After The Tower Falls
Here is the secret:
eventually, the ache stops,
the devastation quickens
and then slows,
the anger arrives
righteous and in want of a reckoning,
and then, it turns back to shadow,
suddenly,
as if had not been burning
a moment before,
and in that empty space,
there is quiet,
and in that quiet,
there is relief,
like cool water
from a soft stream, your heart
is no longer howling,
and the pieces of the past
all around you
no longer feel like destruction,
but a fresh start, flowers
growing out of the cracks,
a bright song of possibility,
and you know you survived it,
the worst thing,
the impossible thing,
the heartbreak
didn’t break you after all—
breathe.
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that’s the thing about ned stark to me is that he loves his family so much. and fighting a whole war in their memory and then failing to save his sister created this trauma that is so central to his character that he simply cannot heal from it. and yet he so wholly and unquestioningly trusts the evil systems of his evil society to work that if everything HAD gone to plan and Lyanna had married Robert and gotten stuck in a tower in Storm’s End dying in childbirth against her will. WOULD it even have occurred to Ned to intervene.
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Tim can’t breathe. He can’t breathe.
He thought— the Tower was bad enough. He hates being kept out of the loop, especially for “his own protection”, but he never thought—
It is Robin who had been threatened. Robin that Batman had been taunted with. Enough times, and with grisly enough descriptions of what might happen to him, that Bruce sent Tim to the Titans as a last ditch effort to keep him well out of reach of Gotham and its newly minted crime lord.
But Hood took Bernard, and Tim can’t breathe. Can only stare at the grainy picture from an unknown number, showing his boyfriend tied up and gagged in someone’s— Hood’s, probably, oh god— bed.
Tim wants to throw up.
Please god, please no.
— sneak peek of “Modern Day Cain”
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hey remember my survival horror essay i've been talking about for the past few months well i finally felt confident enough to post it for everyone :) please enjoy
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There was a thing on Twitter where a few people drew the infamous panel from the Zootopia fan comic “I will Survive” with Peppino and Anton. Why? I have no clue it was just art antics. This took me 2 days because things weren’t looking right. Also yes I’m aware of the difference in finger digits I just forgot to pick one when redoing hands.
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The Retro Horror Games Iceberg Chart, Ver. 2.0
Please read my notes below for more context. I always take asks about retro horror games, as well. I have at least some experience with most of these.
This chart can be used in personal projects or YouTube videos, but please ask me first and do not remove my credits. Thank you.
This is a massive, updated version of an iceberg chart I made.
It's intended as a guide for a mostly Western audience (and preservationists) to discover more of these games, not as a 100% accurate ranking.
So don't worry about my placements too much, just check out the games that sound interesting to you.
NOTES:
-Games on lower tiers like Aoi Shiro or Mizzurna Falls have notable fanbases, but were placed there because, since they did not get official ports outside of their home country, they will not be as well-known or can be harder to find physical copies of.
-PC and console games only. Focus is on the 90s and 2000s because that's more my area of expertise.
-I've included a couple of non-horror games like Chulip, Conker's Bad Fur Day and Majora's Mask due to their horror aesthetics or close ties to the genre. As a collector, I always feel it's better to include more rather than less, and these games seem at home here.
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Shadow Tower (1998) - Creature Book
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