[yancant]

Cherik mini comic about Charles’ telepathy vaguely based off a fic I read while back where they had a similar conversation. I can’t find it now but if anyone can let me know 😢

Not a sad one! Kind of! Maybe I’ll make a sad one in the future. I need to go finish my homework now LOL but thank you everyone for the patience!

[hidinginheresomewhere]

Blind Spot

Alt version, timelapse, and rambles below the cut!

Yall they have me in a death grip. I found the picture below while scrolling Pinterest and I thought it was PERFECT for them.

One thing that always gets me about their relationship is that Legs often purposely looks past all the bloodshed and the murder that Owen has done in order to keep pushing to save him and it keeps putting him in increasingly dangerous situations. Owen really is this man’s blind spot and I LOVE IT. I’m so incredibly proud of this piece y’all. This is my first *big* piece of MCYT fanart and it’s one of those pieces that make me go “I made that????”

I shared the sketch I did for this piece yesterday and this is basically the same piece inked with the exception of Owen’s face. It gave me a lot of trouble but I think the changes I made made it so much better.

I love it so much yall and I hope you do too 💖

“Human” Owen version:

Flash warning for the timelapse!

[notozthewizard]

They're making me insaneee

Context: the dialogues are taken from Avid's stream, this did not happen in an episode but I imagine them having a heated discussion like that while for example gathering supplies

[seriouslycalamitous]

They’re at it again 🙄

Avid and Legundo started arguing on stream about why their respective evil vampires were better. I can’t take them anymore. Legundo says he can “fix” owen and Avid says he likes scott the way he is 😬

[legundo]

if you had to sell me on watching your vampires POV, how would you do it ?

What if the real monster of the series was trying his best to be good?

[redstonebug]

Local doctor suddenly extremely popular with vampires and maybe-vampires

[foxalotlposts]

They uh they are awesome i think yeah

[technofeudalism]

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

[technofeudalism]

since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.

anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.

Games

A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.

corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.

Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.

Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.

Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.

sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.

Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.

Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.

The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.

Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.

The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.

Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.

Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.

The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)

Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.

Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.

EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.

You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.

The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)

Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.

Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.

ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.

PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.

Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.

FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.

Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.

PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike

Tools

Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)

Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.

Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)

Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.

Non-Games

Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.

Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.

17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.

Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.

The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)

Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)

Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)

If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.

r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.

r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.

thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.

[stellocchia]

I was so indifferent to v!Legundo at first, and yet now, the more I watch the more I find myself fascinated by him.

To be kind in a world that has discarded compassion is no easy feat. And yet the Doctor perseveres.

He has refused to take the easy road and dismiss all vampires as mere monsters. Again and again, he refuses to see them as monsters at all. They're just starving, they just need help. They need kindness. They need trust.

And because of his compassion and his willingness to land a hand, he has earned the full trust of two of them (Apo and Cleo) and tentative trust of another couple (Owen and I'm pretty sure also Pyro). Cleo especially clearly trusts him a great deal. He has become sort of her rock, often intervening to calm her down when needed. And, just in general, he has been the only human any of the vampires has been willing to talk to.

I think the Owen feeding scene encapsulated this aspect of the Doctor the best.

Owen opened up about Louis. About how he'd never flinched away from him. About how he'd treated him as a person, the only one to ever do so. And Legs listened, and Legs didn't flinch away while he was feeding. He stayed stock still. He trusted him. Trusted his word. No matter how dangerous that could have been for him, how dangerous it was, he decided that making Owen not feel like a monster was more important.

So, yeah, I now have added a new blorbo to the collection

[ieattaperecorders]

I’m also just. So convinced that any remotely realistic conversation between S1 and S5 Jon would go like:

S5 Jon: I’m you from the future, here to warn you about the terrible things that will happen.

S1 Jon: How can I be sure you aren’t some evil doppelganger here to kill me?

S5 Jon: Oh, you definitely can’t. I could tell you stories from our childhood, but if I was the sort of thing you’re thinking of I could know those as well. I could even alter your memories so you believed lies I told you about yourself, or change the memories of everyone who’s ever known you until they remembered me and forgot you entirely.

S1 Jon: …

S5 Jon: But I’m not.

S1 Jon: *Holding a fire extinguisher as a weapon* You will keep a minimum of ten feet away at all times.

S5 Jon: *Nodding* Yes, good, this is inconvenient but you are definitely being very reasonable right now.

[iamnmbr3]

@shinyopals: #s1Jon: if you know all my childhood memories how do i know you’re not just a mind-reading monster?? #s5jon: well i’ve got some bad news and some worse news

[spooksier]

the pupil, the messiah

[karakuliiii]

this is part 1 [part 2] Happy TMAnniversary haha the song is  A Complete List of Fears Ages 5-28 (Aprox) by The Yellow Dress I really love this podcast so so much. I just finished it like a month ago and it still lives in my brain so i just had to do a little tribute

[lunehowls]

bad dreams

[annabelle--cane]

they just don't make characters like jon archivist sims. he spends an entire season having a forty episode long delusional breakdown and that's only maybe the third or fourth worst period of time in his life. he gets intervened on twice. he gets kidnapped thrice. during one of those kidnappings he spends a month tied to a chair getting forcibly moisturized by a plastic ringmistress mannequin and no one notices. he fully dies for six months but gets up again when a friendly grim reaper gives his unbreathing body a pep talk. he spends several episodes at the start of the final season so depressed that it's unclear if he even moves for multiple days in a row. the basis for his magic powers is that he is so traumatized that he begins to need continuous further trauma in order to live, which gives him the ability to explode people with his mind. he spends about fifty seconds at the top of an episode self-harming directly into a tape recorder, which is not even the most fucked up thing to happen to him that episode. he finally cried on audio for the first time in the penultimate ep and the only reaction I saw for several days after was wildly enthusiastic cheering. he's missing two ribs and he's at least 80% scar tissue by volume and the only canon information we have about his appearance is that he looks terrible at all times.

[ceaselessims]

if we run with idea of the externals being built on the concept of tulpas, on popular belief, on the need to be seen and noticed and known, on the concept that you are transformed by how people perceive you...

then does Error have tape recorders because we the audience expect an "archivist" to have tape recorders??? because that is the story we have been told????

was Error awoken because they simply were an archivist in this universe's Magnus Institute and the only reason they are a monster is because the audience had a preconceived notion about what they would be when alice and sam discovered the archivist plaque in the ruins?????

[tboylucifer]

Sam's statement seems like a key to figuring out how these things work. The little plastic skeleton is not already an external or a cursed object. It seems to be just a normal plastic skeleton. It's actually just Sam's fear of it that makes it dangerous. But it's still just one person and still just a plastic skeleton, so all it can do is papercuts.

I had already been mulling over this, but think about how that translated to Heinrich Unheimlich. He started out as a regular toy that was kind of scary. The local children made it into an urban legend, and then he came to life. As the legend progressed, so did he, getting more powerful. Then as the legend has waned he has become weaker once more.

For a less prominent or obvious example we can also look at episode 18. In this case, the dead woman speaks about being a child and being told not to go into the abandoned house. She is told all the ways she could be hurt if she plays inside and she becomes afraid of it, but as she learns to fear the house, even after it is destroyed it lives on in her mind. Her fear has transformed the house in an effect similar to the spiral in TMA, trapping her inside twisted halls and rooms that are entirely false, unable to escape even in death.

For another case that is fresh on my mind we have the Growler in episode 27. Mr. Magnus himself specifies that it is called such because of the noise the wheels make on the pavement. It is a name that calls to mind frightening imagery as opposed to merely loud. He says many people prefer the quieter carriage, even though it may not be as comfortable. You could imagine from his description the carriage as a wild animal, or a demonic beast ready to devour you should you willingly crawl into its belly. And that's before he describes the actual nightmare in disguise.

With the emphasis on alchemy and transformation through fear, one could come to the conclusion that there are no categorical entities such as the deep, or the lonely, or the stranger, but that each thing is created individually through the collective fear of those that behold it.

In other words, you could take identical creepy dolls and tell two different people to spend time with them and observe them separately, and you could potentially end up with two different entities based on what each of them feared most about it. Then you could take those same people and give them one doll and their fear would give the one thing both characteristics. And you could keep multiplying that endlessly.

[vale-gaai]

So... why tape recorders?

After hearing about the [ERROR]chivist from Sam, Georgie obviously immediately starts thinking the same thing that anyone familiar with the events of tma is: In what way is this related to Jon? Sam literally quotes the 'all eyes' line, this Archivist feeds off of people's Fear, makes people tell them stories about their trauma, and tape recorders keep following them around! All Jon powers, or at the very least Archivist powers!

...Except, as we learn in s5, while the tape recorders follow Jon and Martin around, despite them being such an Archivist motif from the audiences POV, the tapes are not of Jon, they're not of the Archivist.

In MAG196 and MAG197, it's revealed that the tapes have all along been part of the plan of the Web, to use them, Jon and the Eyepocalypse to spin a web and spread to other dimensions:

So if the tapes aren't and never were an Archivist power, why do they show up for the [ERROR]chivist?

Is it the Web spinning a new plan? It can't be ruled out, but the [ERROR]chivist seems a poor candidate for a new rituals lynchpin. Not to mention that the Fears don't seem to exist in those same categories in tmagp in the first place, or that doing the same thing twice seems kinda basic from a meta perspective.

Really, there is something the [ERROR]chivist is reminiscent of, more than anything else. Not Jon, or Getrude, nor any one character or person from either universe.

With their tape recorders, their gender ambiguity and cloaked form, their most identifiable feature being their eyes, All Eyes, being able to compel statements without even saying a word, making victims relive their trauma not just in spirit, but in body, what the [ERROR]chivist is, most of all, is the idea of the Archivist.

The [ERROR]chivist is the Archivist, insofar as he would exist to the minds of the people in the ruins of tma's post-apocalypse. A vague, watching creature, always tailed by tape recorders, making you spill your guts figuratively and literally before moving on, and those eyes, those eyes, the only feature you remember. It's a role without an actor.