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dragonpropaganda · 2 months

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The Architecture of Rain World: Layers of History

A major theme in Rain World's world design that often goes overlooked is the theme of, as James Primate, the level designer, composer and writer calls it, "Layers of History." This is about how the places in the game feel lived-in, and as though they have been built over each other. Here's what he said on the matter as far back as 2014!

The best example of this is Subterranean, the final area of the base game and a climax of the theme. Subterranean is pretty cleanly slpit vertically, there's the modern subway built over the ancient ruins, which are themselves built over the primordial ruins of the depths. Piercing through these layers is Filtration System, a high tech intrusion that cuts through the ground and visibly drills through the ceiling of the depths.

Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets, the friendly local ghost, tells the player of the "bones of forgotten civilisations, heaped like so many sticks," highlighting this theme of layering as one of the first impressions the player gets of Subterranean. Barely minutes later, the player enters the room SB_H02, where the modern train lines crumble away into a cavern filled with older ruins, which themselves are invaded by the head machines seen prior in outskirts and farm arrays, some of which appear to have been installed destructively into the ruins, some breaking through floors.

These layers flow into each other, highlighting each other's decrepit state.

The filtration system, most likely the latest "layer," is always set apart from the spaces around it. At its top, the train tunnels give way to a vast chasm, where filtration system stands as a tower over the trains, while at the bottom in depths, it penetrates the ceiling of the temple, a destructive presence. (it's also a parallel to the way the leg does something similar in memory crypts, subterranean is full of callbacks like that!)

Filtration system is an interesting kind of transition, in that it is much later and more advanced than both of the areas it cuts between. This is a really interesting choice from James! It would be more "natural" to transition smoothly from the caves of upper subterranean to the depths, but by putting filtration system in between, the two are clearly demarcated as separate. The difference in era becomes palpable, the player has truly found something different and strange.

Depths itself is, obviously, the oldest layer not only of subterranean but of the game itself. The architecture of Depths has little to do with the rest of the game around it, it's a clear sign of the forgotten civilisations that our friend Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets showed us, there's not actually that much to say about it itself, it's mostly about how it interacts with the other layers of subterranean.

That said, Subterranean is far from the only case of the theme of layers of history. It's present as soon as the player starts the game!

The very first room of the game, SU_C04, is seemingly a cave. It is below the surface, the shapes of it are distinctly amorphous rather than geometric. (well. kind of, it doesn't do a very good job of hiding the tile grid with its 45 degree angles.)

But let's take a closer look, shall we?

See that ground? it's made of bricks. The entire cave area of outskirts is characterised by this, the "chaotic stone" masonry asset is mixed with brickwork, unlike the surface ruins which are mostly stone. This, seemingly, is an inversion of common sense! The caves are bricks and the buildings are stone. This is not, however, a strange and unique aspect but a recurring motif.

This occurs enough in the game for it to be clearly intentional, but why would materials such as bricks be used in otherwise natural looking terrain?

The answer lies in the "Layers of History" theme. This is in fact, something that happens in real life, and it's called a tell

To be specific, a tell is a kind of mound formed by settlements building over the ruins of previous iterations of themselves. Centuries of rubble and detritus form until a hill grows from the city. Cities such as Troy and Jericho are famous examples. The connections to the layers of history theme are pretty clear here, I think. Cities growing, then dying, then becoming the bedrock of the next city. The ground, then, is made of bricks, because the ground is the rubble of past buildings. The bones of forgotten civilisations, heaped like so many sticks!

#rain world #rainworld #rain world lore #rainworld lore #rw lore #rw #subterranean my beloved #thank you to videocult for making the first survival game themed around stratigraphy and new york city rats #i would've gone on for another paragraph about how OE relates to this but like.#that's dlc stuff #and i still think of the dlc stuff as modded content lol #better to keep it separate #also this analysis is not comprehensive! the layers of history stuff is common throughout #there's farm arrays there's the relationship between shaded citadel and five pebbles there's the stuff buried under garbage wastes #so much more #unfortunately i do not have much energy lol

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silksongeveryday · 2 months

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Drawing Hornet everyday until Silksong comes out - Day 374

Requested by @/sunsetcannon !

tried to make it a little more interesting by altering their outfits a bit to look more like the other’s

#hollow knight #silksong #hk hornet #hollow knight hornet #silksong hornet #hk ghost #hollow knight ghost #the knight #hk hollow #the hollow knight #hk the hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #hk fanart #I’ve been playing hk randomizer for the past two weeks #that mod is carrying my hyperfixation and love for the game currently #which is why I’ve been putting more effort into these again #had it not I would have probably had a string of low effort garbage and that wouldn’t have been very fun :(

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rafebaby · 3 months

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okay, frat!Rafe x shy!reader has officially taken over my brain, uhm yeah, so tonight, I was thinking about them having to work on a school project together because she's the good girl and he's obviously the careless, disruptive type of student that's just how life works, don't ask me and when they meet up to work on it, she is so nervous (and quietly angry) about this so she just wants to get it over with and starts talking about her plan, while Rafe is just not taking it seriously and he is so bored, and his mind starts wandering off and gets distracted by her lips, thinking about what it would be like wrapped around his cock.

#please help me #i need more of this but my brain is garbage right now #rafe cameron #rafe x reader #rafe cameron x reader #rafe outer banks #rafe obx #rafe au #rafe imagine

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unhingedpirates · 1 year

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OFMD + Twitter textposts (pt. 2)

(part 1) / others

#I'm back with more stupidity #(i was never really gone but it's been a while since i posted some of these lol)#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach #izzy hands #jim jimenez #ed teach #ofmd but with textposts #ofmd meme #my garbage

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starry-bi-sky · 2 months

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I'm having incoherent thoughts about clone danny again from the clone/clone^2 au (when am I not?) but more specifically I'm thinking about his reaction to finding out he's a clone. The standalone clone au digs into that a little more than clone^2, which is more focused on Danny and Damian's relationship. But neither (so far) really get into Danny's issues about finding out he's a clone after 15 years of thinking he wasn't.

Because he resents his parents for not telling him for so long. He resents the way he found out; through a trivial school project rather than a sit-down talk. He resents the fact that, apparently, they had meant to tell him sooner. But forgot. He resents the fact that they never told him because finding out feels like something was stolen from him when it had the chance to not be.

Danny Fenton, just fifteen, cloned not even half a year ago, knows what that personal violation of autonomy feels like. He knows what it's like to be cloned and while he loves Ellie, he does, she's his sister, and in this au his twin. But he is still left with that feeling of unsafety after realizing he'd been cloned. Being cloned is violating. The onset realization that it's so easy to get DNA without the other party noticing, and that what was stopping someone from trying to clone him again?

Followed only after with the rest of the inexplainable mix of feelings of being cloned, the rest of that inner conflict and panic that's an ugly mocktail of emotions that range from horror to fear. Trying to imagine what it's like to be cloned from the cloned party, and I imagine that it leaves you with the feeling of needing to crawl out of your own skin with discomfort.

And then he gets put on the other side of it. Danny Fenton, only fifteen, was cloned not even half a year ago, finding out he is a clone. And reactions, I imagine, can vary from person to person. But to him, it feels like something got stolen from him, like someone took a hole puncher and stuck it right into his chest and stole a chunk of himself from him.

It changes nothing about him and yet it changes everything. It's a betrayal on it's own to just find out he was a clone and they didn't tell him for fifteen years -- it shouldn't mean anything, because he's still Danny, and yet it means everything. It's him, it's him, it's about him. It's his personhood. It's about the fact that a load-bearing rock in his identity just crumbled beneath his feet and now there's a rockslide.

Because then he finds out that they used the wrong DNA. Its like pouring salt in an open wound. He's not even related to his parents or his sister, when for years he thought he was. It's the fact that pieces of his identity that he's been so secure in for so long just got ripped away from him in an instant. Then they tell him -- only through his own horrified prompting -- that the person whose DNA they used -- Bruce Wayne -- didn't even know he existed. That they accidentally used the wrong DNA, then didn't tell the person whose DNA they used.

The betrayal of being lied to for years turns really quickly into horror at his own existence. Something very similar to the horror he felt at being cloned and the skin-crawling discomfort that made him feel like his own skin wasn't really his. And then its not. It's actually not. Nothing but his own name feels like it belongs to him anymore -- not his hair, not his eyes, not his heart or his lungs, nothing feels like his anymore and he didn't know what that felt like until it was gone.

It's a question of Nature Vs. Nurture -- where does the line of "nature" begin and where does the line of "nurture" end? What of him is actually his? What of him is Bruce Wayne's? It's not logical, it's not supposed to be. It's a load-bearing wall on the house of his identity being destroyed and now everything else is caving down in on him. What belongs to Danny, what belongs to Bruce Wayne?

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #clone^2 #danny fenton is a clone #its a combination 'oh my god i've been cloned too i know how violating that feels holy fuck' empathy and also the horror of finding out tha #the things you knew about yourself that you thought were unchanging was all WRONG.#its the fact that tragedy is always one step away from comedy. they're twins for a reason. the humor of finding out you're a clone through #a silly school project and the *horror* of finding out you're a clone from a silly school project instead of a proper conversation #danny goes into his room after he's done talking to his parents and he vomits into the garbage can under his desk. utterly horrified #and he calls sam and tucker crying. it shouldn't change anything he knows this and yet it changes EVERYTHING. he doesn't feel like himself #he doesnt feel like himself any*more.* this might be cause for him to do a closet overhaul. something to make himself feel like he's #in control of himself again. piercings. temporary hair dye. *something* to feel like he's in control.#its no wonder why he never wants to tell bruce wayne he exists because he *knows* how violating that feels and he's *afraid.*#it makes him takinh in damian a little more remarkable bc it undoubtedly made #his identity issues worse. but thats a child and a child who needs help and danny is *kind*

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webcxre · 6 months

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yuo're honor they're buddies

#the amazing digital circus #ena joel g #tadc caine #ena #doodle #my art #i came up with this as a joke but im rly vibing with the idea that spawned from it while i was drawing #like ena's world being garbage data out in the void. whatever the ram is spitting out while rendering everything else #sometimes caine visits to make sure it doesnt spill into the circus grounds and the humans cant accidentally stumble upon it #(also yes i hc both as autistic yes i am projecting 💖)#ena with her meltdowns and caine with not really picking up that his adventures aren't as fun to the humans as he'd think. and more #also WOW im rusty with ena #😔

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tuherrus · 4 months

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spent christmas giving myself amnesia with glögg and vodka so if that couldn't be all the inspiration i needed to make one of these for punainen marli then i don't know what would

#käärijä #also if this looks more fucked than usual it's bc i'm on my garbage laptop still visiting family #and the saturation's all weird etc etc

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ryuubff · 2 months

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chinese new year is still going on so i have a reason to start spreading my half-chinese!sebastian propaganda 🧧

#stardew valley #sebastian got the chinese side from his bio dad #stardew sebastian #stardew robin #stardew farmer #stardew valley fanart #sdv fanart #sdv #sdv sebastian #sdv robin #sdv farmer #i draw skrunkly #i think im terrible at drawing kids #children are so hard to draw. WHY?#yeah i got a new brush over the holidays. using it like crazy #guys maybe if uni didnt kick my ass id post more consistently #sorry for my garbage handwriting btw #it wont get better!

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tippenfunkaport · 4 months

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When you see queer show after queer show get cancelled, I'm just forever grateful Crew-Ra at least got to finish SPOP and end the story their own way.

#like off the top of my head toh warrior nun first kill and now ofmd #all got shortened or cancelled #and I am sure there are more I'm just forgetting #anyway I'm not tagging the other shows because they have suffered enough #but my heart goes out to them because this its garbage how every queer show gets the rug pulled out from under it #spop #shera #she ra #netflix #dreamworks #she ra and the princesses of power #catradora #a league of their own! I knew I was forgetting something!

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valentjin · 6 months

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