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Hollow Knight: Silksong

every day I think about Silksong and I'm like damn. you know?

the duality of foxgirl

sleepy after the bike ride / sweaty after the hardcore gig

jeez

not gonna lie gang I still fuckin miss cohost

sense

the music in my head has been getting louder lately the colours, more vivid the rhythms, more dynamic more present, more persistent could it be ideas needing an outlet? or sensory memories of recent experiences bouncing around harder than usual? could it be love?

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

also on backloggd Clair Obscur is a game that clearly pulls from various influences. The game director's favourite games - Persona 3, Devil May Cry, Demon's Souls, Journey, Final Fantasy VIII - reads more like a recipe than it does a font of inspiration. Despite this list of top tier games, it's the Final Fantasy of it all that really struck a chord for me. I'm one of those millenials that was…

House is empty

Keeping track of manga

A part of me has often been interested in manga, but really avoided anything not finished - not even because of not being able to finish a story at my leisure, but because I knew I wouldn't be able to keep a track of where I got to in my head. Not only would I forget where I got up to, I'd forget entire series I'd been reading (and very much enjoying!) I started looking up sites and web apps that…

A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton

... a novel review cross-posted to Goodreads ... In this game, you are a trans woman in your late 30s trying to make sense of your place in the world. To do this, you must consider everything that shaped, informed and inspired you, and apply this to what you desire for the future. Your backstory details how you grew up with teenage chatrooms - AOL, then IRC - and grappling with all of the intense…

Unmoored

I've been really struggling lately. But there's been a struggle for a good while at this point. I grew up with the electric buzz of connected spaces and digital worlds, enjoying technology and feeling ever optimistic about where it will take humanity. In fact, that's been a lot of my life - as a kid and as a young adult existing alongside some very cynical people, particularly amplified when I was…

desperate for soothing sensory respite

you can really tell how it's generally going in my life in a given moment by how much I'm listening to Ichiko Aoba's entire discography in any given day