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spoopyandtired · 7 months

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Some Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney sketches for the gays and the girlies <3

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windsoflimbo · 4 months

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Actually not to spoilery but something that I think is extremely fascinating to is sometimes people's fonts change, like when you're speaking with the Baron and his font is a handwritten script, until you learn that we went to college, and then his font changes to Andreas', where it's outlined first and then filled in.

Or when speaking with Til, and learning he's well read, and his font changing from peasant to something more refined.

I pointed it out to my fiancé and I thought it was the other character changing their way of speaking to Andreas, but my fiancé disagreed, that it was how Andreas viewed that person, and yeah turns out he's right.

This game is going to live in my brain for so long

#pentiment #roaring #god #this is disco elysium all over again

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 6 months

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Having the Pool Dream again, handsome?

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #mdzs au #MDZS disco elysium au #[Pain Threshold - Formidable 13]: Endure it.#I am once again putting my brain ramblings on display to give me a bit more time to finish the comic this is based off of #I promise this will make sense in context. Maybe.#Disco AU gives me the opportunity to explore the idea of 'what if wwx and lwj were even *more* neurotic and haunted?'#LWJ absolutely would have repetitive nightmares about wwx with the themes of inevitability and helplessness.#Sometimes its him dying as wwx stands by. Sometimes it is him - unable to move as wwx slowly fades away.#Haunted by the past....Lost to the pale tides of mourning. Welcoming the pain just to feel the memory nearby.#See you all tomorrow for the Real Comic (manifesting it by saying it over and over again)#side note: I think wwx would be a great lifeguard. He would love heckling teens and helping out kids and old folks.#Goofy but takes the health and safety aspect of his job very seriously.#There's gotta be an AU for that out there....right?

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bittersweetresilience · 8 months

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the great gatsby / kentucky route zero / koe no katachi / disco elysium / omori / night in the woods / homestuck / koe no katachi / l'étranger / disco elysium / firewatch / john dies at the end / everything everywhere all at once / the subtle art of not giving a f*ck

#MAKING THESE IS SO HARD #i've always been obsessed with them so i wanted to try it out #but there was so much i didn't get to include #wolf 359 minecraft end poem goodbye despair the things they carried... there will be other chances i suppose #the media i consume is an endless cycle of the same themes over and over again which gives me an abundance of ideas for these #yay i'm having so much fun!#🌃#kentucky route zero #a silent voice #disco elysium #omori #night in the woods #homestuck #firewatch #john dies at the end #everything everywhere all at once #man i miss being a ghost

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lieutenantism · 2 months

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a very interesting (and endearing, at least to me) detail about jean's character is how he tends to fix himself during a confrontation. (long post ahead)

despite the fact he looks just fine, he does it to self-soothe more than anything, because he knows he has no control over the situation. so if he can't get through harry, at least he's in control of how he looks. and he can look BETTER, more put together than harry, so he makes sure to show him that. every time.

constantly readjusting, correcting, dusting himself off every time he's confronting his former partner because i think he has a severe inferiority complex (since harry outranks him and refuses to accept any promotion, which makes jean perpetually stuck as a satellite-officer, tied to a self-destructive man who's also good at what he does + harry has had a chance at a love that's so redeeming that he pictures her as the game's equivalent of God, a love that jean desperately yearns for so he hates harry for blowing it, and hates himself for never finding such a love despite the fact he's more put together than harry, or so he claims) that flares up every time harry's in the vicinity. i don't think jean has problems asserting himself when harry's not around, though. we've seen that here.

jean's perfectly capable of being authoritative, and has power over his colleagues, contrary to popular belief on this website. of course, provided harry's not there.

because he'll start slipping every time. his body language is also incredibly stiff, i'm assuming it's to seem like he's composed, but that falls apart when you notice how many times he struggles with his breathing, how many times he has to collect himself.

naturally, since kim also outranks him, jean behaves the same way with him although less emotional. he loses the spite, turns a little more submissive, though his pride doesn't completely disappear, like authority indicates. i also believe it's because kim didn't address him properly, therefore jean didn't feel the need to extend more than basic respect towards him.

it's very interesting to see, since he seems to have this ongoing inner conflict between his pride and his self-hatred. believing he's better than harry, yet crumbling at his presence. laying down and taking it, then suddenly revolting. being in control until the reason you're forced to take control shows up, then suddenly you're not in control anymore and you have to fix your hair and your tie and dust your suit and cough to look like you have your shit together. to prove that you're better. jean's trying to tell harry that he's BETTER than him! that's why he does all of that shit! he's terrified of ending up like that! he's even more terrified of the fact that despite being the mess he is, harry IS better than him! HELLO!

#lav thinks #he's so INTERESTING!!! i wish all jean discourse starters a very shut the fuck up #i've been seeing some shit takes abt him not having power over anyone/him never doing his job etc n it's sooooo tiring #like give it a rest idk play the game again w your eyes OPEN this time!#i love him he's so interesting.... sososo fascinating #jean vicquemare #disco elysium

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palin-tropos · 1 year

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I was going to remark about how overlooked this moment is, but then I found out it’s a reputation boost too?? harry doesn’t even say anything earlier in the conversation! kim just autonomously loves harry more of his own accord, and then offers to spare dros and send him to the socialist state. bro grew his revolutionary plasm

#disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #dros: no fuck the srv lol #(pjõl spoilers ahead)#ghost nilsen hiding in the reeds like the phasmid: it hurts but he's got a point #its so funny how neither of them will defend the modern srv #the inframaterialist reading group will bend over backwards for it but nilsen himself is like yeah it sucks now #nilsen: and don't get me started on that stupid bear fighting thing #kim: oh don't be so hard on the bear fighting. it's a little amusing. besides—I enjoy a violent spectacle every now and again #nilsen: omg you really mean it?? thats the nicest thing ive heard all day

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even-disco-baby · 1 year

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SOLA — Her Innocence, Sola— the anti-innocence— turns to face you. In the distance, you hear the tattoo of propellers, turning, sucking all the air. A strong wind whips her long, dark hair around her face. Her simple black gown billows behind her. The same gown she wore the day she resigned.

She has your eyes.

“Hi, Kim,” she says simply. “You don’t look well.”

PAIN THRESHOLD — Her voice is so familiar, and yet the moment she stops speaking, you cannot recall its sound, no matter how hard you try. And you have tried. Innumerable times.

AUTHORITY — What makes her think she would even *know* the difference between you looking well or unwell? She’s being presumptuous. She doesn’t even know you.

INLAND EMPIRE — She never will.

“I’m doing great, actually. Never been better.”

“Hey, I’m trying my best.”

“I’m *not* well. I’m so fucking unwell. I can’t take it anymore. Please, help me…”

“I’ll live.”

SOLA — “Hm…” She smiles apologetically. “Well, that’s all we can really ask for anymore, isn’t it?”

EMPATHY — She wishes more than anything that this was not the case. That you could ask for the world and have it.

RHETORIC — She tried to give it to you, and this is how you repay her? You’re gonna be in *deep* shit trying to explain that insignia you stitched onto her jacket.

“Um, about the jacket. It’s not what it… well, no, it *is* what it looks like. But I don’t— it’s— there’s nuance.”

“Is that really all you have to say to me?”

“I don’t know what to say to you.”

“Where are you going?”

SOLA — Her Innocence looks away from you, toward the wind. “Away,” she says, her voice distant and strange. “Yes… I’m stepping down, you see. The world doesn’t need me. It never needed me, really. It’s best for humanity to think for itself. No… it already *does* think for itself.”

She turns back to you with a small smile. The thought brings her peace.

PAIN THRESHOLD — But what does it bring *you?* She’s leaving you forever. Abandoning you for lofty ideals.

AUTHORITY — Let her go. Let her see how little you care. Don’t give her any satisfaction.

HALF LIGHT — Stop her. You won’t be able to live without her.

VOLITION — You have already lived almost all your life without her. You don’t need her. You have *never* needed her.

“What if the world *does* need you? Who are you to make that decision for the entire world?”

“Fine. Go. It’s none of my business.”

“So you’re just going to leave me behind again.”

“Please, don’t go. *I* need you.”

SOLA — “What else is an Innocence appointed to do?” Her smile turns wry. “You see? This is why I’m stepping down.”

Distant propellers turn and turn in endless circles. She glances toward them.

YOU — “Fine. Go. It’s none of my business.”

SOLA — “I suppose not.” Her voice and her face betray nothing. No sign of remorse.

YOU — “So you’re just going to leave me behind again.”

SOLA — “That was never my intention,” she says softly. “Surely you know that.”

INLAND EMPIRE — You will never truly know. No one will.

SOLA — She stares out at the horizon through the tendrils of hair that almost seem to threaten to swallow her. Her expression is strange and ambiguous, shifting every time you try and look directly at it.

YOU — “Please, don’t go. *I* need you.”

SOLA — She looks at you, and her eyes are full of what might be genuine sadness. But they could also be full of anything else.

“Oh, Kim… You must make do with what you have. I don’t know what else you want me to say…”

RHETORIC — What?! There are a million other things she could say! Forty-one years worth of possibilities! She could say *anything!* Anything at all… Even if she’d only left you a single word, it would be better than this…

VOLITION — It’s pointless to wish. Please, no more of this. It’s too sad.

“You could say that you’re sorry.”

“Say that I turned out all right.”

“Say that you’re proud of me. That you love me.”

SOLA — “Then I’m sorry.” She closes her eyes. “It was terrible of us to leave you alone.”

Her voice is utterly calm and emotionless.

PAIN THRESHOLD — No… Wrong, all wrong…

YOU — “Say that I turned out all right.”

SOLA — “You’re a good man despite it all. That is all I ever hoped for you.”

Again, there is no warmth to her words. No conviction.

VOLITION — Lieutenant… Please, don’t do this to yourself.

YOU — “Say that you’re proud of me. That you love me.”

SOLA — “I’m so proud of you and everything you’ve accomplished. You wear that jacket well.”

Her eyes have nothing behind them. A pair of two millimeter holes in the world.

“I love you.”

PAIN THRESHOLD — Your lungs seem to constrict at her words. Your chest hurts more than it’s ever hurt. This wind is hard to breathe in.

YOU — “No! Don’t you fucking get it?! You don’t love me!”

SOLA — “Then I don’t love you.”

YOU — “You should be *ashamed* of me!”

SOLA — “Then I am ashamed.”

YOU — “I betrayed you! I betrayed everything you stood for! I’m a fucking cop!”

SOLA — “Then I am betrayed.”

She proclaims it as dispassionately as she proclaimed her love.

YOU — “For god’s sake, *say something real!*”

SOLA — She just looks at you. The propellers keep on turning.

DRAMA — She can’t speak for herself, sire…

LOGIC — Of course she can’t. Of course…

PAIN THRESHOLD — Your lungs feel like they could collapse. Empty, crumpled, dark. Hot tears prick your eyes for the first time in what feels like a long time.

SOLA — “Do you understand now?” she asks gently.

LOGIC — She cannot speak for herself because you do not know what she would say.

There are many memories that you have been slowly recovering, little by little. Your mother will never be one of them. Her, the revolution, the aerostatic brigade— they all died before you could even comprehend loss.

AUTHORITY — You did not become a detective so that you could find your lost mother. You became a police officer because you did not want to end up like her.

VOLITION — She can neither forgive you, nor condemn you. She is dead, Lieutenant. She can only be what you make her.

RHETORIC — You’re asking your own echo for answers…

SOLA — “Humanity must think for itself,” she says again, turning again toward the wind. “What point is there in asking me where to go from here? I’m a failure. We all failed…”

RHETORIC — The revolutionaries failed their children, and the children are failing their parents, and all of them are dying, dying, dead… What’s the point in any of this anymore? I cannot argue in favor of any of it.

VOLITION — There is a point. There is a way forward. But you won’t find it here, Lieutenant.

“I hate you. You made me everything I am and then you just *left.*”

“I miss you… How is it even possible to miss someone you never met? It’s like someone ripped a part of me out and all I can do is bleed.”

“I don’t know what I am. I need you to tell me what I am.”

SOLA — One last time, she turns back to you. She slowly bridges the gap between you and reaches out a hand to cup your cheek. Her fingers feel like your own.

“You are whatever kind of animal you choose to be,” she says, so quietly that you don’t know how you can hear it over the distant roar of engines. “I cannot make that choice for you.”

EMPATHY — She died hoping that you would grow up with the freedom to choose to be whatever you wanted. Instead, the world that raised you hardly let you dare to want anything.

VOLITION — But you can still make a choice. Humanity can still think for itself.

#disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #swap au #should i tag sola? i kinda doubt i’ll ever need to use that tag again LMAO #anyway um. yeah.#tbh as fun as the swap au stuff is i wasn’t all that interested in it until my brain was like. SWAP DREAM SEQUENCE #and now suddenly i have like. lore for swap kim.#his breakdown isn’t bc of a breakup it’s over a crisis of identity #at first when he wakes up and starts inspecting stuff like his jacket and his notes #he starts finding out things abt his mother (a revolutionary aerostatic pilot who died and passed down the jacket to him)#and at first he’s like ohh i see im investigating her disappearance!#but he’s not. she’s dead. she died when the moralintern crushed the commune #kim grew up resenting both his parents for dying in a failed revolution #leaving him to grow up alone as a gay disabled seolite orphan #he became a cop and drank the moralist koolaid bc he didn’t want to be like his parents #and also bc he wanted to not be so powerless (and to be able to take shit out on other ppl just like canon kim)#but also just like in canon his experience in the rcm was just more of the same shit #he felt constantly humiliated and like a hypocrite and just compartmentalized hardcore #then he came to martinaise and saw the scars of the failed revolution and finally just snapped and broke down #he doesn’t even know what kind of animal he is other than he doesn’t want to be it anymore #so he pulls harry’s epic mind wipe binge and etc etc #anyway. coughs

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marmett · 1 year

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thinking abt how harry, klaasje and lely are all the same person. theyre each other's past, present, and future.

so harry, klaasje, and lely all have the substance abuse problems and the stink of sad on them, and the same capacity for cruelty and violence. lely and harry are violent men, lely obvs did horrible things as a mercenary, no need to repeat his brother's story abt his war crimes, but harry was (and still could be, depending on player choice) a violent, out of control cop, just read the case file for "the unsolvable case"

and klaasje herself doesnt seem to mind lely's violence

god, theyre all so fucked. in the same exact ways. the only difference is, for lely, it is far too late to do anything abt it. but it may not be too late for harry and klaasje. i think its interesting that its harry who gets to decide if its too late for klaasje or not. he can choose to condemn her, or let her go. he can look at this fellow disco-ghost, infected by the sad, not yet ravaged by the substance abuse, but getting there, and decide her fate like shes another version of him.

#love when characters parallel each other and reflect each other's worst characteristics <3 #its like sagawa and shimano and majima all over again #disco elysium #alt descriptions SHOULD be working on all the screenshots #thank you fayde

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nonbinaryeye · 1 year

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I feel like it is not appreciated and explored enough how flawed and not exactly healthy could Kim's and Harry's relationship be if they really got together.

They are two middle aged man whose lives are quite sad and miserable for completely different reasons and overall they are not really even very compatible.

About Kim we are told that he is possibly even more emotionally repressed than Harry. His entire life is so deeply connected to his job which is the only part of his life when he feels like he has some power and control over his place in the world, but also he's burnt out and he keeps going forward day after day only thanks to mechanical repetition of routine which keeps his days together. He is lonely and he does not even know how to connect with the other people, he does not even admit that it is something that might be missing in his life until he meets Harry who does not really take a no for an answer, who makes him reveal things about himself and bonds with him over stuff and even shares his terrible sense of humor - which all in the end tends to be the main argument why he would even be interested in Harry.

Harry is alcoholic and drug addict and both mentally and emotionally unstable not to mention he just suffered full retrograde amnesia, so, yeah, in theory there could probably not be a person less suited to have any kind of healthy relationship, not now, not at any point in foreseeable future. Also, one could question how much is Harry even able to love someone in healthy way - considering his tendency to deify object of his love. And there is already enough adoration towards Kim Harry can canonicaly express that no one really even have to write metas trying to prove Harry's possible romantic interest in Kim as no one really questions it, and the halo imaginary and, well, the fact that all we ever learn about Kim is filtered through Harry's eyes.

And there is so many other things I did not mention but last but not least how can one even try to have normal relationship when you are a cop in a city under totalitarian regime bracing itself for revolution.

And it's fair wanting to hope in better future for both of them and wanting them to get better together and to finally find a happy ending. And who cares if it's realistic one can enjoy the media any way they want.

But also I always love to see exploration of all the more dysfunctional aspects of it. And maybe their relationship would not be straight out unhealthy but either way it is likely to be far from perfect.

#disco elysium #kimharry #harrykim #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #disco elysium meta #Apologies I feel like once again I had a thought and then it got all over the place...#mEye post

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kiingbiing · 2 months

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flhoarder · 11 months

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You know Jean is getting adopted by Lena and Morell when they drop the news

#de headcanon #I’m like 85% sure. that’s almost 100% according to andre #and before anyone says they wouldn’t adopt jean let me gently remind you that they adopted gary #gary. fascist who doesn’t really care about cryptids #meanwhile the passion radiating from JV’s direction is PALPABLE when he sees the phasmid photo #you know he’d be ABSORBED when lena and morell tell him about more cryptids #cryptozoologist jean vicquemare you just watch him pin up all the crypto sighting clippings on all the walls in his little flat #you know it’s gonna be one of his few obsessions for the next 20 years #an abundance of love from Lena and Morell would do him so much good. so much good #and he can even bond with harry again over it. not just the job anymore #kim to harry: you can really use a hobby. like gardening or track and field or whatever #now jv and hdb can go on cryptid hunts together after work and on weekends #jean vicquemare #lena the cryptozoologist’s wife #morell the cryptozoologist #de #disco elysium

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artsyhamster · 1 year

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Failure.

#Disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #harry dubois #SORRY SORRY SORRY #i played the ending and i had to let out my feelings gghsdj #i worked hard to fail all the checks and in the end it was just painful #the way Kim just slumps over you. just. no.#he's fine. they are fine. everyone's fine. except me lol #never failing that check again

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semiotomatics · 8 months

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just a heads up y'all

now that i've finished disco elysium i'll be reblogging endgame spoilers, so if you don't want to see those filter #disco elysium

or alternatively i might just cave and make a de sideblog lol

#this has been an original post #personal spewage #disco elysium #i just love this game so freaking much #k and i already have so many ideas for future play-throughs #next time i'm gonna be at the wheel (first time around they were)#*sigh* i should just make a damn sideblog shouldn't i #this is tøp all over again

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saschirmations · 9 months

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Tonight's B-Sides in all their magnificence <3

#affirmations #saschirmations #the paladin camp lore is a whole ass thing just extrapolate from the vibes it is unsurprisingly all in the implication #disco elysium #encyclopedia #GOOD VIBES ONLY #sleeping beauty #literally me core #louise glück #has exerted her influence over me once again #as has tumblr's resident favourite #richard silken #unhhhh #this beats inking a semi-colon on your wrist #no offence to those involved #get the psychology a-level girlies here this instant

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mmmthornton · 1 year

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Disco Elysium: You are in a world on the edge of the end. The revolution has been fought and lost. There is a hole in existence itself that is getting bigger. If you tune in, you can hear the sigh of creatures as they fade into extinction. They hate you for what you've done. They love you for having tried. There is nothing you can do. There is still work to do. You are all going to die. You have to find the truth behind one man's death. It is pointless, and it is necessary. Some shit-for-brains take on Tumblr.com: Its so stupid how Americans think they can relate to this story lol cultural appropriation much?

#disco elysium #I saw the post this is mostly about forever ago and wisely decided not to engage #but I saw similar shit re: CSM themes on gun violence and how *stupid* it is to apply that to USAmericans and it made me mad all over again #lol #notice this is NOT saying *this is a purely american story* because ...fucking obviously it isn't lol just that it IS extremely relevant #which i think is why it's been received so highly #I think being able to say *this is a story that is applicable to multiple cultures and countries in the modern day including USA* is -#- vital for tearing down the American Exceptionalism myth that is hurting the country sooo badly

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birdy-bird27 · 1 year

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Disco elysium is literally melting my brain again I’m so fucking obsessed I can’t get enough content

#disco elysium #I’m replaying for winter break and holy shit it’s crazy how much I unlock playing with different skill stats #i can’t get the game out my brain #it’s deltarune all over again

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