games (mostly text-based) about houses and places-- exploring them, haunting them, feeding them:

childhood homes (and why we hate them) - after a decade, you return home.

return - a text-based horror game about coming home.

singing from the far side of the hill - about a trans woman, homeless after a bad breakup, who rents a stranger's spare room. it's a decision she comes to regret.

anatomy - Explore a suburban house, collect cassette tapes, study the physiology of domestic architecture.

leave house - leave house

the open house - We at Northtree Real Estate (in partnership with Optix Dynamix Labs) are proud to present our new, state-of-the-art, open house simulator!  Come and take a quick tour of 15615 Hollow Oak Lane, a familiar and comfortable showcase home in one of our premier developments!

what girls do in the dark - This little game is based off one of the greatest fears they had as a teenage girl: showing up late to a stranger's slumber party.

unbecoming - a sonically-textured interactive horror fiction exploring cycles of trauma and unspeakable forces of nature in a mythic rural American landscape.

13 laurel road - an interactive fiction game about the relationships we have with places and reconciling with trauma. You play as a young man named Noah who has been tasked with picking up some things from his cousin’s old house.

domvs - a gothic mystery game in which you rely on your environment to uncover the truth.

flesh, blood, & concrete - you find yourself in a vast, empty apartment complex.

i am still here - a short, unconventional ghost story and vignette reflecting on the end of a long lockdown.

vacant - Film a ghost-hunting show.

Hiding my shirt that says 'i am not normal about narratives that imply an inanimate inhabited structure is a living breathing organism' as i walk into a board room and pitch my idea that we should make more horror revolving around living architecture

Rewatched @jelloapocalypse video on the best Scooby-Doo character, and loved all his ideas on how to make them better. Velma especially, I never liked how she is just sarcastic, the resident skeptic, and harsh. So seeing her being all in for ghosts and just genuinely a curious lil lesbian full of adorkableness and love would be so refreshing!

"So I got thrown out of a haunted attraction last night--" Katsuki huffed loudly. "How I was supposed to know that I couldn't explode the killer clowns' faces off?!"

did u know

my roommate said what's a show without a sexy priest, and i've been trying to convince them to watch all the mike flanagan shows, so i was like ooo midnight mass (i've heard people find father paul sexy), so i pulled up a pic of him like "do you think he's sexy?" and they were like "i don't know his personality"

Delulu brain telling me Good Witch is a Bear song

tfw you come up with an au concept that is SO DELICIOUS specifically because it creates SUCH fucked-up/angsty situations or backstories but then you just kinda have to. sit there vibrating because in order to talk to anyone about it you have to explain the entire setup of the au and it probably wouldn't land as well anyway

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The truth is the house was good once before it learned to hate.

CW: graphic violence, sexual violence

It's been over a year since the end of S2, and the TL fandom is posting (and tolerating) acute, detailed calls to violence against Nathan Shelley.

This fandom, as a culture, accepts and entertains violent, graphic fantasies against Nathan.

There are real people whose experiences parallel Nathan's. There are real people who look like Nathan. There is one person in particular who looks exactly like Nathan, and who this fandom has given reason to fear being recognized.

Do you think it makes any of those real people (particularly the last one) feel good or safe to read shit like, "Defending Ted Lasso Online Isn't Enough. I Need a Gun. watch your back nate"?

Or "SOMEONE PLEASE BEAT THE SHIT OUTTA NATE. WANT THAT FUCKER TO HAVE NO FUCKING TEETH!"

Or "i hope nate gets hit by a truck"?

Or "me if i ever ran into nate *gif of a dog holding a man's head underwater*"

What about "I just finished Ted Lasso and apparently I wanna strangle Nate with electrical wire until he passes out, he'll wake up to find himself stark naked in a shop window tied down to a chair with his legs apart and a sign around his neck with the word CUNT on it so that everyone can see what a twat he really is."

Those are some of the real things TL fans have posted on tumblr.com. There's even more on Twitter and other social media platforms.

In lieu of a concluding paragraph that ties this fandom phenomenon to a broader social context, I have a question for you, dear reader:

What the fuck is wrong with this fandom? Serious answers only.

Thoughts incoherent cuz it's too early for me still but hc that during Onslaught + Echoes Eight returns to the Empire but mostly to manage Jadus' financials and other garbage that he can't take care of all the way over in solitude, so he just returns to tend to his property and other shit, all the while playing the role of bereaved widower whose husband hasn't come back from the war so he can pretend he's too melancholic and aggrieved to get involved in current conflicts (liar). This of course, makes a lot of Sith fall for it bc when he starts swiping at his tears it gets really awkward, and it's a bad look if you ask someone's weeping spouse to fight for you instead when they're wailing about how they feel so unsafe and alone and they're just a weak little officer who needs a big strong Sith to protect them yet they will wait an eternity for Lord Jadus to return and oh woe.

The minute they leave, he drops the act.

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@beatingheart-bride

Randall smiled as he set aside his quill once he heard Emily coming, once again making sure the ink was dry before closing his libretto and moving to the lounge chair, where on the coffee table in front of it sat a pot of fresh tea and some little macaroons-his way of expressing his delight at how rehearsals were going so far.

Rehearsals were going far smoother than they ever had with La Constance around: It seemed like they dragged on forever with her, as she constantly threw fits about anything and everything she could possibly think of-her costume, the libretto, any noise her castmates made when she was practicing, the way the orchestra sounded, the stagehands working around her, and more. She was as unpredictable as the weather, and it made rehearsals a dreadful experience for everyone-even though Randall tried to curb her attitude in his own way, it still didn’t save everyone completely from her wrath, much to his disappointment.

But with Emily? It was a breeze: She arrived on time, didn’t make a fuss, got along well with those around her, and perhaps most importantly, gave it her all as she practiced. La Constance often arrived when she felt like it, hated to be rushed, and put very little enthusiasm into her performance, clearly showing she was not here because she loved her craft, but because she loved the money it made her instead.

But he wasn’t about to dedicate any time thinking about La Constance when he had much more important matters on his mind; namely, greeting Emily with a smile and proclaiming, “Brava, brava, bravissima!” She was quickly getting the hang of the role of the Countess, and doing a beautiful job to boot, giving an easily-superficial character a touch of depth, as she yearns for fun and excitement and love, and not the staid life she had now.

I'm reading the winternight trilogy by katherine arden and I gotta be honest, I am obsessed with whatever fucked up nonsense konstantin has got going on

i am once again regretting not reading dante’s inferno for ap lit like i was supposed to

my funeral will take as long as it takes to play all my beloved songs, if it takes 6 hours so be it