#pathologic fandom

[neat-o-things]

Daniil patho 3 doodle

[koalaquarelle]

Aglaya Lilich quick sketches

Come on, female characters in Pathologic are so interesting

[kasztanek86]

patologicznie!

[lilyminer]

In accepting that the best part of playing either Pathologic game for me was always going to be discussing and analyzing it with other fans, I’ve found myself with a very interesting frustration other media doesn’t usually give me. The frustration that I can’t understand Russian. Ok ok that sounds surface level and in some ways it is but let me explain some more anyways.

I’ve taken a few philosophy classes in uni, I’m very aware that the first game especially is talking philosophy, so much damn philosophy. The dialogue is just like that? Everyone in the town talks like that? My god y’all who got through p1 are so much stronger than me I can’t even survive a 2 hour philosophy lecture without feeling like my brain no longer functions. That being said I know how important understanding someone’s specific wording can be to getting their philosophical views. And it just gnaws at the back of my head that philosophy in translation tends to not convey the exact intended meaning. I’m curious about the quality of the translations but I’m also aware some things might just translate poorly! It’s just a flaw of translation!

Then there’s this one specific point in my Pathologic obsession. It’s when I came across YouTube user Хаба and their video “Чёрный человек | pathologic”. And in case you aren’t already aware it is a breathtaking, atmospheric animatic about Daniil set to a. . . to a sung recording of a piece of Russian Poetry written in fucking 1926 I’d never heard of before. And my friends, my dear fellow fans. When I tell you this one animatic of a character from a video game I hadn’t even finished yet got me thoroughly obsessed with a poem written in another language in 1926 I am telling you nothing but the truth. I will spare you the real details but suffice to say I browsed translations for hours, tried in vain to find someone who had analyzed it in English, and ultimately just tried to do a close reading of it myself high school English class style.

And lastly and most simply. I can not communicate with a large portion of the playerbase without a shitty online translator who I know can not be trusted for what my beloved fellow fans want to say. And even if I could find a great translator I feel it would be a bit rude and maybe kinda anglocentric to reply paragraphs of English at them and expect them to translate everything in kind.

Anyways if you indulged my rambling this far thank you. Im probably gonna play p1 finally after beating p2 so stick around for that. And if anyone reading happens to understand both English and Russian and also likes old poetry please let me know if you can find any truly accurate, well done translations of The Dark Man by Sergey Esenin/Sergei Yesenin. I truly can not emphasize how much I need one that’s certified accurate and good please I am literally begging

[my-ugly-organs]

TUMBLR I NEED YOUR HELP, I'M GONNA COMMISSION A FRIEND WHO'S AN ARTIST SOON AND I HAD THE PERFECT REFERENCE AND I CAN'T FIND IT ANYMORE, I'M PRETTY SURE I SAW IT HERE, IT WAS A COLORED DIGITAL DRAWING OF A BLONDE MAN WITH BLOODY HANDS AND HAD VERY DRAMATIC LIGHTNING LIKE HALF DARKNESS-HALF LIGHT AND THE MAN WAS A SOLDIER OR SMTH IDK HE HAD A WEIRD DND-ESQUE/MEDIEVAL GREEN UNIFORM WITH BROWN PARTS AND THE EXPRESSION HE HAD ON HIS FACE WAS AMAZING, LIKE THE MOST PATHETIC DEER IN HEADLIGHTS POOR LITTLE MEOW MEOW FACE I'VE EVER SEEN OMG, PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME FIND IT???

UPDATE: IT WAS THIS MOTHERFUCKER

Hey so i think i found the character?? i've done some digging and apparently it comes from the Pathologic games, but i still haven't found the Art i was referring to, I don't know anything about pathologic but oh great and mighty pathologic Fandom i summon you! Pls help 😭😭

Credit for this amazing art as well goes to @ukropstales @ukstls i think, idk if they're the same person on tumblr i found the art on an online print shop

Also if anyone knows the name of the character that'd make it easier for me to find the piece i'm looking for, is the name of the character Haruspex or smth??

UPDATE 2: I FOUND IT, THANK YOU SO MUCH @affable-square BRB GONNA REBLOG THE ORIGINAL ART BY @al-norton WHICH I HAVE SEARCHED EVERYWHERE FOR AGES!!!!

I'll update this post when i commission my friend, it might take a while tho but stay tuned!

[neat-o-things]

A little late but DAY THREE MEDICINE

Featuring Taya and The haruspex

[koalaquarelle]

Enter the city and start the play

I’m quite frustrated I couldn’t post it in a better quality… gifs are way too heavy

Anyway, I want to do fun characters sheets for them with their strengths and weaknesses (but my brain’s fried right now, I don’t have any relevant idea…)

[koalaquarelle]

Watercolor sketches