mirror’s edge rat

9/10

That is a rat... but huge.

Minus one point for not letting me parkour as her </3

Mirror’s Edge (PS3, 2008) replacement box art, 2022

This is probably the most simple of my box art replacements but I still really like it. The left side is based on Persona 5, and the right side is based on Mega Man. (I want to make a Mirror’s Goon joke so bad but I won’t)

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Captured in-game using Nvidia Ansel

Northlane - Mirror’s Edge

Out of all the progressive metalcore bands, at least from the last 15 years, Australia’s Northlane is a band that I’ve had a rather complicated relationship with. They started off as a very generic djent band, and they were good at what they were doing, but their sound went into a couple of different directions since then. They went into nu-metalcore and alt-metal with 2019’s Alien, and 2022’s Obsidian was a mix of the old and the new, which worked part of the time, but ended up being a slog to sit through. I enjoyed parts of it more than the whole thing, but it’s a couple years later, and we got Mirror’s Edge, a new EP from them, so how is this thing?

Honestly, it’s pretty good, but it has its problems. This EP doesn’t quite course correct from their last couple of albums, but it tries to have all these influences and sounds coexist, so to speak. It works to an extent, but it’s good this is an EP. This EP is only 23 minutes, and it ends up feeling like it by the end. Mirror’s Edge is a combination of djent, nu-metalcore, metalcore, alt-metal, and progressive metal. They do something oddly similar things that the new Erra album, entitled Cure, did, which is have a cleaner sound in juxtaposition to the heavier moments. Whereas Cure felt too long for its own good, Northlane isn’t as longwinded. The thing is, though, Cure was more focused, and this EP doesn’t feel that way.

Mirror’s Edge is a messy EP that has a lot of cool songs, but I can’t quite remember any of them, because they’ve got a lot going on in each one, as well as just switching up from style to style. There’s just a lot of whiplash in this EP, and it’s not too bad where it’s 23 minutes, but it’s real close. I just end up zoning out and not being all that into the EP, let alone go back to it that much, although I respect it quite a lot. I like a lot of the songs here, and when it works, it works well. It’s just that the EP is unfocused, and because of that, only a few songs stick out. The rest of it is still good, but it just ends up falling to the wayside. They need to mix their various influences together in a way that doesn’t feel so unfocused, so hopefully the next album does just that.

Mirror’s Edge Fanart: Faith by Warren Woodhouse (Fanart)

A before and after versions of my original hand-drawn and hand-styled Mirror’s Edge fanart. Scanned using a Canon PiXMA 2900i Series Scanner & Printer

Fanart by @warrenwoodhouse

📸 Canon PiXMA 2900i Series Scanner & Printer

📃 A4

✏️ H2 Pencil; @sharpie Black Fine Art Pen; Red Felt-Tip Colouring Pen

🗓 11th June 2017 at 9:31 pm

I will sometimes draw memes of my own fics.

Very often, in fact.

(this is from my fanfic Edge of Yesterday [AO3])

Interior Design in Mirror’s Edge (2008)

he just wants to boop you

(with a necessary hypospray)

Mirror's Edge brainrot save me (ft. some cutscenes sketches from last year)

Dusky Rooftops, Shinbashi 新橋

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Faith Connors   •   [20/?]

There's something about the phrasing of "must die," how that's specifically haunting for Jim to hear, both because of his ideals and his past on Tarsus IV as one of the last survivors of Kodos' massacre. But to have Spock's life endangered twice after the "you must let the woman you love die or the future, millions of others' lives, and your own life will be lost" episode? And to have Jim himself ask, "Why must he die?" after the episode where Spock was ready to be killed if a cure wasn't found for the parasitic creatures inducing madness in their hosts, and in that same episode Jim--unprompted--tells Spock, "I need you" and never once suggests getting a replacement First Officer? God. I need to lie down.