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esseJ

#ohhh the glowing red is so pretty #that pose is powerful #control remedy #control 2019 #essej

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reblogging this again if anyone has more recs (for books/comics too)!

anyone have recommendations for shows/games/movies similar to Alan Wake 2 or Control

#im slowly making my way through these #almost done with the first book of the southern reach trilogy rn #and watched some of the tv and movie recs!! #everyone who commented has great taste 😭

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Thinking about Saga coming home after the events of Alan Wake 2 to see her family, and Tor and Odin just. coming with to also visit the family. Congratulations Logan, you now have two party animal gods as your great grandparents for the (thankfully avoided) price of almost getting written out of existence!

#this is based off of absolutely nothing but it’d be fun if they taught Logan to play one of their instruments ! #or let her play the chimes in one of their performances lol #Tor and Odin would be very overwhelming at first but Logan seems to love family time! even if she jokingly complains #and imo I think saga would tell Logan about them and her seer powers. maybe not Everything that happened just yet but she wouldn’t want #Logan to be kept in the dark. she’s in for a wild ride when she hears all these stories #extremely funny how Tors will in some way always include ‘so i was beating someone up with my hammer—‘ #alan wake 2 #saga anderson #logan anderson #tor anderson #odin anderson #this is just a bunch of thoughts all thrown together

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Since I could make some screenshots, I would like to share my favourite place in Alan Wake 2: Saga's mind place. Maybe you see papers and work but I see her true self and I show you her treasures~

#my heart… #the part at the end that has her memories playing over these 😭😭 #:’) #everyone in the tags is right though—the lack of David 😭 #alan wake 2 #saga anderson #logan anderson #alex casey #it’s. so sweet that Logan and Casey frame the deer head (sagas guide) #they’ve cemented a place in her heart and life. essential part of her motivation in pushing through that horror story

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I follow you into the dark I follow you into the dark, dark, dark, dark

#OHHH THIS IS SO PRETTY #saga anderson #alan wake #alan wake 2 #follow you into the dark

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Tom the Poet or Tom the Filmmaker

I would like all my theories to have evidence that back them up. I’ve come from fandoms where things said are a cute thing, worth considering, but solid theorising comes with quotes, screenshots, counting toes and following the writer’s pattern of three hint and foreshadowings before the big reveal. Therefore, I’m going through the first game yet again to collect all this information and put it in something coherent, something I will be happy with. I hope that the waves of my research will carry me to the proper essay with all the proofs necessary on every statement I’ve made in my first pinned post.

But there are still questions that have no answers as far as I know. One of them: why Tom Zane was made into a filmmaker and by whom?

In Control’s AWE the cutscene where Tom and Alan meet is a toned-down version of their encounter in Room 665. Alan asks if Tom is the Tom, the poet and the diver and Tom replies that it was just a beloved character in his old film. They have the same conversation at the start of Room 665 in Alan Wake II.

Alan seemed always forget that he (or someone else) changed Tom’s identity to filmmaker, still convinced that Thomas Zane he encountered at the start of his journey was a poet and a diver. First, when Tom-the-filmmaker was introduced, I thought that Alan forgot who Zane was and what he learned about him (I wouldn’t put it past Alan: he forgot many things he wrote, even his birthdate somewhat slipped his mind — in 2010 or in the Dark Place; the guide for the first game states that he’s 31, when the statue near the Parliament Tower claims he was born in 1977), but in both cases he kept insisting that Tom was a poet. So, the opposite is true: Alan forgot that Tom now is a filmmaker.

But why is Tom made to be a filmmaker? Even the second game insists that the Tom was a poet: Cynthia notes this in her journal, marvelling at why everyone thinks that he was a filmmaker; even the boys of Old Gods of Asgard say “you need him [Tom] to write the ending,” “art, like Tom’s writing” and “it’s Tom’s story we are dealing with, he’s gotta be the one to rewrite it”. And they are the only three people who knew the real Tom Zane and have some credibility in what he really was: a poet or a filmmaker.

The boys, of course, are a discussion on their own; Tom and Alan are interchangeable in their heads, they might talk about Alan the writer, hence “write, writing, story, rewrite”, but Cynthia has no such issues. She never mistook Alan for Tom, she loved Tom her whole life, devoted to his wishes and for sure wouldn’t mess such a big part of his identity in her head.

Then we have This House of Dreams, where we can read poems, some of them are by Thomas Zane and the Bright Presence shows Samantha that he was indeed a poet. Let’s add Jesse Faden into the mix, who as well, remembers Thomas Zane being a poet and even recites one of his poems in Control’s recordings. She still believes he was a poet somewhere around 2019, judging by her words about her needing to be in New York soon. Only in AWE DLC when she hears Tom claiming he’s a filmmaker, she changes her mind. But at this time, she’s already in yet another Alan’s story, her beliefs shaped by his writing (or by the words of her therapist and this vision of Tom and Alan; take your pick).

So, the question remains: why was Tom made a filmmaker?

My belief here is that Alan (or Scratch — do not confuse with Mr. Scratch) had no need of a poet. In This House of Dreams we see two sets of poems: one is by Thomas Zane and another is by Alan himself, in Control’s AWE Alan also claims that he wrote poems, and what value can Tom-the-poet add to Alan’s attempts to escape? A filmmaker on the other hand, as Tom says in AWII, can make a companion piece for his manuscript. Hence the filmmaker, the auteur.

As a side note. I do believe that the real Thomas Zane never makes his appearance in any games, first we see the Bright Presence possessing the body of Tom, then we see yet another Alan’s face in the Dark Place, that takes shape of what he believes Tom Zane was, and this part of Alan becomes a filmmaker at some point in his journey. After all, as the real Tom once wrote:

When you’re lost You’re lost in your own company

#very interesting take and i agree w you op! #I don’t think there will ever be a clear answer to who the ‘real’ Zane is or the whole ‘who wrote who’ with Zane and Alan #but I agree it seems like Zane the filmmaker is. an entirely new person that suits Alan’s needs/perceptions of zane #likely spawned in from Alan/Scratch and then becoming his own thing #thomas zane #alan wake #alan wake 2 #im glad there’s people putting all this together because I did Not remember some of these things 😭 like Alan’s poetry #the thomas the rhymer title is also interesting from that poster. but like most things not a confirmation of any theory

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Alex Casey and Saga Anderson doing the thing™

#I’ve probably reblogged this already but here we go again #they’re so cute together #alex casey #saga anderson #when u become so close that u literally drink your coffees in sync 💘💕💞💓💘

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“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years. […] And there were houses,  that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.” ― Nora Roberts, Key of Knowledge

Houses in horror movies

The Conjuring (2013) dir James Wan

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) dir Wes Craven

Poltergeist (1982) dir Tobe Hooper

The Amityville Horror (1979) dir Stuart Rosenberg

The Addams Family (1991) dir Barry Sonnenfeld

Psycho (1960) dir Alfred Hitchcock

Beetlejuice (1988) dir Tim Burton

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) dir Jim Sharman

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) dir Francis Ford Coppola

Halloween (1978) dir John Carpenter

Crimson Peak (2015) dir Guillermo del Toro

#yessss #horror

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i think we're lost! augh !!!!!

#over the garden wall

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hey guys anyone want to smoke some dudebro deluxe cigarrettes and listen to the sound of bromance together?

#control 2019 #control remedy #i love all the different brands that reference past remedy games #it must’ve been sm fun to design all these details #tw smoking #might delete

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Darling -> Underhill:

Underhill -> Darling:

the mad scientist x mad scientist flirting is wild. there’s never a boring day at the FBC with this kind of office drama

#i am personally a Dr Underhill enjoyer. i think she’s very neat #she’s awful and mean <3 #and Does care too. but being a scientist comes first. #control remedy #control 2019 #raya underhill #casper darling #it’s not surprising in the SLIGHTEST Underhill and Darling get together sometimes #tbh she’s the less ethically dubious character Darling has canonically hung out with 😭 Thinking of Trench and Zane too #also. she was right that Emily should question the bureau more even if she was rude about it #👀 i just started the mold mission. :)

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Alan Wake 2 is like “every character is Going Through It™ in ways you cannot fathom but we dont have time to unpack all that” and it’s killing me. Tim why are you having an entire alien abduction sci-fi mystery in the background?? Why the SHAPES. The POLYHEDRONS. The red-haired woman! Quantum Break and Control references sure, but where is this all heading to. Tim is literally just some guy

#im hoping night springs dlc might go into this #other than the mysteries that are clearly meant to be vague or unsolved #doors entire deal with Tim is one of the only huge questions left #alan wake 2 #it’s funny that this is such a small aspect of the game 😭 #Tim and Alan meeting up after experiencing the horrors nonstop: hey buddy :) #tim breaker

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the scp website looms over me every time I read the files on altered items or objects of power in control and think “i need more of this”

#might delete #it’s just a lot to get into. all the newcomer guides 😭 #in that way it helps that control has a canon set of concepts and items

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-before he gets out.

#he’s incapable of not being suspicious #alan wake 2 #thomas zane #the fucking. ‘oh nooo please don’t hurt me im so sorey 🥺🥺🥺’ face lmaoooo

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Tom Zane || Alan Wake 2

#alan wake 2 #thomas zane #this is such a look #character design of all time

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not far into it at all, but really wish quantum break was sillier. or more interesting. also the walls of text for several of the collectibles, especially the emails, have been difficult reading through

#im still having fun with it but I feel like its way too serious for a kinda whatever plot #and i love to read everything and Will but it’s brutal reading through essays of email #only for it to not really give anything new or funny #like aw2 also has huge chunks of text but it’s usually divided between computer tabs or pop ups #remedy really improved on that w their next games because info is spaced out MUCH better #than having to scroll and scroll #might delete #only past the first ep so could end up loving the story later !

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ALAN WAKE II — [7/ᨖ]

Ahti in Yötön Yö (Nightless Night)

#ignore me reblogging this a second time because these tags are so good #Ahti #alan wake 2 #yötön yö #aleksi kesä #thomas zane #Ahti truly one of the best characters