about me
hello! nice to meet you. I'm the titular faea, and this is my scrappy little corner of the internet where I catalogue and share all of my creative pursuits.
I am predominantly interested in video games, and the main thing you'll find here is my writing on those: I discuss things I like about them or otherwise find interesting, from a partly-analytical and partly-personal lens. I tend to talk about the feelings of playing games – the way their design elicits interesting thought process or emotional responses – with a general lean towards mechanics and systems. my own personal tastes tend to lean towards games with a high level of interesting decision making (I play a lot of intense action games and classic RPGs), with a strong use of mechanics to drive narrative or storytelling ideas, and anything just a bit idiosyncratic or 'out there'. (especially the last one, I'm fuelled by novelty.) I tend to chase curiosities very deeply, so you'll often find me talking about very niche or underdiscussed games.
as for writing, my two main outputs tend to be:
~ articles on specific games: these focus more directly on one specific game, or broach into other relevant topics surrounding them. they're tight, concise, and always about something I feel very passionately about.
~ faea gaming, my monthly games journal. basically the main thing I do; here I talk much more casually, discuss just about everything I play within a given month, and tend to get just a little bit personal on occasion. it's fun.
beyond that, my other main interests are drawing and, to a lesser extent, hobby game development; the former I've been doing since about 2018, the latter I've been casually pursuing through modding for longer, but only started taking a little more seriously a couple years ago. I also like to bake, and I'm dabbling in learning cake decoration.
thanks for being here. ~♡
elsewhere
~ if you'd like to contact me directly, you can do so at faearie@proton.me. I don't check my inbox very often, but it's the best way to reach out to me.
~ you can also find me posting about games and being a little silly over on bluesky.
~ my dev-related creative projects can be found over on itch.io.
~ I post the occasional replay of arcade-style games on youtube try not to be too impressed with what you see :p.
~ and, if you're feeling particularly generous and want to support what I do, you can tip me at ko-fi.
friends & others
I'm a part of the Warp Point video game site-focused directory / webring. you can explore other, similar sites to mine via the link, or the webring widget (which fetches a small, random selections of sites on the webring) below:
additionally, below are some of the web-spaces of my friends and other people whose work I like. if you like what I do here, go visit them, tell them I said hi.
lakespirit.love
Lakespirit's game design discussions are bubbly and approachable, talking about interactivity through a very experiential angle and drawing often from personal anecdote and other interests.
birthbydrip
pang writes very sharply and succinctly about ludic design and emerging gameplay dynamics of games, with a particular lean towards action and especially action-puzzle games.
once bitten, twice shy
Shy writes very delicately and emotively across her personal interests on her blog; predominantly music-focused, and stretching into all sorts of related topics.
steel on bone
curse's game reviews are blunt and err towards the comedic, but backed by a strong and interesting perspective on mechanical design and narrative of a much different range of games to my own usual sorts.
積読diving
On top of short stories and translations, Baxter highlights and talks with an infectious enthusiasm about Japanese art across all sorts of mediums.
you can find a larger list of other web-spaces in the button list in the fotter of every page. click around! if you'd like to link back to my own site on yours: firstly, I appreciate it, and secondly, you can use my button below:
