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FINISHED THE BETA KID ICONS TODAY!!! theyre all free to use so go wild!!
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#alan wake ii#alan wake#control#remedyverse#this is so me (but not really bc I prefer indie bookstores)
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✨ tag yourself ✨ but with Aegean Scripts! Mainly Bronze Age, with a sprinkle of Iron Age (Cypriot Syllabary).
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The long awaited favourite albums of Homestuck characters: part 2. Now with Pesterquest sprites, alpha kids, and five albums per character. Maybe next year I'll have 10 albums per character (no the hell I won't)
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This story is a monster. And monsters wear many faces.
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A big thanks to you and your team for making Pentiment, it's an amazing game and it'll be with me for a long time I think, especially the personal and emotional character writing.
I'm curious about what was the inspiration behind, and creative motivation for including, the motif of the labyrinth. The church's painting of the Virgin Mary with the labyrinth seems striking in particular, especially because I don't remember ever coming across a strong association with labyrinths in Christian imagery.
Thank you. I'm glad it was so impactful.
Labyrinths have a long association with Christianity going back to the 4th century, when one was placed in a cathedral in Chlef (now in Algeria). This is known as the St. Reparata or St. Reparatus Labyrinth.
The Chartres Labyrinth was built around 1200.
Christian labyrinths are meant to be walked while contemplating. The path twists and turns, but there is only one way to go. They also all clearly take inspiration from labyrinths of the classical world even if their purpose and origins are effectively lost to those who see them.
As Beatrice says to Andreas (paraphrased), the foundations of our memories become buried and invisible. And she is paraphrasing and abbreviating Plato speaking to Solon in Timaeus,
whatever happened either in your country or in ours, or in any other region of which we are informed-if there were any actions noble or great or in any other way remarkable, they have all been written down by us of old, and are preserved in our temples. Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves. As for those genealogies of yours which you just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no better than the tales of children. In the first place you remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones;
I also wanted the association with the labyrinth from The Name of the Rose, which in turn was inspired by the Reims Labyrinth.
The Reims Labyrinth was constructed in the late 13th century but was destroyed in the 18th century by superstitious priests. It was through the discovery of drawings that modern scholars were able to recreate and project the path of the labyrinth onto the cathedral floor.
The cover of the 1st Italian edition (and therefore, first edition overall) of Il Nome della Rosa prominently incorporated the drawing of the Reims Labyrinth.
Note the map of the Aedificium:
The final lines of The Name of the Rose are:
Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
The original rose remains only in name, we hold those names stripped.
This refers to a specific object in the story, but more broadly symbolizes historical records, art objects, and other artifacts lost to time. The Reims Labyrinth remains only in drawings, stories, and light projected on the ground where it once stood; the labyrinth itself was destroyed.
Nomen est; res non est. - The name exists; the thing does not.
As a side note, France uses the Reims Labyrinth as its symbol for historical monuments - an important reminder of how fragile their existence can be.
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maybe the best promotional email i’ve ever received
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i do wish the game awards spent more time celebrating all the games that came out this year instead of focusing so much on next year. in its current state it feels like any game that doesn't win just gets pushed to the side like junk. but i think the reason for this is companies know you won't want to buy what they release next year if you're too busy playing all the great games that came out this year. focusing more on trailers distracts viewers from all the great stuff that they already have to keep them on the hamster wheel of consumption.
#the game awards#tga#tga 2023#game awards thoughts#and all the other great games that didn't get time to shine
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just a game awards observation. i've seen a lot of BG3 fans pissing on TOTK after BG3 won and talking about how Zelda fans are probably seething. but the zelda communities ive interacted with haven't really seemed to be salty at all and commend BG3 for winning. idk why ive seen a lot of bg fans create an enemy out of zelda fans that doesn't exist.
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I had the great pleasure of designing/animating a bunch of 3D stuff for the last two episodes of Fionna and Cake! It was a joy to work with this low-poly adventure game style. Hope you all enjoyed this great show!!
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he made me breathe funny.
prints + merch + commission info
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statistically likely to be trying to stay hydrated (but not that hydrated)
no one is mad at me
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