Serah
@etherealserah.bsky.social
she/her
heart belongs to @video-witch.bsky.social
Watch my cries for help here: http://youtube.com/@ethereal_worlds
heart belongs to @video-witch.bsky.social
Watch my cries for help here: http://youtube.com/@ethereal_worlds
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Serah
@etherealserah.bsky.social
· Oct 29
Survival Horror's Fantasy Lineage
YouTube video by Ethereal Worlds
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NEW VIDEO!
Horror and fantasy have always been strongly related through their shared gothic lineage and the survival horror genre in particular has long adhered to a dungeon crawling game structure which greatly influences the ways in which its stories are constructed. Let's explore that!
Horror and fantasy have always been strongly related through their shared gothic lineage and the survival horror genre in particular has long adhered to a dungeon crawling game structure which greatly influences the ways in which its stories are constructed. Let's explore that!
I keep thinking about The Worm Ouroboros again. I've a real weakness for any fiction so hypermasculine that it overflows into a mighty homosexuality
December 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I keep thinking about The Worm Ouroboros again. I've a real weakness for any fiction so hypermasculine that it overflows into a mighty homosexuality
Great article, really loved it. If you ever wondered why I'm such a shooter for the amiga, it's this style of game. There are so many more of them than you know.
December 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Great article, really loved it. If you ever wondered why I'm such a shooter for the amiga, it's this style of game. There are so many more of them than you know.
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Please spend more time clicking on (and sharing!) links to personal sites, your friend's Bandcamp, that specialist news site, and that forum you used to read daily than posting about how you miss the old internet. The old internet's still here! You just stopped visiting!
December 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Please spend more time clicking on (and sharing!) links to personal sites, your friend's Bandcamp, that specialist news site, and that forum you used to read daily than posting about how you miss the old internet. The old internet's still here! You just stopped visiting!
I have infinitely more respect for art which proudly does things I despise than anything which is compromised in an attempt to avoid alienating me.
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I have infinitely more respect for art which proudly does things I despise than anything which is compromised in an attempt to avoid alienating me.
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The Cheeseburger scene from City but if it was Cecilia from Wild Arms
December 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Cheeseburger scene from City but if it was Cecilia from Wild Arms
look I know people like it but I'm pretty close to delisting that survival horror video. I just don't feel like I expressed my point very well and I really hate that it has two closing paragraphs that say almost the same thing. It's just a structural mess, top-to-bottom.
December 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
look I know people like it but I'm pretty close to delisting that survival horror video. I just don't feel like I expressed my point very well and I really hate that it has two closing paragraphs that say almost the same thing. It's just a structural mess, top-to-bottom.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I get my surgery dressings removed tomorrow, please don't ruin it by talking about The Game Awards
December 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I get my surgery dressings removed tomorrow, please don't ruin it by talking about The Game Awards
Turns out I shouldn't need additional surgery after all!
It is tomorrow but now the surgery is tomorrow. Extra day on the ward.
Least I get some days off work
Least I get some days off work
The gigantic cyst on my head is gone but not dead. There are more roots beneath the roots and I will have to be put under for surgery tomorrow to kill it truly.
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Turns out I shouldn't need additional surgery after all!
It is tomorrow but now the surgery is tomorrow. Extra day on the ward.
Least I get some days off work
Least I get some days off work
The gigantic cyst on my head is gone but not dead. There are more roots beneath the roots and I will have to be put under for surgery tomorrow to kill it truly.
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It is tomorrow but now the surgery is tomorrow. Extra day on the ward.
Least I get some days off work
Least I get some days off work
The gigantic cyst on my head is gone but not dead. There are more roots beneath the roots and I will have to be put under for surgery tomorrow to kill it truly.
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The gigantic cyst on my head is gone but not dead. There are more roots beneath the roots and I will have to be put under for surgery tomorrow to kill it truly.
I'm stuck in hospital on my phone which doesn't have a VPN, so I won't be able to answer DMs until tomorrow
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm stuck in hospital on my phone which doesn't have a VPN, so I won't be able to answer DMs until tomorrow
One day, when I feel like writing about games again, I will write about the small but fascinating pub crawl genre of the early British games industry.
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
One day, when I feel like writing about games again, I will write about the small but fascinating pub crawl genre of the early British games industry.
worst part of being back home is I can understand what they're saying on the news again
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
worst part of being back home is I can understand what they're saying on the news again
back from tokyo. they left my luggage in abu dhabi.
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
back from tokyo. they left my luggage in abu dhabi.
I love you profoundly, and I intend to do so forever.
Currently on my Japan trip and while deciding to look at Sega headquarters my darling loving girlfriend Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social proposed to me. I said yes, gay women married in front of the home of Sonic the Hedgehog. We'd like to thank Sonic 06 for resulting in this series of events.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I love you profoundly, and I intend to do so forever.
I wasn't expecting to get actual birthday presents but I got some great ones.
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I wasn't expecting to get actual birthday presents but I got some great ones.
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A little bit later, but I know there's also at least one demake of a Japanese eroge from this scene! Anime Story from 2004 is a conversion of Three Sisters' Story for MS-DOS and Windows.
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A little bit later, but I know there's also at least one demake of a Japanese eroge from this scene! Anime Story from 2004 is a conversion of Three Sisters' Story for MS-DOS and Windows.
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The Russian ZX Spectrum scene of the mid-late 90s is fascinating. With more powerful computers expensive and out-of-reach for most, there was a scene of dedicated strategy fans bringing demakes and unique versions of Civilization, Master of Orion, and XCOM to ZX Speccy 'Pentagon' clones.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Russian ZX Spectrum scene of the mid-late 90s is fascinating. With more powerful computers expensive and out-of-reach for most, there was a scene of dedicated strategy fans bringing demakes and unique versions of Civilization, Master of Orion, and XCOM to ZX Speccy 'Pentagon' clones.
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I have released a demo for a small game I'm making
videowitch.itch.io/tennis-witches
videowitch.itch.io/tennis-witches
Tennis Witches by Video Witch
A tennis RPG with witches and funny little creatures
videowitch.itch.io
November 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I have released a demo for a small game I'm making
videowitch.itch.io/tennis-witches
videowitch.itch.io/tennis-witches
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Caught in the rain in The Frasier Companion (PC, 1995)
October 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Caught in the rain in The Frasier Companion (PC, 1995)
it's now been more than a year since I last made a video. I've been kinda down on the idea of ever doing anything else on YouTube to be honest. I still have things I'd like to rant about for an extended period--game maker, MSX, Wines of the World--but ig we'll see if they end up bein videos or blogs
October 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
it's now been more than a year since I last made a video. I've been kinda down on the idea of ever doing anything else on YouTube to be honest. I still have things I'd like to rant about for an extended period--game maker, MSX, Wines of the World--but ig we'll see if they end up bein videos or blogs
I bought it. I also downloaded the updated Gold Edition, which has a slightly different user interface.
Honestly it's so charming that I kinda wanna get some wine now...
Honestly it's so charming that I kinda wanna get some wine now...
I'm kinda getting obsessed with multimedia CDs. Some of what I'm looking at is in my existing wheelhouse--digital magazines, electronic literature, etc--but I'm also trying really really hard not to buy "Wines of the World" right now. I don't even drink wine!
October 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I bought it. I also downloaded the updated Gold Edition, which has a slightly different user interface.
Honestly it's so charming that I kinda wanna get some wine now...
Honestly it's so charming that I kinda wanna get some wine now...
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Wines of the World, Gold Edition (PC, 1997)
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Wines of the World, Gold Edition (PC, 1997)