#ultrakill posting

[captainsaturnart]

V1 from Ultrakill. Art created by me.

[spadespider]

He have his blood jello

Inspiration:

[crowaes]

thinking about the relationship between hell and god in ultrakill. god creates hell in a fit of frustration after being unable to create a perfectly obedient lifeform. hell never takes a soul who shouldnt belong to it according to the premise of its creation. it never ceases its torment. when there is risk of harm to heaven, such as minos and sisyphus followers, it never allows it to become a true threat. it repeats "holy, holy, holy is the lord." love is expressed via sadism. in a sense its his most successful, most obedient, creation.

[mrppillow]

anotherdies.bringmemore.ihunger.

FAVORITE LAYER OF ACT1?

PRELUDE

LIMBO

LUST

GLUTTONY

Voting ended onNov 7, 2025

[k01ku]

The Judge of Hell

[pangolin-404]

I think I will ramble a little bit about the Minotaur while the brainrot is fresh in my brain

It's a House of Leaves reference. All of it. In House of Leaves, every single mention of the Minotaur and its surrounding mythology is written in red and struck through. And, in House of Leaves, there are a lot of recurring labyrinth motifs. The book's a maze to read in of itself, with literally hundreds of footnotes, several different narrators/layers to the stor(y/ies) told, and text turned sideways, upside down, and generally formatted like the book wants to fistfight you for DARING to try to read it.

In House of Leaves, the Minotaur is at points an allegory for some maybe-real, maybe-not monster in the house in question. Maybe it was always there, maybe it was given life by the fear of it, maybe it was never real. But also, as one of the frame tales spins off into a rant about its mythology, the Minotaur of Greek mythology is treated as a misunderstood, mistreated character (specifically, it is proposed the Minotaur, "Mint," was a deformed child rejected and locked away). The Minotaur is cut down and slain, still, but it is a tragedy, and he is mourned by Minos while the ignorant people celebrate.

At some point the main character of the book even has a nightmare that he is the Minotaur, wandering dark damp halls, cut down in cold, drunken blood just as the Greek Minotaur was slain.

The Minotaur in Ultrakill is a discarded entity. It wanders the labyrinth, abandoned by its owner. It was dangerous, yes, powerful, as was Mint of House of Leaves. But it, too, was cut down by a blood-drunk entity. Its terminal entry is struck through in attempt to erase the Minotaur from history, as if it was a mistake.

The whole of 7-1 feels very House of Leaves-esque. It is a maze; at some points the halls are black. The labyrinth is intentionally crafted to punish those who try to escape it, just as the lonely house grows more hostile the further it is explored. The house on Ash Tree Lane would be proud. It's probably coincidence, but the square drops into darkness remind me of myhouse.wad.

There's deeper comparison to be dug up from that, I think. Seeing House of Leaves in Ultrakill made me really happy and I'll be thinking about this for a long while.

[zthekitsune]

So I was reading this thing, right?

This... This Ultrakill fanfiction on Ao3.

Look, I'm not a Gabv1el enjoyer but damn am I down bad for this one.

Been a while since I've read something that genuinely made me laugh and take screenshots.

I'm using some of the descriptions there when I inevitably go back to writing.

Go check that thing out. I'm only 5/25 publushed chapters in and I'm in love already.