I can’t stop thinking about the ZA/UM people who defended the company after it came out that Kurvitz and co were fired like “well disco elysium was a collaborative effort, don’t buy into auteur theory.” Like. First of all what an INCREDIBLE cop out. Second of all elysium was always a collaborative effort, it was a ttrpg setting that Kurvitz made with his friends and had been developing since they were fucking teenagers. And ZA/UM kicked out ALL of those original members who created it together so like. Lol.
But also it just makes me sad bc it’s true that I think the amount of time it took and the collaborative nature of the work influenced disco a lot. There’s such a stark difference between the tone of disco vs the tone of Kurvitz’s novel. Shivers saying “you can keep me on this earth. Stay vigilant. I love you.” The phasmid begging you to please not blink and let the world go. The way that the story had to shrink and shrink for the format until it was localized in Martinaise and the way that zooming in on this small portion of the world they created, all these small people with small lives, made it all the more life affirming bc it turns out to be the small things that make life worth living at all. Egg saying “lonely as I am, I’m not afraid.” The phasmid saying “you are the miracle.” The swallow in the church being kept at bay by a dance club. Like… over all those years of effort and collaborating with other people I think maybe it seems like the og ZA/UM members started feeling a different type of way about things, just a little. Only for all that work and all of those experiences to get stolen out from under them like some kind of cruel joke. It’s sad and infuriating.
Like. Yeah, it’s a collaboration. These guys invited other people into their childhood sandbox to play around with them, and then even invited the whole world in. And then they got kicked out of the sandbox and are no longer allowed to be part of this collaboration. It’s fucked up. Fuck ZA/UM
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i think im really sad that im feeling bitter abt this bc like. despite the fact that ppl are saying oh yeah its purgatory its never fair. i have a bad taste in my mouth that for once it feels like its not bc of player action its partially to do with weird ruling by the admins on the event (re: the essentially. disregarding of the event points on elimination which i still kinda dont get why they couldnt just retally the points since they had the numbers?)
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Gin/FSX - @xxtha-blog
Lust - AU Community
Sorry, I sneezed
Been extremely depressed and these two got caught in the crossfire. Hard to explain what's going on here if you don't know a, FSX, OR b, how I write Lust so uh,
go read FSX
and maybe talk to me about Lust on the side
I made someone cry (?) with this (I'm also sad)
Its if they never met because Lust never left UnderLust in a specific scenario/set of shippy events uncanon to Gin's story so Gin's stuck in FSX like he's supposed to be (this was made sometime around page 189's publishing so) and Lust is...
Gin got the most attention work-wise because I had to edit out Lust's hand painstakingly (in order to flip the image seamlessly I had to copy the WHOLE canvas so no more individual layers) so he got lots of attention and care put into him to make sure he doesn't look janky. I also for some reason completely changed the pose his hand was in and made more work for myself and it ended up looking janky anyways but....its upside down who's looking? (me)
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if i got a redo of the kip/oc feud this year im not kidding that would fix a huge part of me
the bad blood existing is still so obviously there, kip especially has never let go after the loss at battle of the belts. its been mostly off screen but its so obvious, from constantly taunting oc but also giving him his flowers and just playing the mind games on twitter by talking about his title matches and dont make me remind you about "love you long time, sweetest clementine" thing
he needs the closure. i need that feud. everyone wants to see oc in a worthy rivalry instead of random title defenses. we all fucking win, just
they could tell another such an amazing story if they were just given the chance to do so
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