sometimes I think about a hypothetical scenario, where I’m made immortal and immune to entropy, and ask to be given every bit of media that I would personally enjoy from the entire history of humanity, past to future. if I stretched the time it would take to enjoy all of these things, even half-heartedly in a rush, back from the heat death of the universe, I wonder if I would be able to fit it all in between the big bang and the dissolution of matter that would hold such media. I don’t know!
Third-Tier Miscellany
Love. Crimson blood. Poison. Eternity. Revenge. Two. Sacrifice. Mother. Ritual. Scarlet. Prayers. Heresy. Hell. Solitude. Clouded skies. Madness. Goddess. The world. A door. Watchers. Us.
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Friday, November 15, 2024
what a year will do to you(r oshis)
the first half of this post was written on august 18, 2023, and posted on cohost. the second half was written when the next holocure update landed on november 15, 2024.
holocure - save the fans got put on steam with its latest update and like. yep that game still goes hard.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
the beauty of crystal [old writing]
this is an archive of an abandoned draft about the final fantasy xiii trilogy, originally planned to be in a zine for dead genre chronicles' blog. it was archived on cohost but now it's on here because cohost is dead. long live the internet. :\
Monday, September 9, 2024
why futa fix (a mid porn game) is a 5/5 game in my book
[mirroring this post from cohost since it's dying. original post date: june 24, 2024]
one of my partners (who also came up with the star-based rating system I use for rating games (most games are a 2/5)) wanted to know why I gave futa fix: dick dine and dash a 5/5 rating.
the stars are:
- not actively regressive/bigoted
- not a complete waste of my time
- I recommend someone else ever play this
- gave me something to think about afterward
- personal arbitrary point
we're focusing on that 4th one. here goes.
Monday, January 4, 2021
Val's Visual Novel Nonsense #03 - Word by Word, Line by Line, Darkness Retreats
Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai (a good librarian like a good shepherd, stylized as such in the jp logo) is, in short, a fairly strong character-driven VN dragged down by a structural decision about the routes that unnecessarily dilutes the focus on the true end. Taking place at a school that is closer to a city in population, the story follows Kyotaro Kakei, a member of the Library Club, who coasts by on his ability to test well while spending every second he can get away with immersed in books.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Val's Visual Novel Nonsense #02 - In Love and War, No Plan Survives First Contact With The Enemy
Muv-Luv is a game that embodies the value of planning and foreshadowing, the power of contemporary consumption of media, and the degradation of both of those strengths under the flow of time and ensuing discussion.