#Something Obscura

[gothmusiclatinamerica]

"Luna Impaciente" by Lima, Peru-based goth and post-punk act Something Obscura off of 2023 EP Arder

#gothgoth #nu goth #post punk #goth guy #Something Obscura #Luna Impaciente #Arder #music #Peruvian #South American #2023 #Lima Peru #Peruvian goth #Bandcamp

[johnnyspells]

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Sean Finnerty | Candela Obscura Chapter 2

#candela obscura #critical role #critroledit #criticalroleedit #candelaobscuraedit #circle of needle and thread #mygifs #sean finnerty #brennan lee mulligan #something something about how bisexuals can't sit properly something something (in relation to the character) #anyway the braces and the rolled up sleeves and the boots like #haha anyway #:)

[hoarding-stories]

Going wild about how each chapter shows a different facet of horror

The circle of Vassal and Veil: horror in the environment.

A classical look at things, there are forces in this world beyond your understanding, they will chew you up and spit you out. See them, know them, survive them, adapt to them.

The circle of Needle and Thread: horror in humanity

Really powerfully done, a showing in how people can be horrifying, do horrible things to each other with the most human of reasons. Nothing beyond our ken is necessary for true horror to take place.

The circle of Tide and Bone: horror in the self

Rather complex and with a sprinkling of cosmic flavoring there but, where did you start? Where will you end? It is always a rough road and how will you change, be changed? What will you lose, what will you give up? What parts of yourself are worth the losing if it means you get a step closer to what you want, what you need. Who are you, if not for the people and things you care about, what happens to you when they're gone, how far will you go in their absence? Will you look back and see the person you were as someone entirely different, something in you twisted, lost? Will it have been worth it? The horror in change and the fact that you cannot go backwards to the way things once were.

Cannot wait to see what the Circle of the Crimson Mirror has to offer

#critical role #candela obscura #candela spoilers #cr spoilers #candela obscura spoilers #also a big fan of the hope and kindness baked in #survival #an after where those left can live and learn and grow #happiness after a time #with tide and bone specifically the cosmic flavoring was gentle and comforting #something greater and bigger cares and can see you and knows all that you have done and is proud of you for it #you are twisted but you are still their's #still loved #and held

[i-lavabean]

I have to believe he keeps his promise in some way, that she's never alone

#my art #lavabean art #candela spoilers #circle of tide and bone #circle of Tide and Bone spoilers #candela obscura #Candela Obscura fanart #rajan savarimuthu #elsie roberts #rajan/elsie #Noshir and Aabria and Ashly in a competition to see who can break everyone's hearts the hardest #i need the bittersweet epilogue okay? #give me a The Ghost and Mrs. Muir thing #just.. give them something

[yashley]

matt: you can see the glittering tops of the glass and metallic spires--

auggie: hey look at the spires!!!!!!!!

matt:

matt: i love you

#critical role #cr lb #candela obscura #THE MOOD #matt loving ashley is something that can be so personal

[5ftboy]

"You let it fire."

#candela obscura #critical role #brennan lee mulligan #sean finnerty #candela obscura spoilers #mine ** #i had the urge to try something different gif-wise ? ? ? ? #and i've been Rotating this Horrifying backstory in my head so ...

[strunmah-mah]

So I saw this interesting post discussing the bashing of otome heroines, and the person i saw it from had some tags comparing the OBSCURA and Touchstarved mc's and the different fan response to them. Which go me thinking, but reposing to it there felt like it would have derailed that post, some I'm putting my thoughts here instead.

Basically the tags were an observation that OBSCURA's mc gets treated as their own character (Vesper) whose popularity is comparable to that of all the different love interests. Meanwhile Touchstarved's fandom doesn't seem to rally around one singular MC with everyone having own OC instead. This despite the fact that their both gender neutral blank slates you never even really see.

I'd noticed that too and got thinking of why that is, so here's my theory.

Name. Notice that I referred to OBSCURA's mc as Vesper, but didn't give a name to Touchstarved's mc? When asking what your name is OBSCURA auto suggests a name. There's a not insignificant number of people that when given an auto suggested name won't go to the effort of changing it. (ex My first time playing a Legend of Zelda game it didn't even occur to me to change Link's name despite it definitely being an option.) And despite still being a reader insert just the act of giving them name makes Vesper feel like a more defined then Touchstarved unnamed MC does.

Origins. Vesper is Vesper. Who they were before the start of OBSCURA doesn't really matter, no matter what you might hc they were like before the start of the story, they still enter the mountain with the skill set no matter what. Touchstarved's mc is deliberately fluid. They have three different possible backgrounds and which one you pick does effect the mc's skill set. Make your own oc is literally built into the game.

Presentation of information. Touchstarved is very upfront about their mc's motivations. You are cursed. It's very isolating and has caused you to hurt others unintentionally. You are looking for a cure. What your curse is is never really a question. That's a very different experience from playing OBSCURA. The games hook is "people don't go under the mountain unless they have a good reason, unfortunately you have a great reason" it does not say the reason, it's a great hook. So you play the game, you go under the mountain and you find out what you're looking for is . . . blue moon ichor. You have no context for what that is, it's not initially explained, but it makes people pity you. It's not until you meet one of the LI's that it's revealed you want the ichor. You only only learn about Vesper's motivations as they chose to reveal that information to others. It's an interesting story telling choice. For me, it was more engaging to have Vesper being just as much of a mystery as everything else, than Touchstarved approach of giving that information upfront, but it comes at a cost. The MC's are both supposed to be self inserts, but hiding that information puts distance you and Vesper again making them feel more like their own character than a self insert.

Choice. Atleast as far the demos go Vesper's choices matter more. Your choices change who you meet, if you get a partner to help you face the future, or if you fail to achieve your goal chapter one. The Touchstarved mc makes choices too, it gives you slightly different dialog and you then you move on with your day. The TS MC is a vehicle to meet that game's LI's, your choices change what side of them you get to see. In Obscura your choices affect Vesper first and fore most, which again gives Vesper a stronger sense of character.

Just to be clear, I don't want this to sound like me dunking on RedSpringStudios and say they can't make good characters. Boy can they! All five of their love interests are full of character and intrigue. It's like I said in point two, the "build your own oc" approach seems very purposeful. It's a fan response they've encouraged, even releasing bio templates that match the official bios of all the LI's. This is what they wanted.

What amuses me is that RottenRaccons did not seem to realize what they had done. They seem very surprised but pleased by how much fans are latching onto Vesper as their own character.

#touchstarved game #touchstarved mc #obscura vn #obscura vesper #game comparison #for the record i don't think either aproach is bad #just different #game analysis #not me repeatedly editing this cause i don't like how i phrased something

[vethbrenatto]

obsessed with the way arlo was created to be this creepy, offkilter "like normal but just a little off and weird" character that you can really feel in laura's speech patterns and when she says off the wall shit, but then howard's just there like "hold my beer"

#arlo: being a little freak #howard thinking he is the most normal person in the world: says something monumentally freakier #candela obscura #critical role

[6-atlas-6]

Redacted headcanons cause why not

After the second Quinn audio where he told Sam everything him and Tank did, when they went home Tank started secretly packing up some of their stuff because they were sure Sam was going to leave them

Blake only uses his sight when he absolutely needs to because he's terrified off watching his listener die in his arms again

Morgan never particularly cared that he can't use his sight for things related to him, but he always wishes he could see what him and his listeners lives would be like together in the future

Avior is so terrified about being alone without Starlight again that he panics over the smallest things, like waking up in bed in the morning and Starlight not being next to him

Damien calls Huxley's moms "mom" because they're more of mothers to him than his ever was

Vega is so used to his life being about hate and being feared that he doesn't know what love feels like himself. When Warden wasn't immediately scared of him and treated him like a person, he assumed it was only to get information out of him

Dear made Lasko so comfortable with himself that Lasko actually tried to get in contact with his mom for the first time (she didn't answer)

When Lasko said he wasn't ready to have yk he genuinely thought Dear would leave him because he's so used to that being the only thing people want him for, especially because he doesn't understand how anyone would like him for his personality

When James left his listener again, he took a piece of their clothing with him and cried for hours when it lost their scent

#I finally posted something about James y'all #redacted audio #redacted asmr #redactedverse #redacted #redacted sam #redacted darlin #redacted tank #redacted blake #redacted morgan #redacted seer obscura #redacted damien #redacted huxley #redacted avior #redacted starlight #redacted vega #redacted warden #redacted lasko #redacted lasko moore #redacted dear #redacted james #redacted project meridian #redacted carpe deus #redacted sovereign state

[humanbeanisnotamused]

it's interesting because the doctors do tend towards the same hangups and neuroses but that internal monologue we got from edgar while he washed his hands raw, it's hard to imagine either of the ladies getting that incandescently upset because they won't like. touch it.

jean doesn't shy away from the upsetting thing but she does tend to disconnect from the actual upset; I can imagine her saying many of the things edgar did but it's in this detached, looking at a bug in a magnifying glass kind of tone. and then elsie, i think, does the opposite; she feels the upset deeply but won't name why even to herself sometimes. we know she does get upset in spectacular fashion but even then, the sense you get is less of actually surrendering to the feeling and more of breaking under the strain of suppressing it.

jean is Brave and Composed and elsie is a closed fist but edgar is out here actually feeling his feelings and it's super unfortunate for him

#candela obscura #there's something fun in the gender politics of edgar being the most in touch with his feelings #theres something fun in the gender politics of edgar in general #the ways he's not good at Doing Masculinity so he doesnt even bother to try #that thing where the sister came at him with a knife so he just dropped to the ground. it's in there too

[kelvingemstone]

sean finnerty is greatly enhanced by the costume and the accent sure but the core of his appeal is in how he is a barely controlled slavering set of jaws trying his best to put on manners and not seeing how it only serves to reveal how monstrous he has been made. a dog grown too big for the leash but you can still see the frayed collar around his neck, and he can feel it too

#sean finnerty #candela obscura #candela obscura campaign 2 #the circle of needle and thread #i love how marion literally only barely tethers him to the world. its so tragic. it makes so much sense that it ended how it did #like...be real sean could never have said no to not being who he was. to being taken over by something much bigger and more purposeful #its so insane how he likes the collar he truly does but there's no way he could ever have obeyed it for all his life

[gothmusiclatinamerica]

Peruvian Goth Bands Part 2: Modern Day

All the resources for the Part 2 of my two-part series on Peruvian goth bands, which features modern Peruvian goth bands (video here)

For Peruvian goth bands from the 80s and 90s, check this list: (here)

Dulce Muerte

Song featured in the video: “Bienvenido a Sheol”  (here)

Music: [compilation features, YouTube searches, no solo accounts]

Social Media: Facebook, MySpace

Extraño Silencio

Song featured in the video: “La Distancia” (here)

Music: [compilation features, no solo accounts]

Social Media: Instagram, Facebook

Under the Rain

Song featured in video: “Sitting in the Dark” (here)

Music: Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify

Social Media: Facebook

Cashiari

Song featured in the video: “Criatura sin Control” (here)

Music: YouTube, [various compilations on Bandcamp]

Social Media: Instagram, Facebook

La Reina de los Condenados

Song featured in the video: “En el Cementario” off of Ukupacha (here)

Music: YouTube, iTunes, Spotify

Social Media: Instagram, Facebook

Something Obscura

Song featured in the video: “A real place in a false broken mirror” off of Only the Pain Can Cure Us (here)

Music: Bandcamp 1, Bandcamp 2, SoundCloud, YouTube

Social Media: Instagram, Facebook

Specto Caligo

Song featured in the video: “Atrocity” off of Distorsiones Óseas (here)

Music: Bandcamp, iTunes, YouTube, Spotify

Social Media: Facebook

Ultimo Destino

Song featured in the video: “Danza” off of La Condena Despierta (here)

Music: Bandcamp, YouTube

Social Media: Facebook

Multiples Laceraciones

Song featured in the video: “Alejandome de ti” (here)

Music: Bandcamp (multiple releases by this label), iTunes

Social Media: Facebook

Giul Caos

Song feautred in the video: “Oscura Habitación” (here)

Music: Bandcamp, Soundcloud, YouTube

Social Media: Facebook

En los Ojos de Medusa

Song featured in the video: “Pecado y Amor” off of Ausencia (here)

Music: Bandcamp, YouTube

Social Media: Facebook

Schmerz

Song featured in the video: “Frozen Heart” (here) 

Music: Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify

Social Media: Instagram, Facebook

Triumvirs

Song featured in the video: “Osiris Torches Eden” off of Venoms of Woe (here)

Music: Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify

Social Media: Instagram, Facebook

#gothgoth #darkwave #post punk #goth rock #gothgaze #Peruvian goth #Dulce Muerte #Extraño Silencio #Under the Rain #Cashiari #La Reina de los Condenados #Something Obscura #Specto Caligo #Ultimo Destino #Multiples Laceraciones #Giul Caos #En Los Ojos de Medusa #Schmerz #Triumvirs #goth music #Peruvian #South American

[hauntedfalcon]

what came first: the set design for the Candela Obscura chapter two trailer, or Brennan declaring that obviously this room would have a decorative broadsword in it

#Candela Obscura #Sean Finnerty #Candela Obscura SPOILERS #long post #as someone who keeps my waster on the coat rack by the front door just in case something comes through it that needs clobbering #the kinship I felt?? ☺️

[captainofthetidesbreath]

It is just so interesting and compelling and speaks volumes about how Nathaniel has encountered magickal monsters before, he's watched them grab and ruin people instantaneously, how he's fought in the trenches of the Last Great War, lived in active combat for years, how he's seen horrors created by humanity and by magick—but when he looks into the face of terror and is seized by an overwhelming fear, what he remembers is being nine and watching his brother drown.

Of all things that he's experienced, the war, the monstrosities, the evils supernatural and human, that is what lives at the heart of all his fear.

#tbh Travis constantly like what if at the heart of it all is something that is an incredibly (for lack of a better term) mundane core memory #like comparatively mundane. something that is like not at all fantastical or even truly incredible or unique. just common. average. #you were there when your brother died in a completely common and preventable way. #Nathaniel Trapp #Candela Obscura #Candela things #Critical Role #circle of needle and thread

[bastardbogboy]

thinking about sean finnerty, thinking about a man so thoroughly convinced he was a monster that he became one, a man who never truly felt seen by those he loved most because before, they never saw him as the monster he believed he was, and after, didn't believe the monster to truly be the man he is

#i dont know if i worded this well but #theres just something about most of the circle believing sean got replaced by an imposter #despite the fact that he did not and he chose to do all of this #that really fucking gets me #they never truly knew him because they didnt believe he would ever choose to do those things #so it must be someone else #but its not!! its him!!! fuck!!!! #candela obscura #candela obscura spoilers #co c2e3 #sean finnerty

[yashley]

“After Eddie went missing, I didn’t want anyone to have to suffer through that anymore. I wanted to find answers.”

#critical role #candela obscura #arlo black #ygifs #help my weird girly got doomed by the narrative and i don't want to watch her die #no but watching her is like reading a book so naturally I need to be utterly obnoxious about her #in ep1 when she Thought of eddie and Knew to offer blood to a rune. like she just Left that detail out when she spoke of him INSIGHT CHEC #saying oldfaire relics interested Eddie and yet She also knows of the lure of it??? INSIGHT CHEC #asking for something to combat shadow beasts and then DOESN'T want it on her person?? INSIGHT CH #no but like is it GRIEF that's motivating her or GUILT girl spinning in my head im chewing #them being like we'll find eddie! and she's like maybe :). GIRL #i'm saying only one more episode with arlo isn't acceptable I need at least 10 what