March 2024 - Dreamworlds and Divine Discontents
Hi everyone!
I was going to send this out tomorrow, but I saw there was a call to strike for Palestine on April 15, so I'm pushing it out today and including the call.
The biggest news for me is, of course, the Kickstarter, which I introduced in the last email. I included the first new full essay in the last issue, but here's a link in case you missed it. We fully funded in the first 15 days! While I started writing this newsletter we hit our first stretch goal, which was an introduction from Dia Lacina! Frankly, Dia is one of, if not the best, writer in the space. So honored and excited to have her on board! Our final stretch goal is at $10,000, where we would commission cover art from an artist currently not affiliated with the project, as well as do a print run of the aforementioned cover. The book, in various formats, will be available after the Kickstarter is over, but it will also be a little more expensive. We have four days left until the campaign is over so hop on!
I wrote a retrospective on Dark Souls 2 for the game's 10th anniversary. I do capable work on articulating the game's still unique and wondrous pleasures.
On The Safe Room, we covered Fatal Frame 3: The Tormented, the franchise's swan song for the PS2 and one that tries to wrap the past two games into a meta-narrative. Frankly, this is one of the best games ever made and our conversation is suitably excited.
For Found Footage, our pay-walled movie podcast, we watched modern horror classic Pulse. This is a fantastic movie, so sad and so scary!
We posted the second episode of Closet Crit (my show with Sophie Blair). We discussed the introduction of Eroticism by Georges Bataille and Twilight... among other things. Great ep!
Thanks for reading everyone. I hope you are in the middle of a wonderful April, with joy and activity and rage and sorrow. We live through it all, we are it all.
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