Let me start by acknowledging how weird this is. I normally use my diary posts to write about things other than games, to experiment with my writing style and try new things. But then I finished Kentucky Route Zero, and I just could not get the game out of my head. It took me almost…

Two bugs, sitting on a beach, looking out over the blue water

This year has been a bit shit, hasn’t it? Between an unprecedented pandemic, rising police brutality, the ongoing climate crisis, the seemingly endless attacks on LGBT+ rights and the continuous shit show that is Brexit, 2020 has been incredibly unpleasant. But that does not mean that some great media hasn’t come out this year. From…

This is the first diary post I ever wrote. I wrote it almost two years ago, after going through a strange break-up with a person I had been seeing for a few months. The ending of that relationship affected the piece, causing it to take on a bizarre, fatalist tone. I’m not overly worried about…

Ice ice Vex-y

I’m sitting on a bench on the platform of Bideford train station. A few others sit scattered about; two mothers pushing prams, a woman with a sour face and her husband, a pair of young lovers who seem incapable of not laughing at each other’s little jokes and comments. Aside from the two women with…