The Spiral

Just silly thoughts on this silly website.

[fltscrntv33]

Yet to see Rook fanart but bro is so cool

[anjapsicher]

"From now on, things are going to go very badly for you. You've cost them too much."

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

Of the Devil Episode 2 spoilers!!!!!!!!

The session I had playing this game with friends a couple days ago was god-tier.

That moment between Morgan and London was so uncharacteristically mundane for Morgan I really enjoyed it. A palpable moment of understanding between the two. I love their dynamic.

[qasimlondon]

[willowsfunkybowling]

why's she purple? excellent question ask the website i got the sprites from

[caproptera]

[thotweed]

Well shit hit the fan sooner for me and my partner than expected and we need immediate assistance. I can't let someone this important to me face homelessness again

Donate to Please help save my disabled trans partner from homelessness, organized by Morgan Weber

Hi my name is Morgan Weber(Legal change still pending. if you… Morgan Weber needs your support for Please help save my disabled trans partn

any help or support even just sharing is appreciated 🙏

[thotweed]

Well shit hit the fan sooner for me and my partner than expected and we need immediate assistance. I can't let someone this important to me face homelessness again

Donate to Please help save my disabled trans partner from homelessness, organized by Morgan Weber

Hi my name is Morgan Weber(Legal change still pending. if you… Morgan Weber needs your support for Please help save my disabled trans partn

any help or support even just sharing is appreciated 🙏

[anjapsicher]

blue morgan must become a meme

[demilypyro]

I didn't like Celeste for the longest time. I still don't really think it's for me... It's a game that took me years to sit down and play all the way through, because every time I did, I found it very disagreeable. And even when I did finish it, I came away from it... Not understanding what other people got from it. I found it a frustrating, tone-deaf work, and I didn't relate to the way it handled its subject matter. In fact it bristles me.

The way the conflict between Madeline and Badeline is framed fundamentally contradicts with my self-perception. Celeste's parable suggests that we learn to love and accept our flaws, and it does this through the reconciliation between Madeline and the manifestation of her darker emotions... But I can't view my flaws as separate from me. So I can't fight them, can't learn to love them. They *are* me, and rather it's the "good" parts of me that feel distant. Anger, anxiety, fear, spite, those are all me. The "good" in me is all learned behaviours. Coping mechanisms, carefully studied masking techniques... The more I try to get "better" the more I just end up learning to hide myself.... So I can't relate to any framework that assumes I identify with the "good" half of myself. I find that... precludes me. I don't have a good nature. I know that very intimately. When I try to find it, I grasp nothing. So Celeste was like.... a slap in the face. It felt like a game aimed at people who are already, inherently, better people than me. It makes me upset, and that causes me to judge it unfairly. I don't like how it makes me feel, and so my mind races to find a reason why. I honestly somewhat loathed it. I last played it in 2019, and those feelings festered ever since.

Only after last night, sitting through all of it with Ruby while she patiently explains everything, do I sort of understand what the game was going for. My media literacy is nothing before hers.... The game is a lot more sympathetic to Badeline than I remembered. I remembered her being consistently framed as the bad guy and then just kind of having a change of heart at the end... but I guess that's not really what happens... It's more nuanced than that.... It doesn't really condemn Badeline or state that she has to change... In fact it's Madeline who ends up admitting she was wrong...

I still don't have any way to apply this onto my own self-perception. I identify infinitely more with Badeline, while feeling disjointed and dehumanized by my "good" qualities. But I guess the game wasn't as mean-spirited as I remembered.... I guess by the end it sort of made me feel seen by Badeline's character, the way she remains grumpy and terse even at the end.... I wish she still had a body even after leaving Celeste Mountain.... She's more like me.

[firebreathingpandas]

Emma: your the most jealous woman I know

*heartbeat sfx* *sudden strong colors*

Morgan: you know other women?

[qasimlondon]

[callinggestalt]

Happy New Year 2087

[ofthedevil]

Your most anticipated game of 2026 (probably, right?) is now available for wishlisting on Steam.

Head over to the store page for the Episode 3 DLC and wishlist it to let the world know you're joining the satanic panic on the side OF THE DEVIL.

[desolationlesbian]

one of my fave parts of Of the Devil are the little optional in-world articles you can find which give you bonus life if you successfully answer a question about it. because on one hand it's a nice way of keeping stuff optional while still rewarding players for fully engaging with the lore. on the other hand you have tricked a bunch of gamers into doing SAT/ACT "read a short passage and then answer a multiple-choice quiz proving you understood it" reading comprehension questions by making the short passages about cyberpunk crime

[kaban-bang]

[thotweed]

they should add some kind of embarrassing sound effect for when you mess it up like I sometimes do

[handshandshandshandshandshands]

Star of the City

[awesomecake39]