knew it was Jefferson. I bet he probably killed Nathan, too. Also, that ending was so tense. Chloe dying twice in one episode is actually the worst.

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Dark Room.

I am literally a sobbing mess. I hate this game. I can't handle this anymore. I even killed Chloe before rewinding back in time. I can't do this. Fuck, man.

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I'm five minutes into Dark Room and I'm already sobbing my face off.