[eternityentombed]

i can never leave, this is my hell

*.·:·.☽✧---------꒰ა ꙮ ໒꒱---------✧☾.·:·.*

hello, im zephyr (they/them), if i say im making a new blog im lying and overestimating myself, if i say i want a tagging system i wont keep up with it, enjoy

i post art (currently burnt out) at @w1ngl3ss, sys/kinblr is @blackoutstageplay, base blog is @perceivedinexcess (its dead)

can also be found on flight rising, toyhou.se, and artfight @/w1ngl3ss

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[alexpixate]

MyHouse.wad

[greatness942]

Had a thought about MyHouse.wad using "Subways Of Your Mind."

So, at the time the map was created, it was still the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet. It's presence there was meant to creep you out if you knew your Internet lore. That spooky song no one could find. It fits the map's story and aesthetics; psychological horror meant to invoke a bygone era that you can't quite grasp, only to contort it into a fever dream you can't trust.

But then people found it. It's a song by a German band called FEX. The lyrics, previously a cryptic puzzle, now tell a real story. It's grounded itself in reality. And I think that's fitting. Where is it placed in the map? Before the Gas Station in the Altered House backyard.

Just before Happiness is fought for.

And what plays before?

A song people fought to find, that's about (as I interpret it) someone unsatisfied with their life, unhappy with the world and with themselves, longing for a purpose.

A song about someone fighting for their happiness.

So, without even intending it, one the most sinister and cerebral DOOM maps ever developed actually doubled-down on it's most hopeful message: that there's always a light at the end of the tunnel, you simply must seek it out. Happiness must be fought for. That doesn't mean you can't be effortlessly happy, but rather that staying stuck in the past solves nothing, wandering your thoughts endlessly only gets you stuck in an echo chamber. If you search far enough, you can find that lost piece of art. If you strike hard enough, you can break through a horde of demons. If you work hard enough, you can release your magnum opus. You just have to try.

[cherrytomato507]

I'm yet to add audio before I put it up on youtube but this is a small side project I did over the course of many boring moments in my animation class. If it has a "screen" it can run Doom.

[ammyamarant]

Been watching videos on myhouse.wad and it's like... Okay, obvious inspiration was House of Leaves. Like, yeah, of course. But what's great is that it knows exactly what makes House of Leaves so effective. It's not the story of the impossible geometry of the house. It's how there are multiple narratives going on. Yes, there's The Navidson Record. But did you ever read just the footnotes? There's a completely different story going on.

And then did you read the two together, just everything on the page before going to the next one?

There are three stories going on at the same time: The Navidson Record, what is happening to Johnny, and then the story of how the two weave together.

Myhouse.wad doesn't forget that. Yeah, the titular house has impossible geometry. But the actual story creeps out of the game and into the files. And then into the story of you playing it, and how you interact with it.

My favourite part is the fact that House of Leaves leans into the medium. The story starts to affect how the pages look and how it's formatted. And so does myhouse.wad! It leans into how impossible it should be to make Doom be able to do this. The impossible geometry isn't just ooh look at this door, it's "wait hold on Doom can't do that how is this happening?"

Myhouse.wad understands what House of Leaves did beyond ooh scary impossible house. And I think it proves any medium could pull this off... You just need to understand said medium.

And then make it do the impossible while weaving the story into the story of you watching/reading/listening/playing it.

[vertyd]

My house dot wad

[weheartstims]

apologies if this is somewhat... unusual? but could i perhaps get a general pride themed board for steve and tom from myhouse.wad? with rainbows and old video games/fucked up houses, if possible. many thanks! 💕🏳️‍🌈

Steven Nelson x Thomas Allord (MyHouse.WAD) with rainbows, old video games, and weird houses!

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Banner credit: 🌈

[shermainfrontofdoors]

Sherma in my house.wad

[teaboot]

I was debating pre- and post- smartphone existentialism with an older gentleman today and he stopped part way through and said “Why are you a security guard? Why aren’t you teaching this at some college somewhere?” And I didn’t know what to say so I went with “Well I used to make art but nobody pays an artist”

[teaboot]

I want to invoke thought and wonder and introspection and encourage the passions of every soul I meet forever and ever and dig until I find the glorious potential for creation and experience and joy in every single one but unfortunately I must pay rent and so I stand, a meat shield, an NPC with unlockable dialogue

[oojamaflip-whatchamacallit]

#capitalism brain tells you that anyone interesting must fight to the top of their interest#and precludes the possibility of everyone everyone everyone already being interesting

[meanbuddhist]

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

[scramratz]

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be free” men CAN get pregnant and they’re treated worse than women who can get pregnant

[yaoist]

of course the problem with "redemption arcs" is that "redemption" is a pure construct of the narrative. It's a conceit of the story where a "bad guy" gets to join the "good guys" and be a part of their group, or narratively be allowed to move past their crimes. The discourse around it is consistently shallow because it prioritizes the feelings of the audience as paramount - a redemption arc is "bad" when the person watching it feels unconvinced and unfulfilled and "good" when they like and appreciate the character and feel that they "faced up" to their crimes, whatever that means. Cater to the feelings and preoccupations of the audience or face scorn and accusations of Bad Writing! Force the shallow narrative conceit upon your characters!

[yaoist]

Because of course in real life redemption does not exist. It's made up and relies on an outside force (God, the author, the audience). You cannot "make up" for what you have done. It's always there. Most people who improve themselves don't apologize and make everything right, they just move on and stop doing shitty things and enter a new environment. In many ways people complaining about "redemption arcs" are simply mad that this is the case.

[urhumblecapt]

Do you ever consider that Gunpowder Tim plays Oedipus, a blind man?

Or the idea that Jonny sings Holder of the Grail so he can call himself captain without anyone arguing?

What about Ashes playing the trans character because they’re non binary?

How about Gunpowder Tim playing Gawain, a character who embraces anger and violence after losing someone dear to him and never truly loses that anger?

Jonny playing Ulysses, who is waiting for their death because they’re tired after living through so much?

What about Brian playing the ‘metal demon’ in Stranger, whom the other character thought was human?

Do you? I do.

[vonlipwig]

developing the hots for ryan gosling because of project hail mary is so fucking embarrassing I swear to god. that is a conventionally attractive man. a noted hollywood heartthrob. he's even blond, are you kidding me? did he win people magazine's sexiest man alive? I don't know. I'm not going to check but it wouldn't surprise me at this point. it's such a mainstream taste. such a clichéd celebrity crush. like oh I fancy ryan gosling and my favourite drink is coca-cola and my favourite snack is ready salted crisps. jesus christ. 'b-b-but i only like him when he's in a science pun tshirt and playing a dorky-awkward loner type!' doesn't matter. he's still ryan 'ken from barbie' gosling. it's so trite. I feel like the weird nerd girl in a teen coming-of-age romcom falling for the super popular jock. don't I know that I have a reputation to uphold here? cringe.

[fandomsandfairytales]

This post is the spiritual successor to that post about David Corenswet:

[foone]

I saw this on reddit and tracked down the source (Dinara Fakhritdinova, _climbinggirl_ on instagram), because I know there's a lot of girls here on tumblr who need to see her back muscles

[byjove]

I can’t remember if I told you guys this but my grandpa paid a guy to put up a rock retaining wall in the backyard when my grandparents moved into their house in 1966. They live at the bottom of a mountain. The wall finally collapsed this year and my grandfather with dementia was PISSED OFFFFFF and he wanted so badly to call the guy who did it and chew him out for doing a bad job. My grandma is trying to explain that the wall lasted 60 years and the guy who did the work is probably dead and it TURNS OUT HE IS STILL ALIVE. Now we’re worried grandpa is going to get through to him (small town) and we’re going to see two 85 year old men come to blows over a rock wall that has been there since the mid-60s. My grandpa is a scrapper, he’s been to jail over a bar fight, the possibility that he WOULD fight this guy is high.

To top it off? The stone mason is the only person in town with one arm so grandpa would definitely recognize him if he saw him. If that is your grandpa, please protect him from my grandpa.

[byjove]

Then again, if it was given a lifetime guarantee and both parties are still alive, grandpa might have ground to stand on.

[audliminal]

Having short hair really is just

I get up. I walk into the bathroom. I glance in the mirror. My hair is posed in a brand new, never-before-seen array that defies the laws of physics.