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if you think the posts i make are bad you should see the thoughts i am thinking. in my mind

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– how many times have u watched the video from Neil Newbon where he said with Astarion’s accent “it’s Britney, bitch’??

- yes.

source: inst: teamneilnewbon

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DAWNBREAKER

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alright i am readyto catch it

toss me the object and i will catch it because im peepared

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i have some mutuals who lowkey no matter what the fuck they posted i would never unfollow and always like their posts

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I call him Wheezlep.

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VOGUE ROGUE

Sorry not sorry, I was really inspired by this video 🤣

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"please don't stick a q tip in your ears, our product can damage your eardrums" lies. they're trying to stop you from hitting the ear g spot. they're in league with the church

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when one character brokenly says “i have nothing to offer you” and the other character looks at them with fond exasperation, because there’s nothing else they could want except the gift of their love. that shit gets me.

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Fanfic writers are like crows. If you give them treats (comments) they will bring you shiny things (fanfic)

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Victorian vampire outfit by Devilinspiredofficial on ig.

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Did you know that the "touch" description of empty bottles in The Marble Nest is a Peter quote ? because I realized it just now and I am sobbing Daniil sees something as mundane and usual as an empty bottle and immediately thinks of his deceased friend good god stop why must you hurt me this way

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what is up with the marble nest's cover artwork??

It's beautifully drawn and all, but lemme just zoom in a bit

Oh there we go now I can cry my ass off-

WHY DOES ARTEMY LEAN IN SO CLOSE TO DANIIL??! HE LOOKS SO GENUINELY DISTAUGHT COMPARED TO CLARA

CAN WE ALSO TALK ABOUT THE IMPLICATION THAT IN THE MARBLE NEST, ARTEMY WAS ALIVE WHILE DANIIL WAS DYING?? BUT DANIIL THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD IN THE DREAM STATE??

THEY ARE IN LOVE YOUR HONOUR AND IT MAKES IT ALL THE MORE SADDER IF YOU TAKE THIS PIECE LITERALLY.

Like, Daniil was on his deathbed, the kids were frantically trying to help him, and Artemy went in to check on Daniil and just- fucking holds onto him in his final moments. ALSO LOOK AT HOW TIGHTLY ARTEMY IS CLENCHING HIM!! JESUS CHRIST FUNNY OBSCURE RUSSIAN GAME MAKING ME CRY IN THE CLUB

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Made some gifs out of unused shots from when I was shooting for The Marble Nest, For Those Who Will Never Play It. If ya’ll like these lmk and I’ll be happy to make more cause I have literal hours of unused footage

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Need to rant about the Marble Nest because I just. I cannot get over it. It is everything to me. Every time I hear “Birdies… birdies… Gather ye here…” I want to eat door hinges and run up the walls and put myself in a blender

There’s something utterly tragic to me about the image of Daniil lying in bed delirious and feverish and dying while these children who care about this weird Capital doctor so much are trying to break his fevers like he taught them to, and it fucks me up even more considering when Spichka asks Daniil who looks after him when he’s sick Daniil just. Doesn’t answer him. And the narrator’s line (I love that they got Martin Cooke he absolutely ate and imo elevates the entire game) “a warm, dry hand seemed to have touched your forehead soothingly. It’s going to be all right” OH MY GOD I just. I can only wretch and sob about the fact that Daniil is being taken care of and at least for a moment he feels like it’s all going to be okay, exactly as he’s been saying throughout the beginning. Also when the narrator says “Somewhere, bells are chiming, softly. Bells are chiming around the marble nest. The bells, are chiming, softly.” Not only does Cooke’s delivery make me feral beyond words (particularly that last one where he whispers ‘softly’) but I mean. surely this is referring to Daniil hearing his own goddamn funeral bells which just SCREAMING CRYING BITING SCRATCHING COMMITTING UNSPEAKABLE ACTS. 

Plus when Spichka warns Daniil against giving Shrew nuts because, as we learn, Shrew wants to let Daniil die. I unfortunately can’t find the exact quote but I believe Spichka says smth about how Shrew doesn’t think it’s right for Daniil to suffer as he is (there is blood in my mouth !!!!!). She clearly just wants Daniil to rest and not be in pain anymore; she thinks she can create a Focus so she can still talk to him. I’m also Highly Emotional about Spichka because he’s so adamant about Daniil continuing to live, even if it’s just in his fever dream, this poor kid just wants Daniil to keep going. These kids have known Daniil Bitchelor for all of ten days and they care about him so much !!! 

I’m also hung up on everyone telling Daniil that he doesn’t know how to die properly, especially when Aspity likens him to a child covering his eyes because he doesn’t want to see the truth, which gets me too because it makes me think about how defeated and afraid Daniil probably is when he realizes what’s going on. I think it’s even more tragic in the sense that Daniil is dying having failed to meet Simon and save Thanatica, failed to prove death can be conquered, and couldn’t even protect the Town from the plague, either, and I can’t imagine Daniil would handle any of that well. I feel like he’d think everything—plague and all—was his fault, especially with the context of the Executor/Death saying, “Who was the murderer: a sickness that let no second go to waste—or you, who bothered not to hurry? I think it’s the latter.” 

Also when Daniil does agree to die properly and the Executor tells Daniil “Give me your hand,” and Daniil can say “Here it is”,,,,,, Yes I am being dramatic but actually it makes me insane to imagine Daniil finally taking Death’s hand after fighting it for so many years. Even though I love this horrible little man with all my heart, I disagree with his whole “no more death” thing. I’m not going to like. Expound on my philosophy about death here aafnkgk but suffice it to say I like the idea of Daniil accepting that death is not something that can be defeated; though, I don’t think his idealism is useless or a negative trait, only that it has to be tempered with some realism. 

So here is as good a point as any to scream about endings. 

It’s a cycle. A pause. Things will change. And the day starts anew.

That. Tjat second sentence is lodged in my cortex and it is not coming out I ougghh I love stories that repeat so much. And I’ve played the Marble Nest just. Too many times (and I’ll do it again) and I might be imagining it, because I’ve never seen anyone else talk about it, but every time I’ve gotten a different ending the game is a little different when I play it again. I find that extremely immersive if I’m not just gaslighting myself, because it puts the player in the same situation as Daniil, with things changing subtly; you get to accompany Daniil on his Fun Fever Delirium Death Adventure. On the one hand I think it’s a little painful that Daniil is going to just live in this delirium forever, but on the other one, I like how Daniil’s decision to repeat the day encapsulates continuing to fight for life, even if it seems hopeless or in vain.  It feels very “Do not go gentle into that good night / Rage, rage against the dying of the light"

And finally The transition is real, and the timeline continues. So does the entity I call myself.

I don’t want to get into meta too much, but. I kind of like this line knowing people have written/drawn/etc. endings to this nightmare where Artemy saves him with panacea (Magpie Crown’s “Conjunction of Spheres” animatic !!). All these different endings people have given Daniil’s story in general. This is silly but I like to think of it as yeah, The Powers That Be played a cruel game with you, but other people are kinder to you (or make you suffer more, depends on their persuasion). Your story keeps going, depending on who picks up the thread, you’re going to keep going. 

Anyway everyone go watch CodexEntry’s video on the Marble Nest <3