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may i share with you the best video on the internet

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?

#love this!

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i kinda want young otto to be voiced by david tennant

Oh, that's so valid!!

I'm personally more inclined to hope for the Stupendium (mostly because I continuously make jokes about their songs being Otto's type of music), but David Tennant is honestly super cool, and I'd love to hear more of his voice if they ever decided to do a project with the psychic seven when they're younger.

#both of these are cool choices! #i could definitely see Otto having either of their voices #neat! #psychonauts

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We finally meet for our final battle. I sneer as you draw your sword "You wish to fight? So be it! Now hero, behold! MY TRUE FORM!"

#third from the bottom for me for sure #my sense of humor is so terrible that imagining someone going 'any minute now!' for eternity is genuinely hilarious #bonus points if the one saying it *knows* its a big fat lie #truly peak cinema

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I am always thinking so hard about the choice for church imagery in Hollis' mind and what it means for her character. I would say for sure that her inner-sanctum when trying to solve a crisis being a church would suggest that she is religious or had a religious upbringing.

The pews are full of figments of hospital patients. They are nondescript figures but their presence paired with her area to process is by the pulpit suggests that she sees herself as a sort of guide to others in this time, especially helping the helpless find a sense of salvation.

At the very front of this church rest the main dilemma Hollis faces, and based on her train of thought and general dialogue, it is easy to assume that this is a mental connection that she comes back to often. Risk with Death. The stained glass window behind this tableau depicts a shining sun, beneath which lies a cloud, beneath which lies a fade from blue to pink, not unlike a sunset. It could just be pretty decoration or could be indicative of the idea that just beyond any clouded idea or concept (taking a risk) there lies the possbility of an end (death).

I feel it could be argued either way that she has a positive or negative relationship with religion based on the imagery alone, but I feel it is safest and likely more accurate to simply say that it is a complicated one. We don't know anything about religion in the Psychonauts universe, which is why this choice of imagery was so fascinating to me. We have no clue what the major religions are like, or how psychic abilities would possibly play into religious affiliation or scrutiny. Not making any assumptions on that front, the symbolism of this being Hollis' safe space in her mind says that she, at the very least, sees a church building as a safe location, likely due to events in her past. She would want to come here to be alone with her thoughts, sort of like processing thoughts and seeking help for herself or others through prayer or self-reflection.

But this idea of Risk = Death being at the very center of the church could also imply a type of religious trauma that caused her to experience a form of death anxiety, barring her from knowing what risks are appropriate and therefore taking none to protect herself and others.

Despite all of this, there is another route that could be taken to interpret this symbolism that could go hand-in-hand with religious affiliation or could go unconnected. For many of those who are not religious, a church is still an important space which often reflects two major changes in a person's life: funerals or weddings.

After the hot streak section of the level, we see that the church windows now have hearts on the windows. Hollis is kneeling on the ground, something that would typically be associated with prayer, but she is gambling on the table....the table which could arguably be like a casket at the front of the church.

Another way to look at the stained glass motifs could indicate the first one being like her focusing on the idea of death as an impending inevitability to be avoided at all costs. The church being covered in hearts later on has a notably different vibe. I am reeeaching here but the first one could be more like a funeral and the later one could be more like a wedding, a time in a church that has a notably more carefree vibe than a lot of church services (although this does vary from church to church and denominationally) and Hollis does mention having a husband in one piece of dialogue relating to the socks and sandals....

Who knows! I am doing some stretching and just bringing up some symbolism. Please feel free to bring up more symbolism that you might find or other interpretations!

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Happy Valentine's Day! 💘

Take a screenshot to find who will be your gifter!

#Heavy :) #my favorite bestest pal i luv him

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OOH!

#oooooooooh medic!!! #medic medic medic!!!! #tf2 medic

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if a supervillain said "you wont kill me thatd make you just like me" i would simply say "no it wouldnt id be saving millions of people" and the villain would say "but youd be dooming yourself. could you really live knowing youre a killer" and id say "well id certainly have trouble. ill probably be very sad about it. definitely a lot to unpack" and theyd say "so you wont do it" and id say "oh no im still gonna" and theyd say "what" and id say "youre a supervillain responsible for countless deaths and yet here you are desperately trying to bargain for your life. you want to live. which means you can easily live with yourself after being responsible for countless deaths. i, on the other hand, will at the very least have tremendous difficulty with even killing just one person and at worst might just jump out a window right after i do it. the very nature of this whole conversation about whether we are the same has proven to me we are very much not the same and i am certain killing you to save millions is the morally correct decision here" and theyd say "what" and id say "get killed idiot"

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its really funny that like. adventure time often is a profound and meaningful and affecting show but like- all the most popular quotes that get passed around as these beautiful things tend to be, like, bullshit when actually in context. Especially if Jake said it. saw a post the other day that said like “jake will give the most life changing advice but its just to cover for his own personality flaws”. “sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something” is immediately followed by finn and jake performing plastic surgery with no training. his spiel about how rules and laws are made to benefit and protect the people who are already on top and keep everyone else down is just him trying to justify not paying rent to his son or something. marceline says “i don’t think there are bad people just that sometimes good people make mistakes and that’s not bad” and that’s great but the context is that she and LSP just assaulted multiple people for no reason, stole from a woman and then ran her over with her own car and locked her in the trunk

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Hi! @babycharmander, I was your secret Santa this year. Sorry this is being posted so late, I struggled a bit to finish this one. Either way, I do hope you like it :)

#kibasniper's Psychonauts Secret Santa 2023 #psychonauts secret santa #psychonauts fanfiction #my writing

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The mercs show off baby photos

Inspired by a post by prajjna

#aaaaaah #oooooo this is so good #explains so much about soldier tbh

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She turned her tender eyes to me...

Heavy, Medic and Engineer Tarot Cards-- matchset do not separate /j

Additionally, a couple Science Party and Heavy/Medic/Engie sketches because why not.

#tf2 heavy #tf2 medic #tf2 engineer #science party #heavy metal #ignore the lack of consistency lmao #literally everytime I draw Medic he looks different ugh #what if I told you guys this is totally related to a fic I'm writing while also totally not being related to a fic I'm writing? #blood cw #but like... its blue... for contrast #heavy/medic/engie #OBOHO draws #my art

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#omg look at his little legs! #look at him #wittle baby 🥺🥰 #such an adorable pupper #its a pupper!!! #cute puppy

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there's a tortoise at work and he's 30 years old and I love that he's 30 years old because I can look at this animal that is 3 years older than me and go "does the man want his appy slices??" and he hustles over cause the man do want his appy slices

#appy slices #the man DO want his appy slices

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clairvoyance on a drowning man.

#omg this is sooooooo cool! #love when the literal is figurative and the figurative is literal #love this!!! #otto mentallis #psychonauts 2