happy colin baxter day

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

no context mystery of the seven keys trailer

“The painting is staring right at me, isn’t it?”

Artwork by Taryn Gee.

ohhh has everyone seen QuirkByAbby on etsy? beacause their nd designs-

they're really good y'all

This too is Yuri.

the first piece of my nancy drew games as movie posters!

#1: secrets can kill

nancy drew and the case of the color work sweater🔍

Something something drawing the book characters you couldn’t as a kid

Women of Waverly Academy <3

Playing DAN and HAU next to each other is a great example of HER placing a game in a foreign country and then having a cast from everywhere else. We don’t see this in CUR, SAW, or CAP and it is also mixed with VEN, ICE, SPY, LIE, and TMB. I understand that in a global society there will be people from all around the world in a given spot but I feel in HAU specifically it is a slap in the face to the Irish to have a British cast. 

Others have spoken about the dismissive attitude towards the very valid concerns the Irish would have with the English. Kyler herself displays a common attitude of the English educated in not knowing of the atrocities the English enacted on the Irish. Donal is a presented as overly hating the English with no perceivable reason - so he seems unreasonable when anyone who knows about Irish history would know he is perfectly within his rights. 

He absolutely would have been an adult during the Troubles, and is at most a single generation removed from Irish independence. We do not know what he did or who he lost, but we know that he watched others be killed over these issues. All of those in the story were alive for the Good Friday agreement - which turns 25 next month. 

Another hit is the near complete lack of Irish in the story. We have some names sure, and Ogham runes, but the Irish language is beautiful and there has been so much work put into preserving it. It survived years of illegality and of people being outright murdered for speaking it. We know HER can integrate language, and they have in so many other games. Irish should be a part of this. (Also all signage should be in Irish and English because while there are two languages Irish should technically receive priority.) 

The Irish Diaspora is huge, mostly because of specific steps that were taken by the English to exterminate Irish language, people, and culture and replace it with their own. Irish potato famine you say? Yeah, we can blame the English for how bad that was. We can blame the English in general for the shift to farming the land rather than being more pasture based. 

Ireland has been essentially at peace for most millennial lives (and typically Ireland tries to stay out of outside wars - which is why the “military type” comment at the end of HAU seemed out of place) but as we have seen this past year a match could still set everything off. My dad, who has competed professionally in fishing, recalls not being able to fish in the waterways growing up because the English prohibited it. One of my grans ran a B&B where she educated English guests on what had been done to the Irish. Irish history is rarely taught properly (that is to say, with the Irish perspective in mind) outside of Ireland, which is a true shame. 

This started as a perspective study and turned into me thinking about Nancy as a Waverly student and maybe Corine was cool and they’d be friends and their room would be so cozy and I think they should have a cat

DDI WIP illustration/digital painting of the hot kettle cafe! (Heavily using the screenshots as reference) actually gonna finish this one I think, it’s a bit less ambitious (though now that I started the trt one I’m probably gonna finish it one day at least)

thanks to yall nancy/deirdre content recently, i finished this sketch of them in autumn outfits :`) my art @dekob2 (but better go to my insta under same name btw)​