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The political implications of the Burakhs not being considered a ruling family, but a second secret thing, is legitimately a theme of both of Artemy's routes. Having to live that contradiction and the consequential tension literally drives Isidor to madness.
It's a little crazy that the fandom accepted transmasc pathologic headcanon is NOT the surgeon who clearly changed his name at some point and had multiple sons with a mysterious dead wife nobody knows anything about.
Jersey devil has the coolest lore and history and it's not close to anything else
The scorned and unwanted son of a woman forced to have more children than she wanted?
A wealthy local anti-independence writer and monarchist scorned and hated by his pro-US-independence?!
How is that not the perfect set up for a horror movie with themes of overly insular self interest being a type of abuse in which people severe their child's ability to integrate and participate in society? An American anti-Anastasia where you HAVE to kill the child or else she will be ten-times as bad to you and your community as her awful family has been.
"We didn't stamp out aristocratic monarchist cruelty hard enough, we showed too much mercy, and now this demon is in the woods"
thinking about the "disability is not body horror" discussions, and how i feel that's another one of those talking points that came from a good place, but has been oversimplified into something kinda backwards.
cause like. becoming disabled is horrific. BEING disabled is not inherently horrific, but the sudden jarring change where you no longer even know your own limits, or the slow frustration as you gradually lose a skill you previously had; that can definitely be wildly upsetting and traumatizing to go through. not to mention the horror of navigating the world as a disabled person, being treated as lesser and like you can't/shouldn't even advocate for yourself. And don't get me wrong, a disabled life does not have to be constantly awful, but i think we all have awful moments where we hate it.
i understand the frustration with abled people ONLY ever creating art about disabled people to coo at how sad and horrible it is, in much the same way that it sucks when every gay character dies. but it's in tension with the very real horror and despair that disabled people often experience. in this way, playing with body horror as a discussion about disability can be very powerful (look at Metamorphosis).
i just worry sometimes when people play a hardline "disability is not horror!" we can sometimes start to believe that everyone who puts "disability" and "horror" in the same sentence are saying something they aren't (that disabled people are horrifying, from an outsider's perspective).
agree and want to add: you know what's a perfectly normal thing humans can do and is also body horror?
pregnancy.
lots of people think pregnancy is inherently horrific! and it sure can be, for a lot of different reasons. exploring the body-horror aspect of pregnancy is like. a Trope, and not a bad one.
I have been pregnant - happily, intentionally, zero-regrets-ly - and I can recognize it can still be body horror, even if it doesn't horrify me personally.
and disability can be the same - the process of becoming disabled can, in fact, be fucking scary! that's okay to explore!
Disability is also one of those things that can COME from something else that IS horrifying. Not everyone is born disabled, some people acquire a disability from an injury or physical accident or disease. These topics are common in horror and are common sources of fear and distress for people.
You know what ELSE is horrific and happens to ALL people?
AGING!
Your face changes, you lose strength you've never known life without, things that were once easy are now difficult if not painful. These things are scary for people! It's something a lot of people struggle with within their lifetime! And it's maybe the most common sources of disability in the human race! nobody stays in peak condition forever! And it is a physically uncomfortable process! That leads to death! The ultimate fear!
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FUCK this post and happy birthday sonic
Patty's ready to enjoy the summer 😎☀️
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I was a little antsy when I took this job that the team had really high hopes that I'd turn things around for a failing team and I was worried that was a pretty hefty expectation but in 3 months I've doubled our productivity literally just by implementing industry best practices. Like I didn't invent shit this is what they should have been doing for YEARS and just weren't.
You ever think of Isador and Daniil’s friendship? Cause I do. I think about it a lot.
(I’m referring to Patho classic cause so far in my gameplay of Patho 2 it seems that Daniil has a slightly different backstory as to how he got to the town)
But like, they were friends and I feel crazy because no one talks about it. Like they exchanged letters. Daniil tells Yulia that he knows what a Shabnak is because Isador told him. Daniil trusts what Rubin is doing because it’s based on Isador’s notes, and when Artemiy tells Daniil that he has his father’s notes on him Daniil asks to see them.
Like I know when we think of the people who are grieving we think of the town and Artemiy. But like, do you think Daniil grieves his friend? Do you think Daniil feels like he just about missed him? After all he arrives to the town the very night Isador is murdered.
When he’s hunting for the murderer of Simon Kain do you think he was relieved to go see Isador? After having found out his journey was doomed from the start do you think he wanted to talk not just about his task from the Kains, but to his friend? To discuss their lives without the barrier of hundreds of miles and the delivery time of letters?
Do you think that he was not just devastated to find his life work in jeprody again, but also his friend, the man who’s extended a helping hand when he was in need, dead? Murdered? By his own son no less?
Do you think he misses the practicality having his friend would bring? How his wishes for a quarentine get ignored by the towns people, but if Isador was here, if his friend were still alive, the quarantines would work and more people would be saved?
I don’t know man I just keep coming back to it.
YEAH. And I think about how Isidor and Simon co-ordinated the two of them being dead by the time Daniil arrives and trap him in the town to face the outbreak whilst inheriting Simon's bound. It follows that they'd been scouting him as the new Utopian head for a long time, so how much of that friendship was genuine vs. building the necessary trust to reel him in by revealing Simon's lifespan only at that crucial moment? I am often pacing wildly about those fucked up old men playing dollies with their heirs.
Simon Kain uses his boyfriend's snail mail transmasc support network to fulfill his transmasc Get Out-style chaser dream
Isidor Burakh transmasc reading may not be canon but. Fuck. God damn. God fucking damn it. Jesus fucking Christ. Oh god.
Pathologic pony au Oyun just turned Isidor to stone. He didn't know he could do that.
I've officially gotten to the stage in my new job where it takes like 3 hours to be completely done with everything I need to be for the day
My real bitches know what that means
Underrated Pathologic queer subtext joke: Aspity is literally a hag
“Period-specific catty blonde questionably-sadomasochistic slavic veteran who puts up with stupid magic in attempt to stop a man-initiated apocalypse out of sheer dedication to his mother” is my favorite type of Video Game Character
I will literally boot up pathologic 3, HDMI it to my TV and everything, have my Xbox controller and weed and drink and then just scroll on my phone because I really really really do not want to deal with the cabbage hunting gameplay it is so miserable.
And I don't hate the walking sim gameplay of 1 or 2! It adds to the pacing! Disorients you even! Gives you space and time to think and contemplate what is going on and to strategize your next steps
But there's no strategy to P3! I am not managing any real resources and the time travel inventory mechanic is way too confusing to try and plan around.
And the animation timing and delays, while maybe exasperated by my PC makes the infected district gameplay miserable. It's impossible to accurately estimate when I am in range to do something or how much time I have to react or if I have enough space to dodge. Sometimes the 'gun' animation plays in full but whoops actually the shabnak attack was queued already, or there was a delay in the game 'deactivating' the plague cloud so you take damage anyways.
And man it just feels bad whenever I have to pass through an infected or rioting district that I could easily avoid by cutting through the steppe in P2. I get the mechanic and theming of this option not being available but it *feels* bad because with a release gap this big that shit is muscle memory.
There's something kind of funny that Nina, Simon, and Isidor have these multifaceted, complex, and at times, abstract goals pertaining to the type of world they want to build and to live in, what skills and knowledge and abilities they want to develop and hone, what legacy they want to build
And Victoria's one and only real goal is to STOP NINA and she just completely fails.