I need a break. Here’s a gift for you thirsty gals and pals. I was gonna make it a bit more *cough* *cough*, but I got a warning once so I’m not gonna do it again.
I’m gonna render this later when I feel like it. My exam ends tomorrow!!
I dreamed the dumbest but funniest thing in the world. xD
Jake and MC were with the group in secret house. And Jake and Thomas were always fighting. And after Thomas played guitar at the fire, they argued again. And Jake took Thomas' guitar and smashed it on Thomas' head. Thomas fell down the chair and fainted right away. And Jake was so proud. Poor guitar is completely shattered.
The scariest thing is that I can actually see that happen in real. xD
Falling into the deep rabbit hole of duskwood character cosplayer on instagram
recently I have seen something quite interesting on instagram. (By cosplay I don't mean costume cosplay rather "account cosplay"). And I just want to talk about it.
Disclaimer: following post is not an accusatory but an opinionated post.
All of this started when I came across this particular account:
As you can tell it's a Jake fan account and this person is cosplaying as Jake. They seem actually very knowledgeable about coding stuff so it really feels like an actual Jake account. I also quite enjoy their content and they do have a large fanbase.
From this post's like ratio it's clear that many duskwood fans follow them. So you might ask what the issue is? Well if they are cosplaying Jake (who is duskwood character)then why are they tagging "reality_games_de"(developer of healing, sev7en... and not "Everbyte"?Now I want to clarify that it might be because those games also have hacker characters like ; wolf and shadow but I have played both of those games and can clearly tell they are cosplaying non of them. and the comments under the post clarifies that too.
AND that's not all, I noticed the accounts they follow:
As you can see all this account have one thing in common, "reality_games_de". Mind you That "Jake account" does not follow the actual official duskwood character nor the actors account nor Everbyte. They do follow the actors and writers of healing .And all this account thoroughly promotes reality games stuffs. but not once they mentioned Duskwood or Everbyte to my knowledge. And they are pretty committed with the cosplay too.
What's more interesting are the comments under the post that looks like bot but they aren't. Those comments account are also a follower or followed by these cosplay accounts. so they are in on it with the whole cosplay thingy. I know it is not that harmful and just some people having fun but they go out of their why to mention a company that is no way associated with duskwood. But don't even mention Everbyte the actual developers?
With all this I would like to clarify that the actual "reality games" account does not follow any of them.so it's safe to assume that the cosplayers are fans and no way involved with the developer right? or is it? *vsause theme song*
My overall ick with all this:
not a single time mentioning duskwood or Everbyte and constantly promoting other games feels like leaching out of there popularity. (you can argue that duskwood has ended and it's relatively popular so we should not care but it still feels shady)
misleading new player into thinking duskwood has anything to do with reality games.
PS: I DO NOT IN ANY WAY WANT TO START A DRAMA OFF OF THIS. THEY ARE JUST MY SIMPLE ANALYSIS OF A MATTER I FOUND INTRESTING(which very likely not be correct)AND THE LAST PART IS MY OPINON DO NOT GO BASH ANY OF THEM MENTIONED.(but I know I don't need to say it because you guys know better).
I have seen everbyte gets criticism for pushing heterosexual relationships in duskwood characters and specifically on us. If we as a character are women we get to flirt with only men and has jake route unlock(only premium). And as men we get to flirt with only girls and jake sees us as friend but you get jessy's route.
Now I think its a valid criticism. And on the whole gender role concept dead city is better then duskwood.
Hear me out, In dead city they never specify our mc's gender let alone a name. Sam always calls us by "You"(If I am correct).
And another thing they never said what gender sam is. Like sam is a gender netural name, it could be Samantha or Samuel. And sam is never addressed as "she" or "he".
So in conclusion my personal thoughts is that everbyte did a better job in dead city then duskwood regarding this matter.
I took a little inspiration from @slow-hazel 's fanart
This drawing have actually been laying around for more than a month 😅 I kept forgetting to post it. But here you go
Again, great idea from @she-x-wolf
And I thought it was amazing. I also thought. If Duskwood really was based in Germany, it can be pretty cold there. Imagine jumping into water at night.
I just had a dream last night. It was about everbyte's next sneak peek and it was kinda weird 😅. You know like a fever dream where you can't explain what's going on.
Anyways the sneak peek was and and I quote: " IN THE NEXT GAME YOU MAY EXPECT NOT ONLY MESSAGE KISSES BUT OUTSIDE OF THE MESSAGES TOO."
And I was like "oh so this game won't be so pg13 huh?" And then I woke up -_-
Whenever I see a man with hooded black hoodie and mask, doesn't matter if it's on tv, internet, anime or in real life I see jake. AND I CAN'T UNSEE IT ANYMORE!!!?! Look what this game and fandom did to me 😩😩