SHREWFUL

been playing rain world and thinking about saint again recently

full rain world spoilers below

I think it’s interesting when people say that Moon is an unreliable narrator with the implicit idea that Pebbles isn’t. I agree, Moon is an unreliable narrator. But that doesn’t make Pebbles de-facto reliable.

Almost everything we know about “karma” and “ascension” that’s not empirically seen is explicitly filtered through those two. And the rest is through other iterators. I think everything they say should be taken with the idea of their bias in mind, especially with the knowledge that almost all of them are bitter and/or uncaring about the Great Problem anymore.

We don’t know what happens when beings ascend. But Pebbles was a part of the Sliverist movement - which WAS explicitly “what if the way for Iterators to ascend was death - a non-traditional method that had no backing except the mysterious disappearance of Sliver of Straw.” It’s an ideology born of desperation - of the want and need to escape, but having the very nature of yourself be antithetical to the concept.

I don’t think that ascending is death, and I don’t love when the two are conflated. It’s kept purposefully vague what happens after the end-game cutscenes, and there’s a lot there to speculate on. I do think it’s - explicitly - not death as we know it here, But Pebbles was a part of a movement that conflated the two.

Fuck it. Head in the Clouds activation comic

Space is suddenly thrown into a panic, so Phrases helps them ground themself.

hellooooooooooo this wasnt an excuse to draw phrases and space cuddling. no of course not. i think the flickering blue light flung them into a flashback regarding dunes attack since the flashing is similar to the power given off by her spear. flashbacks can be caused by even very small triggers which is something i think space unfortunately struggles with pretty often. theyve got a good support system now though <3 phrases speaks pretty repetitively at points here- they're aware that space isnt mentally in the present and they're asserting what they know to help. sometimes you have to repeat yourself many times for someone in a panic to hear you or really process what youre telling them

Im currently sick

So the only thing I offer is one of my other iterators, Selective Memories

Hunt

Come and eat?

my ancient ass:

Desire

(Reblogs are appreciated)

Drew @fauxbia ‘s Paths Left Untaken because I love her so very much and she deserves the world and I hope she’ll be free of the Situations one day

for your soul

a rly big gourm for these trying times

Lala on wires

A doodle to destress

did u know that i love her @kociamieta

AND SHE LOVES YOU TOO🗣️AHHH UOU DRAW HER SO PRETTY!!!!!!!

warmth