the sound design is just very delicious to me

just woke up, feel like my dreams before waking up were on the path of telling me about or helping me unravel the meaning of some deeper hidden lore. i already don't remember what it was, the dream having fully slipped away from me

alan wake 2-brained so very deeply

ended up deviating from tagging to discuss theories about alan wake 1&2 and control, and now my brain won't stop thinking theory thoughts long enough for me to switch gears back into writing

i have so many thoughts about alan and thomas zane and alex casey and how their stories are connected to each other

this is very much what the inside of my head looks like right now

i'm not gonna talk about any of them here because it's all very much spoiler town but also because it almost entirely would not make sense to anyone outside of the fandom without going through a very very long process of explanation first

once again I have Lost at Sea stuck in my head and once again I am thinking about all the articles that called the alan wake chapter songs "pop music for weird people" and going

putting this one here to share because while it is connected to the lore and imagery of the game, it's also like

the most "if you know you know" of them and doesn't have as many outrightly transparent spoilers in it. you can absolutely listen to this one and be like "look, a fun, weird beach song!"Alan Wake 2 - Official Soundtrack - Lost at Sea (Cha...

they really popped off with putting Sam Lake's face and James McCaffrey's voice into the same character...

i'm down bad for alex casey