Nothing Ever Ends Poetically

David Ward could survive in the Magnus institute but Jonathan Sims would never be able to survive in Eskew

[very clearly indulging the urge] im fighting the urge

"what if they fucked" WRONG. what if they ruined each other's lives irreparably. what if there was nothing left but a smoldering heap. what if everything that brought them together twisted and corroded and ripped them apart. and then they fucked.

i am in eskew is great bc it's about the way childhood trauma follows you wherever you go and the mundanity of human cruelty and the looming feeling that you will always be somehow separate from the rest of the world in a way that you can never truly put into words but it's also about what if you were trapped in a vaguely sentient eldritch city that hated you specifically would that be fucked up or what

hm. i feel terrified of everything. surely large ice coffee will ease this terror. surely

the weather determines if I’m going to be evil

severely underrated gag imo is the one where a character turns very slowly and the sounds of stone grinding against stone is superimposed over it

big fan of when a character is dead and the narrative frames them in a very angelic, soft, gentle manner but then it turns out not only are they still alive (plot twist) but theyre alive in the most gruesome and horrific way. your loving kind mentor who motivates you to fight in their memory came back wrong and theres blood and dirt under their fingernails from clawing they way out of the grave.