Typewriter (I Feel Like I Should Give The Thing A Name...) Is Out Of Ink

Typewriter (I feel like I should give the thing a name...) is out of ink 😭

I was able to order more... but, whoof, not as cheaply as I hoped.

hey apparently there's an occurrence that can happen in AW2 when you play as Saga in the Nursing Home where Ahti just suddenly starts freaking out and talking like a normal person, and combined with the fact Ahti has been in Bright Falls for 3 years and Scratch was pretty much very close to getting the ending he wanted, and everything is centered around the lake getting fucked up when Ahti is literally a Sea God, it probably means Scratch was fucking with the lake so much to the point where it was making Ahti just lose his mind. and its very fucked up and i fucking hate it and i hate hearing him sad and lost and confused. this is the worst thing ever.

did you guys ever watch the movie A Wrinkle In Time. theres a god-like character in it that only speaks using other peoples sentences. when everything starts falling apart she starts speaking fully for herself, using her own words, and specifies to the main character that it means everything is falling apart. the reason she speaks the way she usually does is because the worlds are balanced. her speaking normally means everything is wrong and something needs to be done.

Ahti is never supposed to make complete sense. like you can generally get the gist of what he's saying but most of the time he's basically speaking his own weird lingo. him making complete sense is not good. Scratch was probably close to fucking killing Ahti even. i fucking hate this i hate this so much.

Little update on book 2: We're sitting at 12/26 (plus the epilogue, so 27 total) chapters edited. That's 88 pages out of 193!

Next steps are to finish going through the book by pen, then upload those changes, and then... start posting!

A small preview of what the process looks like..!

something about how the FBC's special paranatural Faraday cage is useless against Scratch, and isn't actually enough to hold Hiss-Dylan either, and Shaded Hartman breaks containment, wrecks an entire sector, and is only held at bay by a Firebreak..... "the FBC is dealing with things they don't understand" is an understatement. I just can't get over the Nursery Rhymes. a BEAST of a paranatural entity in that lake, and the FBC is like "sure we'll fuck around with this Threshold." it's SO funny. I love the FBC

One thing I like about the Alan Wake fandom is that Wake is necessarily so self-serious about his role as writer, like that is his primary identity and he's super famous and well known, so much so that he becomes transformed into the platonic ideal of that role.

But despite this, based on what we actually hear and see of his work, a substantial part of the fandom has decided that Wake's actual books are... probably pretty shit? Like the more you read and hear of them the more you get the impression that they are super-pulpy super-tropey but very marketable cheap thrillers, and I think that's super funny and ultimately better thematically. That this big role of the capital-A Artist is filled by somebody who at the end of the day is quite crap, but the universe doesn't care because what the supernatural force cares about most is aesthetics rather than quality.

And like, this is also why the style of horror that he manifests into the real world is in many ways pretty corny and cheesy, because he's writing with pretty stock standard tropes, which are scary but only because they've been made real. Like part of the humour of it is that people are being chased around by shadow monsters and axe murderers that have been pulled out of a list of stock characters and are now bizarrely manifest in reality, where they feel very out of place because of it.

Anyway, the "Alan isn't actually a very good writer" interpretation is extremely funny and interesting to me and I support it wholeheartedly.