i didn't realize this was a sad occasion
This is Steven’s Substack. I believe this will mainly be used as another way of posting my various writings in addition to the Google Docs and Tumblr posts I currently use.
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Reading Games Writing: This Sacred Body / This Bloody Mind by Artemis Octavio
While reading Artemis’ writing on Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, I was struck by how their major problem with Disco Elysium is the reason I love it so. It provoked and pushed me to further interrogate why I feel that way. I have not played Zero Parades (yet) and so
Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies as Literature
This piece was originally published in 2023 on my Tumblr and as a Google Doc. I have republished here to create a more centralized collection of my writing as well as due to the enthusiasm over the upcoming Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. Within Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies
Why "Troglodytes" in Cairn?
All throughout Aava’s ascent of Kami she comes across remnants of a group who bear the misnomer of troglodyte. I share the same distaste for this term that Jay Castello notes in their writing on Cairn for Unwinnable, “Called only ‘troglodytes’ (literally ‘cave dwellers’ but with an unfortunate association
The Parable of Aava the Mountaineer
There was a certain woman named Aava who desired to scale the highest mountain in the world: Kami. Her father was a renowned mountaineer, and had placed Aava on the rock wall as early as three. She fulfilled her inheritance, making famous climbs of various mountains, but had at last