#ShadowMan ignores both of those. The path to progress can be anything, and almost all *seven* paths from every room are critical in one way or another.
Thematically, it’s appropriate and I like it as a challenge to overcome. In fact, I’ve considered finding every item (I still haven’t used a guide yet). However, it wouldn’t fly these days, and for good reason.
I decided not to look up anything unless I have to. I already knew some things by osmosis, but I only found out who made the game and about one confusing item.
I would categorize #ShadowMan as problematic. The character is created by white writers. The game itself was created by (mostly?) white people. Even one of the characters of color is voiced by a white actor. Not great. How well does it represent the culture it heavily borrows from? Not my lane to speculate, I would need to research it.
The 1999 game #ShadowMan predicted that there would be five #DarkSouls games.
(To explain – not a spoiler – that’s your main quest: to collect five Dark Souls, capital-D, capital-S. And there are five Dark Souls games if you include the remaster of the first and the Scholar of the First Sin.)
Fandom-dropping process, January report
It’s no longer the 15th of the month as I’m finishing this post…but I ran all the numbers on the 15th, so I’m counting it as a regular scheduled update.
I’ve finished one A-to-Z pass of “handing off and/or punting specific webcomics.” In total, that knocked a couple hundred fandoms off my list. Guess I’ll do another, go harder, and knock out a couple hundred more.
There was a point when I thought about starting a habit of “sweep the Unassigned Fandoms list for tiny underloved Christmas movies,” because sweeping for underloved webcomics was working well. Didn’t end up doing it regularly, though — I just got 12 movie fandoms with 1 fic each, and stopped there. So I dropped all of those in an afternoon. (In the years I was babysitting them, the most active of these fandoms came out with…a whole 2nd fic.)
I also dropped some Random Things that I picked up through the irregular process of “checked out a new canon, enjoyed it, went to see if there was any fic on AO3, found an unwrangled fandom with 1 work.” Stuff like Phoebe in Wonderland (2008), Gary and His Demons (Cartoon), or Her Voice is a Backwards Record – Ozy Brennan. They almost certainly won’t suffer if they stay unwrangled for a while.
(There’s still only one fic for Shadow Man – Melissa Scott…and it’s the one I wrote. Guess it’s depressingly safe to leave “the queer intersex revolution/romance where everyone’s on space drugs” unwrangled, huh.)
With bigger Random Things, when they’re active enough I don’t want to leave them unwrangled, I’ve been making the occasional post about “looking to hand off this fandom, will anybody take it?” Breaks up the monotony of the batches of webtoons, I think. And it’s had maybe a 50-50 success rate — not bad. I’ll keep at it.
…I did actually add 2 new fandoms since the last update. A couple fans wrote about the Toon Makers US Sailor Moon pilot for Yuletide 2025, so that has a fandom tag now, and I picked it up to go with the rest of the Sailor Moon fandom tree.
Then it came up in the “wranglers wanted” channel that Pet Shop of Horrors was unassigned. And how was I supposed to resist picking up PSOH? I love PSOH. That manga reread I just recently started will pair perfectly with a review of the existing PSOH tags.
So my current total number of fandoms is 1183. (The number of “fandoms that actually have any new tags to deal with right now” is 28.)
344 down, 733 more to go…
#PetShopOfHorrors #SailorMoon #ShadowMan #tagging #webcomics
Post-Rock Collective Shadowman Unveils Dark Debut Single “Flowers”
Photo by Danielle PerryShadowman is a new collaborative project featuring John J Presley, Ben Hillier, and Danielle Perry, focused on creating freely with mutual inspirations. Their debut single, “Flowers,” is a tapestry of sonics, featuring crunching guitars, motorik drum machines, and a death march brass section (with Pete Wareham on sax). Presley wrote the lyrics after observing a friend’s breakup followed quickly by the ex-partner’s new relationship. The track is a pure experiment blending 80s delay, synth, and post-rock build-ups.
A Masterclass in Exploration & Atmosphere | Shadow Man + The Comics
by Boulder Punch
Whether you'd like to visit New Orleans' Deadside, the jazzy Wham Bam Club, or a speakeasy for vampires, you should definitely read Locus Magazine to make an informed decision ;)
As was said (and using the opportunity of Bandcamp Friday), I bought "Shadow Man Remastered" soundtrack. There are two versions: one with less tracks and more composed and the other one are tracks as used in a game, sometimes short. I decided to go with the first one.
https://timhaywood.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-man-remastered-official-soundtrack
22 track album
The #shädowmän (#hugthesun) X #papavperpetua (ghost) crossover nobody asked for.
Ah, the light!
#KätToon #shadowman #PapaV #TheBandGhost #GhostTheBand #ghost
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