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and of course happy birthday to every thoroughbred horse of the northern hemisphere

#neigh (blabbers) #<- so true

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my collection so far.

#no andrey bc the broken heart is possibly the only place anyone has ever hosted. that and the stillwater before it started killing people. #neigh (blabbers)

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the pathologic Kin is largely fictionalized with a created language that takes from multiple sources to be its own, a cosmogony & spirituality that does not correlate to the faiths (mostly Tengrist & Buddhist) practiced by the peoples it takes inspirations from, has customs, mores and roles invented for the purposes of the game, and even just a style of dress that does not resemble any of these peoples', but it is fascinating looking into specifically to me the sigils and see where they come from... watch this:

P2 Layers glyphs take from the mongolian script:

while the in-game words for Blood, Bones and Nerves are mongolian directly, it is interesting to note that their glyphs do not have a phonetic affiliation to the words (ex. the "Yas" layer of Bones having for glyph the equivalent of the letter F, the "Medrel" layer of Nerves having a glyph the equivalent of the letter È,...)

the leatherworks on the Kayura models', with their uses of angles and extending lines, remind me of the Phags Pa Script (used for Tibetan, Mongolian, Chineses, Uyghur language, and others)

some of the sigils also look either in part or fully inspired by Phags Pa script letters...

some look closer to the mongolian or vagindra (buryat) script

looking at the Herb Brides & their concept art, we can see bodypainting that looks like vertical buryat or mongolian script (oh hi (crossed out: Mark) Phags Pa script):

shaped and reshaped...

#not sure how much. what's the word. bond? involvement? not experience. closeness? anyone in the team has with any of these cultures #but i recall learning lead writer is indigenous in some way & heavily self-inserts as artemy [like. That's His Face used for #the p1 burakh portrait] so i imagine There Is some knowledge; if not first-hand at least in some other way #& i'm not in the team so i don't know how much Whatever is put into Anything #[ + i've ranted about the treatment of the brides Enough. enough i have] #so i don't have any ground to stand on wrt how i would feel about how these cultures are handled to make the Kin somewhat-hodgepodge. #there is recognizing it is Obviously inspired by real-life cultures [with the words;the alphabet;i look at Kayura i know what i see] #& recognizing it Also is. obviously and greatly imagined. not that weird for you know. a story. #like there is No Turkic/Altaic/Mongolic culture that has a caste of all-women spiritual dancers who place a great importance on nudity #as a reflection of the perfect world and do nothing but dance to bring about the harvest. ykwim... #like neither the Mongols nor the Buryats nor the Tibetans dress the way the Kin does. that's cos the Kin is invented. but they're invented. #.. on wide fundations. ykwim...... #Tengrism has a Sky Deity (Tengri) with an earth-goddess *daughter* whereas the kin worship an Earth-Goddess mother of everything #+ a huge bull. Buddhism has its own complete cosmogony & beliefs which from the little I know Vastly Differ from anything the Kin believes #like. yeah. story. but also. [holds myself back from renting about the Brides again] shhh... #neigh (blabbers) #pathologic #pathologic 2

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i love the friendship you can make when you write and draw stuff My friend is too shy to write a normal average sex scene between two characters in a committed loving relationship & I hit them with the "This Is A Gay Male House It's A House That's A Gay Man (& vice versa) It's Sexually Attracted To Men But Since It Is A House And Can't Fuck It Gets Weird With It" and they hit me back with "omg this is so Poe-esque" like that's not an insane thing to say. and a form of flattery that could make me blush.

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new username btw 😏 while crybabi served me well, it was chosen at age what. 17. in not my most pleasant moment. if you must know Mérens is a breed of small french mountain horse so straight up just like me. i'm going to be spending some of the afternoon changing my links so bear with me

#neigh (blabbers) #<- so true!

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it's crazy that stanislav rubin canonically 206cm bro he has no business sleeping at the foot of isidor's bed "like a dog" he should be shooting hoops

#neigh (blabbers) #well to be fair he ain't doing that anymore..... due to the

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it's my birthday 🎂🫀 the best present for any artist is What if you looked at my [oops! all pathologic fanart] images. you don't even have to do anything just look... yes... your gaze is drawn... your eyelids feel heavy... my words grow more and more distant as if through a haze... ☁️

#love these collages. very useful. #neigh (blabbers) #🐎🎂🥳

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the whole Broken Heart conversation that sets the scene for the House of Death quest of P2 is too funny to me for multiple reasons (& tenfold because i'm tired so everything is even more hilarious rn) but the fact that, if you ask Notkin if Khan is his friend he will immediately rebuke it and call him his enemy instead, but if you still call Khan his friend in a conversation (but don't inquire about it) he will not correct you, is making me giggle

the mind of the teenage orphan thief gang leader is of a complexity unfathomable

#neigh (blabbers) #in a meta world khan sat and heard as burakh/player ran through every possible dialogue tree and picked up on that too.

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you know how in english, the Farkhad-built house in which Eva has taken residence is called the "Stillwater", implying this sense of calmness, stillness, the flatness of an unmoving sea, perhaps dormancy; whereas its russian name is Омут — "whirlpool", "maelstrom", implying quite the opposite: a constant movement, perhaps even drowning. hehehe

#HEHEHEHEHE #neigh (blabbers) #farkhad lore #stillwater lore #you just have to be there. you do.

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need to draw yulia resting her weary head on eva's fleshy thighs actyally. actually i'm going to hose myself in the shower and get to this immediately. yes i have 54184 wips. yes i'm adding one more. for them

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so it's actually where people can NOT find them

this is not a pdf of Andrew Loomis' "Drawing the Head and Hands" i would never post something like that

this is not a pdf of "Morpho - Fat and Skin Folds" i would never post something like that

#go draw that guy fat and human-shaped‼️ #neigh (blabbers) #ref #pdf #pdfs

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"[dark academia tiktoker voice] emotionally, i'm in a 1940s boarding school and i've just fallen in love with a tall blonde boy [...]" in 1940s europe you're not going to no boarding school you're going to the FRONT for the last push to Berlin, you're sheltering from AIR RAIDS with entire families inside of the subway network, and once it's over your ass is queuing for FOOD RATION TICKETS and helping pick the RUBBLE off the STREETS. drop that fake british accent POSER 😭😭 don't they got ''academia'' in ''dark academia''. don't you people learn about WWII.

#your ass is not going to boarding school!!!! your ass if getting spied on when you go to the phone booths in warsaw poland. #listen. i know it's my bad for having watched one once and now they pop up from time to time #and my bad for not having clicked it off. and my bad for giving any weight to what a tiktoker says ever. #but come on now. come the fuck on now. #neigh (blabbers)

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i miss pathologic classic hd so much it's unreal. i read game journalists saying p2 is SooOoOo WeiRd and SooOOoO Cryptic i want to grab them by the cuff and shove their nose in p1. you look at my verbose, full, heady game my boy. her sister is so normal. she's going to college. a bit weird, probably an art student, but she's going to college. p1 is making new drugs under a bridge in kansas and conjuring up tornadoes with her mind.

#she's sooo weird to YOU. to me she's so normal. she's so straightfoward. she's the most comprehensible text ever. #neigh (blabbers)

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i love you hubble telescope i love you webb telescope i love you cassini probe i love you voyager 1 probe i love you voyager 2 probe i love you new horizons probe i love you galileo probe i love you juno probe i love you messenger probe i love you all aluminum and titanium spiders sent into the big black night bringing us images of skies forever away

#webb telescope #hubble telescope #astronomy #neigh (blabbers) #genuinely genuinely crying sobbing tearing up #there's one video of the cassini mission in particular #by the new york times yt channel sitting at like 220k view #that absolutely destroys me everytime #i KNOW i'm being manipulated by the soft voice and the music. AND STILL #CHECK OUT HOW HARD I CAN CRY.

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they should invent a device that allows you to invite internet friends over to play tag. and freeze tag and hide-and-seek and dodgeball.

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unrelated. that header for the bachelor route news page truly beautifully shows the way his eyes are hooded. prominence of the supraorbital fat pad around the middle of the eye with the lid line and the lash line very close (almost touching) above the iris when looking straight, and lid line diverging from the lash line closer to the outer corner of the eye. very powerful

#neigh (blabbers) #the eye guy is on this guy's eye deal. whatever #pathologic 2 #daniil dankovsky #<- i will come back to this.