Disco Elysium - Blog Posts

some disco elysium portrait studies

some doodles as i figure out how to draw my favorite guy

even better, i sent him to get dentals

P.S. you should check @frodo-a-gogo ‘s disco comics, she wrote most of the texts here

COMPOSURE - Queen never cry.

the things you can say To SF have always hit me hard for some reason. definitely one of the most surreal encounters in the game that i feel people surprisingly dont talk about very frequently

Kim Kitsuragi is a fascinating character because there's not that much fun or interesting or compelling about him. And yet somehow over the course of playing Disco Elysium the game rewires your fucking brain around him. He's the middest man you've ever seen in both appearance and personality but at some point he says something kind to you or something critical of you and you feel like you just got hit by a truck and you need his approval like you need oxygen and like how tf did this happen. what are you

I love people Being Mean to me in disco elysium. most people in the game all treat you with a realistic apprehension. they tolerate the things you say not because they like you but because you assumedly have a gun on you. the most unreletengly approving NPC, siileng, is just scared as fuck of you and also wants to make some cash. it pisses redditors off soo bad that npcs like liz and klaasje don't super care about kissing your feet and making your job easier but that's the whole point of Being A FuckUp Cop In a PostSov Neighborhood The Game. I like isobel cause she told me I sound like I was dropped on the head as a kid and that's how the grannies I know talk. I love cindy for forcing me to oink like a pig in the communist quest. Even titus's drawn out slutty beer walk animation (you know what I'm talking about) is growing on me. every interaction with the hardies is genuinely hilarious. also, idk how to word this but I like that the game doesn't fully rely on Bad Words to show who's a villain. the fascists you meet do say slurs, that is evil of them. cuno also says them every 5 minutes but every player ends up loving him. the most soulless and infuriating character is the diplomat in a black tie who only says inoffensive propaganda pamphlet words. you have to think with every character what their background is and why they would say that to *you*, because you are a very loaded presence no matter how you play. whatever

VOLITION - No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

VOLITION - I have bad news for you.

YOU - What?

VOLITION - You know these guys?

LOGIC - Who, me?

DRAMA - Yes, you. He's talking about you, you boring stiff.

VOLITION - You too.

DRAMA - Me? What did I do? I'm merely a master thespian...

VOLITION - These guys are compromised. She's got them singing along to her tune. The little bleeps and bloops you trust for info -- you can't trust them anymore.

YOU - Oh my god.

VOLITION - Believe it.

YOU - Which ones exactly are affected?

VOLITION - There's no way of knowing. At the moment I'm afraid it's best to assume...

VOLITION - ...*all* of them.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Bullshit, man, I ain't *compromised*.

VOLITION - *Especially* that guy. That guy's the most compromzised one in here.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - No fucking way, man, I just want a drag of that sweet Menthol ziggie.

VOLITION - Really? Quick, tell me what's under her jumpsuit?

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - GLORY. TRUTH. SOFTNESS. PROTECT HER. SHE WANTS YOU.

VOLITION - I take it back. He's got it pretty bad, but this *next guy's* on another level entirely...

SUGGESTION - She likes you. The Crownhead is a boring condom. He's jealous. This is human nature.

also final word on this probably- I *like* Joyce Messier a great deal as a character. I think she's cool and interesting. I find it fascinating that she tends to approach things very bluntly. the words she uses and the manner in which she analyzes things, this is sort of an instance of a character who knows exactly *what she is* and articulates it in a manner congruent with the writers of the game. she is, as she says wryly but honestly, "a bourgeois woman". i cant think of too many rich people who would without prompting and prodding, self identify with marxist social taxonomies in this way, even with a thin veil of ironic self deprecation. She's educated. she knows the words and the motivating logics of class analysis. and shes *cool*. harry picks that up. honesty is cool. bluntness is cool. cynicism is cool. she is quite open about her place in the world and how she conceives of it. unlike a lot of other powerful figures in the game, i dont think shes completely swallowed by self justifying rhetoric the way, say, sunday friend is. or she is up to a point. she knows about countercultural movements and she has affinities for them and is also aware that they inevitably are consumed by capital. (this, by the way, is kind of complex in that like. ok its a depressing reality but also i think if the de team was fully bought into that line of thinking, they would not make this game. it is telling that joyce of all people would critique cindy on the basis of capital subsuming revolutionary art. I dont think joyce is wrong per se, but i think she is drawn to that line of thinking because it is *very comforting for someone of her class position to dismiss the value and power of revolutionary art and critique of capital* just a thought) She's disgusting in that her power is not rightfully hers. her position is not rightfully hers. she is actively repressing and oppressing others in service of disgusting, semi-fascistic, hypercapitalist forces. shes enjoying the comforts and benefits that such a role allows her. shes disgusting shes frustrating shes profoundly arrogant (as her clash with evrart claire proves definitively). Her self satisfied idiocy is what allows her to play with fire and foolishly assume she cannot be burned. She's smart but her comfortable position puts the blinders on her and so she's also pretty fucking stupid. and shes also deeply deeply sad. I empathize. I pity her. She's so fucking sad. I don't think she is drawn to self medication and self destruction through constant pale exposure or all that rueful nostalgic rumination for no reason. She knows what she is to the world and she knows what she's doing and she's too cowardly and comfortable and self interested to change, but she's too self-aware to ignore it completely. I think she probably dislikes herself to some degree and i think its destroying her. Like most of the cast of the game, she's complex and deeply human. She's hateful, but I also think she is too well realized to hate, at least not for me.

disco elysium, despite having a male protag and deuteragonist, raised the fucking bar for female characters for me. im picky now. if your game doesnt have complex, interesting, and plot-important women in it, its shit. full offense, fuck you

women are the soul and beating fucking heart of disco elysium. klaasje, patron saint of womens wrongs and problematic bisexuals? joyce, whos one of the most helpful and polite characters in the game towards you and yet understands that her success depends on the suffering of others, but plays in the systems game anyway?? dora, who isnt even dead and yet haunts the narrative start to finish??? ruby, the butch Real One who risks her neck for someone she barely knows yet cant help but feel so much compassion for that it dooms her by the narrative???? elizabeth? soona? cindy? neha? cunoesse? lilienne? The Pigs? paledriver? alice? phillis? im just naming them all at this point, theyre all bangers

"we need more complex leftist characters who are not made into cartoonish marvel villains" you couldn't even handle HIM

Yuri warrior harry du Bois

harry du bois

I have a lot of Jean and Judit feels!! and those days they spent at the Whirling-in-Rags, watching Harry....

Don't take your partner for granted 😔

trying out the disco artstyle...i think ill do dia next and then move on to phos and lapis

You already look old for your age Harry

To find an answer somewhere at bottom of the glass

SHIVERS - По шосе мчать автобуси що везуть вояк на лінію фронту. Десь далеко-далеко літак у останній конвульсії заходить у піке. Повз провозять захоплений танк, ці чортові літери замазані синьою фарбою.

- Що ще чутно?

HEARING (Easy) [Success] - Гудуть бджоли, життя триває.

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twin elysium

Unironically love this line. Picked it without hesitation

happy pride

Dude I bought that book so early in my first playthrough and I was like “wow they’re so gay”

remember when the game just said this for no reason

Happy pride month to them

poor quality in celebration of pride

haha harry is so normal about this guy

I could have sworn I had posted this one here before but I guess I hadn't! I love Kim "Speedfreak" Kitsuragi :}