#playing around (ask game)

[centaurianthropology]

One thing that I think a lot of Disco Elysium meta misses (likely because a lot of it is very clearly written by young Americans writing from an intensely American-centric cultural perspective without even really realizing it) is that one of the singular and central themes of the game is massive-scale generational trauma in a home that is economically collapsing as its resources and people are being drained by an occupation.  People have noted that no one tries to help Harry, despite the fact his mental illness is incredibly obvious to everyone around him.  He tells Kim that he completely lost his memory, and Kim politely asks him to focus on the work.  He tells Gottlieb that he had a heart attack, and Gottlieb tells him that if he’s still alive it couldn’t have been that bad.  That he’ll drop dead sooner or later, but then so does everyone.

And that’s the most important thing: so does everyone.  Look at Martinaise.  Look at the world in which Harry lives.  It is not our own, but it is adjacent to ours.  More specifically, it is clearly adjacent to the states of the Eastern Bloc: overtaken and occupied by a faraway government that clearly doesn’t care about Revachol or its people.  And that is obvious in every tired face, every defeated citizen, everyone trying to eke out a little happiness or meaning in spite of the overwhelming trauma and damage around them.  The buildings are still half-destroyed.  The bullet holes are still in the walls.  The revolution was decades before, but it still feels to the people there like a fresh wound.  The number of men of Harry’s generation who are not alcoholic or otherwise deeply fucked up are very few.  Some, like Kim, hide it better, but the deeper you dig into his history, the more you realize how damaged Kim is.  He’s more than a little trigger happy, and hates that about himself, but he is a product of his environment: Kim’s entire life is seeing people he cared about shot and killed, so his instinct now is to shoot first himself, to protect those few people left who still matter to him.

Harry is not unique in his trauma.  He is a distillation of an entire culture of people who tried to rise up and make something beautiful, and were instead routed and occupied.  He is trapped between the occupation and the people on the ground, along with all the rest of the RCM.  Their authority comes from the occupying government, but it is implied that they were formed out of the remnants of the citizens militia which sprung up from Revachol itself as a way to try to mitigate some of the horrors being committed on its streets.  The Moralintern sure as hell wasn’t going to get their hands dirty, so they happily conscripted (and therefore could better control) this group, who are only recognized in certain places, and whose authority mostly amounts to giving out fines.  The RCM is corrupt, but it is corrupt in the same way its culture is.  Bribes are considered standard with them, not a moral failing, but a necessity, so long as those bribes are correctly logged as ‘donations’.  It’s how the RCM stays afloat, and the rest of Revachol completely understands that.  Everyone would take a bribe if it meant they kept eating.  Everyone would take a little under-the-table money if it meant keeping a roof over their heads.  The officersof the RCM certainly don’t make enough to see a doctor.  They have an in-house lazarus, and if he can’t fix them they just die.  Mental health care?  What mental health care?  Harry doesn’t get it for the same reason no one else does: it doesn’t really seem to exist.  There are no counselors, no psychologists, no psychiatrists.  How would they even start?  If the world is what is broken, if everyone is suffering a similar catastrophic amount, it makes sense that Harry’s trauma would simply get rolled up with all the rest.  Kim asks him to get on with the job because Harry’s suffering is not remarkable in Revachol.  He is one of an entire generation who have an astronomical number of orphans from the revolution, and so many younger people are left more or less orphans as their parents drink themselves into oblivion like Cuno’s father.  So Harry’s truly unique attribute is embodying all that trauma, having it all inside of him, filling him to bursting.

To really engage with the themes of the game, engaging first and foremost with the reality of Revachol is imperative.  Imposing our own reality onto Revachol, particularly if coming from an American perspective (which tend to have the habit of both viewing the world through an American lens and not realizing they’re doing it because they’ve never experienced a different lens), will always feel shallow to me because of this.

All that is to say, I would love to hear some more explicitly European meta about this game, and especially Eastern European meta.  If anyone can point me to some good, juicy essays from that perspective, I would be grateful!

#Disco Elysium #is such a good game #but I found a lot of the meta around it frustratingly shallow #and very VERY American #which is also frustrating #given how clearly Eastern European the roots of this game are #I have no problem with people using a game or other work of fiction to inform their own lives and experiences #but I find it strange when people engage with the game #as though it was coming from an American perspective #asking why certain things happen or didn't #based on how they would play out or have played out in America #anyway this a rambly way to request some meta from other cultural perspectives #I am very interested in reading it! #Disco Elysium meta

[inkly-heart]

Do you have a group discord server? If others want to chill and interact with you. Just wondering

That aside just hoping you’re doing okay Blastic. Still, if you’re not your gotta a lot people care about you.

I look forward to seeing how the rest of the game goofs.

—goofball anon

I don't and sadly I don't think I will make one. It would be fun to interact with people who enjoys my work and wants to chat with me but I just feel it would be too much work for me to handle a discord server. So at least for now I'm not planning to make one.

#and how I've been doing?? #there been ups and downs #maybe bit better?? At least compared to what it was when this month started #I felt so numb for some reason #I just wanted to lie in bed and do nothing because nothing was making me happy. Not even drawing or playing games #I do still get these kind of days but it hasn't been that bad and I have got some amount motivation back to draw again at least #wanting to play games though still have been very low #but I'm taking small steps #I'm also sorry for not having much good news and that I've been so quiet nowadays #I just been struggling a lot what to say and anxiety isn't making things any easier #but I want to thank everyone who are still here hanging around and enjoying my work #even though I have these struggles I'm happy that you guys still want to support me<33 Thank you<33 #not sure did I word these right but I tried my best #and I will also do my best not to give up and keep on going 🌱 #ask #anon

[echosong971]

I DONT KNOW WHAT LIES OF P IS BUT KEEP DRAWING THAT BOY PLEASE I BEG

OKAY o7

#when you are rly good at killing but are also just a little guy sometimes <3 #tangentially related #i need more P and Gemini fancontent AUGHH #their dynamic is everything to me <3 #i love all of gemini’s lines through the game he’s so great #also #! #here’s just a short explanation for ya of the game: #Lies of P is a Soulslike video game based around the story of Pinocchio #you play as the puppet Pinocchio (colloquially referred to as “P” by most of the fanbase including myself) #and you have to go through the City of Krat and lie to protect yourself #while you deal with the current Puppet Frenzy by striking down whatever gets in your way #It’s a REALLY fun snd amazingly written game 11/10 would highly recommend <3 #echosong971 #echo asks #echo answers #art #digital art #fanart #lies of p art #lies of p #p #pinocchio #lies of p pinocchio #gemini #lies of p gemini

[noxexistant]

in my heart all three of the jacobs siblings are just so weird. absolute weirdos (affectionate). into weird stuff and shameless about it, do not know how to Properly interact with anyone in any context, just overall Too Much. off-putting. loud. and they are so damn loved.

#davey talking too loud rambling about the most niche shit imaginable and race is paying Rapt attention #sarah laughing so hard at her own story (which isn’t especially funny to anyone else) that she can’t even finish it #les comes up with the Weirdest games and will ask literally anyone in the vicinity to play #they have so many inside jokes and little ways to communicate #they will frequently just do weird little dances at or around each other #make each other laugh so hard that only they can understand each other through their laughter #(sarah snorts when she laughs) #davey jacobs #sarah jacobs #les jacobs

[ahalliance]

qsmp francophone cubitos and their dynamic drive me wild, they all know they’re mutually lying and obscuring the truth to one another, they all know they’re keeping each other at arm’s distance, they all know they’re not as open as they once were when it was just them and the aftermath of a plane crash, but the love is still there. the worry and the concern. they pry information out of one another in supposedly subtle ways that really just convey how much they still care about each other. what’s your stance on the federation. how’s your code arm doing. even if in the end you don’t turn to me, please call out to someone. maybe looking out for yourself is looking out for others as well. i don’t know you anymore but i will protect the unknown anyway

#qsmp #qsmp french #jay rambles #i need to go sleep . said i’d go to sleep ages ago . rotating them in my mind anw . fawk #it’s like. they KNOW they’re not being frank with one another. and it’s almost a game they play #i ask you this question and you know what i mean . but i will not say it outright . #for how long can we dance around the topic until one of us spills the obvious out into the open air #<- etoiles broke first btw lmao . and he and baghera went right back to pretending like neither of them knew any better too #insane of them . fuck #(for context it was about bbh and ron . both him and baghz were prodding at each other trying to gauge how much the other knew #and etoiles at one point just said ‘oh my god i know you know baghera !!! please !!!!’ it was a very validating moment for french cubito #enjoyers . right until they went back to pretending nothing had happened . win) #shoutout to like two months ago when etoiles said smth along the lines of how baghera isn’t telling him everything bc she doesn’t trust him #i will explode and explode and explode #antoine’s whole Thing early on about being distrustful and wary of others and how it hurt that he wasn’t always told everything anymore #a slow unraveling of the status quo that you don’t even realised has happened until you look around you

[weadapt]

The conversation with Cal and Greez in the saloon where Greez is complaining about the state of his couch in the Mantis and saying he’s so annoyed he’s gonna replace it and then Cal telling him the couch is damaged because his teammate who died used to jump on it each time before a mission to psych herself up and that now every time he sits on the impression she caused on the couch it reminds him of her and Greez just not knowing what to say to Cal but lets him know he isn’t going to replace the couch cushions anymore because of what it means to Cal and I just—

#knife in heart sound #cal kestis #jedi survivor #merrin #star wars #merrical #jedi fallen order #greez dritus #nightsister merrin #jaro tapal #if anyone has a screenshot of the conversation please let me know I’m only remembering it from the first time I play the game #can cal please just not have anymore trauma is that too much to ask?????? #I swear the dialog sometimes Cal has with people as t the saloon and around town can be so sad #just line this boy can fit so much trauma #mc talks

[beebfreeb]

falling to my knees and begging please talk about your dimentio gender headcannon more

Dimentio is the character of all time to me. I see a design that is entirely covered head to toe in fabric with a mask on top and I go aha you want complete control over how other people perceive you!

I don't think he'd be all that familiar with the concept of being trans, and that it'd be unlikely that anyone would bring it up to him directly during the events of the game. This is what convoluted post-canon AUs that I have yet to meaningfully illustrate are for!

He is so focused on how he appears to other people that he'd fail to recognize what he wants from it (beyond just having that control) even if it would be extremely obvious if he were to ever verbalize it.

Anyway silly joke images upon you all:

#spm #funny talking tag #He based his identity around playing roles. He's not normal. #he came up with the name Dimentio when he was 16 and pretends he is not attatched to it at all #Also he would struggle to identify with the concept at first because while I DO think he is Transmasc #I do not think he is Man (binary) I think he's Dimentio (I like him he's some flavor of agender) #It is also very funny to say ''yeah this canonically male character. I think he is trans. By that I mean if you asked he'd say he's a girl'' #''Then in game he blows up and dies without ever figuring it out.''

[stealingpotatoes]

Favorite random side character that appeared for like 0.5 seconds (any Fandom really)

oh if its any fandom thats easy, it's absolutely miss white from dishonored. she's in one single mission of dh1, she shows up, slags off the hosts, potentially steals their shit, and flirts with you. and to top it all off she's super divorced w the man she talks to there. 10/10 best character ever

#i think i can convince sw ppl to play dishonored #not only are they the best games ever with an aesthetic n graphics that will make u go crazy #but CARRIE FISHER VOICES SOMEONE IN DH1 and PEDRO PASCAL VOICES SOMEONE IN DH2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #also rosario dawson in dh2 and doto but ik some ppl dont like her so i assume she's less of a selling point #u can just hang around pedro pascal's character's place and listen to him talk for ages its great #come on play dishonored i know you all want to #theres a tragic bodyguard romance. c'mon that covers so many sw ships if ur an obℹ️tine or 🅰️nidala then c'mon #(sorry i dont want this showing up in their tags LOL) #thanks for the ask! #s

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #p4g #persona 4 #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #HEY DO YOU GUYS EVER THINK ABOUT HOW POST CANON YOSUKE STILL CLEARLY HAS SUCH A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH NANAKO #the way nanako readily sits in betwn dojima and yosuke like its normal even though shes seeing her big bro again for the first time in mths #the way shes comfortable leaning over and asking yosuke things #like it wasnt even asking teddie even though teddie would be the friend like im just. #yosuke being a substitute for yu while he was going on and making sure nanako wasnt being too lonely??? #playing the big brother role for her as well because he knows yu would be worried about nanako and that nanako would be left to herself agn #and i just. I JUST!! the game consistently keeps hinting to us about how close yosuke is to the dojima household over and over again #they did it in p4d when dojima asked yosuke to pass a message on to yu (when he could have just texted?? or called?????) #like souyo or not (in my case yes) like theres just so much evidence that yosukes kept in close contact #its not even as simple as just a matter of him chaperoning teddie because hes obviously hanging around enough #that dojima and nanako both trust him immensely #like. they get it. THEY ALL GET IT #!!!!!!!

[papyrus-in-places-he-shouldnt-be]

Papyrus shouldn't be in... Wait.

#We're no strangers to loveYou know the rules and so do IA full commitment's what I'm thinking ofYou wouldn't get this from any other guy #I just wanna tell you how I'm feelingGotta make you understand #Never gonna give you upNever gonna let you downNever gonna turn around and desert youNever gonna make you cryNever gonna say goodbye #Never gonna tell a lie and hurt youWe've known each other for so longYour heart's been achingBut you're too shy to say it #Inside we both know what's been going onWe know the game and we're gonna play it #And if you ask me how I'm feelingDon't tell me you're too blind to see #Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you #papyrus in places he shouldn't be #papyrus #papyrus undertale #undertale #cool dude #rickroll #rick astley #april fools #never gonna give you up

[corefrisk]

hi!! Idk if you’re going to see this but I really love Core!Frisk and they’re an amazing character hfjfhvjvn—

idk if this counts as a question for core Frisk but how did you ever gain the confidence to post your own AU online? How did you know people would like it or smn?? How did you first feel about posting Core!Frisk online? (I suffer with problems of “I can’t post this because what if no one will see it/no one will like it/it’s kind of bad..”)

Sorry!! (Dunno why I’m apologizing hfjfhvjvn sorry whagshdgdhg) Also if you see this ty for answering aaaaaa

Hello! If you have an idea you love, draw and share it online and keep sharing about it, even if it doesn't get much response at first. A single post or few probably won't leave much of a dent, but eventually people will start asking you questions! And if you keep it up and make a bunch of stuff, people will have fun browsing through your old stuff even years later.

As for me, I just had a neat idea and I made some doodles and some comics, even though in retrospect the art quality is actually very subpar. Not to put myself down of course, I'm a good artist especially these days, I just mean that CORE!Frisk didn't capture people's hearts based on the quality of its artwork 🤣 People eventually started asking me questions, and those questions helped me to keep building the world and the character.

It's important to not get discouraged if you don't immediately get any attention, though. It doesn't mean no one cares about your work, it usually just means it wasn't able to reach a lot of people.

Use proper tags, keep it up, and for the love of god DON'T delete anything just because it didn't reach 100 notes by the end of the week! How are people supposed to find something that no longer exists?? There was this one artist I followed on Twitter and Pixiv whose artwork I loved and one day they just disappeared without trace, from all platforms. I still have their work saved as my phone wallpaper and it just makes me incredibly sad. It's why I never delete anything I made, even cringe stuff. Someone out there loves it!

#ask #ooc #it took like a whole year for hollow knight to blow up as a video game #i still remember when i BEGGED people to play it and i was the only one i knew who owned the game #if it's good ppl WILL eventually find you and stick around

[willowser]

for the spicy asks ✨bakugou and worked up? 👀 because i think once y’all actually get going he’s all systems go, he’s never been one to hold back in any other area of his life so why would he be restrained here? but at the same time i just KNOW he has to work himself up to actually initiate anything w/ you, he’s so nervous!!! that boy is an Overthinker!!!

lil whimsy 🥹🩷✨️ how sweet 🩷✨️

worked up : what is your f/o like when turned on ? are they desperate, tense, barely restrained ? how do they handle it ?

YEESSSSS omg exactly !! he IS an overthinker 🥺 i think when he's turned on, katsuki is kinda....hover-y....if he's in the office and i'm in the kitchen, he'll mosey in every now and again to see what i'm doing....and then mosey back out when he thinks he doesnt want to interrupt me LOL bc he hates feeling driven by his dick !! LMAOOO truthfully i wouldn't mind hehehe but !! he is how he is !!! and even when he's not home or we're not together, he'll send out a text or something, get brave enough behind a screen to send a lil 🩷 or a "love you" 🥺🥺 he wants me to think about him !!! wants me to know he's thinking of me !!! 🥺

for the most part, he's pretty restrained, and i think he kind of feels like. is it selfish of me to want to interrupt what you're doing just because of what i want ?? but you're right that once he gets going, all bets are off !! that's when it becomes obvious how long he's been kind of holding back, bc clothes start coming off pretty fast and he's near dragging me across the house back to the bedroom LOL

spicy/nsfw self ship asks 💐

#he's a very focused-on-his-goals kind of person !!! if he needs to do something he needs to do it and not fuck around #and that unfortunately spreads to like working from home and not wanting to get distracted from what he's doing #just bc i'm piddling about in the house in my pjs hehe #or vice versa; he doesnt want to *be* a distraction against what i'm doing just bc he's getting all hot and bothered over nothing LOL #so when he's kind of playing the waiting game or trying to determine when the best time is to make his move #he's definitely tense LOL #what a DORK i'm eating him alive btw #✿ ask willow #✿ ask game #✿ will x katsuki

[rillette]

Pretty boy! Everyone you draw is so pretty lmao

TYSM!!! That's very sweet of you to say! T^T <3 <3 <3

#jason todd #basketball #asks <3 #ty for the ask!! #and the kind words <3 #he's fucking eepy!! #if anyone is wondering im still blasting chromatica #real chromatica hours #i love the idea of capes taking public transit (spidey ps4 game this is for u specifically my love) #does new jersey have a metro system or is it like extra shit there #they cant not have a metro right theyre like a fart away from new york #considering gotham is like. two islands. how does their train system work like is it all above ground or what #also i looked it up nj does have some subway lines #WAIT. they had metro in the batman movie. all is well #batman movie my beloved i love the worldbuilding so much. the trash on the ground blowing in the wind <3 #no they def have to have an underground rail system bc bruce's cave is in the abandonded station right. its there #i love you worldbuilding. anyways i love capes taking public transit very muchly its such a mundane concept but like since its superheros #its automatically like woahhh this guy could FLY and hes taking the TRAIN like a LOSER. sick em boys!!!! such a silly idea to play around w #i should go to bed i think ill stop rambling in the tags of this very nice ask now lol

[automatonknight]

id: a digital drawing of a blue engineer and walenty-an original character. walenty is pale, has long, black hair with horns, a tail and claws. he's wearing square glasses, fingerless gloves, a green, floral shirt over a black tank top and black shorts and shoes. kit is holding a fishing rod in kits right hand. engineer is wearing his hardhat and goggles, a blue shirt, dark blue overalls and brown boots. he also has a fishing rod swung over his shoulder. he and walenty are walking next to eachother, with walenty on the left and engie on the right. the background shows a pine forest. end id

#looks around. hi #art #fanart #dst oc #not superrrr happy with it but hey! it's something. or whatever #walenty also looks like that one philosopher image. having a deep conversation about constant's fish #i sketched this like. fucking ages ago when i first played that one REALLY fucking nice engie character mod i love it so much. i really wan #to draw his roseate skin sometimes too..... #actually let me check it out who made it #<goat slice! very nice mod. i'd say for someone more advanced if you wanna build the buildings and stuff but i fucking. suck at this game #and i was doing just fine so idk.+who cares about skill level. looks its my favorite guy from video game in another video game i like! yay! #^incomprehensible fucking tags sorry. bleeehh #ok bye. i might draw something with walenty and scout later though #ALSO. to that one anon who sent me an ask saying that a walenty and engie fishing trip would be cool....i love you forever from my heart

[dimitrscu]

when i see someone put both radahn and malenia in s tier on their boss ranking list

#you get it you get it #being a fan of both of those fights is hard when everyone constantly has them on opposite ends of the spectrum #‘​radahn is the best fight they’ve ever made!’ … ‘malenia is the worst fight they’ve ever made!’ congrats. both wrong 😀 #honestly the best fight they’ve ever made isn’t even in elden ring lmao #i mean ‘best’ fight is kind of subjective anyway so whatever #but seriously i know it’s an impossible thing to ask but people really need to learn to enjoy multiple things at once #with my top three bosses in elden ring two of them took me a little while to come around to #i feel like that has been the case for quite a few people as they play the game more #there’s a few bosses where the first time i fought them i was like eh they’re okay #and now they are some of my favourite bosses to fight #anyway like what you like obviously #i know people can get touchy about these sorts of things #having an opinion on a souls game these days is like kicking a hornets nest

[latin-dr-robotnik]

Cosmic Eternity - Believe in Yourself (Sonic CD)

Happy 30th anniversary to my second favorite Sonic game ever!

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic music #sonic cd #sonic cd my beloved #i have everything set up to release my big cd retrospective today #it's gonna be a great day #30 years of one of the most unique sonic games ever #if you ask me this game is peak sonic in almost every way #they nailed the aesthetics #the music and the attitude #level design and structure... were experimental but cool to play around #if sonic 3 weren't a thing this would absolutely be my all-time favorite sonic game