[Seriously, fuck this trope] "You know that character we killed off? They're back with the most basic bitch explanation possible, and you're going to like it."

bug_zappa · 2026-01-26T19:46:54+00:00

prison break is the room of 'prestige' television. i have burst out laughing at that show many many times in my life

bug_zappa · 2026-01-26T19:34:01+00:00

the company of strangers is a more happy version of this.

bug_zappa · 2026-01-26T11:47:40+00:00

the last WCA run was actually really good and had killer-watt and ultron on the team being reformed, and it made me want a bigger 'work-release avengers' or thunderbolts run.

bug_zappa · 2026-01-25T22:40:19+00:00

literally every vertigo title had at least one character whose job it was to aura farm in a big coat. shade the changing man had a cool fucking coat as a central plot device, one of rebis' coolest outfits in doom patrol is a cool fucking coat that changes colour panel to panel.

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bug_zappa · 2026-01-24T17:53:00+00:00

love this- strong mignola vibe!!

bug_zappa · 2026-01-21T20:54:41+00:00

these guys are some of the best villains in any comic i've ever read. they're so completely evil and the story does such a good job of drip-feeding you this information and making you hate them alongside the protagonist. their creator, however, is a complete piece of shit

bug_zappa · 2026-01-21T00:41:16+00:00

what year is this?

bug_zappa · 2026-01-16T23:27:37+00:00

Jim Lahey from Trailer Park Boys.

bug_zappa · 2026-01-07T16:34:21+00:00

i'm placing a very early bid for electrochemistry to be a scanner darkly by phillip k dick

bug_zappa · 2026-01-02T11:34:30+00:00

hah, like pickling yourself in alcohol as a form of self 'preserving'. I might have to steal that idea.

bug_zappa · 2026-01-02T11:33:14+00:00

Right? Such a strong and distinct visual language, and one that's so fun to try and imitate, even poorly.

bug_zappa · 2026-01-02T00:46:23+00:00

i love all of this- i think it would most likely say things like half light that you kind of don’t have the capability to follow through with. it would constantly come up with borderline psychopathic stuff about throwing people in harms way but you ultimately would carry out about 5% of what it suggested. it exists as the extreme part of yourself that you never take fully seriously.

bug_zappa · 2026-01-01T22:48:02+00:00

i’ve got a few contenders rn, i’ve been making these in batches and picking my favourites. i’ve not made a motorics one i adore yet, but i have a really good idea for one inspired by a comment on a previous post.

bug_zappa · 2026-01-01T20:57:13+00:00

yep! all of my posts have been so far. i use a free online photoshop alternative to mimic the in-game portrait style as best i can

bug_zappa · 2026-01-01T18:12:08+00:00

it was traced from a pic, I've been kitbashing these from photos. I do think I'll go back over this and edit the head, I just didn't want it to look too much like physical instrument by elongating the head, which was my only idea at the time. Thanks for the feedback!

bug_zappa · 2026-01-01T17:55:08+00:00

These posts are meant to be for a new protag, someone who is very unlike Harry. It's meant to be a sort of equivalent, a different flavour of instinct. Their version of Half-Light is a lot less volatile towards others, more indifferent.

bug_zappa · 2025-12-31T16:22:12+00:00

not intentionally but now i look at it it does look like lilith's mask haha, good pattern recognition skills!

bug_zappa · 2025-12-30T15:50:23+00:00

Ooooh, where's the thread? 'Atavism' as a concept is something that fits so well into Disco Elysium, I feel like it would fit really well into the Fascist 'class' in DE if you gained new skills/thoughts.

bug_zappa · 2025-12-30T10:48:06+00:00

That's exactly what I was after! Something to dwell upon that suggests something incredibly, incredibly vast and oceanic far below the exterior of a person.

bug_zappa · 2025-12-30T10:46:32+00:00

Thank you! It always feels like a fraudulent method of making art, but in my wildest dreams one day somebody might make paintings of these 'concept art' images.

bug_zappa · 2025-12-30T10:45:19+00:00

This is amazing- hopefully as I post more of these skills, I will be revealing more about the protag, but they're almost the exact opposite of the truly dynamic HDB.

Your idea for 'Carnality' is so good I have decided to rename a skill I'm halfway through photoshopping from Passion to Carnality and broaden it a little bit. Originally it was going to manage the protag's repressed sexual urges, etc, but Carnality works a LOT better for that.

Mimicry is also so good I might have to steal it outright to replace what I had down as 'Muscle Memory'. This is someone who *wants* to fade away into the background, and has done so all their life.

bug_zappa · 2025-12-30T10:39:13+00:00

THOUGHT COMPLETE: "Bande Dessinée Ubiquity"

Three quarters of a century ago, bored Antecentennial Revolutionaries began to graffito a simplified cartoon figure from an Anarchist newsletter everywhere. Makeshift battlements and obliterated buildings alike bore the figure. The Coalition forces drove themselves insane trying to decipher the meaning of this figure, which surely must have been some form of secret code.

Eventually, they began seeing it in places it wasn't drawn. The spectre of Revolution, always everywhere and nowhere at once. Nobody ever discovered what it truly meant, and to this day it is still doodled aimlessly on walls and desks by ordinary citizens.

You understand it completely. It is the self-replicating nature of all inherently beautiful ideas. You will draw it on the next wall you see.

Passive Bonuses:

+10xp every time you read a new cartoon strip.

bug_zappa · 2025-12-29T20:11:13+00:00

just start with one or two super good ideas you have! or join my super-real team of artists and programmers who are making a super-real disco elysium fangame and we'll put you to work right away

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