Lunostophiles
@lunostophiles.bsky.social
Part-time psychopomp, god of kitsch & camp, strange bedfellow. Very queer. Very anarchic.
I like having second thoughts about art & shit. Come have a second thought with me.
They/them. No minors.
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I like having second thoughts about art & shit. Come have a second thought with me.
They/them. No minors.
Icon by https://bsky.app/profile/neoxiii.bsky.social
This seems fine. Once someone has seen the dark world of the Rollie, anything else is normal.
August 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This seems fine. Once someone has seen the dark world of the Rollie, anything else is normal.
So just TLJ in something, anything, eh?
July 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
So just TLJ in something, anything, eh?
Playing Quiddler, about to enter my
July 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Playing Quiddler, about to enter my
You heard 'em, be a big robot.
July 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
You heard 'em, be a big robot.
Enjoy my still totally relevant meme about Jenny Nicholson and the Star Wars Hotel. I made this midway through watching her video in a fugue.
March 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Enjoy my still totally relevant meme about Jenny Nicholson and the Star Wars Hotel. I made this midway through watching her video in a fugue.
I have been tooling around with a wee free game called Will the Man Get Frog, which gives you a semi-random assortment of words and asks you to write a haiku. The constraints force interesting phrasings, and metaphors I wouldn't make otherwise. Boiling mist is a new one for me, love it to bits.
February 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I have been tooling around with a wee free game called Will the Man Get Frog, which gives you a semi-random assortment of words and asks you to write a haiku. The constraints force interesting phrasings, and metaphors I wouldn't make otherwise. Boiling mist is a new one for me, love it to bits.
Look upon, ye mighty, and despair.
February 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Look upon, ye mighty, and despair.
Going to tell Gen Alpha this was Malice Mizer.
February 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Going to tell Gen Alpha this was Malice Mizer.
I'm at a poetry reading in an old, well-maintained house and I've been spending the time before it starts ogling the light fixtures.
November 23, 2024 at 11:59 PM
I'm at a poetry reading in an old, well-maintained house and I've been spending the time before it starts ogling the light fixtures.
I love my little huntress.
November 19, 2024 at 3:44 AM
I love my little huntress.
Oh Piranesi is ALSO someone I'm constantly thinking about. Also, Étienne-Louis Boullée.
November 1, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Oh Piranesi is ALSO someone I'm constantly thinking about. Also, Étienne-Louis Boullée.
You should force me to talk about music I like.
November 1, 2024 at 11:38 PM
You should force me to talk about music I like.
You, a normal man, constantly thinking about the Roman empire.
Me, an enlightened enby, constantly thinking about the fabulist and oppressive architecture or Francois de Nome.
Me, an enlightened enby, constantly thinking about the fabulist and oppressive architecture or Francois de Nome.
November 1, 2024 at 11:33 PM
You, a normal man, constantly thinking about the Roman empire.
Me, an enlightened enby, constantly thinking about the fabulist and oppressive architecture or Francois de Nome.
Me, an enlightened enby, constantly thinking about the fabulist and oppressive architecture or Francois de Nome.
18. Shadow of the Colossus
My beloved. It earns every ounce of praise it has amassed. Few things have felt as earnestly mythopoetic as this game, even with so little 'lore'. It is an impressionist painting of an epic poem, with time spent making the world solid and real.
My beloved. It earns every ounce of praise it has amassed. Few things have felt as earnestly mythopoetic as this game, even with so little 'lore'. It is an impressionist painting of an epic poem, with time spent making the world solid and real.
October 23, 2024 at 5:58 AM
18. Shadow of the Colossus
My beloved. It earns every ounce of praise it has amassed. Few things have felt as earnestly mythopoetic as this game, even with so little 'lore'. It is an impressionist painting of an epic poem, with time spent making the world solid and real.
My beloved. It earns every ounce of praise it has amassed. Few things have felt as earnestly mythopoetic as this game, even with so little 'lore'. It is an impressionist painting of an epic poem, with time spent making the world solid and real.
17. Um Jammer Lammy
This one is also a foundational text for me. I liked Parappa, but I /loved/ Lammy. It's another music game with a soundtrack worth listening to on its own--doubly so cuz it's a specially recorded album styled as being by Lammy's band Milkcan. God I love this game.
This one is also a foundational text for me. I liked Parappa, but I /loved/ Lammy. It's another music game with a soundtrack worth listening to on its own--doubly so cuz it's a specially recorded album styled as being by Lammy's band Milkcan. God I love this game.
October 23, 2024 at 5:44 AM
17. Um Jammer Lammy
This one is also a foundational text for me. I liked Parappa, but I /loved/ Lammy. It's another music game with a soundtrack worth listening to on its own--doubly so cuz it's a specially recorded album styled as being by Lammy's band Milkcan. God I love this game.
This one is also a foundational text for me. I liked Parappa, but I /loved/ Lammy. It's another music game with a soundtrack worth listening to on its own--doubly so cuz it's a specially recorded album styled as being by Lammy's band Milkcan. God I love this game.
16. Final Fantasy X
There was a different world we could have lived in, where Squenix chased the open-ended nature of fantasy settings. Spira still looks so gorgeous after all these years, and I think about Yuna and her relationship to religion /so much/. Nothing quite feels like it.
There was a different world we could have lived in, where Squenix chased the open-ended nature of fantasy settings. Spira still looks so gorgeous after all these years, and I think about Yuna and her relationship to religion /so much/. Nothing quite feels like it.
October 23, 2024 at 5:41 AM
16. Final Fantasy X
There was a different world we could have lived in, where Squenix chased the open-ended nature of fantasy settings. Spira still looks so gorgeous after all these years, and I think about Yuna and her relationship to religion /so much/. Nothing quite feels like it.
There was a different world we could have lived in, where Squenix chased the open-ended nature of fantasy settings. Spira still looks so gorgeous after all these years, and I think about Yuna and her relationship to religion /so much/. Nothing quite feels like it.
15. OFF
I am that art-trash cat. I felt my mind expand after playing OFF, laugh at that if you want. But it was the key that unlocked games that challenged the medium, and I still think its vibe is pristine and dangerous, like breathing in airborne salt.
I am that art-trash cat. I felt my mind expand after playing OFF, laugh at that if you want. But it was the key that unlocked games that challenged the medium, and I still think its vibe is pristine and dangerous, like breathing in airborne salt.
October 23, 2024 at 5:37 AM
15. OFF
I am that art-trash cat. I felt my mind expand after playing OFF, laugh at that if you want. But it was the key that unlocked games that challenged the medium, and I still think its vibe is pristine and dangerous, like breathing in airborne salt.
I am that art-trash cat. I felt my mind expand after playing OFF, laugh at that if you want. But it was the key that unlocked games that challenged the medium, and I still think its vibe is pristine and dangerous, like breathing in airborne salt.
14. Save the Date
I am not usually precious about spoilers, but I encourage a playthrough with little preamble. What seems a cheeky story about player agency delivers a beautiful and sad 'final' segment. When the game then asks you to make a specific choice, it seems impossible to do otherwise.
I am not usually precious about spoilers, but I encourage a playthrough with little preamble. What seems a cheeky story about player agency delivers a beautiful and sad 'final' segment. When the game then asks you to make a specific choice, it seems impossible to do otherwise.
October 23, 2024 at 2:10 AM
14. Save the Date
I am not usually precious about spoilers, but I encourage a playthrough with little preamble. What seems a cheeky story about player agency delivers a beautiful and sad 'final' segment. When the game then asks you to make a specific choice, it seems impossible to do otherwise.
I am not usually precious about spoilers, but I encourage a playthrough with little preamble. What seems a cheeky story about player agency delivers a beautiful and sad 'final' segment. When the game then asks you to make a specific choice, it seems impossible to do otherwise.
13. EarthBound
Y'all knew it was coming. My specific reason for this is not just about game quality. This was the other game my mom and I played together when I was a kid, and those memories have only made the narrative and themes of the game richer, to me. I always cry at the final prayer.
Y'all knew it was coming. My specific reason for this is not just about game quality. This was the other game my mom and I played together when I was a kid, and those memories have only made the narrative and themes of the game richer, to me. I always cry at the final prayer.
October 23, 2024 at 2:05 AM
13. EarthBound
Y'all knew it was coming. My specific reason for this is not just about game quality. This was the other game my mom and I played together when I was a kid, and those memories have only made the narrative and themes of the game richer, to me. I always cry at the final prayer.
Y'all knew it was coming. My specific reason for this is not just about game quality. This was the other game my mom and I played together when I was a kid, and those memories have only made the narrative and themes of the game richer, to me. I always cry at the final prayer.
12. ECHO
One of the best horror games of the past decade. Its endless gilt baroque death planet sets the stage for an unsettling and unrelenting terror run from enemies that look just like you, and learn from /any/ mechanical choice you make. They won't run, shoot, open doors unless you do, first.
One of the best horror games of the past decade. Its endless gilt baroque death planet sets the stage for an unsettling and unrelenting terror run from enemies that look just like you, and learn from /any/ mechanical choice you make. They won't run, shoot, open doors unless you do, first.
October 23, 2024 at 2:02 AM
12. ECHO
One of the best horror games of the past decade. Its endless gilt baroque death planet sets the stage for an unsettling and unrelenting terror run from enemies that look just like you, and learn from /any/ mechanical choice you make. They won't run, shoot, open doors unless you do, first.
One of the best horror games of the past decade. Its endless gilt baroque death planet sets the stage for an unsettling and unrelenting terror run from enemies that look just like you, and learn from /any/ mechanical choice you make. They won't run, shoot, open doors unless you do, first.
11. Shadow Hearts
Another PS1/2 RPG that never got quite the same attention as more popular series of the time (or after). It chooses an interesting historical moment to take place in (the years between WWI and II) and integrates some really fun, active parts of the turn-based battling that I love.
Another PS1/2 RPG that never got quite the same attention as more popular series of the time (or after). It chooses an interesting historical moment to take place in (the years between WWI and II) and integrates some really fun, active parts of the turn-based battling that I love.
October 23, 2024 at 1:58 AM
11. Shadow Hearts
Another PS1/2 RPG that never got quite the same attention as more popular series of the time (or after). It chooses an interesting historical moment to take place in (the years between WWI and II) and integrates some really fun, active parts of the turn-based battling that I love.
Another PS1/2 RPG that never got quite the same attention as more popular series of the time (or after). It chooses an interesting historical moment to take place in (the years between WWI and II) and integrates some really fun, active parts of the turn-based battling that I love.
10. The Legend of Dragoon
You want to talk about RPGs I spent inordinate amounts of time on? No Final Fantasy stands up to my dedication to The Legend of Dragoon as a teenager. Lavitz's death means more to me than Aerith's; that's not a critique of FF7, it just is a truth about me.
You want to talk about RPGs I spent inordinate amounts of time on? No Final Fantasy stands up to my dedication to The Legend of Dragoon as a teenager. Lavitz's death means more to me than Aerith's; that's not a critique of FF7, it just is a truth about me.
October 23, 2024 at 1:55 AM
10. The Legend of Dragoon
You want to talk about RPGs I spent inordinate amounts of time on? No Final Fantasy stands up to my dedication to The Legend of Dragoon as a teenager. Lavitz's death means more to me than Aerith's; that's not a critique of FF7, it just is a truth about me.
You want to talk about RPGs I spent inordinate amounts of time on? No Final Fantasy stands up to my dedication to The Legend of Dragoon as a teenager. Lavitz's death means more to me than Aerith's; that's not a critique of FF7, it just is a truth about me.
9. The Beginner's Guide
I am not here to compare Davey Wreden games. As much as I adore The Stanley Parable, though, The Beginner's Guide has a last act turn that battered me so beautifully when I first played it. I sat quietly for a long time after I finished this short masterpiece.
I am not here to compare Davey Wreden games. As much as I adore The Stanley Parable, though, The Beginner's Guide has a last act turn that battered me so beautifully when I first played it. I sat quietly for a long time after I finished this short masterpiece.
October 23, 2024 at 1:52 AM
9. The Beginner's Guide
I am not here to compare Davey Wreden games. As much as I adore The Stanley Parable, though, The Beginner's Guide has a last act turn that battered me so beautifully when I first played it. I sat quietly for a long time after I finished this short masterpiece.
I am not here to compare Davey Wreden games. As much as I adore The Stanley Parable, though, The Beginner's Guide has a last act turn that battered me so beautifully when I first played it. I sat quietly for a long time after I finished this short masterpiece.