Tuesday, October 14, 2025

a brief and rambling history of my writing

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greetings. I'm Val, and I've written a lot of nonsense, mostly about games, over the years. you might have stumbled across my work. ...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

games are too fucking much

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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 ...
Friday, November 15, 2024

what a year will do to you(r oshis)

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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 ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

the beauty of crystal [old writing]

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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...
Monday, September 9, 2024

why futa fix (a mid porn game) is a 5/5 game in my book

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 [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 st...
Monday, January 4, 2021

Val's Visual Novel Nonsense #03 - Word by Word, Line by Line, Darkness Retreats

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     Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai (a good librarian like a good shepherd, stylized as such in the jp logo) is, in short, a fairly strong charac...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Val's Visual Novel Nonsense #02 - In Love and War, No Plan Survives First Contact With The Enemy

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     Muv-Luv is a game that embodies the value of planning and foreshadowing, the power of contemporary consumption of media, and the degrad...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Val's Visual Novel Nonsense #01 - Beyond the Sky, Above the Firmament

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I have a lot of visual novels that I’m going to be playing, and for once I want to have some kind of archive of my thoughts on them. For wha...
Monday, August 19, 2019

Drasilian Disappointment

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Instead of dancing around it, I’m going to just come out and say it. I don’t think Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age was very good....
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Kill Your Masters, or: Hype Train Derailing

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