#best remedies

[ashenknightt]

not what i usually draw but i had to 😋

#the game consumed my every waking thought for like a week straight i had to draw something for it #who wants to go to bright falls w me 😍 #alan wake #my art #best works!!! #remedy entertainment #remedyverse

[div-divington]

Been binge watching X-Files recently and I've always wanted to make a fake Altered Item file cuz it seemed fun

It was fun.

#the paranatural property is that it imbues a simultaneous sense of scepticism and desire to believe #it basically sat in that office for a decade absorbing the emotional resonance of mulder and scully #and it projects a concentrated form of that on people who look at it #which the last bit of redacted text says makes it a useful tool for training FBC agents #cuz it makes them better investigators #cuz scully and mulder were at their best when they worked together :) and the poster gives somebody both their best properties #obviously this isn't very lore friendly #cuz if X-Files and Control existed in the same universe the FBC would never have allowed the X-Files to exist #unless they deemed it a useful tool ig #anyway #txf #x-files #x files #fox mulder #dana scully #frederick langston #federal bureau of control #control #control 2019 #control remedy #crossover #possible other anomalous property: the poster makes coworkers have very not-platonic feelings for each other #that they don't act on properly ever #and it drives everybody forced to watch crazy

[jelzorz]

168.

Callum still dreams about the mirror.

Posession is not an easy thing to forget. It's been about a month since that day in the Storm Spire, but it will haunt him for the rest of his life, worsened by the knowledge Claudia is out there and looking to free Aaravos, even when the prison is here, and the Nova Blade is sheathed and upon his desk. He'd thought having it would be a comfort, but it taunts him every night: it's there, within reach, and he can end it now, smash the prison and push the blade through Aaravos' heart, be done with it once and for all—

But of course he doesn't do that, tempting as it is, because the others are right, and something so reckless might be exactly what Aaravos wants.

So Callum bears it. He tosses and turns in his sleep, dreaming of the mirror, of seeing his reflection in it, trapped in Aaravos' place while his body hurts the people he loves the most. He shuts out the voice, deep enough that he can feel it ringing in his chest and seeping into his bones, whispering terrible thoughts, terrible ideas into his mind and beckoning him to surrender and sleep and relinquish his will. He wakes in the mornings feeling more exhausted than when he went to bed, and it's getting worse, he thinks, the longer they wait.

Tonight, it's different. Callum looks at himself through Aaravos' eyes, trapped and helpless in the mirror, but tonight, Aaravos only watches and pulls Callum's lips into an oily, terrifying grin.

"Difficult, isn't it?" Aarovos asks, tilting his head towards the desk. "The answer is there. You could finish this if you wanted."

Callum's reflection pounds his fist against the glass. Stop this, he mouths. Let me go.

Aaravos laughs. "Soon," he makes Callum say. "There are so many things to do first. So many places to conquer. So much discord to sow. And this body... I think it can do a great many things for me before I ever even escape."

Let me go! the reflection snarls. I won't let you control me!

"Oh, but that's the beauty of it all," chuckles Aaravos. "You mages think you can control everything but you never realise how easy it is to control you. There are things you want, Callum. Things you'll do anything for, and people you're desperate to protect, isn't that right? What would it take, I wonder, for you to release me in Claudia's stead?"

Nothing, the reflection seethes. You have nothing I want. I'll never help you.

"Perhaps not," says Aaravos. "But you'll help her, won't you?" He pushes out a hand and turns the mirror, and there is Rayla, curled in the other bed with Stella in her arms. There is moonlight in her hair, and peace on her face, and she's so vulnerable, so easy to threaten, to hurt—

Callum's body advances, the lips tugged up in that horrible smile, the eyes glowing, the hand outstretched to tuck a lock of Rayla's hair behind the point of her ear. The gesture is gentle, so deceptively tender, but the fingers are large and too close to her throat, and Callum in the mirror panics and pounds harder against the glass.

Don't touch her! he cries, voiceless, helpless. Aaravos! Leave her out of this, it's me you want!

Aaravos laughs. It is deep and cruel, and it fills Callum's chest with dread and a fear so debilitating he can barely breathe through it. His reflection slams its fist against the glass, desperate, but even that is silent, even as its knuckles split and smear blood against the inside of mirror, and then—

The glass breaks.

Callum wakes.

There is no mirror. It was destroyed weeks ago, in the foyer of the Storm Spire. Rayla is still asleep in the other bed, her breathing slow and even, even as Callum's own breath rushes out.

"Just a dream," he mumbles, pressing the heels of his hands into his eyes. He forces himself to think of other things: tomorrow's council meeting, the Nova Blade on his desk, Rayla's smile in the moonlight. She is safe. He is safe. Everything is fine. "A dream," he says again, his breath still shaking. "It wasn't real."

He gets up to wash his face, leaving bloody handprints in the bed.

#rayllum #in anticipation #have i done posessed callum yet? #i dont think i have #best remedy that

[a-wakes]

ALAN WAKE'S AMERICAN NIGHTMARE REMEDY ENTERTAINMENT, 2012

#quality will have to do... though they deserve the best <3 #dream-like vibe is stored in the blur #also i made this grainy on purpose ok i love grain... #alan wake #alice wake #alan wake's american nightmare #remedy entertainment #alanwakeedit #gamingedit #my gifs

[sapphic-agent]

#anti bakugou katsuki #tsuyu asui #camie utsushimi #get him girls #best girls frfr #camie was the only good part of the remedial courses arc

[fras-redacted-shapes]

Alan Wake (whose face and voice we find on Thomas Zane and Casper Darling, respectively) ends up in an antagonistic relationship with Alex Casey (whose face and voice we find on Sam Lake and Zachariah Trench, respectively).

Casper Darling and Zachariah Trench? By the end, their relationship was antagonistic.

The Casey-Trench voice was once a guide-friend for Wake-Darling.

And then, they were fighting.

One was suspicious of the other, thinking he was lying, hiding something.

While the other was unaware of the darkness that was growing and consuming the former's mind, his ignorance letting it fester. Feeding it, even.

The original faces, Thomas Zane and Sam Lake? In this latest iteration they've spoken with their own voices while in the Dark Place, only in the presence of a camera.

Alan Wake and Zachariah Trench? In the end, while in a nightmare dimension, both get shot by a woman who both of these men meddled in their lives, threatening the well being of their loved one.

At least one had a hand in his fate, willing it, accepting it. The other? He was fully gone, his will overtaken by the nightmare.

A version of Alex Casey did say it after all. He and writer, they were the same.

And finally, the real Sam Lake? By happenstance he offered his face for a collaborative project, and became a symbol. Even if he tried to fight it, tried to replace it, he had to concede. The story demanded it, as if writing it wasn't enough, the narrative claimed his visage.

There's no need to make overt mentions or put the image of the Ouroboros in posters. The serpent is interwoven in the fabric of the narrative itself.

#now we're only missing a scene with tom zane and sam lake being best friends and the mirror image will be complete #not so much theory crafting more like rambling #because Alex Casey hated Alan's gut the first time he met him on Cauldron Lake's shore lmao #remedy writing in mirroring-self-consuming #self-generating loops and spirals #alan wake 2 #remedy connected universe #control remedy #zachariah trench #casper darling #tom zane #alan wake #dunno where I read that Ilkka Villi's accent was too thick back then so Remedy went with a different actor for Alan's voice #which if true it would an excellent companion to Sam Lake giving his face to Max Payne due to limited budget #One was like: we only have enough money to pay for James McCaffrey's voice #The other: yeah we can afford two actors for Alan Wake #Then a few years later: we are going to exploit all these little fun facts and make them an integral part of the narrative #remedyversetxt

[a-flappy-bat]

Gnilrad aka Darling’s version of Mr. Scratch from the altered mirror. For the @fbczine

#casper darling #dr. darling #Gnilrad #aka #evil mirror darling #remedy control #control (2019) #my art #my first piece #for the #FBC zine #and probably the best thing I’ve painted to date

[gentlemanbutch]

wishing every day that I knew what PCOS was as a young teen and that yes indeed it does fall under the intersex umbrella, cause it would have saved me years of silently wondering if I was intersex because I knew very deeply that I was not “typical,” and also wishing that the moment I was diagnosed with PCOS I wasn’t shamed for being “improperly female” and pushed toward feminizing hormone therapy and medication that my body literally couldn’t tolerate, especially because I was transmasc anyway.

#I don’t expect doctors to change because We Live in a Society but god I wish there was an understanding of like #diversity within gender and sex #I wish we weren’t treated as something to be remedied #like yes if you want to get rid of your quote masculine symptoms of PCOS go for it #my point is we should all be allowed to do what is best for us as individuals #and doctors ignore that and decide for us what’s best because they want us to fit in a binary #and it’s fucking gross and traumatizing #PCOS #intersex #nonbinary #trans #transmasc #intersex lesbian #intersex rights

[coolhandlukes]

broke: maverick loves to break rules because that’s just who he is

woke: maverick’s tendencies to break the rules, push the limits, and disobey direct commands are driven by the psychological need to prove himself and is deeply rooted in his unaddressed grief and relationship with his late father, or lack thereof

bespoke: maverick loves to pull on the entire us navy’s tail and pissing off the admirals to the moon and back because it is the only proven way to get iceman’s yearlong-busy-ass attention on him effective immediately

#icemav #listen. the sea is a lonely lonely place for a man to be #and the remedy for a man’s loneliness is sometimes five oceans away from him #so it’s only logical that #the best a man can do in jarring times like this is to seek for trouble #your honor it has been months since they last saw each other #etc etc #this has been an ldr 101 #reposting bc i was stupid

[velvetjune]

trying not to think about how barry joined blessed wellness retreat, which is absolutely the cult run by chester bless, who has to be aware that barry was involved with the awe at bright falls, and definitely has terrible future plans

#was anyone else emotionally devastated by every mention of Barry in alan wake 2 #and that he probably thinks he lost Alan and Alice both 😭😭😭😭😭 #and the manuscripts about having ptsd and having to stop the Andersons tour #and the money he put into the nursing home didn’t even work out bc it was stolen 😭 #any info on Barry was painful. please remedy leave Alan’s best friend alone #alan wake 2 #barry wheeler #alan wake 2 spoilers #control 2019 #only tagging bc blessed was all over control

[djzazzles]

#alan wake 2 #art #alan wake ii #alan wake is the best #remedy #sam lake #ilmo koskela #jaakko koskela

[ashenknightt]

writing can be so destructive

#yes i was listening to herald of darkness on loop drawing this....what about it 😒 #also its lighting practice teehee #alan wake 2 #the dark place #alan wake #remedyverse #remedy entertainment #digital art #my art #best works!!!

[mashkara45]

#best fight scene ever #andersons rock! #old gods of asgard #tor anderson #odin anderson #saga anderson #alan wake 2 #alan wake quotes #videogames #horror games #videogames quotes #remedy entertainment #cauldron lake

[thelivingautomaton]

alright, since the Remedy brainworms got me I've been replaying Control, got to the AWE expansion last night and picking up on all the echoes/foreshadowing for Alan Wake 2 is making me go utterly bonkers, but like. has anyone picked up on or talked about how in all of Alan's Hotline messages to Jesse, when he's writing about her POV, he exclusively calls her 'Faden'

like, maybe it didn't poke my brain the first time I played it since he does the same thing when talking about Hartman, but coming from AW2 it's pretty jarring as a stylistic oddity...almost like there's a reason (in-universe and/or out-of-universe) that he doesn't call her 'Jesse'...almost like there's only one Faden in his story...

and given how in AW2 we also get some (quasi-) clarification regarding the limits of Alan's ability to "make stuff up" vs alter and rewrite "real-world" events that he sees in clairvoyant flashes...given the Night Springs screenplay pages you can find in AWE that parallels the FBC and the events of Control (i.e. a Director and a Scientist opening a portal to another dimension, finding an eldritch Entity, the Director trying to take its power for himself and then getting taken over before shooting himself)...given how literally all of the "dreams" Dylan tells Jesse about are descriptions/viewings of stuff that takes place on one level of reality or another ("I was the director and you were an intern"; "we were in a game, and it was a fucking boring game but you couldn't stop playing it"; Mister Door, and "a world with a writer writing about a cop, and another world where the writer was real"; a "musical" about Jesse), except, seemingly, the dream about "Jesse Dylan Faden"...

guys. are you picking up what I'm putting down here. guys. GUYS

#alan wake #control #control remedy #remedy entertainment #remedyverse #anyway sorry but i for real am a jesse dylan faden truther now and forever #not in the sense that dylan isn't 'real' or isn't a person in his own right by now #but look. if you were a writer and trying to work out the inciting plot/backstory for your main character #who needs to have a driving reason to go back to the government agency that nearly captured her for study #or alternatively: you need a reason that said government agency is able to learn about the inciting backstory event from a direct witness #without actually successfully capturing the main character in question (since it's important that she instead comes to them when she does) #it would solve a lot of your problems if you just...split your protagonist into two different people. right? #like. are you seeing the vision!!! #also i gotta say. the Gender Of It All (TM) compels me #granted i doubt remedy will go in that direction -- and even if they do i think it'd be highly ambiguous/questionable at best #kind of like how max payne 1/2 raise the vague possibility that max went insane on valkyr and he's the one that killed his family #which is largely shot down but in a way that still leaves the answer at least a little bit shrouded in ambiguity #but you know. a girl can dream

[theconsciouscrow]

Alan Wake didn't won Goty, and we all know why

It was all too much, he had to get away

#alan writing from the darkplace so bg3 could take it #“no not that one give me best narrative” #“cause i'm a really good writer” #“i think 😢” #scratch patting himself on the back #zane doing the HoD coreo in the bckgrd #does that guy in the middle resembles someone *points to Sam Lake* #hey new game plus is coming out #alan: no shit *prepares to be killed once again* #alan wake 2 #remedy #sam lake #alan wake spoilers #mr scratch #can we all agree that the writer's room full of multiple Alan's losing their shit? for me that's cannon

[cloysterbell]

Happy Wildcat new year, everyone ✌

#dumb text posts #i remedied my mistakes from last year and watched hsm and hsm2 with the roommate #the best way to spend the evening