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Ok guys here are my Ghovie crack theories:

Theory #1 : Seestor Imperator makes the hard sacrifice and lets Popia die so Papa Emeritus Nihil can be resurrected with his youthful looks and charisma returned to once again frontman Ghost. She still won't fuck him tho.

Theory #2 : Popia for some reason goes on a time travel journey and somehow writes himself out of the timeline and Papa Emeritus III becomes Papa again but it's hinted Copia still exists somewhere in the secular world like the sword of Damocles waiting to be Papa-ed again.

Side theories/wishes

-it’s revealed the clergy is 95% sisters of sin who endlessly get bored and crave for the newest hottest youngest emeritus they could squeeze into little outfits.

-I kinda like the idea of Copia being evil, I want Terzo to kinda suck, Secondo to be super pathetic and Primo…idk but I just want bad men.

-they don’t confirm/explain who or what the Nameless Ghouls are.

-it’s a pretty common theory but I don’t see the clergy doing him in as long as imperator is alive so I hope he gets eaten by the Ghouls.

-Seestor is a stage mom who just wants the world to see what she sees in her ratty boy.

#ghost the band #rite here rite now #papa emeritus iv #ghost

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umbrella prompt from @eeriedragone I love that scene so much

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oh nooo my avast free trial expired im sooo vulnerable right now

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My crack ship is Papa is the man Lana Del Rey is always singing about.

#ghost bc #ghost the band #papa emeritus #lana del rey

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#ghosttheband #the band ghost #ghost #cardinal copia #papa emeritus iv #being a new ghost fan is like #I’m going to have a break down

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More unprompted ghosts memes

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#disco elysium #harry dubois #kim kitsuragi

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something that haunts me is when i was working in gamestop n a middle aged man like someone's dad was buying disco elysium and i was like tbh i haven't seen anything about this but it looks like a chill game!! and he bought it. went home and played it. and i've never seen him again. absolutely haunting

#I mean I consider #disco elysium #a comedy #but the opening scene is really #oof

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hahaha, at the risk of actually starting discourse, a big reason I'm not so active in the Destiny community anymore is because of emblem crazed artists.

For context I "go into" the Destiny community a little before Covid, back then winning the artist emblem was really rare. They would retweet someone whenever the social media manager felt like it or during a holiday. Some people (and by people I mean like, 8) complained and instead of retweeting an artist once in a blue moon, they would give out two emblems once a week and shout you out at the very bottom of a TWAB. Early into the program there were a lot of people who were really sore about not having the emblem.

I saw tweets from people mad they haven't won the *current* artist emblem when they already have previous ones. There was an influencer who was tweeting @ Bungie about how his girlfriend deserved an emblem and wondering who she offended, politically, to have never received one. I've seen at least 3 people have Twitter mental meltdowns about not winning it. One person said it's the source of their depression. People complained about artists who won multiple times. One person complained about people winning it with old art. One person tried to commission an artist to win the emblem for them. People advising people to post on a Thursday because they observed most people who won were posting on Thursday so this must be the day the social media team is looking for AOTWs. Mysteriously, now that most people active in the Destiny Twitter Fan Art Sphere have it and Destiny playership is in decline, I haven't seen as much people posting their deranged parasocial feelings. Some have stopped playing Destiny, some stopped doing art entirely. I like to think after finally winning the emblem they realized they were being intensely childish.

My feelings are, the art emblem and community features is a fun and a cute thing the marketing team does to engage with the community and thank streamers, artists, and other content creators. Winning the emblem is nice, being featured is nice, being in the Bungie Store is $$$cash money$$$bungie please call me$$$, but it's super cringe to crave a corporation's validation.

Reblog if you vote or it doesn't work :)

#accidentally deleted my last reblog #niche fandom behaviour #that not only people outside the fandom would not understand #but most people who play destiny have no idea this emblem exists! #seriously people who treat not winning as a source of existential dread need to re-evaluate their life goals #destiny 2 #rant I've been holding in for 3 years

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Has this been done yet.

#make dominated work places in general rly

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At the end of Disco Elysium if you try to recruit Kim to come work with you at the 41st he initially misunderstands the question and blows you off. Did you know that if you back down at that point Jean will cut in and explain your intent for you?

However much Harry has changed since destroying his memory Jean still understands him. And however angry Jean is with him he still immediately steps in to make sure Harry isn't misunderstood.

#disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #jean vicquemare #Idk I kinda interpret Jeans way of speak to and about Kim as him being professionally/amicably/Gayly? thirsting for Kim

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"A warning"

I wonder what they're saying o.o

I only have a vague idea of what the actual words would be, and i didn't really plan the speech bubbles for actual text (they're more of a visual thing).

Have some random close ups with shitposty texts

Matching profile pics for you and your worstie

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Oui le monde change, ça te dérange

C'est les mélanges un peu étranges

Ça ira, ça ira

Y'avait un avant

Et y'a un present

C'est différent

Mais aime le autant

(Ça ira ça ira, The Pirouettes)

Lyric translation below cut:

In difficult times

Yes, the world is changing, it bothers you

It's the mixtures that are a bit strange

It's alright, it's alright

There was before

And there's the present

It's different

But love it as much

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I'm obsessed with how Shivers will outright tell you that the anodic music kids will fail. I think this implies that, even if you build up the club, nobody will ever visit it.

I think this was one of the times in Disco Elysium that I really... got it. After reading this, I decided to tell the kids to scram. They wouldn't succeed anyways. It felt terrible. I reloaded my save; I couldn't stand to do anything else. Just because hope, beauty, or love are temporary, does that make them any less valuable? Just because you know something will be snuffed out doesn't mean you shouldn't try. That hope and love is valuable for its own sake.

At the time, I was going through a severe depressive episode. I was moving out in six months before moving cross country, so why should I bother investing into my environment? I had this old fish tank I'd poured effort into, once. Got some new fancy aquasoil that would be great for my plants, but it needed time sitting underwater. I left it like that for… oh, months. This damaged, empty, sad little thing that I had once loved immensely.

But building that nightclub with those kids made me change my behavior. I got myself a $6 betta fish, shoplifted some plants from petco, and built my tank up again. Even knowing I'd need to break it apart. So what if it ends? So what if the dance club never becomes popular? You build something and dance with your community, even if your dream fails. Even if it ends. There was love there.

And I think that's one of the things Disco Elysium is about. The kids and their nightclub is a microcosm of the knowledge that the pale is enroaching on Insulinde and the rest of the world. There is a literal, tiny, hole in the world inside of that church. The hole is another reminder of entropy, of the End. And all of this takes place in an edifice of a centuries-old regime and a religion of maintaining the status quo. A religion of broken glass and broken promises. But you take those shards and build on top of them, transforming their meaning. You grow, you build, instead of apathetically letting things remain the same. You find hope and beauty and love even though you know it's unsustainable.

Because the 'now' is valuable in itself. And I love that about this game.

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I’ll reveal myself as a Measurehead liker if you guys lay off the Jean Vic likers

Another JV apologist LMAO you guys are so toxic I can’t.

Oh I’m toxic because I’m stupid, nothing to do with me being a JV enjoyer

#disco elysium #jean vicquemare #measurehead

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in 2026 there will be a social media site where every post is generated by an algorithm. you dont even need to post you just scroll and like and share as the ultimate form of doomscrolling

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I've seen a couple of takes about Disco Elysium being copaganda going around recently, and beyond the fact that DE is relentlessly critical of the police force in general and makes explicit reference to the failures of the system that allow the officers in game to abuse their power, I also think it's important to note that there very literally is an in-world version of copaganda that the writers of the game use to parody that romanticised view of the brutality of policing. The RCM at their inception were structurally inspired by in-world copaganda- their culture, their "fashions, even weapon preferences, borrow heavily from classic Vespertine cop shows." Every investigation is it's own little drama, every officer imagining themselves to be the bad-ass hero of their own crime serial. Detectives name their cases like they're naming episodes of a TV series in a "robust but literary system"; a title that "draws inspiration from snoop fiction and Vespertine cop show staples". They give themselves nicknames to sound like cool, suave fictional officers- Ace, Dick Mullen, etc.- from the cool, suave world of copaganda.

The legend of the RCM's inception, the "point of contention" over its uncertain origins, is even an extention of that; the whole organisation is shrouded in this self-fictionalising mythos that allows for distance that in turn obfuscates much of its violence to the officers that participate in it. They get to convince themselves that they're not abusing their power; they're the hero of the story! The dichotomy of "good guy" taking out the "baddies," a manifestation of the libertarian fantasy of the "good guy with a gun" who does what it takes, just like in Annette's detective novels, and at the same time who rails against oversight bodies like Internal Affairs/'the rat squad' because due process slows down the immediate satisfaction of Swift Justice, despite Internal Affairs existing to protect the citizens from overreach on behalf of the police. "Wanton brutality" from police in their real world is a cold bitter reality but Dick Mullen was "made to crack skulls," "bend the rules and solve cases no one else can," and which version of that story is more comforting to the overworked, underfunded officers of the RCM?

The level of fantasy and detachment required for the cops to still see themselves as the good guys after everything that they do in the line of duty mimics The Pigs and her breakdown too; she parallels Harry so clearly. Both "did right by the kids" in the past, hoping for a better future- Marianne (The Pigs) by looking out for Titus and the Hardy boys when they were young, Harry in his role as a gym teacher. Both abandoned and left behind by the system that the RCM uphold- a brutal capitalist landscape with no safety nets. Both turning the source of their trauma into a costume, a performance, a shield, shaped by "radio waves and cop shows." The Pigs uses RCM items scavenged from the Esperance where they'd been thrown away, while Harry uses the Dick Mullen hat that Annette gives him but both are essentially in costume.

Harry identifies himself with the fictional detective as a kind of wish fulfilment; Dick Mullen is "wicked smart." He doesn't fuck up his cases and when he's sad it's not pathetic; it's effortlessly cool brooding and everyone sympathises. Everyone loves him. His violence- "skull crack[ing]"- is justified because he's a "good guy" enacting that violence against the victims of police brutality sorry "bad guys". He doesn't ever face repercussions; "Dick Mullen won't be sent to the clink for the sake of some legal niceties!" So if Harry is Dick Mullen then his failures, his breakdown, they're all just a part of being a "bad-ass, on-the-edge disco cop." He's not wrong, he's a hero! This idealised fictionalised idea of the police force, this "new, sadly better, reality" that both Harry and The Pigs cling to is "escapist stuff," "receed[ing] into a ludicrous fantasy world," so far removed from the brutal material reality that they're in.

My point is, idk. Disco Elysium is so far from being copaganda. It is a multi-million word long dissection of it, of the purpose of policing, of state sanctioned violence and its interaction with capital and the fallout experienced within the wider community as well as the trauma cycle created for individual officers. A dissection of how copaganda interacts with RCM culture and perception, and by extension how we interact with irl perceptions of police through that lens.

#this #disco Elysium #take #also I want to point out how crime solving is actually hard #police are ineffective not cause they don’t wanna solve crimes #but crimes can’t be solved with logic #unless a witness comes forward it’s almost impossible #we only solved the hangman cause WE CAN TELL THE FUCKING FUTURE