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fandom loves to see a unique and interesting story and go ah this would be great in my little boxes that make everything the same
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I've acquired a creature that stares at you no matter which direction you look at it from
I’m hypnotized
Two years on, their wood grain has darkened because they live on my laptop keyboard and I'm constantly patting them <3 To be loved is to be changed
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just woke up from an insane migraine dream where instead of shaking hands you were supposed to hold out a small wet cube of firm jelly between your thumb and forefinger and make the other person touch it. it is a really good thing i am not the abbess of a 13th century nunnery bc what kind of things i'd be interpreting as a sign from god are anyone's guess
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really mean minecraft mod idea: rituals that work but in a very vague and hard to understand ways
at the start of a world, a set of actions are randomly chosen which have some positive effect. walking counterclockwise around a tree or throwing an item into a fire or killing an animal with an axe. there has to be a very large number of possible actions such that they won't seem to repeat.
when doing a ritual, you get a buff that's clearly there but kind of subtle. maybe ores drop more, or monsters don't hurt as much. it's never communicated that you have a buff, the idea is that you accidentally do a ritual and notice "oh shit I'm getting really lucky, maybe I should do that more"
there's also a set of attributes which can greatly increase the effectiveness of your rituals, completely randomized per world of course. sometimes it's additional steps, drawn from the same set as before. sometimes it's decorating the ritual site in a particular way, with skulls or candles or flowers. maybe it's more effective at a certain time of day or phase of the moon. maybe it's more effective on the top of a mountain or in a cave.
because the magnitude and duration of the buff is randomized, you can't really know if stuff you're doing is helping, but you'll be always trying shit out and modifying your rituals. the buffs get really impactful, and you can hardly play the game without them.
after a while you'll build up elaborate rituals and intricate temples housing them, and importantly
half the shit you're doing does absolutely nothing
if you get lucky a few times with a modification to the ritual you'll adopt it even if it actually does nothing. depending on how succeptible to confirmation bias you are, you might develop whole rituals that literally do nothing but you're entirely convinced that they do. you'll be dancing around trees and putting pumpkins on your head for literally no measurable benefit.
will this be actually fun? probably not. will I actually make this? absolutely not. i just think it would be an interesting case study in behavior. if someone wants to steal my idea, please do and tell me so I can play it.
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santa deniers on science-mas eve hearing charles darwin evolving down the chimney
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Goncharov (1973)
I know everyone talks about Ice Pick Joe, but let’s be real, that scene where he finally kills Gil “the Grill” McGilicuddy? Brian Dennehy STOLE IT.
EDIT
Hey, so we added up the process video for how we made these!
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if we're talking about our favorite goncharov scenes, this is an unpopular opinion, but mine's the part where ice pick joe goes on a fucking rampage in the snowy woods after they bring him there to die. and then after the carnage he's trying to wash his hands clean on the snow only to smear it all over and make it worse. im a slut for inescapable guilt. mwah
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Realized after posting this one that I haven’t seen any Heart Locket gifs yet either smh what is this fandom even DOING
I wanna make one for Sofia too but haven’t had much luck finding good quality screencaps of her so if you’ve got any please feel free to share them!
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My husband is a man who collects things he can use. A pistol, a pocket-watch, a woman's love, a wife....
I'm obsessed with That Scene(tm) between Katya and Andrei in the California Director's Cut Rerelease of Goncharov, so I did a lighting study inspired by the film's Art Deco Posters! Little details like Katya never referring to her husband by his first name really add to Andrey and Katya's tense dynamic, which is one of the most underrated parts of the movie imo.
