Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

Babe you’re so delusional you belong in a Dostoevsky novel

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

The Typing of the Dead (Smilebit / Sega - Dreamcast - 2000)

'The House of the Dead' was released on the Model 2 Arcade board 27 years ago this month in Japan.

jack and ianto are simultaneously the definition and the antithesis of slow burn

Japanese magazine ad for the Saturn version of "The House of the Dead".

Back cover illustration for Gamest's Game Parody 4-Koma Grand Prix Vol. 10, by Kazuya Tani.

i am thinking about house of the dead i am thinking about jackrose and jackianto i am thinking about orpheus and eurydice shrimp emotions are being felt

Ianto and Jack quotes from The House of The Dead / Children of Earth: Day Four + the quote inspired by this post / Talk by Hozier / Orpheus Mourning the Death of Eurydice (1814) by Ary Scheffer

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from Notes from the House of the Dead

Text ID: Here is the world to which I am condemned, in which, despite myself, I must somehow live.

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

The House of the Dead (again and always)

It is impressive that no matter how many times I listen to Janto interactions I always feel it like the first time: the grief, the desperation, the giddiness - all comes back to me. Once again, I listened to the House of the Dead and got re-broken by it. But there is something else.

I think I heard the exact moment that is so perfectly Ianto Jones that it would have made me love him even more if it was possible. I’m talking about the realization and fear in his voice when he listens to Jack’s plan of closing the rift. "You're not planning on coming back, are you?" is said in a very different sober manner than Ianto’s previous lines (GDL is truly amazing). And doesn't that perfectly sum up Ianto Jones? Look, just a moment ago he experienced something so terrible and heartbreaking - he’d learned about his own death and probably (falsely) confirmed for himself that he doesn't mean anything to Jack (although Jack explains how much Ianto means to him, he goes about it so "horribly" wrong). I can understand Ianto's anger - he just heard that person he loves had not attended his funeral. And for someone, whose biggest insecurity is not being remembered this is such a hard blow. But what is so beautifully Ianto is that the moment he realizes the danger to Jack, he pulls himself together, hides all his feelings and starts playing a devastating con that he knows will bring about his death -  the very death he was so horrified to learn about just a minute ago. I feel like in that moment he still doubts Jack's love for him but it doesn’t matter to him anymore. Priority is to save Jack (I think that saving the world for Ianto will always come second to saving Jack and I find that beautiful).

This ability to go from devastation and anger to an act of pure love in a second is what makes Ianto Jones the best Whoniverse character for me - me, who doesn’t think there is anything more beautiful than loyal love.

Favorite Sega Character Losers Bracket Round 2

Unpopular opinion the house of the dead isn’t that good I don’t understand why people like it so much