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#the lighting in my room here is so good#the first ive felt a lil okay about myself in a couple of weeks so here are are some unsettling gifs 🫡#i’m also so excited i found this shirt when i moved back home i am indeed out of order#selfie
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its 2am im posting the friend i made for Derry since they looked lonely. they're partners in crime except not bc Derry is too sleepy to participate past the idea stage
jesterly is not their real name 💅 their pronouns are whatever is funniest in the moment 💅 also i would punch them in the face if given the chance and they would deserve it
#drawing them together is solidifying the fact that i cant draw consistent character size/height differences#holy SHIT they are all over the place the lot of em#also i resent jesterly on principle now#bc it took my like. two hours of constant recoloring to get to a somewhat decent look#i wanted to make their color scheme a little unsettling AND NOW THEYRE BRIGHT FUCKING PINK AND RAINBOW-#jesterly i am in your house with a shotgun#they were gonna have like... dark maroon felt w/ violent orange cheeks#and an equally sinister outfit#LOOK AT THEM. THEYRE A WALKING BANANA CREAM PIE. FUCK.#scribble salad#welcome home oc#why is it that whenever i create two characters meant to be partners (platonic or otherwise)#they immediately start becoming a little fucked up#whats up with that. huh. why do they always get Violent#jesterly has existed for all of three hours#and i already need to keep them on a tight fucking leash#my brain: oh and they love pranks! fun! but sometimes they take it too far and whoops arson & blood is happening but theyre still laughing-#NO!! take it back a notch bitch!!! reel it in!!!!#originally jesterly was gonna be like... a park ranger or forest-dwelling type character or something#but. i really love jesters#people always talk about 'oh prince/princess/royalty & dragon'#or 'oh knight & dragon'#name a more iconic duo than jester & dragon. motherfucker. ill wait. YOU CANT.#and now jesterly exists and i dont like them. but also im attached#theyre in my brain now and they wont leave#as a visual: im trying to sleep and theyre blasting caramelldansen in the same room#sadistic little bastard.
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*Spoilers*
*AGAIN SPOILERS*
Ya’ll really need to watch Yang frame by frame after the whole Ruby thing because that poor girl is so shaken to her core that she’s barely processing what’s going on around her.
I’m excited to see her next episode because I want to see exactly how Yang reacts to processing that she just lost her little sister to the unknown.
#i can't remember where i heard this but someone said v9 was therapy and they lied#i am in pain#team rwby is in pain#yang is a good sister btw why are there arguments over that#Ruby is also a good little sister *spoken from a little sister's point of view* she's just goin thru it rn#it is the fact that she technically offed herself in front of them that's unsettling#ruby rose#rwby#yang xiao long#spoilers#rwby volume 9 spoilers
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It caught me off guard but there’s this exchange between Hosea and Arthur that for me happened right after the bear hunt, where Arthur suddenly says his back hurts, and Hosea gleefully says “well lie down and let me get crackin” and Arthur is like haha NOOOooooo! no thank you I am backing away from this interaction haha! the implications are killing me
1. Hosea gives back massages
2. Hosea is extremely enthusiastic
3. Said massages are terrifying for the recipients, to the point that it has become a running joke in the gang.
#red dead redemption 2#rdr2#I. also like the idea of him actually giving a massage when needed not as a joke or intimidation tactic#but also I feel like maybe. Dutch tried to order him to give an unneeded back massage when Hosea was in the middle of something#and Hosea pinned him down and meticulously passive aggressively cracked all his joints and wrenched all his joints loose#in a medically helpful but completely unsettling way#you made me put down my goddamn book I'll give you a goddamn massage but I am leaving my bedside manner with the book#which you made me put down on the other side of camp.#Dutch got up fully relaxed and flexible. and shaking in his boots. a full hour later.#he was not allowed to opt out when he thought they were done#hosea matthews#talk to me about the ginseng and crime novel loving old man#edit: found the actual context for this it's in the notes
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here, i'm gonna spill some more ink over studio bones' decisions adapting ???% in mob psycho 100's confession arc... in a lighter color, perhaps.
some manga readers are upset at the lack of separation between '???%' and 'mob' in the anime vs the clear separation in the manga. that separation doesn't exist in the original japanese.
mob's 声優 (seiyuu) setsuo itō's voice acting in this scene from MP100's first season is by turns startling and visceral (tbh, most of the VA work in this scene is amazing, but i'm only referring to mob here).
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given the above, i expected a voice come up from the depths of hell for ???% in the confession arc, but bones and itō-san did not indulge my whims here. what they gave us instead...
...actually reflects the source material.
while there is an audible distinction between ???%'s nonchalant contempt and mob's considerably-more-animated (thanks to all that emotional growth we've seen over the course of the story!) upset, they sound like the same person in the anime... because they are. i thought this a tidy way to convey that fact, and this subtle distinction is not that different in feel from what we see on the page in the original language.
inside the teenager's mind, shigeo (???%) and mob quarrel in the same font. tails on their speech bubbles eventually disappear as they continue to argue with each other. i found this pointed lack of separation a little confusing on first read, but eventually became used to it.
(for a breakdown of this full conversation in the manga, check out @exilepurify's awesome translation post.)
shigeo chafes at the thought of considering others' needs. he scorns mob for bending himself into a shape he thinks will suit tsubomi, mocks mob's desire to blend into the background and somehow escape notice. his own wish for tsubomi to accept him in all his explosive vainglory doesn't take her wishes into account, either.
and yet. his desires are subordinate to mob's.
he wants what mob wants -- only without that whole pesky 'consideration for other people' thing -- and he wants to keep mob alive. their full conversation reveals just how much shigeo actually loves mob.
for all practical purposes, any distinctions between shigeo and mob -- private vs public, subconscious vs conscious -- only exist in the boy's head. even then, they have been unfairly imposed... by mob himself.
the teenager laying waste to seasoning city?
the teenager his friends and family love?
one and the same.
his loved ones and allies address him with the names by which they know him; they assume he's the same person, just experiencing an involuntary loss of control and in need of some help. it's important to emphasize that. drastically different voices for shigeo and mob would have drawn a hard line between them where there is none.
studio bones removed and/or internalized ???%'s lines, apparently robbing him of speech. but ???% is talking to himself, and no one else can hear him.
in the manga, shigeo seizes control of the boy's speech centers and speaks out loud as ???%, in a scratchy, rough font meant to evoke a harsh voice. (it's the same font used for ???%'s last brief, conscious takeover when mob discovers the crispy fried corpses of his family in their merrily crackling home! you can hear itō-san's delightful interpretation of it in episode 9 from the second season.)
he says:
｢僕の好きにやらせてもらう。」
boku no s'ki ni yarasete morau.
'i'll be free to do whatever i want.'
or more literally: 'i will take [from you] the allowance to do as i please.' his use of 貰う here emphasizes that he is forcing mob's hand.
this line and the shift in viewpoint serve to highlight the exact moment where shigeo gains the advantage in his argument with mob.
mob and shigeo squabble for external control for a while; ONE shows this by letting them both speak aloud in this same rough voice. both sides of the fight between the two (at least after 'i'll be free to do whatever i want') can actually be heard from the outside. we only get a few small panels of this as it's happening, but it's unnerving.
shigeo, who is winning this battle, not only gets far more lines as seen from without, but his harsh rasp even colors mob's external speech. this is mob's only line the mangaka lets us see in that font, and it's heartbreaking:
｢だって… もしこれが本当の僕の姿だっていうなら…」
datte... mosh' kore ga hontou no boku no sugata datte iu nara...
'because... if this [???%] is what i really am, as you say...
the line continues within:
｢本当の僕になんて誰も近寄らない。誰も… 誰も助けてくれない。そんなの嫌いだ。」
hontou no boku ni nante daremo ch'kayoranai. daremo... daremo tas'kete kurenai. sonna no kirai da.
'no one will come anywhere near the real me. no one... no one will be there for me. i won't have that.'
the full takeover, which happens a bit later, is marked by:
shigeo's dissolution of and absorption of mob's consciousness into himself;
reigen's ｢すまない｣ (sumanai, 'i'm sorry') for not knowing the nature of what his deshi was struggling to contain;
???%'s last glance back at the man before pressing on towards his goal... as reigen begs him to wait, running after him.
thereafter, we see ???% from without. we get two short glimpses of shigeo's internal perspective before dimple's reappearance, then rejoin him inside for his last explosion with mob.
the anime depicts the moment of full takeover thusly:
shigeo's dissolution of and absorption of mob's consciousness into himself;
a ｢すまない｣ from reigen, who senses something has gone even more wrong with the boy and renews his pursuit... begging him to wait;
shigeo's turning his back on reigen and walking on. we see him spurning his mentor from the inside, his face hardening against a stark black backdrop.
the outward shift happens on-screen too. while it eventually returns to an internal view just as the manga does, it largely stays there, owing to a serious expansion of the scene where shigeo indulges his thirst for revenge on reigen.
except for an audible sigh when teru remarks on how normal his friend's losing control of himself actually makes him, anime shigeo speaks to no one.
???% is alone when he speaks in the manga; reigen is nowhere within earshot and shigeo is only addressing mob. in other words, he's talking to himself. shigeo never utters a word to anyone else in either manga or anime, as if he owes no one an explanation for the choice to sack his hometown or injure his friends.
as bone-chilling and unsettling as ???% speaking out loud is on the page, as much as it enhances the reading experience... in my opinion, it adds nothing new to our understanding of this situation on the screen. viewers can see for themselves that:
an internal takeover has occurred in this boy's mind,
???% is sentient and human and ever so divinely enraged at having been chained up for so long;
???% is finally free.
so why should studio bones belabor this point by having him shout, in the middle of a tornado, to no one in particular? if a boy speaks in a tornado, and there is no one around to hear it, does he make a sound... ?
i also don't know that this would translate well to film. in real life, talking to oneself like that usually carries connotations of psychosis, and resolving it as is done here would honestly be an insult to real-life sufferers. i love it to pieces in the manga but understand why this was cut.
the only things removing ???%'s outward speech loses for me are:
one last opportunity for itō-san to flex that audible jump-scare STOMACH-TWISTING SNARL (oh, i will miss it so);
a slightly-less-vague sense of how shigeo might make his wishes known to tsubomi, were he to present himself to her like this... he wants her approval so badly, and is terrified of not getting it. would he be able to speak to her at all? in the manga the question becomes what would he even say to her?
#mob psycho 100#mp100#mp100 meta#mp100 anime#mp100 manga#mp100 manga spoilers#sometimes adaptations give you new perspective on the source material#and pose new interesting questions#1-cour anime adaptations are summaries and should be appraised as such#what would ???% say to tsubomi if he met her in this state?#would he be able to speak to her at all?#???% talking to himself is unsettling AF#???% is fun to think about#this is a long post#thanks for reading#let me be clear#i am not uncritical of the anime confession arc#翻訳#manga translation#if a boy speaks in a tornado#and there's no one around to hear it#does he make a sound... ?#i like that ???% isn't entirely silent in the anime#just nonverbal#which also raises a whole host of fascinating implications#to be tackled in another post#kageyama shigeo#分析
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existential
#vflower#v4 flower#v4flower#vocaloid#vocaloid flower#my art#ms paint#tw eyestrain#tw unsettling#tw staring#<- just making sure#i love just going crazy on ms paint like this sometimes#although it's more personal art i like how this one turned out#ALSO FOR ANYONE ASKING i am fine. this isn't vent art#and also pls click on it to see anything
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the urge to make this my new icon everywhere and not just on dc is so strong you WILL look at them
#i am holding them up to the camera and begging at u with my big unsettling puppy dog eyes#sometimes i remember the final season ended in 2019 and yet here i still am#im about to make so much more twdg art#im embracing my brand#want to do a line up of all the ericson kids so i can nail their shapes down for comics#also redrawing a lot of scenes/shots ive been wanting to do since like 2018#AND once i get all these school accounts settled i have at Least one storyboard i plan on doing#doodles
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pushing my bruce wayne has gray eyes agenda
#ppl confuse gray eyes with rlly light blue bc they are so stark and striking#but they are actually gray and very rare and our closest immediate guess when we see them is light blue#i am pushing my bruce wayne has unsettling gray eyes that jump out at you agenda#he has PEEPERS and everyone does a double take when they look at them...#everyone else has normal blue green brown whatever eyes#dick grayson has nice warm blue eyes#jason has a mix of blue green but they are still pretty dark#ill give tim his weirdo light blue eyes [get him some contacts PLEASE]#and even though damian has canon green eyes i want them to be dark... if i had my way he would have beautiful doe brown eyes#HE DESERVES BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES OKAY#he and cass can match <33333#steph can have color changing eyes she also deserves that- like hazel eyes that change color with the light#barbara has pretty dark green eyes but like a kaleidoscope#duke has deep deep brown eyes- like almost black.... deep enough to fall in love with... WHO SAID THAT#anyway#bruce wayne
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the urge to write spideypool grows stronger everyday
#spideypool#i mean it's not my usual type of fic yk im an x reader person#but i am so obsessed with their dynamic in the comics#and i also really want to explore the potential horror of peters powers#well not exactly horror but more unsettling yk like palatable than he's usually presented#idk man kinda sexy
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My hyper-specific type when it comes to otome guys:
- Absolutely pathetic
- Cannot speak to a girl normally to save his life
- Tries to be calm/aloof, but turns tsundere when flustered enough
- A good and pure man at heart, yet does some questionable things
- ...Little Red Riding Hood???
#heart fragment#taisho x alice#otome#doofenshmirtz voice: if i had a nickel for every time i fell in love with a video game guy heavily associated to little red riding hood...#..i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice!#i made this post basically as a way to announce i played heart fragment recently. and uh. it's REALLY GOOD#i probably do love clive the most (and i was immediately interested/biased considering his similarities to Red) but...#the rest of the cast is great too! I ADORE shannon and i am beyond ready to figure out what jasper's deal is#and honestly i'm into the mystery and the strained family relationship aspects too. just great writing all around even beyond the romances#this is one of Those Games that messes with you and the more you play it the more it sneaks new creepy stuff in#whatever the hell is going on with inigo in the dreams is unsettling. and i love it.#but seriously i'd recommend this to any otome fan and ESPECIALLY taiali fans considering the similarities go far beyond just this#you like fairy tales? you like exploring psychological issues and trauma? this is the game for you#also you can date guys AND girls which is a rare treat! again - i LOVE shannon. i just... love clive even more#but to be fair i think the hangup is that no matter what you're very close and friendly with shannon#so even if you don't romance her you still have a great relationship with her regardless#meanwhile with clive he's starting as a stranger and you basically have to be a jerk to him or blow him off which hurts my heart#and also clive seems to fall kind of fast and hard for you so the relationship developing in a romantic direction just feels. right IMO#i can accept being just besties with shannon (even though I definitely still love her romance outcomes)#but it pains me to spurn clive's affections#on an unrelated note i do intend to post my thoughts (basically a review) of winter's wish: spirits of edo#but i want to finish getting the sorrow endings for CGs and lore which means a second run through several routes
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Porfiry telling Raskolnikov that at least he was honest and in one bound took the furthest leap to put his theory to the test of actual action——
#Taylor believing a man who is obviously lying to her#like. it’s fascinating to me how they’ll say anything to her and she’ll be like ‘okay let’s go’#she’s never read Jane Austen and it shows. but that’s okay because she’s the character in an Austen novel#she has no sense of self-preservation she has no common sense when it comes to love#and the reason I have endless patience for that is because she IS different. she is extraordinary. she is WEIRD. she’s so needy#so angry so fragile so stupid so brilliant so completely helpless#like the bolter———I can’t even LOOK at it right now#because you know she was like this since she was 5 and SHE knows it#just so. Different. so strange. I mean she ruled her family with an iron fist from the age of 11#and her packaging is so basic and she she had so much access to everything anyone could want#so there are none of the usual marks of someone being so Different#but like. people HATED her from day one. you know her own strength of personality was drawing out many people’s hatred or envy#and she’s so helpless in her own personality because she can never change#like thank you aimee? or whatever? heck yeah there was some girl who bullied her and brutalized her on the playground#and you know it devastated Taylor from day one and still does#and it’s just. I don’t know how people can’t see that someone with that extraordinary set of gifts#wouldn’t also suffer in such an extraordinary way#and ways that elicit so much scorn and non-sympathy because people are unsettled and jealous and annoyed by her#because she WILL find a way to win#but isn’t that proof enough that she is the very OPPOSITE OF NORMAL#it’s why people have to be like ‘oh she sold her soul to the devil for this success.’ or whatever the psy-op spy thing is#because there’s no human way to explain her success if she really were as basic/talentless as people say#ugh this is all so incoherent and irritating and I’m so sorry but I just. I cannot explain how protective my heart is of her#and all the many many mistakes she’s made and the prisons she’s made for herself because she’s LIVING the tragedy#of never having denied herself one time/getting everything she wants#and discovering the poison at the bottom of everything she reached for with desperate hands#like. I love her so much and I am so protective of her because she is so helpless and she is getting shot in the face every time#and she feels every blow!#whew I need to turn off reblogs and will probably delete but I just#this album is all of her spilled out and people DO hate to see it because a lot of people hate her!!!!
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I have found a beautiful perfect humble rock specimen that is light yellow with a weird dark yellowy brown lining, somewhat resembling a chunk of smoked gouda cheese... effervescent
#I am still very into trash collecting at the moment and even went out and got one of those grabby sticks for cheap and a little#bucket I can carry around and put trash in. so I am going on walks in nature a bit more (not really to enjoy nature but more to play the#very fun Real Life Hidden Object Point And Click Game that is 'hunt for bottle caps and cans' .. but eh.. whatever gets me out of the#house lol).. anyway.. some nature places near water will have cool rocks#Which I know you're not supposed to take them and I MOSTLY dont.. but every once in a while it's like... when else will I ever find a#gouda rock... I have cleaned up 4 buckets of trash today.. I have helped the environment.. mayhaps.. i could take a One Single Rocke as a#treate... ANYWAY. but yeah. I don't know the names of rocks but there's a rock that's a matte muted marigold yellow sort of#color and I call them 'cheese rock'. I'm pretty sure this one is of the 'cheese rock' species but it just has weird brown coloration#like maybe it got stained or something on one side of it. Most of the other cheese rocks have no markings. though sometimes there will be a#auburn reddish sort of hue on a corner or something.. hrmm.. curious. I also got a Beginner's Hobby rock tumbler and some supplies#so I might try polishing some of the rocks from my enormous rock collection. even though they're all street rocks I picked up from sidewalk#and stuff. I saw a video where someone put random gravel and stuff in a rock tumbler and none of them were Stunning Gems or whatver#but some still turned out cool enough that I would be pleased with the result... OUgh.. I want to post more I need to like do costumes and#sculptures and stuff and be Active On Social Media and think about my Future and Career and how it always benefits artists to keep an#active social media or etc. but I just feel so tired and bad lately. I think the summer heat waves have really exhausted me. I also have#been trying to make new friends + on a weird schedule so I've been socializing and also watching media too much. I notice I always start#to feel this kind of unsettled stress of not making any forward progress in my life if I do that for too long. like 'Okay this week I've#done nothing but meet up with two friends & watch like 10 episodes of tv and only worked on a few projects on the side.. this is HORRIBLE!'#(ppl who follow me here that I talk to on discord: this isn't about you! Im specifically just referencing being tired of introductory talks#with a new round of random strangers during my Friend Hunt. Just clarifying so it couldn't be misinterpreted as vaguepost implying that I'm#secretly bothered by talking to you or etc. lol.. anyway) . Which I know to MOST people 'I talked to a lot of friends and watched some cool#stuff!' sounds like a GOOD relaxing time but.. to me it is not ghhj.. Those are 'external' focuses on things outside myself which bothers#me if not moderated. Like.. i MUST retreat internally to work on my worldbuilding and my own thoughts and etc. at very regular intervals or#it will really start to bear on me too much. Brain Mandated Hermit Isolation lol. Just being too detached from my world and stuff for#too long feels increasingly bad. PLUS. every day I don't make tangible progress towards my goals is a day wasted that I could have been#investing in my future by working on novels/games/sculptures/actual career relevant stuff. Not even in a Capitalism way i just genuinely#enjoy Completing Tasks & feel miserable if I don't for too long. EVEN the media I'm watching I turn into A Task since I rank in a detailed#google doc list after viewing lol.. Like EW movie too boring on it's own. NEED to turn it into something I can categorize and analyze ghghj#LOVE to make things more complicated than they need to be. like YAAAY organizational tasks! yaay meticulous sorting!! BOO ''mindless fun''!
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I need to be weirder. I need to hang out/talk with more intensely weird and deeply genuine people, and more frequently
#franposting#apropos of me being weirder and more terrible and more honest lately#and it feels. good? mentally clearer. more at peace#this isnt some oh small talk is bullshit nonsense#it has a place! we need socisl scripts to be polite and function sometimes!#i am simply saying that i personally have spent far too long being the idea of a person. the mask of one#that i want to start being a real person. my pinocchio ass out here like#people pleasing out of fear needs to stop. you can be unsettling. babe. babe its okay. you can laugh ugly and loud and be strange#and too intense and think too much and say strange things#and the world wont end. you can be a person warts and all#it is so weird. and also lowkey pathetic that i am only realizing this now aged 27#like. my fear didnt make me more palatable or more loved.#it just made me lonely AND more depressed#i might still be isolated and lonely and offputting. but at least i can laugh at myself in joy in the meanwhile#idk if that makes any sense but it does to me so maybe thats all that matters for this post#ANYWAY everyone who ive been talking w lately#(yall know who u are)#im like. thank u. thank u
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@jellyfish-fingernail
gently places him into your hand … take good care of him !!
#i love this guy he’s so me fr#i am physically incapable of drawing something unsettling or scary everything i make is cute#kinda ironic since a lot of my interests are horror or just disturbing in some way#idk if that’s a blessing or a curse#ok figuring out how to tag this uhm#david firth#b/w cartoon about berries#b/w cartoon about roof tiling#fatpie#do people actually look at these tags or is this completely unnecessary#oh well.#sorry about the shitty lineart my hands are super shaky tonight#also tumblr turned it into pixels for some reason#i don't like how the white outline turned out but i can't rlly fix it now bleghhhh#ok i gotta sleep now it's 4 am goodnight. snnorkk mimimimi#> rust's art <
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i recently had the opportunity to commission the amazing @666chevy on twitter for a spread of diana (and wesker, of course) !! this came out perfect and i haven’t stopped staring at it since ♡ chevy is so kind and easy to work with, and he did diana so much justice, so i just cannot recommend him enough if you’d like to get a commission done !
#commissions.#oc: diana#pair: ewskers#i just can't get over this it's so beautiful and chevy captured diana's vibes so well !! she just looks amazing and i'm holding this so#gently in my hands like augh this is so precious to me !!! honestly best birthday ever to get surprise art from my beloved bestie and then#to receive this comm a couple days later !! thank you again so so much chevy if you see this cause i'm not sure how active you are on here#but i am still so in awe by this and the different lighting/filter options you sent as well like just thank you so much !! 💖💖#please go support him if you're able guys like even just check out their other artworks !!! they're all so amazing and i was instantly blown#away by his art style and was like omg i need to commission...i need to !!! i'm just so in love with diana's vibes in this !! truly got the#unsettling and arrogant but also hi hello ma'am one chance please vibes across so so well like augh she looks so beautiful !!!
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What are your thoughts on the critisism that Neomuna, and more specifically cloudstriders, feel "out of place", or the feeling some have that Lightfall has a whole has thematically defied their expecations in a bad way? (insert that comparison of the key art from the BL reveal vs the current key art here.)
Really hard to critique any aspect of it currently before we know more and play it.
A lot of stuff in Destiny can feel really odd and out of place without any context! I remember similar doubt and questions about Lucent Hive for example. For any serious critique, I'll have to see the expansion first, learn more about Neomuna and Cloud Striders and see if their story fits and has something valuable to add to the setting.
So far, I don't think they're out of place. The ECHO ships and surviving human colonies outside of Earth have been seeded almost 3 years ago and I've quite literally accurately predicted how that specific lore is tied to Neomuna. I think it's a pretty cool way to tie in an older open-ended storyline with something new that they need for an expansion.
A story about "survivors of the Collapse" is pretty much a given, as that's something that we've always wondered about in the setting. Could some humans have escaped? Could they have survived? What would've happened if they did and how would've they developed if the Collapse hadn't stopped us? Going there and examining that story can give us valuable information about our past (Golden Age and speculation on what we could've achieved if it continued) and our fall (the Collapse, how it happened, what exactly happened, how to prevent it a second time). On top of that, it's giving us super cool scifi concepts about neo-human civilisations and advanced development through nanotechnology.
And yeah, the original key art was really striking; no colours, grim, very evocative with imagery of a Pyramid eclipsing the Traveler. It was of course simply just a base for the expansion. It was a placeholder. I've seen a lot of people saying that Bungie "robbed" us of something; they did not. They cannot rob us of something that never existed. Concept art is a really long process with millions of ideas being thrown around, especially placeholder concept art.
For what it's worth, from what we know about Lightfall, the base idea for the expansion is still the same. We are very much in deep trouble, especially if we're correct in our predictions that the Traveler is about to run and if the trailer's footage of a massive battle in Earth's orbit is anything to go by. Neomuna itself is under massive siege by a new disciple and the Witness itself. There are new enemies and enemy threats that we haven't seen for a long time acting up again (the Vex).
Is the expansion much more colourful in comparison with a black and white placeholder image? Yeah. But that doesn't remove the danger the system is in. I'm not sure what people expected. Destiny is not a super edgy setting of only doom and gloom. It certainly has a basis of incredibly terrible stuff going on, but it never presents it without a balance. Even in the Red War and Forsaken, things were still colourful and beautiful and had a lot of different vibes packed together.
To me, a massive fleet of Pyramid ships descending on colourful Neomuna is an incredibly powerful image with a really visceral theme of how nobody can successfully escape the Darkness forever. You can buy yourself time, but ultimately it will find you. I think that's a pretty doom and gloom theme. I feel like the only reason people aren't seeing it is because the original was black and white, while the current is colourful.
My only proper concern is that they're introducing a whole new aspect to the setting this late. Introducing it itself is not the issue as much as that we're 2 expansions (including Lightfall) until the end. There's still a lot of stuff to go through and solve and deal with so I'm not sure how wise it is to introduce a whole new set of characters and a setting of this scale. Of course, as with the rest of the question, we can't really fully make a judgement on that before we play.
#destiny 2#lightfall#long post#ask#i really do think that people are only complaining over colours#a lot of people have this idea of how things can only be presented as bad or dread inducing or horror if they're dark#and as a horror afficionado i resent that a lot. it's an easy way out#giving us such a beautiful environment like neomuna and dropping the black fleet in the sky is so much more powerful#than if we had just everything razed to the ground and black and white and dead and dull#creating something scary or unsettling while still employing vivid colours is a true feat#films like annihilation and nope are the first that come to mind#incidentally annihilation was mentioned a lot by the writers in connection with them making presage#and i am a huge fan of dead and dark space ships but I also like seeing something new and different
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