I was not at all psychologically prepared for how weird the release of the Silent Hill 2 remake would be.

The original Silent Hill 2 permanently rewired my psyche when I was sixteen. It's responsible for half my taste in fiction. So many of the characters I love, so many of the things I've written, they can all be traced back to James Sunderland. ( Read more... )

It's time for the end-of-year fic meme! I realise December has only just started and it's not impossible I'll write more before the year is out, but I'm impatient and I really enjoy doing this meme.

Number of fics written in 2023: twenty-four. You can find them in my 'fanfiction (really this time)' tag or on my AO3 account: .

Fandoms: Person of ( Read more... )

When I have a fic idea, I’ll usually scribble it down in the back of my diary. It’s time to switch diaries again, so I’m going to carry on the tradition I started last year!

This post lists all the fic ideas at the back of my 2022-23 diary. If I’ve written the fic, I’ll include a link to it. If I’ve started the fic, I’ll share a snippet. If I ( Read more... )

I've been listening a lot to 'Little Talks' by Of Monsters and Men, a song so agonisingly suited to Little Hope that it almost makes me wish I could make fanvids ( Read more... )

I've now experienced The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes!

The preceding game in the anthology, Little Hope, scared me so badly I could barely handle playing it. To take the pressure off for House of Ashes, Tem and I watched a Let's Play by theRadBrad instead. It's a shame I'll never know who would have survived if I'd played myself, but I'm not ( Read more... )

Supermassive's horror games continue to be a great, great excuse to write fanfiction exploring all my favourite themes. Here's a fic for Little Hope.

I was a little hesitant to write this because I thought I'd need to rewatch the Little Hope prologue for research, and I find the Little Hope prologue incredibly upsetting, but I managed to avoid it ( Read more... )

I'm back in the UK ( Read more... )

Some more notes on Little Hope! I'm just past the church.

( Notes on The Dark Pictures: Little Hope. )

Tem and I are currently playing Little Hope, the second game in the Dark Pictures Anthology. By which I mean I’m playing Little Hope while Tem watches and laughs at my escalating alarm. I can’t handle horror and I don’t know why I keep playing these horror games ( Read more... )

I've now played Until Dawn myself for the first time! I've loved this game (while simultaneously hating it) for five years, but I'd never actually experienced it with a controller in my hand; I'd only watched Let's Plays, or made my friends play so I could watch.

And then Tem made me play so xe could watch. The tables have turned ( Read more... )