"never kill yourself" ❌ passive, inhibitory, restrictive
"let's all kill ourselves" ✅ active, communal, actionable
merry christmas
When your a**hole boss can literally see everything except when you're getting some, evidently
(The eye gifted my mind with this and like a fervored mad woman I had to begin drawing🏃♀️)
Actually while I'm just vibing on here today I want everyone to look at the Ominous Cube that appeared to me in Infinity Nikki
It appeared at like 2 am last night by casting a huge shadow over me it was a delightful experience
fucking hate texting dracula i'll send him a funny meme and he'll call me to be like "i need to take a SCREAMshot on my HELL phone" like oh my god we get it youre scary
the way disco elysium plays with and ultimately shatters the concept of "camaraderie" in the police and the military truly is So. Good.
it introduces you to kim who is this ideal of the Brother in Arms - you meet him and you know. he'd lay it all down for you.
you then proceed to realize this is a kim thing, not a cop thing, despite the skill that informs you about it being The Cop Camaraderie skill
the rest of the cops are not just unhelpful, they're cruel. they're a boys' club of toxic masculinity, homophobia and joking about how they abuse their power, like when jean stole mustard from a homeless man. if harry begs them for help, the greatest kindness the operator can do for him is pretend he didn't hear and cut the connection to save harry's pride. the more you put into this skill, the more the rancid underbelly of policing and policemen as individuals in this system comes to light.
and that's before we get into the plot-relevant stuff, how martinaise was abandoned by jean and co because jean was too damn busy trying to make a point to harry than do his fucking job.
then there's the bond between the paramilitary squad. unlike the cops, they're tight, a family to each other, and it makes them completely immune to reason the moment the Head of their hierarchy gets murdered. and this head of theirs, the most rational, most charismatic of them all, their leader, still was a monster who, for His Men and their Morale, saw kidnapping some poor girl and offering her like a human sacrifice to the pit of animals that was his squadron as a Rational course of action.
maybe there's love there, in a way, but it's the kind of love that wholly depends on seeing your circle as the only people deserving of life, and the rest of the world as insects.
and i think abt how so many other stories that try to be cop or military critical still fall into that trap of believing that the people in these environs are a Family doing their Best, that they got each others back and thats all that they need to get through this!(whatever plot event is happening)
and not that its like. a cesspool of keeping each other in Check or maintaining that Family only by Othering the rest of the world
Happy Neil Day! Please enjoy the very rare alternate Neil images!
Ppl on the Disco Elysium subreddit are going crazy after the mobile game was announced
i am 98% certain this is every ending in disco elysium
Ex 14 yo tumblr user new refugee from Instagram ✦ 22, Game Design Graduate, any pronouns ✦
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