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Every city's got a graveyard The service bought and paid for Now I'm sleeping in the backyard Passing out as night turns into day

#rocco matollini #mafia 2 #DAMN

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Hm. Considering changing the theme. Maybe

#question is what do I change it *to* #idk send help

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my bitchass does Not talk enough about m3 but nicki would definitely participate in drag racing when she was younger.

#definitely do not blame you on the complicated feelings #but anyway yes I agree #Danny did so canonically iirc #Ellis probably was too chicken but was told he was being chicken and did it a few times to ‘prove himself’ (it went horribly) #Giorgi did it once or twice then never again. passenger prick #Linc did it but not as religiously as Danny #Nicki was once the best but Danny did it more often and got better #anyway that’s my silly little opinion #mafia 3

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yes, i love mde. yes, its my favorite of the mafia trilogy. yes, i can say with 100% conviction that objectively… tommy is not an interesting character. for him to be the protagonist, he sure does have no depth to his character written in the game

#tbh this is why I just can’t get into MDE that much #Tommy is a normal guy but he’s also just uninteresting to me #can be be interesting? yeah! the fandom has convinced me that it’s possible #it’s that the devs just didn’t do anything #anyway sorry to mde stans. full respect I just can’t get into it that much #mafia definitive edition #can he* not be. I’m not retyping that sorry

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giorgi marcano

#NO LITERALLY HIM #mafia 3 #giorgi marcano

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how mafia 3 pedestrians look at you before diving head first into the road

#you’re right tbh #it makes the game stressful but fun #mafia 3

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Was I supposed to find out the guy who made the OSS (precursor to CIA) had the last name Donovan on my own, or did you all know that

#FUCKING FUCK #so now John and Lincoln are named after assassinated presidents #and Lincoln shares his last name with Muhammad Ali (old name Cassius Clay) #and now I discover John shares his last name with the FOUNDER OF THE PRECURSOR TO THE FUCKING CIA #look. I found this from my goddamn notes for a class. so now I must share

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The Righteously F*cked || District - Pointe Verdun

#ITS THEM #NICKI MY BELOVED CANONICAL LESBIAN #oh hi Lincoln #nicki burke #lincoln clay

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do y’all think that when Vito gets mad he slams his little hat on the ground

#yes yes he does

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Poetry Month Prompts

1. as good as you'll get 2. girl names 3. lacrosse 4. swan 5. house with a name 6. one year after the accident 7. profiteroles 8. potholes 9. vivisection 10. adult revenge 11. "safe" place 12. road sign 13. glam 14. oyster mushroom 15. mother's footsteps 16. what life was like 17. almond milk 18. lagomorph 19. physical therapy 20. birthday flowers 21. book of miracles 22. ferment 23. brick 24. routine 25. days spent waiting 26. infirmary 27. hallucinogen 28. supper club 29. deviant 30. age

#fuck it we ball #if you’d like give me a prompt + character #or if you don’t want fandom you can specify that

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Constantly obsessed with the concept of a man forced to be a myth. What do you do when every step you take is embedded into the text. Every word you say prose to read. You're part of something bigger than yourself. The narrative tugs you along like water currents. There is no time to rest, to be human. You must be great, you must be legend

#tommy angelo #but also #lincoln clay #(to me at least)

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hat or no hat, that is the question.

#vito scaletta #mafia 2 #hat makes him feel like a true mobster #no hat makes him feel like himself

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another vito wip but i'm going to take a break from it because iiiii idk

#VITO MOMENT #mafia 2

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Okay I have thoughts I wish to impart, praying (ha pun) this makes sense! Disclaimer that I was raised Protestant— Southern Baptist specifically— but no longer associate with Christianity as a whole so take this fairly loosely

“It isn’t the actions that condemn you, it’s the faith itself” WHOO BOY DO I GOT THINGS TO SAY ON THIS ONE. Bear with me here.

So Lincoln, as a character, believes himself to be already condemned. Fundamentally wrong. Sal says it in the end: “some men are just wired up wrong.” And Lincoln agrees. He believes himself to be one too. Not merely a sinner, but a condemned.

That is for many reasons.

He was born a bastard, with no father in the picture and a mother who couldn’t love him. Not that she didn’t, but that she couldn’t. In talking and working with a lot of foster kids in my neighborhood, there’s a common sentiment of believing themselves to be the reason why their parents/caregivers don’t or can’t love them. Not only born condemned, but born to bring that condemnation to others.

He’s done atrocious things, objectively speaking, including participating in the genocide of both Laotian and Vietnamese civilians. He’s killed a lot of people, some that likely didn’t deserve it. Every goddamn thing he’s done, he’s told FJ. And Father James loved him anyway. Until he himself is confronted with it.

He doesn’t feel like he belongs. This is heavily dependent on the context of the times, but religion was one of the few places that was meant to feel like he had a place. And even then, he wasn’t exactly a perfect altar-boy. FJ says he was “a good boy, a quiet boy”, a boy who didn’t want much and was happy with others. How true that is, however, is dubious as Father James had a tendency to view Lincoln as either the “good boy” or “bad man”. No one quite sees him as fully human. Military, home front, mob. Either good or bad.

Christianity, in my experience, does little to reconcile good and bad. They must always be separate. Sin. Therefore, Lincoln is bad. Tainted good is no longer good. (Note: confessions might change things here, I’m not 100% sure, so apologies on that front in advance. Again, not Catholic and was not raised around any.)

Your point of “not all good nor bad but all-seeing all the same” is probably the most solid belief Lincoln would hold. Yes, he’s Catholic, but he’s Catholic because his community is. On the whole, he’s deeply community-oriented, which serves to bite him in the ass when his “community” doesn’t acknowledge his humanity. He’s either a folk hero or a domestic terrorist. Good boy or bad man. He’s justified in the same way an angel is justified in wrestling a human, he’s just as a figure and not as a human.

He was condemned by believing things could be better. He was condemned for trying.

Tying Protestantism to white supremacy and extremism is very topical! Here in the US, at least. The main difference, to me, is that in the 60s, there was a counterpoint to Protestant fascism with Black churches leading several Black movements, such as the civil rights movement and Double V of World War II (FJ’s war)— frankly, it stretches back centuries. Nowadays, there’s less of a divide, so to speak. Remy is a symbol of KKK-twats of the 60s just as much as he is a direct parallel to the podcast bros (he literally has a fucking radio show called Native Son, which is the name of a book by Richard Wright— the plot is about a Black man in Chicago killing a white woman and what happens afterwards) and, more pointedly, white evangelicals that make up most of the alt-right movement in the United States. A key element to remember is that Mafia 3 was made during the height of Gamergate, which (this is VERY simplified) the alt-right radicalization of white teenage gamers online. It was a commentary on the 60s and the 2010s. And judging by the comments you can find on YouTube, the game was right! I’ll say it like that.

Honestly, I’m at least sort of happy they didn’t outright demonize Hoodoo and Voodou (please forgive any spellings), and got some aspects right, such as Hoodoo being the practice and Voodou being the religion. But, the way the game treated Haitians overall was frankly pretty gross, and that’s something that needs to be acknowledged at some point.

War and religion— might not know a whole lot on it, but I’m definitely deeply interested!

Agreed, I felt that there could’ve been more with FJ and Lincoln. We didn’t even get much with John and Lincoln outside of snippets and a very… debatable DLC, and Sign of the Times was supposed to have some, but it still fell flat. On that note, I did appreciate that they at least tried to show a cult. I have my own opinions on how Anna was handled, but the intent was there.

TLDR, I wish Mafia 3 played a tiny bit more with things, but I’m content enough with what we did get.

Also, short aside, I know Lincoln was directly based on the Punisher, but I’d argue he’s got some Daredevil influence in there. He might not have (traditional) Catholic guilt, but he sure as hell as Catholic condemnation! Also insert commentary here on how he was loosely based on Malcolm X.

the one thing you can't expect from me is good depictions of religious faith in my writing. yeah. they it's integral to the perception of m2 and m1 (one could argue they're essential to m3 but that's just meeee) however I don't have that catholic swag. And I like to think esp m2 is to turn it's back on humanity which isn't reflected in Catholicism per say, but I like the motif of betrayal by man to environment.

#Christ this is long as shit my bad #mafia 3 #lincoln clay #again take this all with skepticism I’m not Catholic nor even Christian

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babygirl

#babygirl indeed #john donovan #mafia 3

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i really believe that discussing the character with someone who shares ur interpretation is the closest u can get to modern day philosophy. we are like plato and aristotle but talking about a fictional guys trauma

#me with everyone who talks with me #my bad gamers

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And at midday...

...maybe the world will be different

#PAIN #sam trapani #paulie lombardo #mafia definitive edition