#then pieced itself back together

[calmoose415]

My heart literally exploded when I found this piece of art. I highly recommend it! (Artist: iris_s.e.e)

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic and tails #miles tails prower #sonic fanart #art #this is so cute omg #I love this so much #Instagram #not my art #heart shattered like glass i tell ya #then pieced itself back together #fanart #sonic movie 2 #sonic wachowski #tails wachowski

[unholyverse]

waterparks // marvin magazine issue #10

(full transcript under the cut)

Waterparks

WORDS by HOLLY SOLEM

PHOTOGRAPHY by DANIEL PRACOPCYK

Waterparks are places you go for fun; both pools and slides and the gloriously buzzy, pop punk band featuring members Geoff Wigington (lead guitar), Otto Wood (drums), and singer/guitarist Awsten Knight, whose neon energy matches his hair. Their music leads you down sonic chutes and up rainbow ladders with four albums, countless tours, millions of listeners and a recent signing with Fueled By Ramen, the label under which they are about to drop their highly anticipated 5th studio album. MARVIN had the good fortune of catching up with Knight—who is busy prepping for a European tour, a US tour and the release of the band's new album—to talk about all that goes into creating the bubbly world of Waterparks.

The new album titled Intellectual Property features eleven legit bangers filled with anthemic choruses. psychedelic experimentation and hooky melodies all polished to a sheen. There are hints of megalithic rock bands like Muse, inspiration from The Beach Boys and the pop punk sounds we have come to expect. But as for the "pop" part, this record goes in hard with collaborations with the likes of blackbear and songwriter/producer Julian Bunetta.

I love pop music and we got an offer to write with this dude, Julian, who has credits on 95% of One Direction's discography. I fucking love One Direction. I don't want to be dramatic but let's say I've got a top 60 favorite songs, I think four or five are One Direction songs. And Julian's written on all of them. I was just like, 'I want to do what I do but with him too.' And then I made "FUNERAL GREY", "BRAINWASHED", and "FUCK ABOUT IT", with him.

For this album, the band brought in more outside alliances than on previous albums, with Knight saying. "I think I was more open to [collaborations] on this album. Other people's opinions and thoughts and stuff like that. Normally, I don't really love writing with people that I don't know very well because it can feel very sterile. You walk in and they're like, 'what do you want to write about? You're like, 'oh fuck'—because it's a personal thing." And when it comes to getting personal, Knight is also realizing that to his surprise, the more personal he gets-the more vulnerable lyrically—the more universal the message.

I feel like I used to be kind of freaked out by [vulnerability], especially earlier, on album one. I was really nervous about it and it sounds so lame in retrospect but I didn't even want to do any acoustic songs. I liked burying myself a lit- tle bit behind a big instrumental. [The song] "21 Questions" for example. I sent that along with all the other demos to Benji because I wanted his opinion and he was like, 'this is one of the best ones.' Those wind up being the favorites, which seems counterproductive because songs are supposed to be relatable. And I never feel like I'm being relatable but I try to be less selfish with the writing. I want this to be for someone else.

When Knight refers to "Benji" he is talking about Benji Madden, one half of legendary pop punk duo Good Charlotte. Benji, along with his brother and bandmate Joel, manage Waterparks after discovering them on YouTube and DM'ing them on Twitter back in 2015. Knight received the news of the Maddens' invitation to fly to LA for a meeting while working as a babysitter who gave guitar lessons.

I called the guys and we're like, 'holy shit.' So we all went and bought swimsuits because…California. And yeah, that was it. After we met them, we went back to our hotel and were just like, 'what is happening? A week ago we were still passing out flyers outside of other people's shows. And we're right here, right now. This is the weirdest shit.'

A literal dream-come-true for Knight and the band, who eventually would make the move to LA from Houston while missing its Tex-Mex and Thai food, and of course, his family. But when it comes to the weather, he's all about California. He doesn't even mind the earthquakes. He was in a rooftop hot tub during one and actually found it rather exciting. For a man who has toured the world, there's a bright-eyed innocence and almost childlike wonder to him. His seeming lack of cynicism is as refreshing as freshly fallen snow which he admits he only saw for the first time not that long ago. But now, Knight talks about having stress dreams as he and the band get ready to embark on a European leg, followed by an extensive US tour.

Here's the thing, I like to play shows and I like to meet people. The other 22 hours of the day, I like having my space. I'm pretty particular, you know what I mean? I like my zone where I can sit and just do stuff. You go from peace and quiet and doing what you want all the time to sharing a small living space and a bus with twelve people. It's basically having twelve people in your living room for two months. And you're just like, 'ah, but the shows are great' as long as the shows are fun and everyone is having a great time, that makes it worth it to me.

He's also superstitious. Around his apartment there are crystals, there are obsidian and selenite wands in front of all the mirrors. He has a healer-type person come in and energetically clear his space, insisting he throw away objects that may have "dark entities" attached. "I'm luckier than people I know. They're like, 'why is the light always turning green when you go to it? Why do you always get the front spot at the store?' I'm like, it's because I don't split the pole, you know? Can't split a pole when you're walking. There's a bunch of superstitions. But I follow them and I'm crazy lucky."

In addition to music, he recently penned a well-received book of personal essays called, You'd Be Paranoid Too (If Everyone Was Out to Get You). He plans to write a novel next and has also started a clothing line called HiiDef. that fabricates small collections that sell out fast. His enthusiasm for the line is on par with music. "If everybody made the songs that I wanted to hear, I wouldn't have to do this. The same thing applies with clothing." Passion abound, he is all smiles when discussing plans for the future of Waterparks.

How do I get to the fucking moon? I think anyone who hears this album is going to love it. Cause I think it's incredible. I'm looking at the songs right now. I'm just like, 'man, straight slappers.' Even the last song, which I know wouldn't be a single or anything-that's probably one of the best accomplishments of a song that we've ever been able to pull off. I see this album in plaques on the wall. All right, we're manifesting now.

He names his goals out loud, as one is meant to do when calling them in, mentioning things like how much he'd like to play the Redding and Leeds Festivals at sunset. Then he pulls up the Waterparks US tour schedule online while musing, "I want one of those big "Sold Out" things across all the dates. It's getting there dude. Yeah, actually, it's going crazy right now." In real time, he seems to discover that the banners that cross nearly all of the show dates do indeed read, "Sold Out". And then it's clear. Awsten Knight is lucky. But luck is really about preparation meeting opportunities and he has definitely shown up to the game prolific and prepared. Five albums in, it's clear that Knight and Waterparks have only just begun.

@waterparks

#i scanned this big ass magazine and photoshopped it back together after i found out you could buy this digitally so you better reblog #awsten knight #otto wood #geoff wigington #waterparks #i.zip #anyways story time #only reason i bought this is bc i saw this at barnes and noble at the mall and it was wayyy cheaper than if i got a physical online #$25 instore vs $30 online + $20 shipping which is INSANE but the fact that this is the size of my torso is even more insane #it's just some puff piece like the rest of the shit you'd expect from a rich people magazine that brands itself as punk #and that josh madden shilled his way into again lol

[ingravinoveritas]

Seeing Michael going so unhinged on Twitter the last few days and David giving the thousand-yard stare while out with Georgia tonight makes me wonder if they just really miss each other right now...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #i'm just saying #it's interesting to me too how much more subdued they are when they're not around each other #their energies are so different #like you don't even realized the light has dimmed until they're together again #and everything is so bright it's almost blinding #remember in The Iron Giant when the missing piece beeps and flashes until it can go outside #and put itself back together again #yeah #tell me again that they're not a couple #a friendship that's become something more #ineffable lovers #discourse

[soaricarus]

being turned into something against your own will and you can't do anything about it because you don't have the ability to combat it and you're nothing but a bystander in your own life as you just watch it happen and can do nothing. you can struggle but its futile. it wont help. it'll only make it hurt more as your entire body twists and turns and cracks and breaks and rearranges itself to be something else you can feel your flesh tearing itself apart and reforming itself. you can feel your bones twisting and breaking apart and being reshaped like a marble statue being chiseled. you can feel how all your insides are just setting in wrong because this isn't you you're not you anymore nothing is the same you can't change it its already happened all you can do is either writher in pain and agony or just sob helplessly. you're at something else's mercy and it has not mercied you your mouth is shaped so differently, you don't even know how to scream. the 'screams' that come out aren't familiar and you don't know how to express your pain and confusion and shock and panic in a familiar way and it only furthers to make you panic more everything is so unfamiliar you don't know how to express anything. what are you? you don't know. this is not you. that's everything you know. you feel something sprouting out of your back and it's so painful. it's new bones jutting out and shaping themselves as flesh and scales grow on them, only a few seconds later membrane connecting your new, extremely long 'fingers' and it's uncomfortable it feels so unfamiliar it's so weird you don't even know how to move these new limbs you try to scream again. it's still so unfamiliar and it doesn't help. neither does how your throat is suddenly so long and feels so warm until you just spout fire out and let out a crooked hiss and at first it felt like it hurt but within seconds it feels like nothing ever happened. your back feels wrong your spine feels elongated. you can feel something moving. it doesn't feel like you but it is. so do the wings that are now perched on your back. you don't know how to move them but they're moving erratically despite your attempts at just trying to get them to calm down. they're not you how can you even move them. what are you trying. it's not helping anything. you can only just try to curl in on yourself but there's a tail you have a tail oh what did you do to deserve such a fate. you're still alive but everything is so wrong and rearranged, broken and pieced back together again time and time again and it was so painful you would have rather died. it felt so painful you don't know how long that was. it felt so excruciatingly slow. it felt like hours. it felt like days, weeks, months, years, an eternity but it was only just a mere few seconds and that something was standing near you that whole time watching you.

#tideskip's writings #ask to tag? #some writing i did because i felt like it earlier today #i love the concept of someone being turned into something against their will it's kind od fascinaintg #especially from the viewpoint of feeling your body change and rip apart and break itself and piece itself back together over and over

[dirtbra1n]

you’re at a crossroads: stay on the train and watch his back retreat from you until he vanishes into the crowd; look at the ring on his finger and think about someone else.

Or.

the doors nearly scruff sasaki as he slips out at the last second. hirano wouldn’t have noticed him, obviously, busy going his own way, but still sasaki trails a little uncertainly after him. he’s not eager to call out his name in a train station packed with people, not eager to call attention to… whatever he’s doing. so he doggedly follows in his path, going as fast as the crowd allows, and—sasaki, more than a little gracelessly, takes hold of hirano’s elbow, pulling him off-course. pulling him around a corner, down a strange corridor, around another corner. pulls him firmly into the shadows.

he finds himself at a crossroads.

#there’s enough timeline fuckery implied that it’s basically foreshadowing for the cursed not-yet-existing primer anyway #<- verbatim. the post itself ALMOST verbatim #you can piece it together. i believe in you #dirtbrain writing #sasahira #sign on my back reads GONE FISHING #you squint to take a closer look at the fine print. doesn’t work. you inch closer. the text reads GOTCHA. #i pull out a big fuckoff net

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

I'm thinkn.. what does ps8 Kuron and Lance's relationship look like after lance wakes up? of course Kuron is Lance's Little Guy TM but also they never really got the chance to truly bond and become friends, and now Kuron is. y'know. being Kuron.. and lance is full of grief and trauma and also The Horrors

i feel like at first its gonna ba at least a little awkward lol

It'll be really fucking awkward for both of them indeed!! But not nearly as awkward. The timeline and the story ideas are not clear but like i feel like there is some shit going on during Lance wakes up and he takes a long time (maybe i'll bring my quintessence ideas for this? Maybe) and when he wakes up he isnt exactly There at first. So like by the time Lance wakes up, Kuron has already had a lot of his character development

And yeah Lance and Kuron is a bit complicated relationship cause like i have said Kuron is grateful for Lance for actually saving him, but also he's a bit angry and most importantly confused cause just why? Why all this? Why now? How did you? What happened to you? And just this confusion that is plaguing since he got his new body.

Meanwhile Lance genuinely cares about Kuron but also is y'know. Busy. Not to mention Lance kinda expected Kuron to be like he was 'used' to be, or rather the rosy eyed version that was Kuron was 'a sweet sensitive guy who can do no wrong and Did Not deserve That' (which isnt wrong but also) (also same with Allura)

But this is something that can be talked out, and it might take some time and development for both of them but by the end i think it's just hugs and a big healing moment for both of them and it would be like a promise to bond and stuff

That being said this isnt exactly final, cause like i said i am still trying to figure out the timeline and story plot and everything so this is very much going to change

#To be honest i kinda imagine Lance waking up at the end of the story?? #Like if it were a series the first scene would be Kuron opening his eyes and waking up in a bathup filled with liquid quintessence #There is a scene where Allura wakes up in a desert as some kind strangers find her #And the final scene of the series is Lance waking up in his hospital bed. Because 🌟✨️Parallels✨️🌟 #One idea i had that they do meet Lance in his mindscape that is also linked to astral plane #Or more specifically Allura (cause she can magic) and Kuron (cause living in mindscape for years taught him how to navigate them) #It goes horribly. Lance's head is filled with Horrors and so is the astral plane with attempts to recreate misremembered nostalgia #post s8 au #empty answers #Like big thing about Lance's arc is that things are never going back to Way they were. #He's giving way pieces of himself hating how it is changing him just for an ideal past that was never there to begin with #Again this is something that i would most likely change if i have a better idea #Right now it is corkboard of scenes and ideas linked together with red string #I also had the idea of the Horrors being the universe/multiverse itself. Alive and sentient #You know that Allura nebula at end when she sacrifices herself? That is not her but a representation of the universe/multiverse taking her #And it is pissed about galra empire/Haggar thing and is corrupted by that purple quintessence but also likes staring at living beings. #And is very interested in the guy who stared back #But again these are just some ideas #Thanks for asking!!!! #If you got any ideas and want to share please do!!

[solradguy]

Being an otherkin bastard's fun actually until someone asks you a sorta deep question about it and then you're confronted with The Horrors of Introspection

#textpost #I took AP art in high school and part of the portfolio project we needed to submit was to do like 8 pieces on a theme #that everyone had to do to test technical ability and understanding of the subjects #Then the other part was like 8 pieces that were entirely original in a medium of the artist's choice but they had to all tie together #So I drew a bunch of horrible monsters/demons looking miserable as all hell and for my tie-in essay on what the theme for them was #I wrote about how no matter how violent or gory or terrifying a monster is they can still feel loneliness and pain #I was really going through it back then lol #Anyway I got a 5 out of 4 on my portfolio. Still very proud of that. IIRC only one other guy in the class also got a 5 #4 of 4 was superb but 5 of 4 was like SSS rank flawless #It's a shame I don't have the essay anymore... I lost all my copies moving up and down the coast after high school.... #But I do still have my portfolio itself and all the art pieces

[izzystizzys]

the usual izzy gets surprised by not having had menopause yet and a baby trope but adding in a twist: it happens pre-canon and by the time he gets unceremoniously dumped off the ship, he’s known for at least a month

just. increasingly tense izzy, who not only has to deal with not being able to keep anything in his body and worse nausea than he had even in his first week on a ship, but also can’t sleep marinating in the familiar coldness between him and ed that suddenly grates all over again. who’s forced to contend with the idea that something might finally force them out of this stalemate, and he doesn’t know if he wants that really or what outcome scares him the most, and it makes him pissier than a rabid cat soaking wet most days

and then it happens anyways, in an entirely different way that didn’t even require izzy to voice all of his fears and lay bare their problems, because stede fucking bonnet did that with his mere presence. no need to admit to his fear of being abandoned now, is there, is all he can think bitterly over a mug of fucking water of all things in jackie’z.

#ofmd fic idea #edizzy #kind of #my steddyhands loving brain wants it to end up there but idk how #in my angstridden mind this can go several ways #obvs he still sees jack and obvs the prick knows immediately #now: does jack run off and tattle or stay and help? #either way in my mind izzy has lost all will to fight his way back to ed’s side via navy fuckeries in this #discovering he has other priorities than ed now is a shock to him more than anyone #anyways option one jack still makes it onto the revenge drunkenly ripping ed a new one in the most incomprehensibly strange way #halfway through he’s like oops you’re not supposed to know that izzy’s pregnant! #ed: izzy’s pregnant???? #jack (sweating): i didn’t say that #which brings on a merry goose chase because izzy is a wanted man in his own right #and also not in the mood to talk to anyone #option two: jack does NOT scurry off to the revenge #i envisage ed still going ham in this bcs one he discovers functioning without izzy’s shit and two there were issues there brewing already #years later the crew (slowly but steadily piecing itself together) raids a ship and finds a screaming five-year-old in its brig #completely impossible to miss that she is an exact carbon copy of ed from the hair down to the scowl and eyes and- #well it’s very unsettling is all #as are the promises that if they don’t help her her papa will disembowel them all #‘a toddler should not know that word!!!’ lucius insists #meanwhile izzy going insane having temporarily commandeered jack’s current ship in search of his beloved daughter #comedy of errors type thing where the revenge crew are forced to become temporary babysitters to the absolute hellion raised by izzy hands #truly only he could create such horrors (affectionate)

[maybemoonbeams]

anyone wanna reblog this and tell me in the tags what your current hyperfixation(s) is\are becuase i

#am having a category 7 autism moment over pipe organs #i do not remember the last time i opened up the wikipedia page for something to read recreationally #i initially sought out the list of the biggest ones (because large)and had to step down to the main page first because theres all this ling #and i wanna know what everything does #the music itself has to be a pretty specific vibe for me to like it bc if theyre not played a certain way it gets really cacophonous for me #but the instruments themselves are fucking monsters and playing them seems less like performing on a instrument #and more like harmonizing with a great beast #you start it with a key?? #it takes all of your limbs and the thing is constantly breathing #the sound will continue for as long as you hold the note it will not dissipate??? #you can record things and play them back it will even remember stop settings it has memory?? #stops control how the pipes sound if youve ever heard of pulling out all the stops this is that #theyre like orchestras able to be played by a single person some of them even have voice sounds #the people who play these things are also their own type of beast #pipe organists are wild because god there's just so much #it scratches my loner badass complex so acutely #a lonely person shouldering an entire symphony contrasting against scores of people playing a single piece together as one #you could write an anime about this #did everyone else just already understand about these things or #blake.txt #good tags

[summitclan-chronicles]

Will the RP be run in real time (1 day in game = 1 day IRL) or liquid time (1 day in game = multiple/fewer days IRL)? If it is liquid time what will time progression look like?

Personally I struggle to keep track of my character with a lot of liquid time servers because it’s hard to follow the timeline of events. I have trouble keeping track of what happens when, how much time has passed, how how rapidly my character should be developing if there isn’t a 1:1 match with the real calendar. I understand liquid time is a lot easier for the OOC organization aspect though.

I’m really interested in this server but I want to make sure it’s something I would be able to keep up with before applying.

The good news is 90% of the roleplay moves in real time, specifically EST where the roleplay takes place.

However, individual days are seperate from realtime and will run longer than the irl day to give people more time! Essentially, each irp day is 48 hours: 24 day, 24 night. To keep things going without having to recalculate every week, Saturday and Sunday are both nights, and those are used to host festivals and ceremonies!

As for time, we are completely solid time: your character is in one place at any time and must actively exit one place to be in another place. Cats are free to move between, fracture or combine threads where appropriate, but they CANNOT be in two places at once.

#ask #i personally find liquid time to be a huge headache #having to manually piece together the timeline is such a chore #when the discord itself acts as a perfectly solid record #as long as everyone flows in one direction #this comes back to the No Retcons rule. you can only go forward at the same rate as everyone else you cant go back at any point #altho things are allowed to have happened behind the scenes ofc!

[tyrramint]

*Finally* here it is! Spranne reunion a.k.a. my coping mechanism

(I had another version that looked more balanced but I lost it and stupid past me didn’t put the stars on a different layer from the background so I couldn’t make it again 😭)

Anyways, enjoy!

#It was so much fun making another full piece omg #spranne against the world #amphibia #anne boonchuy #sprig plantar #Spranne reunion #Spranne #amphibia spoilers #my art #digital art #amphibia fanart #amphibia fan art #amphibia post canon #??? #does that apply? this was more of just ‘I need draw Sprig and Anne back together right now or I am going to combust’ #rather than an actual post-canon idea but oh well #I DID IT THOUGH #I PROMISED MORE ART AND I FULFILLED THAT PROMISE #Only took a month and a half lol #(not the art itself; that only took few days lol)

[lonesomedotmp3]

miss having a huge crush on my close friend when I was sixteen that was so good bad good bad evil good for me

#like it was BAD. but it was good. it passed the time #it's the only real real crush i ever had tbh 🤔 #and i was so normal about it btw that's not even me making a joke i had such good normal guy slay back then #well. comparatively... #tbh the crush itself was great because we were incredibly close and i never had delusions of is actually getting together #i knew it wouldn't happen so i just was happy to spend time w them #and we're still friends now <3 they r my riverdale irl 😁🫶 #the evil stuff was all of our friends who looking back were so insanely jealous of our friendship for no reason #we'd talk about or agree on or do anything and they'd make fun of us saying we were gfs or in love or whatever #and as someone who was closeted and did have a crush it was. so stressful. #anyway. I'm not friends with any of those guys anymore they were so horrible i had to make a graceful exit in yr 12. yikes! #hope you enjoyed that little piece of my lore <3 #.txt

[strawberrygiorno]

i don't have a solid theory on anything but i think shivers is real and connected to the pale somehow

#it speaks #idk i was just talking to the paledriver and was reminded that she also has shivers #i need to go back through all of joyce's and tiago's dialogue and see if there's any evidence of it there too #but there's also the fact that harry can recognize the 2mm hole as pale #and that when u talk to the city itself through shivers the camera shifts up to darkness of the rafters #where it also goes when it shows where the hole is #and shivers definitely tells harry things he wouldn't otherwise know #and there's the thing dolores dei's assassin says about needing to let us discover things for ourselves #there's something here i think i just. don't know how to fit the pieces together

[nonsupe-a]

the bad part about having shiloh as a s/o is that sometimes you end up with this man basically holding himself together after an incident,   completely calm and smoking a cigarette while his body pieces itself back together.   like,   he’ll be all “don’t freak out” or “it looks worse than it is” as he’s bleeding and waiting for cv-a to actually do its job bye -

#the amount of times he just goes home instead of helping himself / getting a little patched up so he can heal faster just baffles me #how many times he goes home and just waits for his body to piece itself back together old guard style like -- #like its not a Regular thing by any means. but it does happen ENOUGH that he's pretty familiar with how the healing will work #and how long he'll have to wait until its good again. #shiloh vc: sorry about the mess. i'll clean it later.

[originalcontent]

Night in the Woods and Pathologic 2 are literally the same game, beyond a few superficial contrasts in presentation there isn’t a single difference.

#this is a vaguepost @ my sister #it is a joke but also if you try to challenge this statement i WILL defend it #*ahem* in this game you play as someone returning to their small town after having left for college (which they did not complete) #the character is honestly great. sarcastic little shit who might stab you but has a heart of gold and is a hero of the people. #the town is a part of you but you're also separate. your home feels like it changed but maybe you're the one who's different. #the town itself is a character. the autumnal atmosphere is not only beautiful but also perfectly ties in with the story's themes of change #the central conflict to the setting of course being the tensions between the past/tradition and the future/progress #drastic measures are employed in order to fight back against all the inevitabilities of industrialization involving ancient powers that be #and you're left to unravel its secrets and address it in just under two weeks before more people get killed #the game is set around 12 days plus a prologue and an epilogue #anyway. you arrive in town and go to your parents house and get in touch with three childhood friends. nothing is the same as when you left. #day 1 will also slap you in the face with a murder mystery but it's far too early for the full scope of the story to be revealed #in the following few days you get to explore the town and choose which npc's to spend time with #the game is designed so that you never have the time to do everything. many events will be locked forever if you don't do them on given days #your character is brash and possibly even violent but still finds themself mentoring kids and showing kindness to strangers #you also talk with a number of older more engrained members of the community and learn about the town's history and spirituality from them #there's a stark contrast between the full and bustling streets vs the abundance of abandoned spaces and empty buildings #you'll also discover that your dreams are packed with meaning and symbolism and will sometimes even see you commune with supernatural forces #tensions will rise as you uncover more and more pieces of the mystery. this ultimately culminates in a journey into the earth below the town #your character visits the magical pit that resides there where you learn the final truths of the story and can finally put it all together #you make a fateful choice in hopes of saving the town and the game ends allowing you to wander it one last time to see the results #you can take your time and when you're ready to end the game you return to a stage you've visited so often for your final goodbyes #of course the similarities don't end there. the weather. the rats. earth/sky dichotomies. the discussions of labor movements. #the church conspicuously lacking any christian iconography. the giant animals as a representation of god but also not. the color palettes. #the human characters who look like stylized dogs and birds. the empty theater. man i could go on forever. #they even each have a side story where you play as a traveling scholar trying to unravel the secrets that lie beyond the veil of death #if i were a games youtuber i would make this into a 20 minute video with spliced footage from both games #for those who don't get the joke nitw has the coziest vibes my side of gaming despite its inherent sadness and patho2 is a survival horror

[axtolatry]

have literally been begging my brain to let me do replies but its just been holding aloy zero dawn up and rotating her gently instead

#yes i did play through the game in three days yes i do fall asleep thinking of the nature of humanity #yes i do sob thinking of gaia and her love for humanity long after its death #one woman who loved humanity enough to save it after its own death #by building the tools to save humanity when it doomed itself #gaia who was born to watch them all die and who sat and waiting in that dark lonely space with nothing else #but the memories of her dead creator #and her creators dead friends #and the loss of humanities efforts before they began because of one cruel man #gaia who watched as the last thing a human she knew ever did was kill part of her and kill other people with it #and who still!!! still!! still!!! #believed in elisabet enough to wait until the world was dead and cold and then put it back together piece by piece #gaia who loved enough that when it came down to it when she was looking at her own death the only thing she thought could save her #was that same humanity and the hope of her creator #aloy who was cast away and forgotten and battered #aloy who was told even by the man raising her that she should be happy they left her in the cold and dark #and she should forgive them if they were kind enough to allow her back in #thinks about aloy and erend #the idea of a man who works for the people who slaughtered your supposed tribe for their entertainment #but that tribe wouldn't care if you died and some of them actively want you too #and this man from lands you've always heard are full of murderers is the first one to tell you that they were wrong #that what they did to you was wrong #say what you will about aloy and her relationships over the game #but erend was the first person we see telling her that the nora are wrong about her #were wrong to cast her out #nineteen years and it takes a half drunk bodyguard to tell you your life is worth something #and still #still #still!! #aloy saves their world #anyway aloy is my baby and i would kill for her