Do you know "Baur-meges"? The collection of steppe legends? There is something about werewolfs. A werewolf is able to live for years with you, and then it turns when you do not notice! Then don't be surprised, when your family all at a sudden will be in the cemetery.

Pardon the weird phrasing (it's the 2006 localization; Classic HD renders this as about "turnskins" which I think is a weaker image) but this line from a boy NPC is a part of rubin world to me... we know he's familiar with Kin folklore, so it lends a bit of weight to his ability to believe that Artemy killed Isidor. as not literally about a werewolf, but a parable about failing to notice a person changing or simply holding murderous intentions

THAT SAID. clara and the shabnak are described as "steppe werewolfs" several times in this localization and By God, She Does Turn Her Family To Be In The Cemetery :-)

Pathologic update: finished bachelor’s route. I just destroyed a whole town. Onto haruspex next.

since we're getting a new tournament in part 2 what if we had a cool cole and jay fight scene.. that mirrors season 4... ogh... u feel me? the brainrot's crazy

theyre living in all the cracks and crevices of my mind OUUAGAHHHH get them out...

Kai getting the hots for Libber… Jay being like DID YOU FUCK MY MOM-

this is the true origin of his villain arc

Chapter 4 // Chapter 74

Hell is full of human culture. Cerberus statues are based on The Thinker, Debussy's music plays in Limbo, there are historical monuments all across the different layers, etc.

I think they ended up in Hell simply because those pieces of culture "died". We know now that the war lasted 200 years, most humans were killed, and the surface probably almost fully bombed. Those monuments and pieces of art were destroyed, and alongside them, the people who knew about them.

Because they were made by humans, they are bound to Hell even after they got completely erased from Earth.

if I had a nickel for every reality warping doctor with a Persona who was based on Lovecraftian gods I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

I’ve never been more sexually attracted to a man in my entire life

do you think fujimoto is going in the direction where we'll see asa and denji in a relationship. it just doesn't sit right with me. i think they might become very good friends but them in a relationship is so off to me despite how much their dynamic works. it just doesnt feel like something fujimoto would do. what do you think

their dynamic feels off because we can't ever imagine fjmt giving denji a healthy endgame relationship /s.

no but for real this time, yep, anon i get you. i think this mostly stems from how their relationship itself is Set Up at least so far and i think it'll be a lot more interesting with time.

umm. to explain: fjmt's style of writing is not only relational but also one of active sides (characters) feeding into passive mains which is why part 2's deuteragonist based plot is so Interesting to me. i mean asa and denji parallel each other rather organically with how they view desires and normality, with their twin connect to intimacy and ambition. it's really quite blatant but i think where asaden hasn't established itself yet is the interaction of these values seen Directly in their interactions.

if you consider something like denreze, you'd find that both their parallels and the recognition of their mirrorship informs their interactions throughout the bomb devil arc. it's wonderfully raw and Very Real because it's the theme of identity (that carries over into part 2), there's that implicit Awareness of the other side from both reze and denji later on.

in part 2, identity is still pivotal but the quality of the asaden interactions so far lies in their relative ignorance of the other. they challenge each other inwardly but not Outwardly; you see them juxtaposed but you don't see them grapple with this juxtaposition. it's still ridiculously cute but i struggle to link this current cuteness to What Will Happen because i don't think fjmt writes conclusions to relationships like that. there's a lot more to come and i think we'd see their dynamic shift quite intensely when they do end up uncovering each other's identities but right now their interactions are rather a channel for their Own Desires rather than an entangling of that Desire in the other.

i can't hope to predict What exactly fjmt would end up doing but i do think all this set up is for a reason and i'm anticipating some sort of catharsis at Some Point which would make me invest in them a bit more :3.

‘do you want ellie to just be a prop for joel’s story’ you say, as though she isn’t treated as literally that in tlou2, the game ur defending lmao. ellie is nothing BUT a prop in that narrative. a prop for abby’s story which neil was so desperate to tell but knew not as many ppl would buy if joel and ellie weren’t there so he shoved them in without care or regard for their journey in part 1 or their development. a prop for neil’s torture porn narrative he was determined to do at the detriment of ellie’s character and development, her choices are used not in service of her arc/growth or bcus they’re in the best interest of her and who she is, but to increase her/our suffering and for shock value. her not speaking to joel for 2 years isn’t some great character choice for ellie ‘id be more scared without you’ williams, it’s to make her torment and regret when he dies worse that is literally why he dies the day after they agree to try instead of being given time to get their relationship in a better place before he dies. ellie ‘im scared to end up alone’ williams leaving dina and jj to carry on her absurd revenge plot isn’t a choice in the interest of giving her the character arc she deserves, it’s a choice designed to literally leave her broken and alone with nothing so the revenge bad message can be ham fisted at us as though we wouldn’t have known if they hadn’t told us lol. ellie has no arc. she has no development. the game isn’t about her immunity which was so important to her, it barely mentions it, ironic bcus that’s what she’s so mad at joel about and then it’s so irrelevant to the plot, hence why I’ve always said it would have made more sense for her anger to be about him lying but they never make her bring that up when it was a far bigger betrayal. it’s not about her realising her life always mattered. she doesn’t grow whatsoever from the trauma based martyrdom mindset she has in part 1. she’s the same at 19 as she was at 14. she’s stagnant. and that’s literally bcus she’s nothing more than a fucking prop in a story that let the plot lead the characters instead of the characters leading the plot like what arc is there to defend here? the whole game even has this running theme that ellie is on this rampage cus she’s a mirror of joel he taught her anger and violence (which is wrong! but that’s another post) and now look at her she’s just like him! the narrative doesn’t even let her be a fully realised person she’s just what joel’s *made her* even after his death but sure she’s not just a prop and she gets her own arc in part 2 lmao give me a fucking break.

p1's usage of the Bound as "volunteers who risk their lives to complete the story events you missed" helps a lot with the robustness of dialogue referring to quests the player may not have completed, but it does come off hysterically in haruspex route with his adherents all being kids. artemy sleeps through day 11 and eight-year-old murky perishes of tragic blood loss from killing the foreman for him

LOOKISM CHAPTER 430 ( SPOILERS!)

(i am feeding u mfs. i never been this excited to type shit bc... its abt to get crazy bro. shit had my jaw on the FLOORRRR ok let me stfu. )

quick lil warning : funny shit. no but srs spoilers so don´t proceed if ur not far in lookism!.

or sue me idc.

my face when daniel made a crew:

JAY CAME BACKK????? WHAT

JAY & DANIEL WITH ZACK AS THE GIRL:

jay coming back after hearing his bf is in danger:

how jay got accepted into the crew by daniel:

whos the new member??

ANSAN??? MF ? DUDE WHO GOT WHOOPED WITH A BELT BY DANIEl??

LITEREALLY THE CREW MEMBERS REACTIONS OF ANSAN:

FOOTAGE OF VASCO:

LITEREALLY ZACK:

zack & vasco when daniel said he´d bring a special crew member besides jay:

jay wondering why there´s another blondie in the team:

the bathroom at allied crew:

daniel when ansan said he wasnt gonna apologize:

part 1 will be updated tomorrow ( probably )

Also I can't believe I'm saying this about a persona 5 spinoff but p5t is actually... Surprisingly good? The character dynamics within the phantom thieves are much more fleshed out (which is something I always took issue with in the original game), the character screentime is a lot more balanced and mostly no flanderisation (aka yusuke gets to Do Things for once, makoto gets to Not Do Everything thank god, morgana is the most likeable he's ever been to me), the new characters are incredibly fun and executed very well especially for spinoff-only characters, the plot concepts are interesting, the sprites are very fun and expressive, like. idk I just didn't expect it to make up for some of my issues with the main game tbh!! a pleasant surprise for sure

Hrjshhfjshfsj,,,,, the possibilities,, quanxi!!! Reze!!! Those other guys!!!

It wasn’t anywhere near an unusual routine.

She made her rounds around the house, hoping to confirm that her grandfather and Tybalt were fast asleep. 

He waited diligently for her, taking one last breath of fresh air before entering the smothering quarters of who he was born to consider “the enemy.”

Once she’d determined the coast was clear, she made her way out to where her lover stood…

Their reunification remained as sweet as the very first time, holding one another as if they’d been apart for centuries. 

go isolate yourself from all of society and live in an abandoned lighthouse that you and your dead gf suffered in about 4 years ago, emo boy