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finished it

that's my sketchbook cover now

#berserk #femto #griffith

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desperately trying not to mess this one up

#berserk #femto #wip

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The Souls Lore Community: Someone Should Be Studying This.

As I was watching SmoughTown's most recent Elden Ring lore video, I started thinking about the lore hunting of Souls games as a social phenomenon, and I genuinely hope this community is studied by psychologists and social scientists someday, because it's worthy of research.

Normally the rise of FromSoftware's games from relative obscurity to worldwide fame is what people might be interested in, but the dedicated lore community online and especially on YouTube is especially fascinating to me. Dozens of YouTube channels are specifically dedicated to collecting, compiling and deciphering every scrap of lore and storytelling available in these games with a deliberately obfuscated storyline, and hundreds of thousands of people watch and consume this content, not simply satisfied with playing the game, but joining in on the search, the debate and discovery.

I'm reminded of Jacob Geller's absolutely stellar video "Shadow of the Colossus and the Search for the Last Great Secret", and I feel like the modern Souls lore community is a convergently evolved social phenomenon to the "Secret Seekers" on those old forums trying to tease out the last secrets of Fumito Ueda's masterpiece (Hidetaka Miyazaki was directly influenced by Ueda's work, so this makes sense).

People will evaluate Souls lore with greater skepticism than I see most people use for their political or personal beliefs, and the lore debates I've seen in person often feel like academic discourse more than your average nerds discussing their favorite game, so I suppose all I have left to say is "why is no one studying this???"

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took these screenshots for people like me who would rather just know how to opt out than read several paragraphs on corporate greed

#anti ai

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✧･ﾟ:*The Heroic Scions of the Seventh Dawn*:･ﾟ✧

#this assortment of gifs for some reason perfectly captures all the moods I go through during the day

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Hunter's Prayer O Blood-Red Moon Grant me Insight to look past the horrors Grant me strength to live throught the Night Grant me peace to linger 'til Sunrise

#bloodborne #fanart #oc

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this guy actually has quite a backstory behind him. What started as a sad drawing of a random self-inserty character(hence him looking like my in-game guardian), ended up an actual oc with lore. It's not enoght to write a fanfic, so I'll at least describe it here:

He was a dredgen among other Shadows of Yor. But as a result of some unknown dire circumstances lost his ghost. That resulted in the Thorn's curse affecting him so, that he needed to consume the Light to live, even tho he retained clear mind and consciosness much alike Dredgen Yor himself. Via some ways he eluded Shin Malfur's justice and ended up in Savathun's Trone World, where he hunts Hive Lightbearers to feast on their Light.

He was a Dredgen dressed in white White mourning, simple, uninspired Roses die, yet Thorns remain To live, and hurt, and mourn in vain

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He was a Dredgen dressed in white White mourning, simple, uninspired Roses die, yet Thorns remain To live, and hurt, and mourn in vain

#destiny 2 #oc #dredgen #weapons of sorrow #poetry #questionably poetic poetry

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#destiny 2 #dredgen #shadows of yor #weapons of sorrow #oc

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Delve. Dive. Deeper. Drown in the Deep.

#destiny 2 #osiris

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(original photo is a random picture from around the Internet)

#destiny 2