So this is one of those pages where it will, frankly, never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever be complete. But! I still wanna include it. So. Bite me. Some of this will fall into the realm of ‘gee, how original,’ but again, bite me. Others are just kinda…’elle what the fuck’ type things. You get the gist.
- Alan Wake; The thing that got me to consider even being a writer in the first place.
- Disco Elysium; The thing that made my brain fucking rewire itself.
- Fable; The thing that made me into a little dweebish gamer.
- Fallout, The Edge Chronicles, Alien, Halo, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, The Elder Scrolls, Dune, Star Wars, Star Trek, Vampire: The Masquerade (the tabletop and the shitty lil source game), Prey (both games), literally everything Remedy has ever touched, FAITH, Pentiment, Firewatch, Life is Strange, Shadowrun (the games and the oh-so-messy tabletops), Cyberpunk (ditto), System Shock 1/2, Tales from the Borderlands (but absolutely not BL1/2/3/etc. my god.), VA-11 Hall-A, Nu-Wolfenstein; The many things that tint the everliving fuck out of my aesthetic and thematic considerations.
- This is a list that will absolutely never be complete, and that’s fine. If you find me someone who says they can name every single last one of their aesthetic/thematic inspirations, you have found a liar.
- Weird ass 40k lore that you find beneath the cracks of the normal shit. Dark Mechanicum when, Games Workshop? Fucking make it haPPEN. GODDAMNIT.
- Metal Gear. You tell me you’re a gay bitch with a sci-fi fetish who doesn’t unintentionally draw from MGS once in a while and I will call you a liar and a bastard child.
- Mad Max. LOVE ME SOME GODDAMN APOCALYPTIC FUCKSHIT.
- I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Classic. Horrifying. Your nervous system is bad cable management. Pull it out. Pull it out. Pull it OUT. PULL IT OUT.
- Hotline Miami’s weirdass storytelling aesthetic is a fun one. Doesn’t really fuck with my writing but I still think about it a lot at the very least.
- Yknow what does fuck with my writing a lot? Anything Remedy has ever so much as touched. Fuck me UP. I don’t care that it’s a repeat. Fuck you.
- Cruelty Squad. Fuck me up off that goop shit.
- Becky Chambers’ works. Love me a bit of hopecore sci-fi. Not a thing ya see much nowadays.
- Megan O’Keefe’s works– FUCK YEAH SCI-FI ECO-TERRORISMMMMMMMM RAHHHHHHHHHH
- Oh also Titanfall 2. Play Titanfall 2. Do it. Fuck you.