Thinking about two gay characters in Disco Elysium again…while smoker is underground as a part of the homosexual underground, which if that isn’t something Harry made up and is an actual term, then yes they have to be underground to enjoy life to its fullest. Ruby is underground as a fugitive, literally underneath the Feld building, but also the homosexual underground. Ruby’s lesbianism and current predicament are so intertwined to me. Like of course everyone in Martinaise wants to pin the murder on the predatory butch. The mean nasty dyke has to fend for herself, foraging scraps to make machines and smoke cigarettes. Smoker and ruby are at two ends of a distinct neural and physical pathway carved out by identity and ideology that have surely crossed by now. Klaasje even smokes on a balcony. But smoker eventually stays. Ruby and Klaasje don’t. Regardless they are all underground in more ways than one.
if women are bourgeois…are men disco?
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New type of character identification: are they musically literate or musically illiterate?
I’m scared of dogs but I think carry the energy of the one. I’ll follow you around and try not to bite.
Disco Elysium’s “lungs are for love” really stuck with me. As a singer I’m aware of my lungs all the time, and now they are a subconscious way we can take in the world. They expand, and fill with the particles of whatever city we inhabit. Everyone’s lungs and their insides look a little different. Harry and Kim’s could be stunted due to their smoking, I think this could be connected to their stunted capacity for love, and how painful it is for the both of them to not only love themselves and other people, but the world around them. Lungs fill up and breath love into ourselves and the world around us. If you are a smoker and had polio, could you not take in enough love?
I complimented her lipgloss and she said do you want some and so I leaned in close so she could put the applicator on my parted lips
I’m glad his bottom surgery is going well!
hey guys so I had a dream a few weeks ago that Grant O’Brian had top surgery.
Do you think she ever encountered the futch scale.
They were sent to the same place because of an “interdistrict dispute over who’s jurisdiction martinaise belongs to” orrr you could be like me and think that the dispute is a metaphor for how this case needs logic and absurdism to be solved. It needs both, not just “one district” (school of thought) can solve it.
Kim and Harry as a pair, not even as a ship but as a partners within in the police force works so incredibly well it’s hard to put into words. It’s the stupid left brain right brain analogy but spectated into different people. Logic needs to be accompanied by a bit of absurdist thinking and imagination in order to create new headways. Not only do they have incredibly chemistry as friends/romantic interests but literally as detectives. Like what a superstar duo that makes up what the other lacks.
I need more nonbinary freak musicians. The ones who don’t follow song structure but know music theory back and forth. Learned the rules before breaking them. Who makes songs never meant to be trending but rather for gazing.
Hello I’m Kate (they/them), the multi fandom lavender menace that makes thingymajigs (music) and watchamacallits (other creative endeavors) 18
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