essiefreds

[essiefreds]

writing is ridiculous because i know that i don’t have to be panicked or stressed about this project because there’s no timeline attached to it, no money to be made from it, but somehow, SOMEHOW my own intrinsic happiness and contentment hinges on whether or not i get it written and that’s somehow worse

[essiefreds]

Y'all ever think about the way video game bosses are designed to lose? How the bombastic soundtracks, the impressive displays of villainy, the teeth-rattling power of their attacks, are at once engineered not just to sell you on how unfathomably strong and vile they are, but also to make the player's inevitable victory all the sweeter?

Viewed this way, a boss battle is more like a choreographed dance - they call, you respond and counter-call. The trick is to learn the steps - once you know where to move, when to strike, when to defend and how to best allocate your resources, victory is not just achievable but actually almost impossible to avoid. You cannot help but recite the winning plays, over and again, because that is what the dance demands of you both - and is there not a savage sort of beauty in such a thing?

Is it any wonder then that we look back on these bosses so fondly, almost as if they were old friends? We danced together once, and oh what fun we had while doing it!

[essiefreds]

[essiefreds]

I had to do it

[essiefreds]

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

[essiefreds]

hey did y'all watch that mcelroys go hiking video. good shit

[essiefreds]

I don't want a Career I want to Fuck Around

[essiefreds]

💯🙏💛🟨👍

[essiefreds]

The neurodivergent urge to do this

[essiefreds]

your unreliable narrator fucking bit me

[essiefreds]

[essiefreds]

A normal Wachowski brothers afternoon

og under cut

[essiefreds]

Me when Eggman complained that he was, quote, "undesirable to all possible genders"

[essiefreds]

capybara friends in encanto ✨💞

[essiefreds]

beating breath of the wild in under 40 minutes is an incredible feat and also fucking excellent in the context of the game. ganon spends 100 fucking years preparing this onslaught, building energy, getting ready to tear the world apart, and one elf twink wakes up butt-ass naked in a cave and legs it to the castle and kicks ganon’s ass apart in under an hour with a sword he found along the way

[essiefreds]

hey can we make fireworks illegal?