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neverending-space · 2 months
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Rewatched Drowned Man today
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iamonlyperson · 2 years
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man pretty
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goingdowntohellsworld · 9 months
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Someone call the life guard hes drowning he cant swim. Thats why his name is ✨ben drowned✨
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shalobitch · 1 year
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Kinda forgot to post this redraw here lol
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👁️Click for better quality👁️
The original is under the cut and was made back in october 2021🤙
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itsame-tehded · 2 years
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this is so silly but
stan thr water man&the drowned man guy
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sybersepticeye · 5 months
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wilford warfstache in disguise
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stagenameouroborus · 2 years
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I'd like to make an announcement, Murder Mark is the Drowned Man and I HAVE PROOF DAMMIT.
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You see this little man? Huh? You see that pin on his jacket?
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Huh, that's weird, it looks like those chemical symbol things, right? Those funky structural formulas? It looks awfully similar to the only diagrams I could find for the structural formula of water!! And what is the Drowned Man known for?
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That's right, water.
NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT before the USA site was taken down (around the time ISWM Part 2 was released), one of the directories lead to the Drowned Man!
Additionally, their clothing styles are very similar! It's practically the same turtleneck sweater and suit jacket, just with MM's addition of the pin and the necklace! Plus, they both have dark sunglasses! (And have the same hairstyle, just mirrored, shhh)
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There is no doubt in my mind that they're the same person. The Drowned Man is just a funny little water demon who curses people's houses with flooding and does murder on the side as a treat.
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te-pu-si-ti · 6 months
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Punchdrunk as hypertext
I am in the greenhouse room, and I clutch at my heart. What I see before me is a person in black latex receiving a drug on their tongue like holy communion. There are only two characters in the room: Kampe, and their dealer. But what I experience is much greater, because I can hear the music echoing: the music signalling that on the other side of the city, a city has fallen and a princess is dead, hanging up above, bare-chested and bloodied for all to see.
I remember her. It was her birthday, we danced with her, she stumbled into the arms of her lover.
I know this from an hour ago, before time reset.
I am in the flower shop, and I gasp. A tango is playing through the tinny speaker of the radio. The shopkeeper picks up a bouquet - her bouquet - and he twirls around, holding it in his arms, dancing a tango with a prop that is the start of Persephone's story, to the music that is the near-climax of her story.
I know this from months before, because I have been here before but it was different. It's different every time. There's so much to take in, and I have to choose who I see and what I focus on, and the context I bring with me is constantly developing.
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That's a familiar criticism. Too many choices, no coherent story.
But Pope (2009) isn't a criticism of a Punchdrunk masked show - it's a criticism of a HTML novella, These Waves of Girls, hypertext, a story that you wade into by clicking through links. A story that leads you down many different paths, depending on how you choose to follow them.
Don't worry if you get lost - you're already lost. Embrace your curiosity. Turn your fear into desire. Fortune favours the bold.
The link is the most important new form of punctuation since the comma... Links make manifest the way texts relate to other texts, the way they structure themselves, and the way they restructure our thinking.
A reference to another scene, a repeated movement hearkens back to something you witnessed minutes ago, hours ago, weeks ago. A prop moves across buildings, touched by many hands along the way. Characters intersect, and you take a different path, thrown into another story before you reunite for a finale.
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You ever gone down a Wikipedia rabbit hole? Clicking link after link, opening up a dozen new tabs, somehow finding your way from Scooby-Doo to Leukemia to learning the Yupik word for bread?
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Her Story is an FMV video game where you uncover the story by searching a database of video clips for keywords. As you search for clues, things that don't make sense stick in your mind, because they might be important later. A new piece of information can cast something you've already seen in a completely new light.
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You can stay with one thread, or you can let your curiosity guide you, bouncing around from one storyline to the next. It might not make sense at first, seeing everything out of order - but then as you make sense of it, you will form those connections, perhaps even more strongly than you would have done if you had watched a linear story that you didn't have to work for.
...the spaces of reading and writing shift in a hypertextual environment and the reader is required to adopt a mode of engagement in terms of an unstable textual terrain, which involves them in productive and creative processes as well as receptive ones...
"Because everything is constructed, everything becomes significant, in the artistic context everything ordinary becomes extraordinary." - Sam Booth
Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse is a collection of digital and physical ephemera - notes, photos, lyrics, scribbles, all telling the story of this man you knew as Uncle Buddy, who has now died. You leaf through them, choosing what to pay attention to, taking away what you deem significant, building an image based on what he left behind.
 It does have an option to spell out the answer to the riddle if you want to skip that, but the significance might be lost in the process. ...
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Description of Tamara, an example of theatre dubbed 'hyperdrama', theatrical hypertext.
"Punchdrunk's Sleep No More is an astonishing production that does nearly everything I had imagined hyperdrama could achieve, and much that I had assumed it could not." ... "The experience works here, but it is going to be different for everyone. How many people get to see Mrs. DeWinter’s scene? Of those, how many are in the bar when the band strikes up Paper Moon ? How many get the Woyzeck allusion the next day, or ever? This is the nature of the medium."
Seriously, read this article by Mark Bernstein.
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 It’s not a game. Nothing you (or they) can do can prevent the fall of Troy or its terrible aftermath. Yet your choices (and chance) matter, and your reading of Those Trojan Girls is likely to differ from any other reading.
(hypertext is also, sadly, ephemeral, linked to its time and place. The above linked work is less than a decade old but I doubt I'd find what I need to read it, the right software and the right hardware of the right version with all the right features. Digital rot everywhere. Who has a floppy drive anymore? Who has Flash anymore? Just like nobody will experience The Burnt City anymore. Just like, soon, nobody will experience the McKittrick Hotel anymore.)
My first show: I see a man swinging upside down, hanging from the ceiling. The image haunts me. I do not know him, nor do I know the two onlookers. But it stays with me.
Many months later, I see him again, and he is an old friend - his name is Laocoön, a seer, and he is burdened with a prophecy from Apollo. Cassandra looks on, distraught, while the vengeful god puppets him. He is showing her the fate of her sister.
I remember her. It was her birthday. We danced with her. I watched her die, over and over and over. I remember every moment, every branching path, every intersection, and she isn't here, but she's all around us.
"There is no longer one author but two, as reader joins the author in the making of the text" - Jay David Bolter, "Literature in the Electronic Writing Space" "Go back into the light. Remember what you've seen... We love you so deeply. It's nothing without you." - Lily Jo Ockwell as Persephone, September 24, 2023
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Lily photo by @rhianbwatts
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softladyhours · 2 years
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Drew a little something based off a pic from bestie @rat-that-writes 🥰🥰
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@markiplier
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my-burnt-city · 9 months
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having an extremely productive afternoon, comparing the headshots of the thirteen punchdrunk performers who were all in the drowned man, sleep no more (shanghai), and the burnt city, for a sort of ultimate 'how it started, how it's going' vibe
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my main takeaways are
whoever was wielding the camera in shanghai was best at actually capturing everyone's beauty
we are so extremely blessed to have such experience of such incredible performers
at least three of these people, if not more, are clearly immortal vampires
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kingofbr00klyn · 2 years
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Drowned Man Mark just hits different
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Look at him
Just look at him
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happistar · 2 years
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he do be committing murder tho (with us !)
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iamonlyperson · 2 years
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the drowned man host gifset for bitches
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alteredbard · 6 months
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Dead in the water.
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iplier-memes · 2 years
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Murderiplier my beloved
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5ecardaday · 2 years
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Arcanatober Day 24– Submerged Wraith
Inspired by a combination of The Star and The Drowned Man, I gotta say that I love this design. probably my favorite creature I’ve made so far this month. If you wanna read about the fun lore for it, be sure to check out my patr*on, but even if you don’t, hopefully you enjoy this spooky, underwater undead!
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