#absolutely fucking nails it

[the-kipsabian]

pls consider this your official invitation to info dump to me about alan wake because i LOVE psychological horror and what you've posted about it so far has me super interested. so pls tell me more 👀

OKAY OOF SORRY IF THIS GETS LONG

so the basic premise of the game (originally from 2010, they made a remastered version in 2021 and a sequel is coming out later this year! and theres also technically also a sequel? from i think 2012 but its apparently non-canon but anyways we dont dwell on american nightmare its fun in its own right but no way a deserving full sequel lol) is that a crime writer alan wake takes a little vacation with his wife in hopes of getting rest and trying to break his writers block of two years. they go to a small town thats ridden with a dark past as something dark and terrible lurks under the waters surrounding the town. eventually, alan loses his wife in a freak accident, driving him slightly mad so he ends up taken over by dark forces, making him write an evil manuscript where everything he writes comes true, in the most horrible dark way possible - cause the dark presence wants it that way, as i feeds from the death and horror of the script, making it stronger and more powerful so that it can one day finally manifest itself back in human form. in return of alan writing this thing, the darkness promises him his wife back alive

and alan breaks free of this curse before the manuscript is finished, giving him time to try to figure things out, how to save his wife and try to stop the darkness before it eats the entire town alive as it keeps growing stronger with each passing day, as he has written in the manuscript

the game basically follows the manuscript alan has written, you keep finding and collecting pages throughout the game, where sometimes they give you little glimpses to different characters, other times its events that have already happened or are still about to happen. the pages come in a random order so its just lovely bits and pieces of lore here and there which really gives emphasis on the story which i really like. its also written super well, as alan is a writer and the manuscript pages are his handiwork, so its all viewed through a very artistic lens which is just. fucking incredible and inspiring

the game itself is more action and exploration oriented than really just horror, but the darkness is definitely there as is the psychological aspect, which is really what drew me to the game the first time (plus its made by a finnish studio so obviously i have to support my locals lol). its really just an incredible story about love above all else, trust in the people around you and yourself and its just. its incredible i cant do this game justice by talking about it tbh lol

[absolutepjotrash]

i’ve had this sitting in my drafts for about two weeks 😁

[thetrikeywarp]

sometimes i think abt how novelization dan (not Lovecraft narrator, but Daniel Cain) was so psychotic he used to kill bats and nail them to a plank in his attic just because he felt like it

[elnotwoods]

the lack of Felice and Wille being besties is criminal

[frnkiebby]

i am legitimately going to sob~🎃

[weirdbrosinc]

HOW did sam keep himself under control for that episode .... i just know he was thinking about fucking him the entire time

[space-writes]

everyone stop what you're doing and look at the amazing commission i got from @rukafais of my boys!!

[ID - A black and white drawing of Sorrow and Vren: Sorrow is leaning over Vren, with a claw hooked under his chin; Vren is glaring at him with the point of his knife to his throat. Shadows are curled around Vren's other arm, and Sorrow's tail is tapping him on the shoulder. Sorrow's jewellery is coloured in gold, his eyes in teal.]

im stapling this to my wip as motivation. im eating it for every meal. it's them! jingly man and murder man and they're definitely going to kiss next

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@sam-glade @viscerawrites @thegreatobsesso @flower-reads (ask to be +/-)

[foccaccia]

my favorite character from the pigeon dating simulator is the cassandra parallel who is eternally bleeding

[hella1975]

in secondary school my form room teacher was a really strict, by-the-book lady who took herself very seriously and generally had an odd, hard to crack sense of humour, but it was a known thing that she was married to one of the maths teachers, who was the loudest, most emotional guy in the entire world, and it was so funny bc everyone in the school was baffled that they were married but my form room, in having her as our form teacher for five years, got like. VIP extra rare insight into their marriage to the point people would beg for anyone in my class to trade gossip about it like looking back it's hysterical how invested we all were in this couple and one thing we'd always tell people was when the maths teacher would just. show up at our classroom. because basically for people who don't understand form room, it's the class you go to every morning - the same one, the same teacher, the same people - for five years to do registration, and the maths teacher didn't have a form room so sometimes when he was bored before first period he'd just. show up to ours. and every single time without fail my form teacher would rip his head off for it bc it was 'unprofessional' and he was 'bugging her' and he'd wander off again with his tail between his legs but without fail would do it again another day. like he would just show up at her classroom whenever he was free and she'd be like 'well IM not free. get out' and we'd all be there like this is fucking golden i can't wait to tell literally everyone. one time he beat her to class and started doing the register for her and making up new names/butchering our actual names as he went and when she came in i actually thought she might throw a chair at him.

[brainrotcharacters]

I think I finally know why this shot was a religious awakening for me

more in tags because you fuckers seem to enjoy that

[wistfulwatcher]

What if you met someone willing to do anything you ask of them? Anything at all.

[theo-grayson]

project zomboid is an amazing game in so many ways, but one additional point i want to give it is that it accomplishes the incredible feat of somehow making me adore and obsess over an ost that heavily features banjos

[fiapple]

i'm getting towards the end of the skypeia arc, & i'd like to say just how much i adore the way the female strawhats have been treated.

just... every aspect of how the way their characters have been previously contextualized influences the story-line is treated with a masterful amount of consideration. we're given so many layers to both of them that enrich not only their characters specifically, but the arc, and the one piece world as a whole. without nami & robin having their specific skills, and their specific values, without those being built upon, the story would have come to a halt.

you could not have skypeia without nami & robin being who they are as individuals. not just because they never would've gotten there without nami, but also because the way these women think is itself foundational to the machinations of the arc as a whole.

to be totally upfront, if you think any other strawhats were more central to the skypeia arc than nami & robin were you are full-on fucking lying to yourself.

[dylanconrique]

lucy waking up from a nightmare about her DOD and being comforted by tim is so detrimental to me. i need it more than the oxygen that fills my lungs.

[bellamyblakru]

i will never understand how some people can actively shit on something they know someone loves and finds joy in right in front of them. how can you hate something that makes someone else happy in this absolutely fucked world in front of them.

its the passive aggression for no reason i will never ever understand or do to others. if you have a passion, fucking LIVE it. if nothing else, passion gets us through every shitty day, and i will always support it.

have passion in spite of those who hate.

[ickadori]

tbh .. the whole giving y/n a personality and no one being able to relate debate going on is so funny to me 🤭 maybe now you’ll understand how it felt for black readers to constantly be excluded when you put those descriptors in your works