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The Stanley Parable ZINE – pre-orders are open!

we were trying day and night to finally announce that we're expecting a baby. they will be named the zine regardless of gender. oh, and also we're getting them a lot of pets: merchandise!

I made a small comics for it and mischievously post a small part of it knowing damn well it doesn't spoil anything hehe

our zine was made mostly by russian citizens with stanley shaped worm in their brain, and yk borders are closed, but here's the amazing news: organizers can deliver to other countries too! sadly, not everywhere, but you'll be able to support a project anyway buying it's digital version for 7$. you can ask here in the comment section what's possible for you depending on your location. а для россиян с лагучим впн, можно еще здесь

it's not all announcements for today, it's also the first year ⤵

I'm gonna be on artfight!

not only I have OCs, my version of narrator from TSP is also an available option, I'll appreciate if you go take a look at my page!

tonight russians carried one of the most brutal attacks with tons of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, killing several civilians and wounding dozens.

after the sleepless night, I'm just shaking right now at the realisation that my family and I could've died tonight because multiple missiles and drones were flying right above our house. hearing the sound of a drone approaching, I legit thought it was going to fucking hit our house, the explosions were EXTREMELY LOUD. and it's like this all the time.

when you leave the shelter in the morning, you try to get at least some sleep so you can carry on with your day. but for some, the day won't continue. they will have no dreams, no future to build. because RUSSIANS KILLED THEM. and throughout the day, you feel something inside you dying over and over again. this emptiness, born of the realisation of reality, consumes you.

I'm scared for my friends, for their families, and for all Ukrainians. I'm scared for my friend who is currently fighting in the war. I want justice for all of us and for my country. for all the civilians and military personnel who were tortured and killed, for all the POWs, for all those who were deported, for all the children who have been living in fear, for those who were killed, and for those who were forcibly taken into ruzzian "families". I just want to live happy. I want my people to live happy. but instead, we have to fight for our existence every single day. I want russia to burn for everything these terrorists have done. fuck all of them.

I'm eternally thankful to our defenders for me being alive today. I'm eternally thankful to our rescue workers.

I mean, we know the Narrator eventually leaves the Parable (or would've left if we hadn't stopped in the Epilogue) because he realizes his attachment to Stanley isn't really healthy.

Personally I am of the belief that Stanley is The Narrator's reassurance bucket. He created him for companionship, to have someone to talk a that wouldn't talk back. He starts neglecting the people in his life just to work on/spend time with Stanley. Probably gets a divorce about it. Stanley might've started as an empty vessel, much like a bucket, and even though the Narrator knows this he finds himself attached to him (maybe even In Love With Him, if you take Stanley's love of the bucket as romantic, which you don't *have to* but the game seems to support in some way).

However, Stanley isn't real. And the bucket, well, it is just a bucket. It can't correspond his feelings, not really. Stanley's love for it comes from a place of devastating loneliness, it isn't really healthy.

I think the game in the end is trying to teach us to let go. Things change. They come to an end. You can't stay stuck forever, you can't let your fantasies/your creative work/your nostalgia run your life.

It is such a shame that just as the Narrator finds the strength to let go, we drag him down again, because our own desire to keep the Parable going forever and the Settings Person's power is stronger.

There is a shipper in my heart who believes that Stanley and The Narrator are meant to be together forever in a fucked up antagonistic co-dependent endless narrative cycle, but if we take canon seriously, it would probably be for the best they split apart. Stanley wants his freedom. The Narrator wants his freedom. They can't be free as long as they're trapped with each other in the Parable, as long as the player will keep them trapped in the cycle.

(If we want them to be happy we need to turn off the game. Reject Settings' offer. Touch grass and let go.)

(Of course I'm not doing that though. I'm slurping up that fanfiction like it's the world's tastiest ramen. Men kissing? Brother sign me up. Let's keep this train going until the heat death of the universe.)

Anyway, yeah. That's my personal reading.

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this one is so unsettling. they even have a heartbeat sfx near the end!

killing the bucket brings this sad, but relieved (?) song

this one gives a very heavenly vibe to me

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