cuntrocket asked: there's a nancy drew fandom??? may i please have your nancy drew blog url?
Hahaha sure!
Yeah, there’s a fairly small (maybe 100 people, tops?) fandom for the Nancy Drew computer games. :P
I post funny musings and screenshots from the games at captainscove.tumblr.com
and I post various pieces of ND game music at nancydrewmusic.tumblr.com
Part One of me stumbling, bumbling and hyperventilating through Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Not Doctor Who, but something I thought you all might enjoy, since we’re all fans of Steven Moffat’s terrifying creations.
I’m doing a play through reaction video of sorts of me playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent for the very first time, widely considered to be one of the most horrific video games ever created.
And seeing I scream when I mistake a balled up piece of string on my sweater for a spider, this should go swimmingly.
I’ll probably be posting Part Two sometime this evening if you’re interested, and according to my friend, that’s when the really scary stuff goes down.
Y’know, curling up for a cup of tea with a Weeping Angel and some chatty Silents doesn’t sound like a bad idea instead…
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The ends are magnetized and can stick together to make the giant saber.
Not Doctor Who, but I thought you guys might like the lightsaber chopsticks I bought today. :]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7laryAIoQ1qfh451o1_1280.jpg)
The ends are magnetized and can stick together to make the giant saber.
Not Doctor Who, but I thought you guys might like the lightsaber chopsticks I bought today. :]
Here’s a photo of me as a young’un, before I regenerated into my current form:
And here’s proof of why I have the best friends of anyone on the planet (or any of the other planets, for that matter).
If you’re reading this, that means you’re following, and if you’re following, you’re the best!
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Not really Doctor Who, but the last part of that post applies here as well. :)
You’re all fantastic.
oh my god i’m anime.
For all of the Nancy Drew lovers who apparently follow this blog.
If you get what the hell this is, then we ought to be friends immediately.
Not Doctor Who, but I really just wanted to share this here as well because this is legitimately one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me in my entire life.
Little drawing of Sam from http://boston-ivy.tumblr.com/
I’ve been wanting to draw her for a while ‘cus, just look at her! what’s up with that face?, so prettyyyyyyy D: I mean it (thought I’m sure I may look like a really creepy person).
I also want to do an actual CG ilustration of her latter, but I haven’t got time.
I think I may get to do some potraits and ilustrations during spring break, but I can only hope.
sldfhdkgjdlfjgdfogjhkjhdfg this is absolutely the sweetest, most genuine, amazing thing anyone has ever done for me over the internet.
This is so nice, I love it!
Everyone check out their blog!
Reblogging this here because yuki-mekishiko follows this blog as well, and they are my current favorite person on Tumblr right now.
They’re a Whovian too! Go follow, or at least check out the art!
What if half of the stories, like the ones that involve the gods fornicating with mortals, were just ancient fan fiction that became really popular, but were never actually canon.
And if ancient Greeks could come back to life in the modern day, they would take one look at a collection of “classic” myths, and angrily get on their Tumblrs to rant about how P3gasusLvrrrxoxo’s stupid God/Mortal fanfic about Zeus coming to Earth and having sex with the human woman Leda in the form of a swan is now considered canon. Ridiculous.
So, most of you who follow this blog probably don’t know this, but I’m a bit of a casual gamer. “Casual gamer” as in, someone who doesn’t necessarily own a game console (unless we count my ancient first generation XBox with its 6 or 7 games), but still enjoys playing all the same in any form that he/she can.
I specifically enjoy philosophical, artsy, clever kinds of indie flash games, and my favorite developers are Daniel Benmergui, Thomas Brush, and Gregory Weir.
The other day though, I finally bought a game that had intrigued me since it first was released a few years ago, Braid by Jonathon Blow.
Braid tells the seemingly simple story of a young man named Tim who has made a terrible mistake, which cost him the companionship of his beloved unnamed Princess. You control Tim as he makes his way through visually stunning landscapes, each with a charming and serene “painterly” feel to them, and over bizarre obstacles in order to be reunited with his love…but things may not be entirely what they seem, in more ways than one.
But why do I specifically think that Doctor Who fans would enjoy this game?
Well, besides the fact that we’re all probably insanely clever and deep-thinking people with a definite eye for beauty, the main focus of Braid is the manipulation of time, the true thesis of the game being:
“What if you could learn from mistakes…but undo the consequences?”
Throughout the game, you learn to control time in many ways, warping it to your advantage…but is it warping your perspective on life as well?
The trailer for the game can be found here.
The ending is…well, it’s something. I don’t want to say anything more than that, because I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone, but it’s definitely something, and an unforgettable something at that.
This game is the ultimate example of a video game as a work of art and as a legitimate narrative. It’s gorgeous, it’s thought-provoking, it’s smart, it’s creepy, it’s fantastic.
(Oh, and the music is stunning as well)
Check it out if you’re interested, but honestly, I don’t know why you wouldn’t be.
