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favourite tropes & conventions: hauntings, haunted houses, ecological horror, questioning linear technological process, breaking the narrative, weird fiction, australiana, folk horror, romanticism, really fucked up boarding schools and summer camps, bad things happening in forests (above or below the sea), the ocean as its own character.

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  • 26/04 the absence of miriam lane - abigail corfman interactive fiction haunting
    + "Sometimes people give pieces of themselves away. Sometimes they give too much and who they are wears thin. They become an absence. A hole in the world. And a terrible Light shines through."
  • 23/04what happens next - @maximumgraves webcomic internet
    + this was agonisingly painful to read and i really do not use that lightly. every character feels conciously crafted to walk the fine line of sympathetic but deeply morally flawed. i found myself empathising most with Claire, but even then my sympathy was tempered by her painful alienation of everyone around her. this gets said every time this gets brought up, but man, this does such a good job of emulating internet conventions, from softboi-tumblr to kiwifarms. can't wait to read more.
  • ONGOING house of leaves - mark z danielewski book ergodic, haunted house
  • ONGOING the unabridged journals of sylvia plath - sylvia plath book journal
    + you don't want to know how long i've been reading this for
  • ONGOING succession tv show satire of rupert murdoch (#3 opp)
    + 21/04: currently on S1E2 and i hate this entire family
  • ONGOING the magnus archives - rusty quill podcast horror, ongoing
    + 21/04/2024 (EP MAG 28): have been binge-listening over the past week
  • ONGOING binchtopia podcast culture, ongoing
    + bitches hate nuance