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Tag: EcoGothic

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A tired woman in battle-worn clothes sits cross-legged in swamp lit by late afternoon light.

Mending the Gardens of History

By Phoenix Simms • October 8th, 2025

South of Midnight uses nature to underscore the ways that human care and legacies of hatred scar not just on a human-scale. We come from the dirt and eventually return to it.

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Art from Final Fantasy VIII showing the character Laguna in the midst of battle.

Squall is Extradimensional

By Phoenix Simms • September 8th, 2023

When Laguna knew Squall and his allies were there but felt they were like faeries hovering in the ether unseen, wasn’t that what early encounters on forums and instant chat services felt like?

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A long corridor in a school building rendered in sepia tones.

Uprooting Time

By Phoenix Simms • August 4th, 2023

Déraciné is an interesting rumination on what makes game narratives convincing, but it’s also a game that effectively communicates EcoGothic fears of being at the mercy of nature.

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Mythology of the Commons

By Phoenix Simms • June 2nd, 2023

While there isn’t necessarily an overtly intersectional EcoGothic tone to Folklore, it does deal with bodies irrevocably changed by nature, binaries and transformed bodies.

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