Something Beautiful is Going to Happen

@chopsromano

jo. she/her. TMA.

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they don't warn you how much you're going to love rock lee. no one tells you

three things i firmly believe about miquella and trina:

1. the information we get about their relationship in the dlc serves the secondary function of helping us understand more about marika and radagon;

2. you cannot fully explain the miquella/trina dichotomy without reckoning with the larger conflict between golden immortality and the purple inevitability of death;

3. that dichotomy, including how it relates to that larger conflict, is the key to understanding the story of elden ring

#shadow of the erdtree #elden ring #i was confused about why radagon wasn’t in the dlc #until it hit me that he kind of is

sources say there are muscles in the back of my neck. and they want to kill me

out trans people like to try to convince closeted/repressed trans people who are in a position to transition, to transition as soon as possible, by saying "i badly regret not starting earlier". i don't think it's a very effective argument on its own. most closeted/repressed trans people have heard the same thing numerous times, they're deathly aware of it, they're already wracked with the regret of not transitioning today, every single day. simply telling them that the regret never leaves you doesn't have any convincing power. it might only make them feel even more hopeless or guilty. to draw from my honest personal experience, i would instead tell them:

"eventually—maybe slowly, and not always all the time, but surely—you'll notice that the regret of not starting earlier is drowned out by the joy and contentness of finally feeling truer to yourself. you won't have to live stuck permanently ruminating on past what-could-have-beens anymore, you'll be able to live in the present as yourself."

Midra is like the Frenzied Flame’s version of Job, in that a lot of spiritual effort is being spent on fucking with one guy

imagine putting every ounce of focus and willpower you have into not going mad, and then somebody comes through your front door and starts breaking your bookshelves

#elden ring #shadow of the erdtree

imagine a dark souls game that starts in a location like Eleum Loyce, and the playable character's quest is to restore the legendary age of fire to end the country's eternal winter. however, along the way, they hear rumors about other people who tried and failed, as well as about the person who ushered in the current winter because they wanted to end the previous unnatural, eternal realm of the Sun

It is said that the ancient royal city of Farum Azula has been slowly crumbling since time immemorial.

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The last twist of the DLC (and of the game as a whole) is that Malenia knew about Miquella’s plan the whole time, which leads to the delicious question of “what the fuck were you doing girl”

malenia: *rotting by inches in the haligtree while its residents go painfully mad outside* I’m sure my brother is being efficient about this

miquella: *kneeling in messmer’s foyer* I Abandon Here My Pancreas

“no brother, you were right to spend three hours messing with that water level puzzle so you could give your rune to a big sunflower, also I don’t know if this is part of the plan but the oracles meant to herald your arrival as a god have gone mad outside”

“oh you’ll love this too, your soldiers have learned a fun new trick to get your attention where they just explode”

#elden ring #shadow of the erdtree

The last twist of the DLC (and of the game as a whole) is that Malenia knew about Miquella’s plan the whole time, which leads to the delicious question of “what the fuck were you doing girl”

malenia: *rotting by inches in the haligtree while its residents go painfully mad outside* I’m sure my brother is being efficient about this

miquella: *kneeling in messmer’s foyer* I Abandon Here My Pancreas

“no brother, you were right to spend three hours messing with that water level puzzle so you could give your rune to a big sunflower, also I don’t know if this is part of the plan but the oracles meant to herald your arrival as a god have gone mad outside”

#elden ring #shadow of the erdtree

The last twist of the DLC (and of the game as a whole) is that Malenia knew about Miquella’s plan the whole time, which leads to the delicious question of “what the fuck were you doing girl”

malenia: *rotting by inches in the haligtree while its residents go painfully mad outside* I’m sure my brother is being efficient about this

miquella: *kneeling in messmer’s foyer* I Abandon Here My Pancreas

#elden ring #shadow of the erdtree

I wish there was an option to tell the hornsent that the fell god was in the fire giant and you killed it, because I imagine it’s like learning the devil was arrested in seattle

#elden ring #shadow of the erdtree

natoapologistblocker

Smh don't call your game a Disco Elysium clone unless it includes copious amount of communist brainrot. I don't care if it's a "fail forward" narrative system. I don't give a shit if it has dice-based skill checks. Give me a narrative steeped in Marxist-informed storytelling or fuck off

natoapologistblocker

For me, what made Disco Elysium special is the Marxism baked into its narrative. Most other video games, even when they're excellently written, still reproduce liberal or bourgeois ideology. Even when they critique the ruling class or tell revolutionary stories, they tend to keep Marxism at arm's length rather than letting it inform the story itself. And then there's the whole "revolution bad! Never, ever, ever turn against your ruling class, it's bad for your health :)" kind of plot that's so fucking common

Disco Elysium says: "Here's a world grounded in a historical materialist understanding of social phenomena. We've quite literally built every character and every plot element around that dialectic." That's something these clones never replicate, nor do they intend to

rykard seeing messmer and realizing that Looking Like a Guy Still was an option this whole time

messmer: you see tarnished, i am cursed, sealed away in this lonely land, all because of this serpent inside me, this reviled, forbidden serpent that must never wait what? my stepbrother IS a snake? he’s like a guy’s face on a snake? and he lives in a big house with all his friends?

messmer: well it was probably the fire then, marika probably used the serpent as an excuse to did you just say VOLCANO MANOR

#elden ring #shadow of the erdtree #messmer the impaler

rykard seeing messmer and realizing that Looking Like a Guy Still was an option this whole time

messmer: you see tarnished, i am cursed, sealed away in this lonely land, all because of this serpent inside me, this reviled, forbidden serpent that must never wait what? my stepbrother IS a snake? he’s like a guy’s face on a snake? and he lives in a big house with all his friends?

#elden ring #shadow of the erdtree #messmer the impaler #rykard lord of blasphemy

ok lore aside, the putrescent knight as final boss of the stone coffin fissure is so funny from an in-universe perspective, like

that one spirit npc: please, grant me the strength… to fly to your feet… st. trina…

big skeleton jumping around on its mush horse: kkkhrkkk brrrrbbb whrrrlll

spirit npc: who the fuck is that

as I fall into st. trina’s embrace, heavy lids closing in surrender to the promise of endless sleep unto death, I behold, in my final, fading seconds, a Goop Knight

#elden ring #shadow of the erdtree #st trina

ok lore aside, the putrescent knight as final boss of the stone coffin fissure is so funny from an in-universe perspective, like

that one spirit npc: please, grant me the strength… to fly to your feet… st. trina…

big skeleton jumping around on its mush horse: kkkhrkkk brrrrbbb whrrrlll

spirit npc: who the fuck is that

#elden ring #shadow of the erdtree

She is the blade of Miquella I'm told

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