#i didn't record it

[birdmenmanga]

I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

#just thinking thoughts... #disco elysium #idk man when did we get so scared of failing!! #people never want to speak in class because 'what if I'm wrong :(((' #well then you are wrong... that is okay... it's normal to fail... sometimes saying the wrong thing is a great way to jumpstart a topic... #'getting a good grade in X is both normal to want and possible to achieve' #okay sure but have you made peace with the fact that getting a BAD grade in X isn't a bad thing? #a bad grade in being friends... okay... so you didn't check up on someone in 3 months... you failed... that's fine... #you can learn from it!! you can learn how to keep in touch with people. how to take care of them when they're sick. #how to resolve a dispute. how to communicate and compromise. these are all things you are not born with #and will fail first before succeeding at #Like yes I get that in the age of surveillance your failures may be recorded and preserved forever and that's not great #but if we don't normalize failure I really think we'll just suffocate and die

[theharlotofferelden]

“Gale is so boring” he had a emotional and sexual relationship with a goddess and was so down bad for her that he tried to reclaim a small aspect of her power just to please her and in doing so ended up with a magical bomb in his chest yet that doesn’t keep him from being a kind, slightly condescending, enthusiastic malewife nerd who thinks your dirty ass smells good GET OUT OF MY HOUSE

#bg3 gale #baldur’s gate gale #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #Baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur’s gate 3 spoilers #baldur’s gate spoilers #personal: shitpost #game: baldur's gate 3 #it’s gale posting hours #look everyone is entitled to their opinion but i gotta wonder what game you played if you're saying this #like this is just a pithy shitpost but the ending i got with Gale is so fucking good #and for the record i didn't romance him i'm just ur regular gale appreciator #don't do my boy dirty like this #personal: my post #personal: my posts

[artemispanthar]

Crimes against short people

#artie gifs #true detective #night country #true detective night country #true detective spoilers #silly stuff #this is me whenever people put stuff on the top shelf #or any shelf higher than the first one tbh #if the internet is to be believed she's 5'3 #I'm 5'4“ so this is pretty accurate to my experience lol #no one giffed this so i had to figure out how to use a new giffing program for this #because instagiffer just straight up didn't work it would only record half the screen no matter what

[i-hate-the-mercator-projection]

Capaldi era doctor who being overlooked is genuinely tragic cause if the people that dropped it when Smith left just watched it for a few more episodes they'd suddenly find themselves three seasons later staring at their screen like this

#“there are no stars. pity. id hoped there'd be stars” #ICONIC #I've been capaldipilled since like 2020 for the record I'm thinking about how i didn't appreciate it till a second viewing #Peter capaldi #doctor who #dw #12th doctor

[anglerflsh]

hii

#[.art] #genshin impact #xingyun #chongyun #xingqiu #i'd lie if I said this was for Bianca again she's infected me with thinking about them disease #there's a track record of me drawing diiferent gay people be carried around. this says nothing about me of course #yeag the anatomy is off I didn't have a good reference. love and light

[jenomong]

"Not gonna lie, we're doing pretty well already But yes, oh my doctor said There's a lot of room left to grow"

seonghwa, matz (2023)

#ateez #atz #atzedit #atzsource #seonghwanet #park seonghwa #seonghwa #matz #* #actually i very much favour seonghwa in matz #i thought he would be out of his element #and i didn't really expect much #but learning that he was responsible for matz sounding the way it does #having written over 100 lines for his verses #having recorded 424 versions of the song #seonghwa has been the most delicious surprise so far #what an absolutely fascinating human being #his persona dichotomy on stage is so #it's layered. there are definitely layers to him #but like #the same way there are layers to the universe you know #such an amazing idol and professional

[alackofghosts]

whatever happened to the man of tomorrow?

#for the record this has nothing to do with the story #i was gonna use a song but i couldn't have 'legible without zooming in' and 'the illusion of it being a spread' at the same time #and was at a loss of how to caption it otherwise dskjfhs #orphan farmboy. you understand. #Ardbert #speedpaint #fanart #i draw sometimes #Final Fantasy XIV #trying to figure out how to colour this though #i've tried my usual light + desaturated colours for ardbert when limited to cmyk and it didn't come out how i wanted it to that time #so finding something new was in order

[lazylittledragon]

me and my boyfriend accidentally gave our guy astarion's face and it's. upsetting

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #if this posts twice no it didn't #don't ask how we didn't notice esp doing a grey tief with red accents #we were going to do an origin character for honour mode but decided to do a durge stuck in a time loop #i'm recording for animation reasons #i am the one Screaming

[wardback]

Serious question

What the hell are starkid putting in their straight couples?

How did they all invent love

#they are all sickeningly sweet and i just want them to ALL get a happy ending #do you hear me langs??? #1/5 isnt a good track record for happy endings #paulkins #barneston #lexthan #holloweane #lautski #paul matthews #emma perkins #becky barnes #tom houston #lex foster #ethan green #ms holloway #duke keane #stephanie lauter #peter spankoffski #the guy who didn't like musicals #tgwdlm #black friday starkid #nmt #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #starkid #hatchetfield #theres just something special about “threat to human kind” woman x “sweetest guy ever” man

[kedreeva]

Pets the birds neck with a loose circle of fingers....look like I'm strangling her in photograph...sigh

#i swear I'm not strangling bug #i was trying to get a video but i didn't have the setting turned on #or possibly i turned it off on accident #they updated my camera app against my will #instant 5 stages of grief when it didn't record #bug the peahen #my pets #peafowl #peahens

[yourbuckies]

— Charles Bukowski, A Vote for the Gentle Light

#stucky #stevebucky #stevebuckyedit #steve rogers #bucky barnes #steverogersedit #buckybarnesedit #marveledit #mcuedit #sebastian stan #chris evans #usergosling #mine #huh i didn't realize how similar the silhouettes are on those last two until now #for the record that last silhouette is from the safehouse in cw i would never repeat gifs in a set #i only endlessly repeat the same concept :)

[dukeofqueers]

bless his soul for trying so hard but oh my god

#darkest dungeon #darkest dungeon 2 #dd leper #video #mine #it happened a few more times that i didn't get to record #it was SO funny

[lectorel]

#covid 19 #covid #masking #poll #for the record #I never stopped #Just didn't occur to me #and then we started hearing about long covid and new varients

[palossssssand]

Slug City fake movie poster for Smooks, featuring the bay's harbor boardwalk, foggy seas, and her beast made of paint.

#I'm never going to get tired of center symmetrical posters #my art #my ocs #smooks #eyestrain #slug city #extremely happy with how this one turned out #painting #unfortunately the speedpaint recording crashed halfway through and I didn't know until I checked when I was almost done! #which is a shame... #you can really tell the eve mv inspiration for this one #I have such vivid scenes in mind of her on this harbor looking out to the mist

[alicenpai]

forgotten playthings, forgotten child 🧸

Jack from my series Lost & Found Children 🤍🖤

i hope to showcase more of my ocs in 2024 hehe! im FINALLY getting around to finishing art i left to rot in my folders (the pandora hearts drawing last month being one of em). if you saw the WIP of THIS particular drawing 2 yrs ago... no you didn’t 💔

my charas are very personal to me, but tbh ive always been a bit hesitant to share their stories. over time i realized ... it’s kind of a shame to not make art from one’s heart. which is something i regret a lot year after year whenever i make my yearly art summary reflection. i'm like damn i need to make more emotionally evoking pieces!!! so i'm gonna keep going in 2024 with that in mind ❤ i have to admit, although this drawing started 2 years ago, and there's a lot i would do differently if i were to supposedly draw it now - this concept goes pretty hard.

the final drawing stayed pretty close to the original concept which im so relieved for! i think part of the reason why i left it on the backburner for so long, was the fact that i included so many details, and i was unsure of how to colour the "background". (not to mention stuff like cons & real life getting in the way).

i'm glad for discovering a really handy watercolour brush, it's helped me a lot in my last few drawings, bc i dont have to colour in each detail. especially since the witch hat atelier: eternal ephemera zine piece i did. otherwise if i coloured this back in 2022 with my usual method, i'm pretty sure i really would have included a shading and highlight layer for each individual toy... HAHAHA. much to think about

oh yeah and in the last few days of drawing this i was listening to some visual kei bands. i love how some of the band members literally have been performing since like the 90s or something and DO NOT AGE and are literal vampires. every so often i fall back into visual kei (you can tangentially thank aggretsuko although yes i know it's not the same). and i kind of realized. i like Jack's edgy design so much because he looks like. a visual kei esque vampire.

#illustration #artists on tumblr #original #original character #my ocs #jack #i will post more on my ocs eventually... slowly.. this coming year #2024 will be the year of the oc..... definitely want to lean into developing my stories & charas & gothic aesthetic a lot more hehe #leaning into like. whatever late 2000s manga had going on with their dark aesthetics - pandora hearts. black butler. d gray man etc #those mangaka were drinking some good shit. permanently altered my little teenage brain forever #i also managed to record a timelapse of this drawing #but my computer cant handle timelapses on csp so i had to like. save this drawing in different parts #so ill have to stitch together the timelapse videos #sorry. got rid of the closeup bc it didn't look that great #ill post it in the read more later #lost and found children

[mabellous]

going through the tag was so much fun before the movie dropped, now i get annoyed at every other post i see. the expectations some of you had for this movie? unfathomable to me. imagine they had included june and rafael and leo and all the plot points you cry about not making the final cut and think about the scenes they would have had to delete to make room for all of that. idk about y'all but i rather have them focus on the love story and make the most of that instead of taking bits and pieces from every other storyline without fleshing out any of them. would it have made a great tv show? YES. did we get a tv show? no, we got a movie and a damn good one at that. if you miss june or "cornbread knows my sins, henry" that's valid but how about you just read the book again? it isn't gone just because the movie came out. read the book, love the book and simply view the movie as additional content instead of a replacement of the source material, it's not that hard.

#i'm with you when it comes to pacing #but then again: it was a two hour movie what did we expect??? #for the record: it's obviously fine if you didn't like or enjoy the movie i really don't care #but i get so bothered by people who expect adaptions to be exact replicas of the source material #and then come on here to be annoying about it #red white and royal blue #shut up lori