Mission Report
here
Mission Report
here
https://yearlyblues.substack.com/p/dostoevsky-was-right
- enjoyed the longing for connnection but lost me when it came to the ex-boyfriend
https://abasimaenyin.substack.com/p/decolonize-your-lust
- on the insesent creep of colonialization and neo-colonalism into lingustics and culture
- intersections of racism, classism, etc.
https://ritualhuman.substack.com/p/mens-unprocessed-anger-is-killing
- on the intended and unintended emotional and spirtual labour men put onto others
- humanity over masculinity
https://culturedump.substack.com/p/cannibalism-as-a-metaphor-for-love
- cannibalism in colonialism; in religion; as contemporary metaphor
https://www.themazaj.org/p/they-convinced-you-to-love-yourself
- self-love as complacency and placating; self-respect as accountability; as actionability
https://danioffline.substack.com/p/how-to-fall-in-love
- fall in love with the world and living
Hick, D. H. (2022). Horror and Its Affects. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80(2), 140–150. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab077
- on what is horror and what does it do / evoke
- different definitions, approaches, genres, and techniques of horror
Christopher, D., & Leuszler, A. (2023). Horror Video Games and the “Active-Passive” Debate. Games and Culture, 18(2), 209–228. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120221088115
- active versus passive debate on horror; through videogames and cinema
- interactivity, player input, empathy, breaking of genre or fourth wall, etc.
- consumption versus participation versus spectatorship etc
Taylor, P. M., & Uchida, Y. (2019). Awe or horror: differentiating two emotional responses to schema incongruence. Cognition and Emotion, 33(8), 1548–1561. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1578194
- on how awe and horror are similar yet distinct emotions caused by disrupting the norm and/or world view
Balfe, M. (2025). The Biological Horror of Capitalism. Journal of Historical Sociology, 38(2), 123–129. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12494
- capital as monstrous
- how capitalism kills you mentally and physically
https://rentfreewithayan.substack.com/p/youre-too-nice-to-be-any-good
- on woman and womanhood being polite, nice, digestible, second, etc.
- woman-ness as juxtaposed to artistry
- really enjoyed the writing of this one!
https://museguided.substack.com/p/the-seduction-of-suffering
- the false idea that suffering and/or pain is deeper or more legitimate than joy
- pain as a comfort; an excuse not to change; as stagnation
https://theebookclubx.substack.com/p/so-many-anne-franks-with-no-diaries
- on the reducing of human beings to statistics
https://midwesthetic.substack.com/p/third-space-you-cant-handle-a-third
- good critique of contemporary culture and buzzwords regarding community and lack thereof
La Marca, P. (2023). Horror Manga: Themes and Stylistics of Japanese Horror Comics. _Humanities (Basel)_, _13_(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13010008
- interesting yet brief recap of the evolution of horror comics/manga
Crofts, P., & van Rijswijk, H. (2024). Final Fatal Girls - Horror and the Legal Subject. _The Australian Feminist Law Journal_, _50_(1), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2024.233354
- critquing and analysing final girls / final girl theory
- on gender, sexuality, sex, and race
- great critques on horror media (movies mainly)
JONES, K., CORBITT, A., & STORM, S. (2022). Humanizing Horror: Rereading Monstrosity in Popular Literature. _English Journal_, _112_(2), 85–92. https://doi.org/10.58680/ej202232173
- restorying and finding the human in 'monsters'
- who is considered monstrous, and how can we change that
https://tugbaavci.substack.com/p/38-ways-to-create-more-than-you-consume
- good ideas, going to try some!
https://yearlyblues.substack.com/p/everything-is-a-win-when-the-goal
- good read about loving the mundane and appreciating your own existence
- no reward system/grading/competition/etc. - just existence
https://jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/rest-resistance-and-the-commodification
- Wellness / Self-care industry as captialist and consumerism
- rest is different for different people - it is not universal / does not exist in a vacuum
https://ohbevin.substack.com/p/chattel-slaverys-impact-on-the-orgasm
- erocticsm and sexuality etc. do not exist in a vacuum
- sexual abuse is inherent to slavery; literal objectification of Black women; rape as economy
- caricature's of Black women and its contradictions and harms
- autonomy, subjection, and economics
- heteronormativity as colonialism
- sexual policing; respectability politics, etc.
- great read and looking forward to next parts
https://www.avabear.xyz/p/nothing-will-change-your-life-more
- on being percieved; being loved; being yourself
- being too much and not enough and still going anyway
https://fatherkarine.substack.com/p/the-anti-cosmetic-surgery-essay-every
- enjoyed the critical take on cosmetic surgeries and choice feminism, but it seemed to lose the plot and intent towards the end
- feminism being dialed down to be "nice" and "digestible" etc.
- did not agree with everything, but an all together decent read
Førre, Ø. (2024). Horror movies and the social unconscious. Group Analysis, 57(3), 404–419. https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231167546
- social unconcious theory, person 5 esq
- dreams as social unconcious/movies, movies as social unconcious/repression/trauma
- didn't vibe with this one
Hall, L. (2023). Welcome to the horror show. Settler colonialism, gender and the horror film. The Canadian Review of Sociology, 60(2), 313. https://doi.org/10.1111/cars12433
- very potent commetary on settler colonialism and racism within horror movies
- from the victims/survivours standpoint and from the killers
- the ways in which killing is never 'random'
https://byanjolaoluwa.substack.com/p/the-performance-of-international
- on the performance, commodification, and co-opting of IWD
- from action/protest to marketing
https://annawharton.substack.com/p/what-would-a-woman-do-to-an-unconscious
- on rape and rape culture
https://museguided.substack.com/p/money-cant-buy-this
- class poltics, money can't buy happiness etc but it can buy convience
https://www.insurgentthoughts.com/p/ghassan-kanafani-and-the-co-optation
- commodification of political activism/language of revolution
- preformativity, meaningless discourse/no action behind words
- contradictions of 'revolutionary' academia
Hurley, K. (2021). Trauma and Horror. English Language Notes, 59(2), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9277216
- art as a mode of dealing with trauma?
- trauma as spectacle
Choi, J. (2024). Powers of (Body) Horror: Titane and the Queer Posthuman Abject. Screen Bodies (Print), 9(1), 42–53. https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2024.090105
- abjection versus objection
- body horror, transhumanism, queering the body
- the gaze / looking back
- really cool theories and interweoven with horror and queerness
Schwarz, L. (2022). The Paradox of Rape in Horror Movies. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 62(4), 671–686. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayac035
- interesting but also didn't really say anything/get any conculsion
- the repulsion / attraction dynamic ?
https://theenatoshaj.substack.com/p/we-actually-do-owe-people-an-explanation
- say it louder!!!
https://teoocriss.substack.com/p/see-the-good-in-everything-and-the
- cute and similar to my own healing process
https://finalgirldigital.substack.com/p/digital-girls-and-the-taxidermy-of
- on the feminine, AI, and the dessicration of the self
- well done!!!
https://simimuhumuza.substack.com/p/i-dont-dream-of-marriage-or-motherhood
- rejecting autonormativity and more!
Godin, G. (2022). Monstrous things: horror, othering, and the Anthropocene. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 56(2), 116–126. https://doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2022.2120709
- really well written with fascinating aspects of the Other and relationality, etc.
- I really enjoyed the integration of queer theory and failures
- the monstrous/the Other as the protag in my game
- ugh so so good!!
Aalders, T., & Kimari, W. (2026). A time for monsters: ghost projects, Gothic Marxism, and the transgressive horror of infrastructure futures. _Third World Quarterly_, _47_(1), 8–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2497866
- on hauntology and monsters of the past/future
- infrastructures and systems of colonialization and of failure to do so
- extremely interesting and well-written
- i wonder how i can apply this physical infrastructure critques to physcological ones?
Corbitt, A. (2023). Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity. Journal of Literacy Research, 55(4), 383–405. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X231215778
- loved the idea of restorying and reclaiming horror
- enjoyed the different methodologies and ways of knowing + inclusion of fanfiction
- i am excited to apply these to my own game!!
Sutandio, A. (2023). The final girls in contemporary Indonesian horror films: reclaiming women’s power. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2023.2186593
- i really enjoyed the variety of horror films discussed as well as the praise and constructive criticism of each film
- i want to watch these movies now!
- interesting to see how there are still big bad female characters the female protagonists have to fight against, as opposed to the patriarchy itself...
https://gabieli.substack.com/p/i-hope-i-am-lucky-enough-to-just
- i really enjoyed this substack, however, it still centres romance
- this just in! alloromantics/allosexuals discover friendship exists! Not every person is a hole to fuck or object to get fucked by! /half-joking
- seriously, this is a well written post and contains a lot of reflections on the competition of romance but doesn't quite go far enough / deconstruct it entirely
https://90smilk.substack.com/p/my-friends-dont-know-me
- this one felt relatable until the author realized they were only asking surface level questions
- I care about everyone so deeply that i do not know where to put all my love
- they know nothing of me, yet I know all of them. I wonder if i'm doing something wrong, if there is something fundamentally wrong with me
Almwaka, M. (2022). Complex Female Agency, the “Final Girl” trope, and the Subversion and Reaffirmation of Patriarchy: The Cases of Western MENA Horror Films. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 24(3), 1–11.
- interesting feminist reading of 'Scream' and subversion of conservative horror tropes
- deconstructing other horror films as upholding patriarchy
- seemed to think western films as higher art for being feminist/subversive as opposed to MENA horror films
Hawco, V. (2023). The Ludic Impact of Horror Games on the Body: Until Dawn, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and Alien: Isolation. _Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies_, _29_(2), 381–400. https://doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/2/9
- physical sensation / connect to horror game / player character
- importance of atmosphere, visuals (or lack thereof), lighting, sound, etc.
- Affect theory
- interactivity of video games as a medium
Pan, X. (2026). Horror to humour: The affective transformation of the moment of death in Little Nightmares. Convergence (London, England), 32(1), 51–67. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565251374171
- empathetic horror and how gameplay relates to feelings of horror + connectivity
- haptic feedback and use of controls
- microethology
Fouché, M. (2026). Player Experience of Minimalist Video Game Design: Case Study of Indie Horror Iron Lung. _Games and Culture_, _21_(1), 3–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120241235437
- interesting with relation to my own project/thesis
- minimalism as a tool /guidance as opposed to limitation
- used for creating atmosphere and affect
- thematic storytelling!!