etched in stardust.

And for the last time, It's fine, so don't worry about it.

[closer-towards-checkmate]

Why does the seer always die first?

• Hello there. This originally began, and continue to primarily be, a Discord Murder Party sideblog. However, as I fall headfirst into other projects of IR Alumni, don't be surprised to also see mentions of Call of Cthulhu (PoP & MoN) and Never Going Home: BITD here as well.

Find my art in (#tag: art for the audience) and my recent Awakening series in (#tag: art for the awakened (dmp))!

If you're also interested in analysis, I do some! (#checkmate's commentary) any miscellaneous posts that are mine is tagged under (#checkmate speaks.)

• I made this Tumblr to have fun and to talk about a show I really, really love. Feel free to hop in my inbox, comments, anytime to talk about DMP. I am more relaxed about this on this sideblog than any other platform.

• I believe in the Tumblr blocking etiquette and believe in the power of curating your own experience.

[softest-punk]

While I understand the desire to make Big Art entirely and viscerally I think it's worth considering that small art often leaves an outsized impact on its audience. Short stories, teensy indie games, short films, sketches on scrap paper, carved or sculpted figures that would fit in the palm of your hand, etc. etc. are all things that, when they hit your psyche at just the right angle, can stay lodged in there forever specifically because they are small. It is not necessary for a thing to be sprawling for it to have impact.

[fruitviking]

Can we stop with the character development. Where's my beach episode.

[incorrectdmp]

Juniper: Yeah, after all we've been through, I get pretty nervous when large objects pass by. I think I might be a little megalophobic.

Thorin: *tears welling* What did Sans Undertale do to you?

[orcboxer]

Hi I imagined someone misreading your post and falling to their death in an empty grain silo as a result, can you change the post to be about grain silo safety?

[girl-blorbo-polls]

Which of these three situations would deal the most psychological damage to your girl blorbo?

A gunfight

Delivering a 2 hour standup routine to a large crowd

A day trip with her entire family

She could probably handle all three alright

Voting ended onApr 14

[tempesthreads]

Also I didn't mention it back when I watched it but GAHHH watching Juni and Christine's interactions unfold and Christine being CLOSE to waking up and talking about the Grace Killer before being hush hushed again makes me SO unwell. There's something to love about all of the DMP cast and the way these characters interact with each other but Juniper and Christine definitely have something special as the ones whose wishes are directly tied to each other and dependent on both of them remaining in the games.

[pigswithwings]

i like characters who feel like nothing. they have no desires or needs, trust them on that. they just want to help others and do nothing for themself. i like characters who are very convinced that they are nothing, inferior, worse compared to the people around them. i like characters who have decided the best thing they can do for others is to give away everything they have and save nothing for themself. characters who have very little autonomy, characters who try to have no personal opinions. characters that are totally fine with being smothered and talked over. characters that look to others for decisions, characters that need others to tell them what to do. as long as other people are happy, you know?

[fletcheris]

One day I would confront the mysterious reasons as to why I feel that I am skewed towards damnation and why I feel my choices are predetermined and why I fall so hard for characters who do their damndest to fight and subvert Fate only to succumb to their tragedies. But until that day I choose to stay silly

[rookthebird]

"redemption arcs are toxic, you shouldn't try to fix someone!"

actually it is so important to me that being in community and experiencing human connection can save people. thanks

[chriscdcase95]

[fettiowi]

Your protagonist should be a woman. And she should also be evil

[clementine-kesh]

tumblr mutuals love getting into the most random esoteric media possible and talking about it in modern fandom parlance they’ll be like “omg guys i’m so obsessed with dagny her relationship with hildr is so doomed yuri ugh they would do numbers on here” then you look it up and they’re talking about an obscure scandinavian folktale that’s only available in the original old norwegian

[clementine-kesh]

tumblr mutuals will be casually watching shit the sleuths on r/lostmedia have been trying to track down for years

[closer-towards-checkmate]

New Years Resolution for 2026 is finish that 5k Vincent Marshall Reid fic and get it out there LMAO

[closer-towards-checkmate]

the lovers

[closer-towards-checkmate]

dog-lover 💚

[closer-towards-checkmate]

Devil's Hand Timeloop Fanfic Real

[closer-towards-checkmate]

Vincent witnessing DH spiral, actively wanting to die: [nervous chuckle] "I was never like that to you guys, right? Not that extreme!"

[closer-towards-checkmate]

Devil's Hand Timeloop Fanfic Real