you can break the fiction/nonfiction barrier for this. i believe in you

matters because of ariane and elster and the love between them. she was a pilot, she was a victim, she was a friend, she loved and was loved, and she remains

in the mind even longer. it's a toss up whether this or the promise (last goodbye) is my personal favorite from the album, really, but i went with ariane's theme because i think ariane herself can get overshadowed, sometimes, by what the promise is in signalis. it's an important moment, but it only

i still don't think i know how to really talk about signalis and i'm not sure i ever will besides the superlatives. this album, signalis: memories, is a look back at many of the tracks that helped make the soundtrack something special, a revisit that helps its metal corridors and quiet beaches stick

have you asked her

your appearances on act promptly made for some of my favorite episodes of the entire series

one of the best examples of how deeply unfortunate it is that being good at making art doesn't equate to being not a shithead

was kept around when all the other nurses turned monstrous, harry's sudden turn towards disgust as she seeks comfort in her dying moments, and a short, simple little guitar loop that captures the whole moment in a song. and this version really plays out the tragedy of that moment beautifully.

the moment this song plays, in the original, is the moment that silent hill finally clicked for me. lisa's death is this incredibly haunting cutscene thrown at the end of what is, in 2025, a not super remarkable survival horror experience. her stumbling forward, the realization of why she

all in. or tried to, anyways, i've still got about half the series to play through lmao. but i made it through the first four, which are the "core" experiences for the series as i understand it. unsurprisingly i loved the experience, even while finding the games pretty uneven in execution at points.

a kinda fun connection here is that these are all arranged/performed by the composer for katawa shoujo. neat! anyways this year i got into silent hill. i'd been listening to the soundtracks since sometime last year, and probably even further back through video essays, but this was the year i went

The fact that there has never been any mass scale reckoning with the crimes psychiatry has repeatedly committed against marginalised people including consequences for perpetrators is a serious injustice tbh.