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Pathologic, For Those Who Will Never Play It (Haruspex's Route) premieres July 4th, 10AM PST.

I hope to see you there <33

Y'all if you've ever had any passing interest in Pathologic, I highly recommend watching this series. For the uninitiated: it's a half summary, half video essay, half theatrical performance of the famously painful Pathologic, made so you can experience the game in a safer way. It's not a FULL replacement for playing it, there's some context that I think is better communicated via playing it or watching a playthrough of it, but it is an excellent way to experience Pathologic without going through the torture labyrinth yourself.

I have played Pathologic 2, and I can say confidently that Ruby Seals's videos capture the experience of playing it so well. There were moments when I was playing it and I just felt moments from the video echo in my head. Rewatching it shortly after playing it, I felt it resonate with my fucking bones. I cannot stress enough how well it captures what it feels like to play Pathologic- you can get an explanation of the game mechanics and how it feels, but that does not completely capture the despair, depression, anger, grief, guilt, and pain I felt like these videos do.

They're excellently put together, excellently acted, well-edited, well-written, and just legit an incredible thing to watch, and if you have the time or the capacity, I strongly strongly strongly recommend watching them, they are some of my favorite videos on YouTube and I rewatch them at least once a year.

The first two videos cover the Bachelor route and are six and a half hours together, the next video covers The Marble Nest and is three hours, and THIS video coming out in two days covers the Haruspex route and is eight hours long. It's a time investment to be sure, but I promise you it's worth it. (And if it's any consolation, it's less of a time investment/agonizing torment nexus than playing the actual game.)

If you've ever wanted to know what Pathologic is like without actually putting your hand on the burning stove, this is how.

Obviously, this has already been pointed out by Black people in the fandom, but I wanted to bring it up because I’ve had a few asks about that song specifically that I’m not comfortable with answering. I am extremely happy that Jax is canonically transfem because even though I’ve never watched the show, I’ve witnessed people’s excitement about it, and I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s parade, but I’m also not going to pretend like the racism doesn’t exist because that’s not the kind of blog I’m running here. Any other song could’ve been used, and perhaps there wasn’t much thought put into its choice; I’m sure it wasn’t a deliberate act of malice, because from an outsider perspective that song seems to fit perfectly, but that ultimately doesn’t make it any less harmful, especially given the context surrounding the production.

I feel similarly about how United In Grief by Kendrick Lamar became a popular TikTok sound for people to make funny jokes about something going wrong when the original lyrics are specifically about Black grief. Or about the new trend of “the saxaphones are getting louder” taken from Boyz N The Hood, which is a movie about Black-American experiences that a lot of (white) people using this sound likely haven’t even seen.

I haven't seen anyone talking about this and just wanted to make a quick post on here.

Akihiro Miwa recently passed away peacefully june 20th, and was not only a drag queen and a queer icon, but also the japanese voice of Arceus in the movie Arceus and the jewel of life, as well as the witch from Howl's moving castle and Moro from Princess Mononke.

things like endometriosis can develop in an estrogen-dominated system, because its the hormones that cause the growth of endometrial lesions, not the “parts” themselves. If you’re experiencing unusually painful symptoms* then you have a right to find a doctor who will take you seriously and not try to gaslight you into thinking that the pain is “normal”.

And then I went to the USAmerican Midwest

Rains frequently, but the worst is like standing under a bathroom shower. Genuinely inhospitable rainstorms are uncommon.

Along the coast, it's pretty easy in most areas to walk to at least one store, or else there's usually a bus or shuttle available. There are sidewalks and bike lanes everywhere.

It's a temperate boreal rainforest, so while there are many freshwater lakes and rivers, they're usually pretty cold. The biggest danger is typically getting caught in a strong current, and the most dangerous animals in swimming distance are on land.

Earthquakes happen almost every day, but the vast majority go unnoticed. Buildings are designed to withstand bigger seismic activity, so unless it's a 5 or higher it just kind of feels like having low blood sugar for a second. There are no tornados

Rural Illinois, USA:

One minute it's sunny, then ten minutes later that distant smudge on the horizon has swallowed the entire sky in black clouds and the water is coming down like waterfall and you literally CANNOT SEE. Then there's a crash like cymbals and you need to get indoors because the thunder and lightening are on TOP of you

No sidewalks until you are in the smack dab center of town, which is a three hour walk or twenty minute drive from wherever you are.

There aren't many natural bodies of water other than small ponds and creeks, and because the environment is so much warmer, those are filled with snapping turtles that can grow bigger than a nine year old child and water snakes that are incredibly venomous. These are paired with leeches and mosquitos for that sweet umami flavor.

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