#not the years of other media and fandom and lore and theory

[horang-07]

FNAF SPOILERS! SCROLL! TALKING ABOUT THE SPRINGLOCK SCENE!

i’ve seen so many people discussing the springlock scene in both negative and positive ways and i think it brings up really cool points about how matthew played that scene and balanced fan expectations with his own characterisation.

i think the discussions around this movie have rlly exposed the disconnect between fanon and canon in fnaf, especially talking abt the core games in isolation, bc frankly in the game universe (ignoring the books) we get Very Little characterisation for William other than the obvious, but Matthew managed to add so much in the way he talks and his body language.

in the reveal scene, we see afton at arguably his peak. in his first scene, he comes off as somewhat demeaning and judgemental until he recognises mike’s name, at which point he seems to have this nervous energy, rushing to cover it up but stumbling slightly, his reaction to the tables being turned even slightly is massive.

this is a man who committed multiple mrdrs in essentially broad daylight, hid the bodies in the most obvious place, and still got away with it, and then kept the crime scene as a trophy of his actions, and an ongoing prison sentence for his victims. he has been in complete control for decades, and is confident that he can deal with any kind of threat quickly. his confidence in his reveal is palpable

it changes when vanessa shoots him. the whole parallel with vanessa and the animatronics is hugely interesting too- how william refers to the animatronics almost endearingly as “kids” when he wants them to obey, how both vanny and the animatronics have an unearned loyalty to him, almost a pseudo-adoption through what he did to them, taking them from their parents and keeping them under his thumb, forever stuck as naive, forgiving, obedient children. vanessa breaking from that control shakes him, but the mask slips back into place almost immediately.

then, he’s outsmarted by the brother of one of his victims, and the child he planned to end next. his pseudo-children turn on him and he can no longer manipulate his appearance or shed his skin to escape. he explodes on them, and his language is incredibly telling that he is being dishonest.

he calls them small, trying to belittle them into submission, even though they are ten feet tall metal animatronics powered by rage. he is grasping at straws to regain control, and failing miserably.

finally, the springlocks go off. the locks in the movie look more like a ribcage, so the first two likely puncture his lungs. they’re slow, and painful, but he doesn’t scream or beg or sob. he grunts and groans, gritting his teeth and only letting out sounds of pain that sound almost involuntary. there is no way in hell he would visibly let himself show weakness or pain in front of these creatures that he believes he has control over. he isn’t brought to his knees until there are eight metal spikes embedded in his abdomen. he doesn’t let the mask fall for even a second, until he literally PUTS THE ACTUAL MASK ON and finally collapses. even then, he’s fighting for consciousness, twitching and writhing with no control over his body. william afton thrives on control, and his soul will not rest until he gets it back.

it’s why he keeps the pizzeria- he always comes back. he can’t help but return to the scene of the crime, putting on his old costume, continuing his killings. he revels in being a constant threat on the horizon. and now, he knows he is going to die, and he knows the suit will bring him back, and noone will be able to get rid of him then. so he puts the mask back on, and waits.

in terms of the sfx- they’re pretty accurate. with stab wounds, you need to leave the knife in the wound as long as possible for best chance of survival, as it stops the blood from escaping. in terms of the springlocks, there wouldn’t be copious amounts of blood as the locks are keeping the wounds filled- which is good because it means a slower, more painful death.

#fnaf #fnaf movie #eden rambles #william afton #matthew lillard #springtrap #five nights at freddy's #fnaf spoilers #idk i thought it was a great scene #ppl just need to manage their expectations of what fnaf 1 Actually Is in isolation #not the years of other media and fandom and lore and theory #we literally saw him get springlocked one time in 8 bit with no audio and four frames. how is this worse in comparison #wanna make another post talking abt how the film explores images vs the reality when you look deeper #specifically abby and her drawings/the drawings at freddys vs mike’s motivation being based on the images he sees in his dreams #and how it’s so perfect for fnaf 1 being a game almost entirely made of just scary images without actually exploring the reality #that these robots are Children and Scared and Lost #tldr the fort scene was necessary

[olderthannetfic]

One thing that's funny about "ancient" fandoms, is when newbies are very confused about how certain new lore apparently weaves into the story with "no foreshadowing" so they try and write up these really deep theories about why these things happen using the more well known instalments. And then some old Enoch-mofo comes along and is like "Actually that part of the lore was explained 20+ years ago in some throwaway line, they mentioned it like twice back then, and it's still canon even if no one fucking remembers that lore-origin. But they occasionally still build on that part even if it was never explained again." it's funny, old and new meeting. : D Also made me realise how much hidden knowledge old fandom folk have, because some 20+ fandoms might have a lot of lost media in some form or other.

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I'm suddenly reminded of lierdumoa's post about that Vulcan from First Contact.

[katyspersonal]

Ayyyy 3 years of Bloodborneing! I am old now xD 🎉

I checked my @katyahina main, that existed many months before this blog, and.. damn, I really HAVE been into Bloodborne for 3 years! Not just that, but I've kept missing the proper day because I misremembering joining in Spring and not Winter. But.. yeah!

^ This meme was how my Bloodborne fan era technically started. It was the first thing I've posted on it, after about a month of passionate discussions with my friends who played it.. and then fishbowlcarnage, a super based Soulsborne blog that unfortunately deactivated year later, liked it and followed me instantly. I've just started to take first steps towards being "properly" online in social media after a seriously horrible and long period in my life, and having that sense of 'a cool person' giving me attention again, after all that time? Yeah, I felt like I could not pull the 'it was just a joke, I do not intend to post more Bloodborne!!' after something so significant. Look, I was very sad, and in shards from after leaving abusive relationship that were a huge part of my "isolation" from sane people. Still, I think it is funny that I might not even have stayed around in this fandom, had it not been a single person giving me a hand at the most important time. She never knew how meaningful it was for me, and never will now (genuinely hope she is fine, wherever she is..)

But afterwards I started drawing and loredigging more! This aesthetic and this type of storytelling was absolutely nothing like what I was used to, so it was very hard to whip my art into a more "serious" shape after years of round, cute and cartooney stuff. And even harder to connect so many vague hints and scattered lore scraps! I thought I was losing my mind upon discovering my first theories. Heck, I swear I learned what growing eyes on the inside felt like XD @val-of-the-north was there for me on every step on the way, he remembers me screaming at how bad it hurt my brain and how I was losing sanity dsfhjdfs In the end, my brain did get completely rewired in terms of media analysis and how I create things. I think I will never be the same. Admittedly, I am so, so, SO thankful to my former self for discovering all theories on my own, instead of instantly socialising and taking hot takes, theories and designs in the fandom as a reference. Talking with other fans significantly improved my interpretations and theories, but the best way to go is to first have your own version, so it can be refined upon interactions. Rather than just letting what's already there decide for you, you feel?

Granted, it's been painful 3 years for at least 5 significant reasons, and time flew really fast. Sometimes I regret having joined the fandom instead of being the 'unreachable' fan (the one that just posts theories and fanart without ever actually interacting with other fans). Watching the best, the most level-headed and interesting fandom in my life rot into a clown mess of 'cool kids' cliques, hierarchies and division, discourse, passive aggression, toxicity, gospel headcanons, snobbish treatment of any fan that didn't grab a beer with an "influencer" at the Discord and resentment towards fans who are actually passionate was PAIN. I hoped this kind of rot that kills every other small fandom could never touch US, but alas.

On the other hand, accepting that all good things should rot one day is important part of any engagement. Resisting what's natural end only makes things worse. ...that sounded like a very Soulsborne-moment. Besides, all pain (personal one or 'on behalf of my community' one) was worth the knowledge and insights on nature of people I've gotten! I understand so much more, it is only fair that the price was so heavy. ....and that also sounded like a very Soulsborne-moment. And at the same time, while I was raving like a grumpy old man about "better simpler times", even older fans came towards me to admit that actually this is not a novelty but just a more annoying form of it, and the community knew at least two previous 'cycles' of rising and then rotting like this. So in the end it doesn't matter, and some day things will improve again, only to get ruined again. ..... *sighs* and is not it a fucking Soulsborne-moment yet AGAIN.

I am still glad that I was able to find the interest in these awesome stories, and that I've found such good friends. I think in the end, the biggest reason why these games have such unreal grip on me is that they understand me like no other piece of media did. With all previous things I've been into, I was the one trying to understand them, but here, ironically considering my lore essays, it is understanding me. The despair, the endless existential crisis, the traumas, the doubts, the struggle to remember what's the reason to even live and hope is, observations on society I've had on instinctive level despite intellectual disabilities but could never articulate... the nightmares, too. But this is even better that I've found people who can understand me through how I understand it. I can't go back to how I used to socialise before the nightmare everything has been spiralling as for several years, the trust issues run far too deep and control me far too much, but I feel as alive as someone in my position could be here. And this matters.

#personal #thoughts #memories #it feels bittersweet

[balkanradfem]

I remember when I first started using tumblr; I fell in love with a single creator on here, or their blog, because they posted Harry Potter insider information that I didn't see anywhere else. For about 4 months, all I did was follow that one blog, and I patiently waited every day for them to put new content on my dash, which gave me a lot of joy. I then slowly discovered that they were not the only one; there were OTHER Harry Potter blogs, and they posted edits, screenshots, fan-theories, fanarts, fanfics, art, gifs, stories, fandom lore, conspiracy theories, I was absolutely delighted with this! I wasn't confident enough to make posts myself, but following all these people and sharing their posts and getting excited for events and website openings felt like being a part of the community. It was right when Pottermore was about to open and we were all signing up as beta testers.

And after that came Doctor Who, then Supernatural, then Sherlock, and slowly I was drawn in to more fun and childish media by the power of fandom excitement and tumblr gifs alone. I watched Glee because tumblr blogs kept posting gifs of it, I played games that people recommended. It was infectious, and everyone was posting rainbows and gay-positive edits at every corner, I felt safe here, even though I didn't even know I was a lesbian back then.

I think falling in love with one single tumblr creator is all it takes to come here and stick around. Tumblr hasn't lost all of it's excitement, we just got more jaded because we're been baited and accused of being cringy a lot, and a lot of homophobes have joined since, but we still have that infectious fandom energy whenever something big happens. That's what kept me around for 12 years. Features that enable us to follow users and enjoy their content are already here and functional. All we want to do is enjoy and support creators. The dashboard that displays their content as they make it, and enables us to interact and support them is all we need.

#tumblr #what kept us on this website #tumblr fandom #entering tumblr #tumblr past #tumblr lore

[violivs]

NMTDaily: VOX POPS

- Hi all! I’m going to be rewatching along with TCWs NMTDaily and making posts about each episode, or as many as I can (I might miss some, but I hope not!)

- I want to start by saying thank you again to The Candle Wasters for making my favorite thing. Just, the amount of joy and creative fulfillment and friendship and delight I’ve gotten from this show and this fandom is still unmatched. Thank you so much for making it and sharing it. The love and care and skill with which NMTD was made still shines through and I’m still so awed by it. I think I was probably somewhat overdramatic about my reactions to Lolilo in places where you, TCW, could see, on my main blog, and you didn’t deserve that. I really hope I didn’t send you any aggressive asks about it, or make you uncomfortable in any way. I’m a little afraid I did, but I don’t know for sure. If I did, I apologize. I’m older and more mature now, I promise. I hope you’re all doing so very well now!

- I didn’t realize until today that Project I: VOX POPS was posted first, before any other video in the series. I didn’t start watching NMTD until right around the time Benedick’s first Q&A video was posted, so I binged the first chunk of episodes around that time. It will be interesting to watch them at a slower pace this time!

- I am immediately overwhelmed with warm fuzzies at seeing these characters again. They’re such babies! I love them!

- I never made a post about this, but Ben’s first line being about how he shares a (differently spelled) name with a Pope is both a great first line for him on a character level since he starts as kind of a cocky overconfident asshole (a cover for his soft sensitive insides) AND it’s evidence for my theory that he’s probably Catholic, but lapsed/non-practicing/maybe agnostic or atheist solely because I WILL keep projecting parts of me onto this character, it’s just what I do at this point. Other evidence: he has a confirmation name. We don’t get his full name til Lolilo, but still. And he’s partly Scottish, which can account for the fact that English people usually are not Catholic.

- “you need to imitate an eagle, that’ll scare them away!” That’s Ben’s second line and first bird reference! Already! Wow.

- The favorite band question! Mumford and Sons! Fife and the Drums! Sheep Dog and Wolf! The LORE! The REFERENCES! We’re already off to the races.

- “I don’t need chat-up lines” Beatrice I love you , and you have no idea what’s coming.

- I forgot about Beatrice’s Favorite T-Shirts Ranking System lol

- Extremely funny that Ben says bananas are his favorite food and then he goes on to become synonymous with mangoes instead. Sorry, buddy, you will always be Mango Skin Boy to us. xD

- I forgot how delightful Dogberry and Verges are in this episode

- “that you would leave me” oh Meg. Oh honey. Oh no.

- I’ve seen nine seasons of Doctor Who and only five episodes of Game of Thrones since 2014. Sorry Bea, I side with Ben on this one. And I’ve seen one season of Community. I’m slowly hacking away at the list of media referenced in nmtd that I need to watch!

- love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free! ❤️

- Balthazar plays every instrument, of course.

- Bea must not have an ear for music if she hated that question enough to force Ursula on-camera so she doesn’t have to answer it… Unless Ursula asked her something else she didn’t want to answer! Lol

- Ben makes me cringe so hard a couple times this episode. And yet I still love him. To be fair, that’s just every Benedick at the start of Much Ado, though. The cringy lines are completely in character.

- I decided to save the full story of how I discovered NMTD for whenever the NMTDaily email for Ben’s first Q&A episode goes out, because then it will actually be ten years almost to the day since I started watching. But I’m so impatient and excited to tell the story!

- It’s amazing how back then, these kids were my contemporaries and the Lizzie Bennet Diaries cast felt impossibly old compared to me. Now the NMTD kids are babies and I’m older than Lizzie Bennet! Trippy. It sure has been a nice ten years.

Until the next one! Happy NMTD Day, fellow flamangoes!

💖🥭🦩

#nmtd #nothing much to do #NMTDaily #webseries #violivs NMTDaily liveblog

[saintsenara]

I always love hearing about people’s fandom and reading/writer journeys especially since they usually involve some very cursed content and fun navigating ‘90’s and ‘00’s tech. Where did you start, what got you hooked, how have your tastes changed over the years, what made you decide to go from reader to writer? 💖

thank you for the ask, anon - and you’re correct that my experience was one of cursed 2000s technology, given that i started reading harry potter fanfiction via the twin madhouses of livejournal and fictionalley, nothing ever tagged beyond ‘lemon!!!’, on the family computer using dial-up internet [god bless the fact that the parents of my generation had no inclination to care about what we were consuming online - one of my brothers was a huge fan of rotten.com, and he's perfectly well-adjusted...]

my reading tastes were, initially, lord of the rings focused - i still think* about a particular elrohir/námo mandos fic which had me in chokehold when i was about fourteen - but i was as big a harry potter fan as anyone of my generation [shoutout in particular to one of my pals, who spent the entirety of a geography trip in 2006 speculating what the unknown horcruxes could be with me while we froze our bollocks off in some godforsaken bog in county antrim]. so it wasn’t a surprise, i suppose, that i was clicking on any fan-fiction links i could find for that series too…

[the fic which has stayed with me most profoundly from those days was called something along the lines of murder at malfoy manor which was on fictionalley and was this exceptional combination of the rules of cluedo and the ron-is-time-travelling dumbledore theory. it was incredible.]

but i wasn’t a writer. i was one of those science-y, not-like-other-girls teenagers who was performatively really cunty about other girls who liked to write little stories or draw little pictures, which i thought was fundamentally unserious. the fact that i was an avid consumer of these stories didn’t make me question what the fuck i was being such an arsehole about…

because i loved a bit of fan-fic, and not only did i love fan-fic but i demonstrably had a fandom presence and was clued up on fandom lore - i could quote my immortal, i knew what a snape-wife was, i was on a forum or two - although i went to great lengths to avoid anyone in my real life discovering that. and i do feel extremely proud of myself that i have a reputation among people i know for not having been particularly cringe as a teen [how little they know… i’ve just got a good poker face.]

i lost interest in harry potter when i went to university - i started uni in 2010, when it was still socially acceptable to be really into it, and i definitely went to my fair share of themed parties in the first couple of years, but by the time i graduated in 2016 (i did medicine, so it’s a six-year slog…) i’d not opened the books, watched the films, or thought about the fandom in years. i remember rolling my eyes at the number of people i know who went to see cursed child when it first opened. bit cringe to be in your twenties and into harry potter, isn’t it?

[lol. lmao.]

but a global crisis changes things, i suppose.

like so many people, i got back into fandom during the coronavirus pandemic - although, regrettably, not because i was stuck at home. i don’t think i’ll ever be able to accurately describe what it was like to work in a hospital in 2020, except to say that by the time i got home each day the only thing i could do other than stare blankly at a wall was lose myself in the comfort of media i knew well and its memories of a simpler time. and once i’d re-read the books a few times… well, it was only a matter of time before i was scrolling ao3 at 3am.

and, because my ego hasn’t changed even if my relationship with my own gender has, it did not take a lot to convince me that i could write stories which were just as good as the ones i was reading.

you can be the judge of whether i succeeded.

[*i’m being coy. i have it bookmarked on ao3]

#asks answered #asenora on writing

[vesperione]

Hello And Welcome To: Project Vesperione! Enjoy Your Stay

Here are some things to note before you view my resume.

The quick rundown is I'm Jay, I'm 18 and this is (primarily) a Team StarKid blog. All my socials are under the same name. Since turning 18, I’ve become incredulously blunt apparently so be warned: I’m embracing the bitch within! I also fucking hate Robert Manion and if you support him then fuck off! The man sexually harassed a coworker and said some very, very sketchy things about Beauty And The Beast while hating on the company that made him famous during NMT2's run so if you support him then politely, block me.

With that cleared up, welcome to Project Vesperione also known as this silly little Hatchetfield blog. If you have stumbled upon here, then that is highly unfortunate but you're stuck here now. Sorry about that. Once again, my name is Jay, I'm 18, aroace, and have a collection of tags. Here at Project Vesperione, here are the few you can expect to see used the most:

meow - my Hey Melissa tag (with a few exceptions)

kickstarter perks - my Workin Boys! tag

lcverlosses - my lautski tag

cjnderellascastle - my Cinderellas castle tag

consjderthecoconut - my main tag for original posts

track 14 on fitf - my tag for when I'm being explicitly blunt and correcting people on lore just because I can

And now, for whatever reason if you want to know more about me, here's more info under the cut

I got sick of the Hatchetfield's fandom's stupid theories and ended up making track 14 on fitf. I've been in this hellhole since jan 7th 2019. I know the lore better than new fans ever will. The new fans got to watch NPMD on a whim. I had to wait four fucking years so excuse the fact if I'm blunt about it, I have autism and don't like incorrect facts. Moving on:

Rules and boundaries: if you are a hardcore supporter of Dream and the DSMP, then please leave this blog. If you are transphobic, homophobic, sexist, racist, xenophobic etc etc, please leave as well. If you are against neopronouns then you can leave as well.

Off the bat, I am, as you will most likely see within tags of reblogs, Quite The Character. In other words, I'm a self-aware bitch. This means when correcting people on Hatchetfield Lore, I will be blunt about it because I've been in this fandom since Jan 7th 2019. I've grown up with Hatchetfield as Hatchetfield has grown. I know the lore like the back of my hand. I miss nothing. But I assume you're not here to learn about me being a bitch. Here's some important (repeated) info about me:

Name: Jay Age: 18 Pronouns: They/Them Sexuality: Aromantic Asexual

My Fandom List Includes:

Team Starkid

Miraculous Ladybug

Cooking Companions/Dread Weight

Julie And The Phantoms

Escape The Night

35MM: A Musical Exhibiton

And Now - Fun Trivia About Me!: I used to study Creative Media Production at college. I have since graduated. For my Final Major Project (my final project ever which is going to get graded by examiners), I made a Hatchetfield Podcast. The target audience? People who may be unfamiliar with hatchetfield who want to learn the basics without having to go through the musicals and NMT. The link is here: https://linktr.ee/dothncx. Let it be known that my deadname is in that podcast so if you listen to it, please do not use that towards me. My name is Jay. Thanks.

The name "Vesperione" comes from the two names of Vesperia and Viperion merged together with an e added on the end (vespe-rion+e). Originally, my username was robertstanion (i say this confidently to prove if I can disown that fucker then anyone can) but when I made the move to multifandom, I wanted something universal. Besides. Don't lie to yourself. Vesperione sounds fucking cool

I also really like music. Like. Really like music. I like musicals, and I like music. Some of my favourite artists include: Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Dallas Thornton, Chappell Roan, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan. My favourite musicals are NPMD, TGWDLM, Black Friday, Little Shop Of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Heathers and Everybody's Talking About Jamie.

And when I'm not being autistic about all of that ^ I am being autistic over my immense love for cosplay and drag queens! (yes i cosplay but i'll never publicly speak my cosplay acc @)

In other words, this blog is a mess. I love horror based media so the majority of this blog is that, but it changes at any one time. Be prepared for literally anything.

Finally, my hobbies include chatting shit, being paranoid about my digital footprint, writing fanfiction for my own self indulgence, procrastinating, playing roblox and crying

And if you’ve read all that and still want to follow me, then I’m amazed. Welcome to the club.

#09/11/2023 #intro post #consjderthecoconut #jays fanfic adventures #jay priv fanfic tag #meow #kickstarter perks #lcverlosses #😇 #angel emoji #Louis Tomlinson #track 14 on FITF

[lmskitty]

Hi again......If you don't mind, can I ask, what are your top 10 (or top 7) favorite media (can be books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series)? Why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before......Thanks....

Hi!!!

Tricky!

1. Jujutsu Kaisen

2. Gorillaz

3. Sailor Moon

4. Outlast

5. The Last Binding Series by Freya Marske

6. Neon Genesis Evangelion

7. FMA Brotherhood

8. The Magnus Archives

9. Fake (manga series)

10. Digimon

1. It brought me joy and fandom and friendship again and made me feel like myself after a very long time. I know the narrative can be traumatic but it also has these incredible moments that just feel you with awe (like Todo turning up to help Yuji fight or seeing Gojo do hollow purple for the first time) it just reminded me of everything I love about anime.

2. My first real fandom, the first thing I wrote proper fanfiction for. The lore and the music and the animation just amazed me when I saw it when I was 11 and I've not been happy with decisions they've made recently (overpriced merch in a cost of living crisis, NFTs to celebrate Plastic Beach?!?) I'll still always love them and be excited for new content.

3. First anime love, first time seeing a relationship with two women helping me to identify as bi (now I'd say pan) I grew up believing that to be a strong woman you had to disregard femininity and seeing Usagi be the strongest with her bunny drawings and her focus on friendship and love just rewired my brain.

4. I love horror, I was brought up with it but for a very long time nothing has scared me and I found horror media repetitive. Outlast genuinely scared me and I was SO happy and I love reading the character notes and comics.

5. I've talked about this series a bunch but A Marvellous Light was the first book I'd read in years that made me cry and just stayed in my head for ages. Everything I'd loved about harry potter but done properly.

6. I was at a sleepover at a friend's and someone stuck this on and everyone was talking and I was just glued to the screen because what the FUCK WAS THIS?!?!? I've watched it since with my husband and it still hits me so hard every time. It's such a powerful portrayal of depression and nihilism and how relationships can fuck you up. It's beautiful and I think it's one of the best anime's of all time.

7. The opposite of neon Genesis lol. Love and family and forgiveness and what it means to sacrifice for the people you care about. Devoured brotherhood with my husband and we were both in tears by the end of it. I'd also been told I couldn't have kids and we had struggled with a miscarriage and Izumi and Sig just hit me so hard. (I have a bub now tho it came out ok in the end) but the characters still feel so real and there's so many amazing moments.

8. I listened to all of this and played Minecraft with my husband till like 6 am on weekends. We would discuss at length our theories and it just holds a special place in my heart. It's perfect horror and John and Martin's relationship just means a lot to me. I related a LOT to Martin and loved the series and I've super been enjoying the Magnus Protocol too! Also that first fucking recording of Nikola Orsinov?!?!? We both sat still staring at each other genuinely freaked the fuck out and we still quote it at each other! "I mean, you can if you really want to, but you’re not going to like it." CHILLS EVERY FUCKING TIME!!!

9. I read a lot of BL manga with my friends (*old lady voice* back in my day we called it Yaoi!!!) And so many of them had terrible tropes and big hands. This was the first one I ever read that I still adore that had an amazing love story and plot. It was revolutionary to see an LGBTQ story not just about them being gay or coming out but it had real detective cases and murders etc and I still wish we could get a tv show of it.

10. When Gojo talked about Digimon I fell even further in love. It's the fucking best. I wanted to be Mimi so BAD as a kid my mum made me a Halloween costume of her and I thought I was so cool. My next tattoo is gonna be Lilymon. I grew up with it in the dub and it established my sense of humour for better or worse. The Digimon film is still my comfort film of choice. Matt was such a big crush I had when I was little and I wrote little stories about being one of the digidestined.

Those are my top 10!!!!

#gorillaz #jujutsu kaisen #the magnus archives #tma podcast #fake the manga #fake! #digimon #outlast #fma brotherhood #neon genesis evangelion #sailor moon

[just-bendy]

1 Have you ever seen any cartoons?2

Have you ever met any FNAF characters?

[@kittythesnugglycat]

I'm a toon, of course I watch cartoons.

And no, I haven't met any FNAF characters or the PowerPuff Girls. One's a video game (so there's no chance there) and the other is a cartoon, and the only livin' toons in this city are us and ORIGINAL toon characters, as the owner said before. They don't wanna hafta deal with crossovers and havin' ta do research on characters they know nothin' about, not ta mention havin' ta portray them correctly lest they get judgement from fans that actually care about those characters. Ya can't understand years of fandom lore, theories, and hidden details from the canon media itself by only doin' brief research. It's a big pain.

So, cartoons like the Powerpuff Girls and video games like FNAF with already existing characters that the owner didn't create only exist as that, just shows on TV and games on yer computer. Ya understand that? Ya won't be seein' Freddy Fazbear walkin' around this city or those PowerPuff Girls sittin' in a diner and orderin' a milkshake. That's just not how things work here. The only toons you'd see walkin' around will be ones that the owner here has created themselves, as in OCs, plus some clones of Alice and Boris but I mean besides them.

Oh, and since we're on this topic... this world is not yours and none of ya are livin' here. It's Earth but not yer Earth, if that makes sense. I've got folks thinkin' I'm breakin' into their homes and stealin' stuff when we're not even in the same universe, not that I'd do that even if we did live in the same world. The owner doesn't even let me visit other universes anyway. Glad we got that cleared up.

#bendy #batim #batim bendy #ask #nanon #100s stuff #kittythesnugglecat #flawedclonesau #(( thank you and welcome! yeah they all need some TLC.... bendy especially bc of these recent anons #and anons that have yet to be answered as of writing/posting this )) #(( sorry for bendy rambling he loves to talk #also i hope this clears up a lot of stuff that ive already explained before.... #in the tags....... well i dont think most ppl read the tags anyway. their loss ))

[fayesdiary]

oh you found a really good FE ask list, but since it would be a bit crazy to ask for every question let's go with...13, 24, 25, 31, and 37

Thanks Lore, made it myself😂

13) What do you like most about Fire Emblem?

Oh, that's... suprisingly hard to say because Fire Emblem's one of those series who's more than the sum of its parts.

But then again, I think I'd say the fandom. Or at least the niche circle I found here on Tumblr.

I found a lot of new friends here and really helped me open up at least in this space online wish i'd work irl too, but most of all... this series really opened my creativity in a way that no other piece of media ever did. Something about it feels... really approachable from a transformative standpoint.

Thanks to it I opened this blog, which led me to make lots of new friends (love you Lore btw <3), made some essays and thought pieces and most of all, I wrote fanfiction and art! Two things I always thought I was too talentless to make! And no matter what, Ill always be grateful to this franchise for me, despite how much the mainstream fandom sucks ass. Fuck 'em anyway, ignored them ever since before 3H release.

Speaking of this franchise inspiring creatvity, I always admired from afar the lovely folks at Feuniverse. The amount of hacks and fangames is astounding and I can't believe how many people made straight up fully fledged games from hacks! Maybe one day I will join her if I ever feel motivated enough. Maybe. I want to play more hacks at the very least, especially because FEE3 is one of my favorite fan events.

24) An FE title you wish would be remade?

Geneaology would be the obvious answer and don't get me wrong, I absolutely do want to see it remade and believe it inevitably will one day...

But if I have to be honest I want a rerelease of the Tellius games first because they're the hardest to play even through... illegitimate means if you're say, like me and only have an old laptop to emulate them with. Whether they'd be remakes or simple remasters, I don't really care as long as they play as they should.

25) Any general or specific headcanons you have?

Dragons have a lifespan of 100 times that of the humans.

It's never stated how much longer dragons live compared to humans, but given that Tiki is 1000 years old as a child and 3000 as an adult, i find the 100x multiplier fits really well and helps keep track of dragons' age more clearly, even if Fòdlan and Elyos dragons do seem to live longer than even that.

So by that logic in dragon years, Tiki is 10 in Shadow Dragon and in her thirties in Awakening, Nowi is 12 and Myrrh is 14.

Doesn't completely fit, but it sure helps visualize things more clearly.

31) Some moments of Fire Emblem you keep thinking of?

Speaking of the new things, um, the Twisted Joke, Engage ch11 and 17, most of the Engage endgame really. And Slayde bravely taking on a bunch of children in the Echoes prologue traumatizing the shit out of them and still getting his ass kicked (by Mycen, but still)

37) What's a weird theory or headcanon you have?

Rhea copes with her daily life through recreational drug use given that quest where she gives weed herbs to distressed students

#fire emblem #loregoddess #ask replies #my rambles #the day i have enough time energy and motivation to make an fe hack/fangame it's all over

[zeeboomblebee]

I think one thing that makes Ninjago so appealing is the versatility.

I’ve met and talked to so many Ninjago fans over the years, and what never ceases to amaze me is how so many of us have entirely different versions of the show and its characters in our heads. Fanfics, fanart, headcanons, character dynamics, theories, they’re all so different from one another, and you can get an entirely different interpretation of a character or a scene depending on the fan you talk to. 

The show lends itself very well to this unique flexibility in a number of ways. Since all of the characters are lego figures, it leaves us the opportunity to interpret those characters in very different ways. I mean, practically all of us have at least slightly different height, build, and skin color headcanons for each ninja from one another. The ambiguity of the their ages also helps. A single character could be drawn in an infinite amount of ways, and each of them are just as accurate to canon as the next. I can’t think of many other shows where this is the case. 

Since this show is over a decade old, it has also gone through so many changes; changes in animation, lore, plot, themes, and tone. As a result, you can zoom in on a season, pick one aspect of that season, and compare it to another season either down the line or in the past. It is very likely there will be some sort of difference in the aspect you investigated. As a result, fans may base their content on one season’s particular “flavor,” and, combined with their own interpretation of the scene, can create a completely original piece that can’t really be compared to any other work in the fandom. Even fics, for example, that explore some sort of relationship between two characters, can be so different from one another since these characters have been developing, changing, growing for so long. As a result, there is so much interpretation of a character’s motivation for a particular action that one can make. 

With each character having so much personality and plenty of character interactions with the rest of the cast, unique AUs also have the opportunity to thrive. You can take these characters from the show, their personalities and dynamics, and absolutely nothing else. And create a completely different spinoff with an entirely different world, plot, concept, etc. I suppose in a way even Ninjago itself acts as a lego set, free to take and build in a way that follows the prescripted concept, but also having a foundation that is more than capable of being shaped into something entirely new and original.

The show also balances on a fine line between childishly humorous and more dark and complex themes that allows fan content creators so much flexibility to create so many different types of works for the show. It’s beautiful, and again, the sheer range is something that can rarely be found in other pieces of media.

Idk where I was going with this, I just think this is one of the coolest parts of the Ninjago fandom. It appeals to such a diverse community, and makes the experience of being a fan interacting with the fandom that much more of a richer experience. Not to mention, I’ve personally found this community to be very open and friendly to one another even with such differing opinions (which obviously isn’t always the case). It’s very fun to talk to people with such different perspectives and I believe it makes us a stronger community as a result. It’s one thing I hope never changes about Ninjago despite the constantly evolving nature of the show.

#feel free to add on any thoughts #ive been musing about the ninjago fandom recently #im so glad I stumbled across this show #I think this is my favorite fandom #bc both the show and fans are just really cool #ninjago #ninjago fandom #zee thoughts

[9w1ft]

hi, 9wing!

this is quite random and not particularly relevant to anything in particular, although my question is inspired by this side of the fandom, but a general question nonetheless: what does it mean to critically think?

on a grander scale none of us really know what is objectively right, right? a single new, miniscule discovery could change everything, whether it be the foundational laws of physics or the swiftie lore.

on the internet, especially in this side of the fandom, i constantly see things about "thinking for yourself," media literacy, biases, doing your own research, etc for the past several years. and given the current state of the world, i've come to believe that maybe it is important to be able to critically think, but as a young person, i'm struggling to actually find out how to really do that.

how do i know i'm actually thinking for myself and not simply going with whatever popular perspective suits my internal biases or to avoid backlash? on the contrary, how do i know i'm actually thinking things through and not simply being a contrarian a-hole?

thank you for your wonderful blog <3

this is such a good question and thank you for asking it! i think i wrote too complicated of an answer but i hope there’s something here that you find helpful 🙏

to give you some context, i have sort of a blended understanding of what critical thinking is because while i took a teeny tiny bit of philosophy in college, i mostly learned about critical thinking in the context of how it is taught in business school… in japan. because i’ve worked here for more than a decade. i’m not positive my take on it is totally international but.. i’ll share.

in business here, we often explain critical thinking by comparing it to logical thinking. logical thinking is a way of identifying an issue, and continually analyzing the cause of the issue, and the cause of each cause, to where you get a process tree and can start to analyzing where the root cause lies. it’s an exhaustive uncovering of confirmable information. this is a helpful framework for fixing problems in a company, on the frontline, in a business process, etc.

in contrast to this, critical thinking is the process of analyzing an opinion or assertion (sometimes it’s a core question or a thesis) through the continual analysis of hypotheses as to why the assertion is supported, and looking for information that backs up the various hypotheses related to it. you then follow up by thinking about what the meaning or implication of the information, hypotheses, and assertion really is, in determining how to treat the assertion in a business setting (usually you have to make a business decision based on limited information, and the assertion is a sort of best guess related to a course of action you need to take within a certain timeframe)

i recognize that sort of sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo 😆 so to put it another way, to me, the spirit of critical thinking is an honoring of the why, always asking why at each turn, or in other words, never losing sight of the purpose of things. and i think that in the context of all these theories we find ourself looking at with gaylor or kaylor, i honor critical thinking all the time in how i take in new information. when i get presented with something, i try to think about why that would be. not just why the info would exist (though of course that is something important to always consider) but also, why is it being shown to me, and by whom, and what might their aim be, or where did they get it from, and where is the information located, how did it get there, and why does it exist, and if it’s not possible to know why.. then why might it exist, and why that might be, and how would it relate to this or that or another thing, what would the implication be on the big picture, etcetera.

i think back on my early days here with gaylor and i recall that a lot of analysis and consideration of information that i did was based on trying to keep an open mind and that felt like the right and critical thing to do. so i listened to so many different theories from different people and tried to uphold each with the same amount of my attention out of some sense of duty to the process

but over time i’ve had an increasing number of opportunities to see stuff come in from different pathways, and get a sense of the culture, and get to know people and best practices and patterns, and through the continued process of considering the purposes behind how the stuff exists and how it is brought before me, i have been able to discern what kinds of information are more interesting or relevant or earnest etc to my understanding and from within this process, have formed my opinion on what i think is going on. and for me that answer has been kaylor.

tl;dr: i think it’s important to just be very aware of why you think things, and it looks like you are already off to a good start with that! i wouldn’t sweat it. self awareness is really the key to all of this, i think.

and i understand your point about contrarianism, and i think that this is an impulse which is very natural at the beginning of understanding a topic. it’s helpful and important to question what you do not know, and at the beginning, that will be a lot of stuff. just know that a part of the critical thinking process is forming opinions and that, if someone is following that process, they will in time place different values on different pieces of information, as they continue to hone in on what they perceive to be the reasoning behind what they have seen up until that point.

sorry i get the sense this is written like english translated from a different language 😆 but it’s the way i think about it. i’d love to hear about other peoples definitions and interpretations of critical thinking 💕

[yuamusuzuran]

2023... but told in my hyperfixations

Just a post that allows me to track all of my various hyperfixations that have helped me pass this grueling and busy year

HADES (Supergiant Game)

I played this game for at least 6 months non-stop. I was obsessed with everything about it, from story, gameplay all the way to relationships and dialogue. I was ESPECIALLY whipped for PatroChilles and ThanZag. My major fixation spurs were January and February as well as May. I still play Hades when I need to decompress, I have almost 200h in it and I have 100% achievements which is my first time ever

Captive Prince series by C. S. Pacat

I read this trilogy during February and when I tell you I was smacked in the face by how good it was. From intrigue, plot and political drama all the way to relationships. But ofc I was mostly blown away by the relationship between Damen and Laurent, like, I DID NOT EXPECT to love their relationship so much. I WAS IN SHAMBLES BECAUSE OF THEIR GENTLE LOVE. Couldn't recover for weeks

KINGDOM - Dystopia

One of the things I was really looking forward to. The whole album blew me away and the Japanese aesthetic was top notch. How much my boys have grown, I was in shambles

GENSHIN IMPACT!!!!!!!

What can I say, I ENDED UP LOOKING INTO IT. I didn't start officially playing it yet, but I went through the lore, studied all characters and their relationships and ofc got sucked into shipping side of the fandom (it's not that hard to intrigue me with that)

I was specifically OBSESSED with DainKae (Dainsleif x Kaeya), XiaoAether, HaiKaveh and CynoNari. And as new patches come by and Fointaine was introduced, my fixation periods always come back with new content. And right now, I'm all about Wriollette. Fixation started in July and has been coming and going as the new content was introduced (when Furina's backstory was introduced, I was bawling)

RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE MOVIE!!!!

I was prepared for this movie since last year BUT THE ACTUAL THING BLEW ME AWAY! I was so happy to watch it finally, I LOVED the chemistry and even though I have a couple of grievances with it, I think the whole message was portrayed nicely! I won't tell you how many times I've watched the movie, it's literally my comfort media. The main fixation period was before the release and entire August.

Avatar: The Way of Water

I was very late with my watch BUT BOY WAS I OBSESSED AND HIT LIKE A TRUCK WITH IT. The movie had everything I expected it to have and it really made me feel a lot of things. I was so devastated over Teyam, I had SO MANY theories about other three sequels and honestly, I'm still not over how good that movie is. And now, that I know the third sequel is coming around Christmas of 2025, I know the first part of 2026 will be marked by that movie alone. Major fixation period was end of August and ENTIRE September

KINGDOM - Coup d'Etat

Every time Kingdom has a comeback I go into brainrot, deal with it. This comeback was special because it was the last part of their History of Kingdom series and we got SO MANY information on their lore that also prepared us for Season 2! I cannot tell you how insufferable I'll become when the next series of albums starts. As far as this album goes, though, I had no complaints, another non-skip album and Coup d'Etat was a perfect showcase of their growth in the last 3 years. So yeah, majority of my October and November was occupied by them.

And finally.... HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING (TGCF)

This story pounced on me like a tiger from an ambush and honestly, I'm not complaining. I know all spoilers, I'm SO OBSESSED with HuaLian and am currently on the 2nd book. I think I'll be even more obsessed when I live though all the important moments though books and I CAN GUARANTEE my interest will once again peak when I start watching donghua (I'm waiting for season 2 to finish so I can watch both Chinese and English, oh, and Japanese will be watched eventually). And, ofc, I'm planning to buy all eight English volumes!!

#tgcf #kingdom kpop #atwow #rwrb film #genshin impact #captive prince #hades supergiant #hyperfixation

[celestiabyss]

[MY THOUGHTS ON TWITTER BEING DOWN + MY CURRENT PLANS FOR OTHER PLATFORMS 🐦]

Hi everyone! As many of you might have experienced, Twitter has not been loading tweets for many hours for a lot of users (me included) due to the so-called "rate-limited" mechanic that doesn't make any sense. At the time of this writing, I could no longer see tweets majority of the time from my main account, so the situation at hand makes me even more pessimistic on the future of Twitter.

A good chunk of you probably knows by now that I've been active in Twitter as celestiabyss for over two years now. It is the platform where I started sharing my theories and thoughts about Genshin lore, and it is where I got to see many fellow lore enthusiasts that inspire me to this day.

Twitter isn't perfect, but ever since a certain someone bought the platform, things started to get really messy. Unnecessary features got added in while necessary features were removed. Twitter Moments, for example, was the only feature that was close enough to being an organized archive. You might have seen me use this before to compile my lore tweets and theories. Around November last year, the Twitter Moments feature could no longer be updated with new tweets, and this was the reason why I barely wrote long lore threads ever since then.

A lot of problems continued to emerge and threaten the stability of the platform 'til this day. Despite the social chaos of Twitter, it couldn't be denied that Twitter has -- or used to have -- certain functionalities and accessibilities that helped a lot of people connect to online communities such as fandoms much easier whether as lurkers or active users. Twitter is in no way "better" than Tumblr, Reddit, Discord, and the like, but it does offer something that other platforms do not have. This is why it's such a shame that the platform has been dying a slow death ever since Spiral Abyss man had the audacity to buy it and ruin it.

I will not deny that branching out to as many other platforms and other social media as possible is one of the strategies that many content creators use to reach many people. While it is inevitable for me to adopt this strategy too, it still pains me to see my primary platform in shambles and potentially losing connection to the communities I've come to love. The incompetence of the Spiral Abyss man is killing many communities that rely on this platform.

1. Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/celestiabyss)

There is such a high learning curve for me when learning extra platforms such as Tumblr and Discord, which is why these two have been collecting dust for so long. I do have Twitch and Youtube as my other more active platforms though, and as someone who just started streaming months ago, it will be a challenge for me to rely mostly on these two alone to reach you. I will see what I can do to better inform everyone of when I'm streaming. But for now, pls keep an eye out on my other platforms. All of them use the "celestiabyss" username:

- I will still be streaming there starting this week once I finish my uni stuff and recover from my sickness this week. Target return date will be on JULY 5 AT 10 PM GMT+8. Please check the Profile tab and Schedule tab of my page for sched announcements.

2. Youtube (youtube.com/@celestiabyss) - All Twitch VODs and future content will still be uploaded here. Twitch stream schedules and other announcements will also be announced through my Youtube channel's Community posts. I currently do not have plans to stream on Youtube, but if I ever feel like learning how to do so, I will let you know.

3. Tumblr (https://celestiabyss.tumblr.com) - This is the backup socmed account I made ever since Twitter started crumbling around November 2022. It's mostly on hiatus right now, so I'll still see what I can do to resume long-form lore posting here.

Anyways that would be it for now. I need to get back to finishing my papers and recovering. All this platform planning will come again later. I'll see you when I see you and stay tuned on my Twitch streams 🌠

4. Discord (celestiabyss) - I am very inactive in this fandom-focused Discord account since I use my personal one more. But yes, I'm in the following lore servers: (1) Khaenri'ah Lore Project and (2) Coffee and Culture. I'm also in GenshinSupportClub's server. I haven't checked them in a long time though and I have yet to learn how to fully navigate these servers. To all my Twitter mutuals who I have gotten to interact with through Genshin and HSR lore tweets: pls let me know if you have a server too (LET ME INNNN 😆).

#celestiabyss #celestiabyss updates #twitter is down

[dark-dreams-anthology]

Dark Dreams Anthology (DDA)

Dark Dreams Anthology is our biggest project. It englobes our own world, which will be shared in books, manga, illustrations and more in the future. Now, un Tumblr is being shared a smallest part of it through our blog Born of Blood (@blood--king). Still this project had to grow up a lot, and we will love of course to keep ourselves sharing it with you all! But, as creators we empathize a lot with people’s passion that’s why we want to bring you an opportunity to grow up as a community of artist of all kind with…

➤ DDA-Events!

Every fandom has its characteristic, but all of them had in their own measure have dedicated people which are always wanting to show their passion for what they love the most. Franchises are alive for years because of people, of that passion and all the creativity spread selflessly. Original characters, fanfics, theories, all of those are plagued of a dedication hard to ignore. Last year we had been working in a little project in which we called specific people who were interested in share a little bit more of their own world around their fandom under an idea, just to try out. Even if Summer Vibes was little, it was a success, and more important than that, they had a lot of fun. We are ambitious, and we want to share the happiness to explore worlds, fandoms and bring out new ideas and stories, illustrations, mangas, headcanons and anything we can come up with! We will love to, eventually, create every year events directed to those who want to explore their characters and lores under crazy ideas!

So that’s what Dark Dreams Anthology is intending for: create a little corner, a refuge for share with those that loves the same you do. Our intentions? Simple: we are opening a place to share and have fun without any interest than that. You are free to join or to run away, we won’t chase you, but our doors will be always open if you want to share.

Dark Dreams Anthology Events (DDA-Events) is a project for dynamics directed now on Tumblr, and maybe in the future we will made this bigger moving this to other platforms. But one step at once! We will share here a few ideas about how it will work.

Once an idea is proposed you will have a week to inscribe yourself. Sometimes events demand some previous details, but don’t worry. Our DM’s is always open to discuss if you are not sure or if you have doubts!

In this inscription week, those who sign up will receive details and frames needed in the event, so we recommend you to be alert to our updates! Those who don’t get inscribed won’t be included in the Masterpost.

Once everything is settled you will have a month to end up your works, still it will flow in dependance of the people, if all participants end up early, publications will be done sooner than expected! All works will be included in a Masterpost, in which we will give credits to their creators.

Each project will have templates according to what we will be asking for, it could be a frame for an illustration or a story for example. All projects should be framed in the template identified by our logo (the feather you will see down this explanation) but we won’t take your works under our name, all the participants will be always owners of their creations and we will give the deserved credits to them. What means that you can always publish it in your social media without asking us for permission. If it’s an illustration, for example, it will remain intact. The logo will be part of the template only as a symbol to remark collaboration as a courtesy. It will be a way to connect us as a community of artists of all kind and for more people to meet and identify this project.

➤ Events.

Summer Vibes (2022).

Once Upon Dreams and Nightmares (July 2023).

#dark dreams anthology #dda #dda-events #event #multifandom #fandom

[boundinparchment]

delusion and dainsleif I beg!!!!!!

Delusion: what are your genshin unpopular opinions?

No one has media literacy in this fandom

HYV is subject to bias like every other company, beholden to its most profitable market and its investors. No one likes taking the time to understand context for why things are done the way they are, or rather they don’t want to listen. This isn’t to say decisions are correct but that there isn’t always a black and white reason for things. Yes, this is about character design.

Systems can and should be improved; many of the mechanics in the game are surface level and serve as a distraction but never impact the game in a way that makes the experience more fun.

More. Fucking. Resin.

More challenging combat than just pressing three buttons over and over. Let me combo by pressing the right buttons in the right order at the right time. Lemme block, properly dodge, parry.

Other similar games implement deeper systems on mobile and yet we are still doing plenty of the same things we are in 1.0.

Forced co-op is bullshit.

Leaks are well and good but it’s almost impossible to avoid story spoilers now that the story gets leaked, too. I’ve resigned myself to it.

This game is and always will be, first and foremost, a profit generating machine that takes advantage of impulse. It is gambling with some additional mechanics. It is not a game for everyone.

Villains can and should make you have a visceral reaction; if you hate them, the writers are doing their job. Conversely, liking villains doesn’t mean you condone their actions or would behave like them in real life.

I cannot understand why we morality police in this fandom but I think that goes back to media literacy

dainslef: what theory do you have about the lore and the archon’s involvement with the destruction of khaenri'ah

Everyone is a prisoner of Celestia, which has gone dormant since the Cataclysm. In much the same way that Dragon Age mentions that the seat of the Maker was empty, Celestia is nothing but a barren floating island set on autopilot that has no one even there to operate as a backup. Whoever the fuck is in charge? Asleep, at the very least, ever since the Cataclysm.

They left the Archons to uphold the principles in their place after the Cataclysm. Because if they aren’t upheld, or are corrupted in some way, it sets off that system that leads to the eventual destruction of a civilization.

But the Archons themselves are prisoners of that system, having Ascended (and anyone who Ascended is held prisoner on Celestia itself, as you have proven to be powerful enough to be a threat). They have no choice but to uphold the Divine, lest they endanger their own people. I think Khaenri’ah sought to attack the rest of Teyvat to prove that Celestia and the concept of gods wasn’t needed; they were, after all, the godless nation. But they were not more powerful than the Divine and the Divine cannot be questioned (or even rationally comprehended, hehe), and it led to the entire civilization’s demise.

I think that most of the Archons had no choice but to obey, maybe even were manipulated by the Gnosis itself to do Celestia’s bidding. There’s a reason they have names from the Ars Goetia, that they’re technically the ones we seek out for answers about the Traveler’s sibling. The game parallels a Gnostic journey and we are constantly running into the theme of divinity, of free will or a lack thereof, and how even the most noble concepts can be corrupted.

For a game that started out just with the notion of finding your lost sibling, it’s gone above and beyond what I anticipated it would two years ago.