I’m Not Going To Say It Again: #bertie Wooster Deserves To Win First Place.

Thanks for the answers!

Kudos and questions!

Hello there! I’m yet another person who found out about your series through Night Mind, and I have to say that I’ve really enjoyed all of what I’ve seen. You picked a great concept, and you’ve organized things such that you can keep the narrative going with little risk of it ballooning beyond your ability to handle, something that tends to happen a lot in Slenderman-based series. I also think you’ve done a great job with all your monsters; all of them are threatening and off-putting in some unique way, and they all seem to be thematically for your story.

All that said, I do have a few silly questions for you:

1. Are the same forces keeping the house filled with food and water also taking away Mary’s garbage, or will an upcoming episode reveal that the dining room is packed to the roof with trash bags? ;)

2. Are all of the humanoid monsters female? For that matter, is the amorphous shadow female?

3. In “goodnight?” there were a couple instances of the shadow’s left hand disappearing and reappearing in other parts of the frame. Was that intentional?

4. This is more of a comment, but I found it interesting that “DO NOT TOUCH” seems to be the first time Mary tries to confront the monsters. From what I’ve seen of the series, it appears to me that Mary has been placed into a situation where she is made miserable, but both the house and the monsters are making an effort to avoid killing or physically incapacitating her. However, rather than trying to put her captors and tormentors on the defensive by putting her own life in danger or making a concerted effort to escape the house, Mary has instead curled back into herself and “chosen” to endure their tortures. I know part of the reason for this is that your parents aren’t terribly keen on you starting fires or digging a hole through their basement wall, but would I also be right in assuming there are thematic reasons Mary has taken her particular course of action?

( First off, thank you! I’m glad you’re appreciating the story!

1. So far, trash is treated the same way that food and water is. Everything just clears, restocks, and resets

2. The veiled monster yes, mirror monster yes, and the other two are up to interpretation!

3. The left hand disappearing was a real rookie editing mistake that I didn’t notice until I uploaded… and proceeded to feel bad about for a week lol. The other hands appearing places were intentional.

4. Big thematic reasons. Very big, thematic reasons. And yeah also I can’t blow up my house hahaha. )

@coppermarigolds, this speaks for itself.

Woof. I played my first game of Frostpunk this weekend, and I discovered I have no problems with founding a pseudoreligious cult of personality around myself to inspire a city of exiled 19th-century Londoners to keep working through a -150°C (-238°F) superblizzard. It’s not quite the same, I’ll admit, but I feel for ya.

Me @ The Last Of Us: Okay game, I’ve never met a Troy Baker-voiced character I actually liked. Ball’s in your court.

TLOS: challenge accepted

You’re not an awful person, Madiha. You’re passionate about what you believe in and you stick to your principles, but you’re always willing to be open-minded, which is so hard to do in this day and age. That doesn’t sound like a bad person to me. I am probably the last person who should be an amateur counselor, but remember: those negative thoughts you have are not. true. They are years of insecurity and fear twisted by depression into a cudgel that give you a false view of reality and convince you that you deserve to be unhappy. Nothing they say is true.

We do not think that way about you.

You deserve to be happy. You will be happy. Whenever those thoughts start to roll in, remember that they are do not reflect reality and they are lying to you. Hold on to that. (This is really weird for me to write, but it tears me up to see you burdened with so much and know there’s almost nothing I can do about it.)

im really afraid im just a like, completely awful person but just utterly deluded in my own goodness that i dont see why everyone hates me

“Assassinations are often harder on the consul than the senator...”

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it doesnt translate very well

If your ever feeling embarrassed or frustrated with your voice just remember S.H.O.D.A.N from System Shock got to remake herself in her ideal of beauty and decided to have a stutter and inconsistent tone.

Bane/Bad Sean Connery Impression: “Oi am Rehpublic Schity’s rehkoning.”

Daily Kuvira #132

You know I had to.

Tullio Crali’s Nose Dive On The City, 1939 (via here)

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. :|

@nesterov81 depending on your point of view, for Hitoe things either improve, or enter fate worse than death territory, in these episodes of the show

get hype for the podcast

My only knowledge of Promising Young Woman comes from Barbara McClay’s review of the movie on her personal Medium, and she makes the point that despite being billed as a throwback to rape-revenge flicks like Ms. 45, it’s far more reminiscent of something like Taxi Driver. There’s all this weird stuff about Cassie’s behavior that suggests that her quest is borne of the same sort of individual psychopathology that animated someone like Travis Bickle, but the movie isn’t willing to dig too deep into her or let her detonate the way Bickle did.

I’m still wrestling with what I think about Promising Young Woman, but it is weird in retrospect that the perpetrators she did the serious psych-outs on were the female bystanders as opposed to the male bar rapists. (This is an argument for more psych-outs, not less, to be clear.)