#faith not fear

[pupperish]

I'm probably missing some good ones but I ran out of space. Play Aconite.

Edit: added funger and that is the only change I'll make. I do not care about what your personal definition of an indie/horror game. This post includes psychological horror cause it's horror.

[bloodofelves]

► lovely indie games I played in 2023

[espeonseal]

horror games yipee!!! (late late halloween art tho..)

[stutterhug]

All the hungry eyes ~

[minzart]

Going togheter with this

[zetasattic]

Day 25, And So It Continues

And so it continues. Wayne didn’t want me to blog about all this but why stop now? This is life. Wayne wasn’t able to work on the toilet plumbing yesterday. We ran into other problems with the septic tank but on Thursday it will be pumped (cha-ching) and then it’ll be good again. After that Wayne will finish up the plumbing on the hall bathroom and hopefully the construction will be about done…

[dearjewels22]

Stop chasing after it... it's already yours.

[philosophybits]

Faith is not an aesthetic emotion but something far higher, precisely because it has resignation as its presupposition; it is not an immediate instinct of the heart, but is the paradox of life and existence.

Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

[naninadz]

finally finished this... the great colour wheel circle of indie horror games.

[mimiikw0]

⚠️ | BLOOD CONTENT | ‼️

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Love these guys so much I wanted a crossover

[theprinceofpeacesposts]

Amen!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.

[seraphim-eternal]

Peace be to you. Do not fear, you shall not die.

Judges 6:23

[thevirgodoll]

why are you waiting on confirmation that the best is on its way? you don’t need anyone to give you permission to claim what you deserve. it’s already written. this story already has your name on it. you just have to stop rewriting it because you don’t think it’s possible.

[inamindfarfaraway]

Batman fun fact! Did you know that Scarecrow’s toxin doesn’t always cause fear? Sometimes it does the opposite! In Detective Comics #571, he wields a variant that completely inhibits the biochemical fear response, preventing people from feeling any concern for themselves or using basic common sense. He runs a racket administering it to star athletes, who take huge risks and get badly injured. Then they’re willing to cough up a lot for an antidote. Batman and Robin - here Jason Todd - catch on, but Bruce is dosed with the reverse fear toxin; since his intelligence is his greatest strength, being too overconfident and reckless to think twice about anything makes him his own worst enemy.

This premise was adapted in the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Never Fear”. There we see that with no fear of losing his moral integrity, Bruce becomes cold and merciless to criminals. Robin - here Tim Drake - has to catch somebody he leaves to fall off a building, tie him up to stop him endangering himself and others and give him the antidote to prevent him murdering Scarecrow.

But in the comic book, Jason is kidnapped by Scarecrow. He gets gassed and hallucinates Bruce dying and telling him that it’s his fault. He isn’t around to keep Bruce in check as he goes to rescue him through a series of death traps that he can’t resist cutting it as close as possible in. So how does Bruce not go off the deep end? How does he not lose sight of what’s important? Not lose himself?

Because even a drug designed to shut down stress at the most fundamental level can’t overpower his true worst fear. The Dark Knight might feel fearless…

but a parent never is.

[thirdity]

It begins with fear, passion begins with a fear. Fear is the trembling of faith. One cannot have faith without being afraid. One cannot *have* faith, no human being. Being human is that: to have faith that's been fractured then stuck back together.

Hélène Cixous, Love Itself: In the Letter Box