August 12 2026

Wow wow wow! This is my first blog post! Isn't that exciting?

And now I can maybe paste ascii art like this? ⠀
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wow ok that did not work at all. something to work on for future posts

Nothing super exciting to announce on the blog yet. I've been working on my first comic, Dreamside, and chapter 0 should be out either by the end of this month or early September. I got tendonitis for a few days (whoops) because the pressure was too high on my tablet, which I hopefully have gotten over and fixed now. And I'm gonna start doing stretches every half hour like they tell you to.

And now I guess I'll do the conventional blog thing of telling you what media Ive been consuming recently:

book of the week!

Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. McClelland & Stewart, 2003.

This was a recommendation from my dad after I talked to him at length about some of the themes and technology in Dreamside, and while it has a very different and less fantastical vibe it was an incredible read. I love love love any media from the turn of the millenium that treats new technology as a rapid, near-future cyberpunk threat. The internet and gene engineering are gonna take over the world but they still run on dialup and CD-roms? That is beautiful to me.

This book is very sinister and not always an easy read. I got some weird dreams as I was going through it. But Biopunk is a deeply underrated genre and, what can I say. You had me at beakless, boneless, eyeless chickens that sit motionless in a lab and have to be fed slop once a day through a hole in the top of their body. A strong recommend for anyone into dystopian literature or sci-fi horror.

game of the week!

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. Directed by Ragnar Tørnquist, Funcom / Aspyr, 2006. PC game.

The sequel to an exquisitely good point-and-click adventure game from the 90s, Dreamfall is set 50/50 in a cyberpunk-future version of Earth and in an alternate, magic-powered city called Marcuria. I watched a playthrough of this game back in the Let's Play boom era, I want to say in 2013, and it changed something within me. I've played both the sequel and the predecessor and I love this just as much as either of the other two. The art direction in these games is always fantastic.

A lot of people use "adventure game" as a synonym for "point-and-click adventure" and this game is a great example of a NON-point and click adventure game. And for being from 2006, it's incredibly non-clunky. It's honestly aged amazingly; I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone with a machine that can run it. I got it working on Crossover 26 perfectly fine after a few tweaks. Even the puzzles are usually pretty solvable, without the sort of moon logic you might expect from the genre.

anime of the week!

Serial Experiments Lain. Directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura, Triangle Staff, 1998.

To any anime buffs reading this, this is like the equivalent of someone recommending 2001: A Space Odyssey on a Reddit thread like you've never heard of it and they're a big brained genius for having seen it. That shit pisses me off but this show is so good it cannot be understated. There's a scan of a VHS of it on archive.org that adds some tape deterioration that my art school graduate friend and I were drooling over for the way it contributes to the atmosphere of the show. This is an unparalleled sci-fi/psychological horror story featuring the 90s internet, psychedelic visuals and a schizophrenic 13-year-old girl. What more could you need? And it gets in, scrambles your entire brain, and gets out again in just over 5 hours. Absolute required viewing for anyone who talks to me at this point.

The PS1 game is pretty cool, too, but I don't recommend that anyone play it.

song of the week!

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow "My Own Reality" Re-Write)

I love a meaty bass sample and a crunchy canned drum machine. Nothing could be better. Gizzheads need to put some respect on this album.