Okay okay okay okay
I have to write it down because I keep composing it while I work
(Everhood spoilers below the cut)
So I've seen a few people misinterpret the point behind killing everyone that Everhood forces onto you in order to reach the end, and I think it might be due to getting too caught up in the parallels to Undertale that are there
They think that it's taking the murder run and being like "see? This is bad!!" which they respond like "no duh but uh Undertale did that better"
But!!
That's not the point.
The point isn't the same Undertale makes, but it's a companion:
Sometimes, Mercy isn't the answer.
Sometimes, Mercy is a cruelty.
These beings have been trapped in the Everhood for over six. Million. Years. Some far longer, maybe a few shorter. They're all intimately aware that the only way out is the Incinerator, but they cling to their lives as desperately as anything living would. They aren't even close to human anymore, even if they never started out as human to begin with. They are undying and have existed for longer than the mind can comprehend. They've become bored, cruel, despairing, and complacent.
They have stagnated.
They exist and that's all they can do.
What you offer them is Mercy, even if it takes such an ugly form. They fight back and struggle, as all living things are wont to do, but what you offer them is ultimately Mercy.
It's ugly and harrowing for you, (for Pink), because no matter how merciful, it is still murder. Even if you're helping their souls return to the cycle of life, even if you're releasing them from their stagnation and despair and cruelty, you're still taking their lives against their wills.
No one wants to die, no matter how cursed the existence.
There will be reconciliation, no matter how ugly.
Hard choices will be justified in the end.
The only possible Mercy you're able to offer is the cruelest upon your own soul. (Pink's soul).
anyway yeah Everhood is really good go play it
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begging you for child bishops 馃槶 i want to see baby narinder in your style. OR BABY LAMB. any augghhgghgg foams at the mouth also hi rlly love ur art frfr greatest cotl artist Ever
nothing bad ever happens to any of them ever
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About the recent art of lamb pulling on narinder鈥檚 tongue: why did I see Lamb鈥檚 cloak as legs (like a lamb-spider abomination) and why did I not even question it
((To be clear I loved the art but I haven鈥檛 actually played the game myself so I just assumed that was some endgame abomination lamb turns into))
The fleece is just a plain old woven thing, but that doesn't mean they're incapable of it.
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lost power and internet for like a week, read half of the silmarillion, and decided to just draw Maedhros but that spiraled into drawing F毛anor and all of his sons
(I love @cy-lindric鈥榮 designs and was partly inspired by their illustrated family tree)
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Old news but the fact that Cody was manager at hot topic is so unexplored in fandom. Like he wasn't some shithead employee he was the boss
Entry level retail workers are so rarely promoted to manager nowadays, like, was Cody just that good at selling/managing the store? Also, managers make good money. Okay, haha, it's a hot topic, but store managers make like 70,000$ a year (CAD). They have health insurance. So Cody was actually doing pretty well. It's kinda weird to pretend he was on the same level as his friend with just a standard sales associate position, even if that friend was also full-time. Like the power and responsibility that Cody actually had is kind of impressive especially for 28.
AND then! To become a carnie! Like sick move and also Cody lost all his money anyway but the financial disparity! Was Murph probably thinking of like an assistant manager position which would make more sense with Cody's vibe? Probably. Is it funnier to imagine that Cody had to make sales reports to corporate and design store planograms? Absolutely.
Cody was management.
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crazy thing i learned about myself: despite my sensory issues, i somehow thrive when there's just very loud bone-rattling music playing? i don't like it when people talk too loud but loud music was fine? (i went to a club/bar/dance place situation for the first time yesterday and absolutely THRIVED)
anyway i guess the lesson is to try new things cause you never know what will actually be unexpectedly fun?
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