Cordelia Blackburne
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Well, I feel very silly. I finally realized what the image on Touching Love Stories is supposed to be--a mushroom with a bow tied on it. Even though I knew it couldn't be right, I have been parsing this strange image for an embarrassingly long time as one of those Christmas-tree-shaped car air fresheners.
Please tell me of Fallen London images you have misinterpreted so that I do not feel alone in my silliness.
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Charlotte_de_Witte
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1/26/2016
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I can totally see it 
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Kukapetal
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1/26/2016
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I thought it was a rock with a bow tied around it :P
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Lady Sapho Byron
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1/27/2016
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Cordelia Blackburne wrote:
Please tell me of Fallen London images you have misinterpreted so that I do not feel alone in my silliness.
For years--yes, years--I thought the Midnight Matriarch was an owl sitting at the end of a branch.
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myrese
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1/29/2016
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Wait...the Midnight Matriarch ISN'T an owl?
*Checks icon in Bazaar* Oh...NOW it makes sense why it's possible to get her from one of those Pass-the-cat packages!
Mischievious Urchin: Owright, 'ere's the last one!
Put-Upon Urchin: 'Ey, that ain't a cat! Sumpin' wrong with yer eyes, mate?
Mischievious Urchin: Well, I found it hangin' around the Duchess's wing lookin' all high an' mighty like cats do, and eatin' a rat like cats do, so I just swept it inter the sack wiv the rest. Just wrap it up and put it in the post!
Put-Upon Urchin: But...But owls're a completely different shape from cats! Me advanced wrapping technique...it won't do at all! I'll have to start over from the beginnin'! All the efficiency, gone!
Mischievious Urchin: You owright there mate? Yer sounding like Mister Pages when 'e gets stolen from.
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navchaa
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1/29/2016
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We need to start a Midnight Owltriarch Support and Recovery Club!
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phryne
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1/27/2016
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From the time I first unlocked the Forgotten Quarter, the strange shape on the banner's right side reminded me of the Alien creature from the Ridley Scott movie. I only recently realized it's meant to be the snout of a horse-statue.... 
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
1/30/2016
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The Duke of Waltham wrote:
EDIT: I didn't have any problem identifying Honey Mazed as a crazy person, but I didn't pay much attention to it, either. The man is actually dressed in (honey-stained) white tie and a top hat. His clothes are rather light in colour, probably to make his features stand out, but that way it's harder to see that he's ruining expensive evening wear (in addition to wielding what looks like a meat cleaver).
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And here I always thought that was supposed to be vomit running down his chin :P
Never could figure out what was up with his foot either...
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Aberrant Eremite
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10/3/2017
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I used to think that the image for the ES "Where You and I must Go" was a white shark lounge singer. I can still see the microphone at his mouth, and the mike stand, and the sunglasses perched over his dorsal fin. I can almost see his fingers reaching for the keyboard...
DON'T JUDGE ME!
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Ridagoth
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1/29/2016
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navchaa wrote:
MY MIND IS BLOWN BY THIS THREAD! Mushrooms instead of masonry, a cat instead of an owl, Mrs Plenty actually has pupils in her eyes! And no menacing Alien snouts? I cannot. even.
But on the Shroud of Little Midnights/Merry Gentleman - how is it not a two factory chimneys with smoke coming out?!
I really like your summary thus far. The thread to have fun trying to make sense of some of the art in this world.
Kukapetal wrote:
OMG, I totally see what you mean about Mrs. Plenty! That's actually creepier looking than the Prim Baronet's pic! Speaking of whom, I went to the wiki to see if they had a bigger picture of him so I could solve the mystery of where his pupils are, but nope. He still looks like he's been possessed by aliens.
I guess now we know what was REALLY going on at the Marsh House :P
And yes, I thought the Midnight Matriarch was an owl at first too.
The truth is out there, you just have to talk to a rubbery man first. 
I never saw the owl before, but now that it's out there, it's suddenly turned into a luck challenge, it could go either way. 
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Erika
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3/20/2016
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OH
That's a SHARK THING, with EYES and a FIN.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
1/26/2016
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Lol, this is the funniest thread XD
Another pic that always confused me was the Prim Baronet's. I always thought it looked like he didn't have any pupils. Seriously, is he supposed to be looking down? Back over his shoulder? Every time I see his artwork pop up I always spend a moment or two trying to figure it out and come up with a different answer each time.
It's kind of a shame since I think he's actually one of the cutest looking Fallen London characters (I always kinda want to leap into the screen and protect him :P ) but that dead fish stare disturbs me...
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Cordelia Blackburne
Posts: 36
1/26/2016
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Ridagoth wrote:
I had no idea the image for the A merry gentleman/Shroud of Little Midnights was until I took a closer look recently. I was just mystified by how shadowy it was. I noticed the briefcase object, but the humanoid look with a pointy hat didn't click for the longest time.
Uh oh… it it NOT supposed to be a person with a bottle-opener for a head, the universally recognized symbol for madness??
(I actually think it's supposed to be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume …but I still see the bottle-opener when I look at it)
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navchaa
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1/28/2016
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MY MIND IS BLOWN BY THIS THREAD! Mushrooms instead of masonry, a cat instead of an owl, Mrs Plenty actually has pupils in her eyes! And no menacing Alien snouts? I cannot. even.
But on the Shroud of Little Midnights/Merry Gentleman - how is it not a two factory chimneys with smoke coming out?!
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AmouryDeDomremy
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1/27/2016
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Lady Sapho Byron wrote:
Cordelia Blackburne wrote:
For years--yes, years--I thought the Midnight Matriarch was an owl sitting at the end of a branch.
ME TOO! It wasn't until I finally got around to inviting the Duchess to a Salon and reading the text, which made me go "Wait, what? What cat??"
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
1/27/2016
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Ridagoth wrote:
I get a similar vibe with Mrs Plenty's picture too. The wiki has a more detailed picture that helps, but the thumbnail in-game is a little disconcerting. There's only so much room, but still, the whites of her eyes (sclera) are all I see from time to time.
OMG, I totally see what you mean about Mrs. Plenty! That's actually creepier looking than the Prim Baronet's pic! Speaking of whom, I went to the wiki to see if they had a bigger picture of him so I could solve the mystery of where his pupils are, but nope. He still looks like he's been possessed by aliens.
I guess now we know what was REALLY going on at the Marsh House :P
And yes, I thought the Midnight Matriarch was an owl at first too.
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Diptych
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1/29/2016
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Yup. A fluffy black cat, its features in shadow, facing toward the viewer, so that its outline looks astonishingly like an owl.
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Charlotte_de_Witte
Posts: 360
1/26/2016
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Crikey! If it's turned that colour I think you should probably visit your doctor pretty sharpish!
Robin Mask wrote:
There's something disturbingly phallic about that image . . . XD
I think I'll prefer to think of 'Touching Love Stories' as stones, especially now
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Pyrodinium
Posts: 639
1/26/2016
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Charlotte_de_Witte wrote:
Crikey! If it's turned that colour I think you should probably visit your doctor pretty sharpish!
Doctor: Stop hanging out with the Drownies and you'll be fine. Oh, and a new Midnighter just opened a tanning salon. They could help you with your colour issue.
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GamerGallade
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1/26/2016
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I saw it as a wrinkled sheet of paper with a bow on it. Needless to say, I feel like a buffoon right now.
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I just noticed if you try to record "why is it so easy to get lost in Fallen London?" The title changes to "What are they trying to hide?"
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Mr Sables
Posts: 597
1/26/2016
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Charlotte_de_Witte wrote:
I can totally see it
There's something disturbingly phallic about that image . . . XD
I think I'll prefer to think of 'Touching Love Stories' as stones, especially now
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vanillafog
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3/25/2016
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suinicide wrote:
Talkes wrote:
phryne wrote:
From the time I first unlocked the Forgotten Quarter, the strange shape on the banner's right side reminded me of the Alien creature from the Ridley Scott movie. I only recently realized it's meant to be the snout of a horse-statue....
For about half a year I was sure it's some kind of jumping leopard thingy on a plinth. And wondered what's it got to do with horses and Forgotten Quarter.
Until just now I thought it was a grave robber's weird hand.
Oh, now I see the horse statue! I always thought that it was the edge of a roof, with an oddly-shaped drainpipe-thing hanging from the bottom.
Also, when I first saw the Enquirer picture, I thought that it was some strange creature with a pale, angular head and wearing a top hat. Only recently did I realize that the creature's head was actually a newspaper with eyeholes cut out.
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Estelle Knoht
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3/20/2016
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Plynkes
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12/7/2017
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Sorry for a bit of necro, but you guys have to help me. The Merry Gentleman. What am I supposed to be seeing? The thread hasn't settled it for me at all. All I can see is a person either with a long beak or a wide-brimmed hat, staring at a doctor's bag (and whoever took the picture cut off the top of his head - not a very good photographer). I have no idea how to make my mind see this billowing cape that has been mentioned.
This is driving me crazy! I'll be seeing him in real life if I don't sort this soon.
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xKiv
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1/29/2016
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myrese wrote:
owright
Owlright?
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Sara Hysaro
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1/30/2016
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Wait, that isn't vomit? Well, that makes it somewhat less disgusting.
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Kukapetal
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1/31/2016
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Another pic that initially confused me was the Loathsome Imp's. I originally thought he had a brown body and a white, penguin-like belly and it wasn't until I saw a larger picture of him on the wiki that I realized he's actually looking back over his shoulder and what I mistook for his belly is actually his ARM :P
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Gonen
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1/26/2016
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Cordelia Blackburne wrote:
Well, I feel very silly. I finally realized what the image on Touching Love Stories is supposed to be--a mushroom with a bow tied on it. Even though I knew it couldn't be right, I have been parsing this strange image for an embarrassingly long time as one of those Christmas-tree-shaped car air fresheners.
Please tell me of Fallen London images you have misinterpreted so that I do not feel alone in my silliness.
Oh, I get it now!
The bow covers the stem. Mmm, not that obvious at all.
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Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness.
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Valiant
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1/27/2016
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phryne wrote:
From the time I first unlocked the Forgotten Quarter, the strange shape on the banner's right side reminded me of the Alien creature from the Ridley Scott movie. I only recently realized it's meant to be the snout of a horse-statue....
Oookay, only now, looking at picture in your post, I understood that strange shape in the middle is apparently the Silver Fountain. I'm totally not slow at all.
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Pyrodinium
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1/29/2016
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navchaa wrote:
We need to start a Midnight Owltriarch Support and Recovery Club!
*Signs in*
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Diptych
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I'm firmly in the Midnight Owltriarch camp. Intellectually, I know she's a cat, but that little icon always makes my brain go "owl! that an owl. definite owl."
Otherwise... I can't think of any particularly perplexing pictures... certainly, some of the older silhouettes can be a bit baffling - especially when they appear to have been stretched out of proportion when implemented - but they've largely been discontinued. Now that I think about it, my mental image of the Merry Gentleman looks nothing like his icon... and what's with his acquaintance with the giant beak?
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Cordelia Blackburne
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1/27/2016
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Lady Sapho Byron wrote:
For years--yes, years--I thought the Midnight Matriarch was an owl sitting at the end of a branch.
I definitely also thought this.
phryne wrote:
From the time I first unlocked the Forgotten Quarter, the strange shape on the banner's right side reminded me of the Alien creature from the Ridley Scott movie. I only recently realized it's meant to be the snout of a horse-statue….
…and this.
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Roqi
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1/27/2016
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...Goodness. I'd been seeing it as a rock as well and somehow never questioned, it either. In our defense, there's stranger things in the Neath than love stories in the form of beribboned chunks of masonry.
I only recently realized the new-ish image for the Scandal menace is not a lady with curly dark hair against a light background, but a woman AND a man's face to the right. It's obvious on the enlarged image, but in the sidebar...
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phryne
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1/27/2016
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Muzzles - what a sweet word! Thank you!
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Cordelia Blackburne
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1/27/2016
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phryne wrote:
The Duke of Waltham wrote:
It's not a snout, you criminal!
I'm sorry, I was unsure of this myself. I'm not a native speaker. It's a horse's mouth, then? Which animals have snouts?
Don't worry, "snout" is close enough that your meaning was clear. I believe that was a joke about the thieves' cache: '"Under the horse's snout." Do horses even have snouts? You're not here to teach criminals zoology.'
http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Seek_a_thieves%27_cache
…which is, in fact, when I realized what that xenomorph-ish thing in the picture was supposed to be...
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The Duke of Waltham
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1/27/2016
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Cordelia Blackburne wrote:
Well, I feel very silly. I finally realized what the image on Touching Love Stories is supposed to be--a mushroom with a bow tied on it. Even though I knew it couldn't be right, I have been parsing this strange image for an embarrassingly long time as one of those Christmas-tree-shaped car air fresheners.
Please tell me of Fallen London images you have misinterpreted so that I do not feel alone in my silliness.
This is hilarious. I've always vaguely thought of the image as a stone spearhead, but the incongruity never really sunk in.
phryne wrote:
From the time I first unlocked the Forgotten Quarter, the strange shape on the banner's right side reminded me of the Alien creature from the Ridley Scott movie. I only recently realized it's meant to be the snout of a horse-statue....
It's not a snout, you criminal!
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Pyrodinium
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1/29/2016
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
I'm firmly in the Midnight Owltriarch camp. Intellectually, I know she's a cat, but that little icon always makes my brain go "owl! that an owl. definite owl."
Otherwise... I can't think of any particularly perplexing pictures... certainly, some of the older silhouettes can be a bit baffling - especially when they appear to have been stretched out of proportion when implemented - but they've largely been discontinued. Now that I think about it, my mental image of the Merry Gentleman looks nothing like his icon... and what's with his acquaintance with the giant beak?
Wait... That's a cat!?!
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Pyrodinium
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1/27/2016
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Uh... so what does the Direful Reflection depict? It's probably one of the creepier artwork here. It looks like an alien to me.
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1/27/2016
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Robin Mask wrote:
Charlotte_de_Witte wrote:
I can totally see it
There's something disturbingly phallic about that image . . . XD
I think I'll prefer to think of 'Touching Love Stories' as stones, especially now
Well then! I didn't know any mushrooms came in that color or shape! I stand corrected.
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1/26/2016
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Kukapetal wrote:
I thought it was a rock with a bow tied around it :P
My thoughts exactly, but now that I see the mushroom shape, it just won't go away! I think the coloration could be because it's a lacre solidified mushroom...
I had no idea the image for the A merry gentleman/Shroud of Little Midnights was until I took a closer look recently. I was just mystified by how shadowy it was. I noticed the briefcase object, but the humanoid look with a pointy hat didn't click for the longest time.
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Cecil wrote:
Honey Mazed: http://d39jqyxiuv7ej3.cloudfront.net/icons/honeymazed.png
Nightmares: http://d39jqyxiuv7ej3.cloudfront.net/icons/sidebarnightmares.png
I likewise had a problem with Matriarchs for a while. I feel like there's other images I've mistook before...
I am always a bit disturbed by the honey-mazed guy. At first, he looked like he was going to pull off a mighty roundhouse kick to me! Thinking on it a bit, it might be because he's pretty much taken over. The red eye is reminiscent of the Direful Reflection. Seems like he's hiding the other red eye with a monocle. Looks like his legs are in a runner's position with one leg extended, twisting his torso to face you. Still, having torn pants on one leg is really crazy, he might as well prepare for a mighty kick too!
Wow, this whole time, I saw a guy in some party hat treading dangerous waves, like it was a literal representation of death by water for Nightmares. I never saw the guy waking up from bed until now. What a complete 180!
the truthseeker wrote:
To this day, I still am not 100% certain what A Cheery Gentleman is. I know the consensus is a billowing cape, but it always looked like some weird to deranged shape of a person left-facing profile to me wearing a sinister hat for the longest time.
Yup, I had very similar thoughts, I hope you see the plague mask look now that Cordelia Blackburne talked about earlier in the thread.
Kukapetal wrote:
Another pic that initially confused me was the Loathsome Imp's. I originally thought he had a brown body and a white, penguin-like belly and it wasn't until I saw a larger picture of him on the wiki that I realized he's actually looking back over his shoulder and what I mistook for his belly is actually his ARM :P
You...you! I'm going to think he's in a bear mascot costume now.
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1/30/2016
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I thought the Touching Love Story was an iceberg - something to do with the Lifebergs or Mount Nomad!
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3/20/2016
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I'm habing a hard time understanding Impossible Theorem. Is it an opening with a vortex around it? Twisting of reality around it? Just a door with walls of clay and mud, roots passing through the wall (That is the same picture as the Clay Quarters underground)?
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Sara Hysaro
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3/20/2016
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You get to see that header if you're pursuing a Nemesis. Well, I think you might be able to skip it, but you get the chance at least.
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earthbourn
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12/7/2017
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I see the same thing as you--a man with a large hat and a large briefcase.
On another note, for the longest time I thought the icon for nightmares was a person being tossed on a stormy sea, which I thought was a super interesting way to represent dreams. Once I realized it was someone sitting up in bed, I was a little disappointed.
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Polite Society
Posts: 25
12/9/2017
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Aberrant Eremite wrote:
I used to think that the image for the ES "Where You and I must Go" was a white shark lounge singer. I can still see the microphone at his mouth, and the mike stand, and the sunglasses perched over his dorsal fin. I can almost see his fingers reaching for the keyboard...
DON'T JUDGE ME!
Dont think I have seen this image before but yeah it looks like s white shark lounge singer to me too, probably crooning some Lionel Richie number. What confuses me is, if it isnt a white shark lounge singer, what is it supposed to be?
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Glass Doll
Posts: 52
5/17/2016
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Gonen wrote:
OK, now the new art for the Touching Love Story looks like a cool mushroom with sunglasses. Please don't let me be the only one who see it.
Drat it all. I had just stopped seeing the old art as an arrowhead with a bow around it and now I see a cool mushroom. I'm never going to see the touching love stories for what they are.
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Aberrant Eremite
Posts: 362
10/3/2017
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Kukapetal wrote:
Okay try as I might, I don't see that. But I really really want to. Help me out :P
Okay, I'll try. On the right side, there's a sort of crescent-shaped projection. If you read the iceberg as a shark, that's its dorsal fin. Then the slight bump on the left is its snout, with two dark spots for nostrils. Okay, sharks don't have nostrils, but this is an anthropomorphic shark. The dark cylinder that sticks out from where the shark's mouth would be (actually the hull of a ship, I now think) is the microphone into which he's singing, and the space between the two icicles I read as the microphone stand. The black bump above the fin (the prow of the ship?) rests atop the dorsal fin. Lounge Singer Shark has slid his sunglasses back from his eyes and they rest on the dorsal fin as he croons into the mike. At the base, it widens, but that's where anthro-shark's fin-hands are coming up to play the keyboard (the dark water.)
I dunno, probably wasted words; usually with this kind of thing, either you see it or you don't. But that's how I first read this picture - it's a tiny thumbnail, so I had to blow it up a lot to see it as a ship in an iceberg.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
10/3/2017
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Oh God, I see it now! That's downright adorable! I want a lounge singer shark for a Companion now!
also, sharks do have nostrils
Ixc wrote:
I always thought that the icon was a lifeberg, which was why it looked so human.
It is a lifeberg. And it looks a bit like a person because its supposed to resemble the captain who sends you on that Exceptional Story's quest.
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Kukapetal
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10/3/2017
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Okay try as I might, I don't see that. But I really really want to. Help me out :P
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Gonen
Posts: 817
3/20/2016
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Where is that? Background which no longer exist?
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
12/9/2017
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It's a ship, stranded on top of a lifeberg.
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
3/21/2016
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Sara Hysaro wrote:
You get to see that header if you're pursuing a Nemesis. Well, I think you might be able to skip it, but you get the chance at least.
The dream from consuming R__ honey, you mean? so it's probably a broken arch of the mind. Hence, the reuse makes sense as well.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
3/23/2016
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Talkes wrote:
phryne wrote:
From the time I first unlocked the Forgotten Quarter, the strange shape on the banner's right side reminded me of the Alien creature from the Ridley Scott movie. I only recently realized it's meant to be the snout of a horse-statue....
For about half a year I was sure it's some kind of jumping leopard thingy on a plinth. And wondered what's it got to do with horses and Forgotten Quarter.
Until just now I thought it was a grave robber's weird hand.
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Diptych
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3/23/2016
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That is a window. The silver fountain is the knobbly thing to its left.
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PJ
Posts: 210
3/23/2016
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D'oh! My eye slid right past that, classifying it as some kind of bush without noticing that the "branches" aren't exactly branch-shaped. When I read "silver fountain" I went to the only silver thing I saw. :-/
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Lady Eris
Posts: 162
3/20/2016
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I always thought the Touching Love Stories was an old fashioned powdered wig. Please don't ask me to explain ... that's... just what I saw.
And yes, I also thought the Midnight Matriarch was an owl until ... very recently indeed.
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1/31/2016
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To this day, I still am not 100% certain what A Cheery Gentleman is. I know the consensus is a billowing cape, but it always looked like some weird to deranged shape of a person left-facing profile to me wearing a sinister hat for the longest time.
Robin Mask wrote:
Charlotte_de_Witte wrote:
I can totally see it
There's something disturbingly phallic about that image . . . XD
I think I'll prefer to think of 'Touching Love Stories' as stones, especially now
Unfortunately playing Snow Belie the hedonist for so long, it also has ruined my perception. She would think untying the bow would "improve circulation." Curse you Snow!
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navchaa wrote:
We need to start a Midnight Owltriarch Support and Recovery Club!
*Signs in*
*Joins up also*
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Erika
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1/30/2016
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Honey Mazed: http://d39jqyxiuv7ej3.cloudfront.net/icons/honeymazed.png
Nightmares: http://d39jqyxiuv7ej3.cloudfront.net/icons/sidebarnightmares.png
I likewise had a problem with Matriarchs for a while. I feel like there's other images I've mistook before...
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The Duke of Waltham
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1/30/2016
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Cecil wrote:
Honey Mazed: http://d39jqyxiuv7ej3.cloudfront.net/icons/honeymazed.png
Nightmares: http://d39jqyxiuv7ej3.cloudfront.net/icons/sidebarnightmares.png
I likewise had a problem with Matriarchs for a while. I feel like there's other images I've mistook before...
Right, Nightmares! I knew there was something I couldn't understand at the beginning—and then I realised what it was, and felt like a complete idiot.
EDIT: I didn't have any problem identifying Honey Mazed as a crazy person, but I didn't pay much attention to it, either. The man is actually dressed in (honey-stained) white tie and a top hat. His clothes are rather light in colour, probably to make his features stand out, but that way it's harder to see that he's ruining expensive evening wear (in addition to wielding what looks like a meat cleaver).
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
1/26/2016
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While a mushroom (or bouquet of mushrooms) is certainly plausible here in the Neath, the blue thing featured in the Touching Love Stories icon doesn't look much like a mushroom to me--it's too pointy in the wrong places.
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Mr Sables
Posts: 597
1/27/2016
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Brings a whole new meaning to the term 'blue balls'
Charlotte_de_Witte wrote:
Crikey! If it's turned that colour I think you should probably visit your doctor pretty sharpish!
Robin Mask wrote:
There's something disturbingly phallic about that image . . . XD
I think I'll prefer to think of 'Touching Love Stories' as stones, especially now
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Ridagoth
Posts: 86
1/27/2016
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Cordelia Blackburne wrote:
Uh oh… it it NOT supposed to be a person with a bottle-opener for a head, the universally recognized symbol for madness??
(I actually think it's supposed to be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume …but I still see the bottle-opener when I look at it)
He is totally a person with a bottle-opener for a head. I can just see him taking on such a title for lobotomies he performs for those with nightmares. Look out for the bottle-opener, that's one person you don't want messing with your head...but the suites at the hotel do look nice!
I agree the plague mask is most likely the case. Still, bottle-opener head leaves such an amusing thought for the character!
Kukapetal wrote:
Another pic that always confused me was the Prim Baronet's. I always thought it looked like he didn't have any pupils. Seriously, is he supposed to be looking down? Back over his shoulder? Every time I see his artwork pop up I always spend a moment or two trying to figure it out and come up with a different answer each time.
I get a similar vibe with Mrs Plenty's picture too. The wiki has a more detailed picture that helps, but the thumbnail in-game is a little disconcerting. There's only so much room, but still, the whites of her eyes (sclera) are all I see from time to time.
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Charlotte_de_Witte
Posts: 360
1/28/2016
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My interpretation is that it's what someone possessed by a Fingerking looks like in the mirror, or at least the memory of that.
The last few lines of the rare success on A Masque in the Marsh seem to suggest this. And a lot of the other sources and the eventual use of 101 of them imply a strong connection to the snakes.
Pyrodinium wrote:
Uh... so what does the Direful Reflection depict? It's probably one of the creepier artwork here. It looks like an alien to me.
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Albedineity
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1/27/2016
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This seems like a good time to mention that when I first saw the Vake's picture, I thought it was a spider. It took me a few months to realise that it is actually a bat (or something that resembles a bat, at least)
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RandomWalker
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1/27/2016
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Snouts go on pigs. Horses have muzzles.
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