"Only an honest death will cure you now."
"Mother, wouldst thou truly Lordship sanction, in one so bereft of light?"
𖣘 Lady Maria (Bloodborne) & Messmer the Impaler (Elden Ring) 𖣘
I wanted to tone it down with the fully rendered art so I made some doodles! Maybe an even a Lil mini comic. I wanted to go a Lil creative so I hope u guys enjoy ^^
Very loose painting of this fella because OH MY GOD THE ELDEN RING DLC TRAILER.
Shadow of the Erdtree is looking absolutely insane, can't believe we have tobwait 4 months until it's out! 😭
But hey, that's enough time to play it all over again! 😁
Hey so I kinda beat the final boss of Bloodborne's Old Hunters DLC, the Orphan of Kos, on my first try? Clip's too long for Tumblr so here's a preview, lol.
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???"
girlhood is going from wanting to look like the most celestial and ethereal being who floats between the two genders (bonus points if they're kinda dead) to *CLERICAL BEAST SCREAMS*