Whenever I have to do research for like a game or a story or  in this case a thesis, it tends to bring me to interesting directions I didn't expect to be going into. I'm not sure if that's a good sign or a sign that my writing is losing focus, but whatever! it's enjoyable, it makes writing and making worth pursuing.

I think I want to make a blog post for this as a sort of thesis research retrospective, where I look at my browser history, notes, and references to see what made me end up where I did.

Stuff like reading creepypastas, playing with various art toys, awesome music; a lot of it doesn't wind up in the thesis!!

So yeah reminder to myself to get a start on that, maybe today

I've been reading through the George Miles cycle, mostly because of it apparently inspiring Loner Dog, and then consequently finding out that Dennis Cooper was inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's poetry. I really want to take a closer look at how these works are intertwined, because I get the feeling that something interesting's in there in relation to the queer experience.

partly because i had a childhood crush on him, mostly because he was one of the most compelling characters in skins to me and I'd like to understand why