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im currently re playing control!!! just finished the foundation dlc, the AWE one is next‼️ exited to see favourite tortured writer™

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Dark, Twisted, and Cruel - Mr. Ș̵̨̇̊̅ͅc̸̥̙̎͝r̶̹̪͗͆ä̴͉́ṯ̷̓͒c̸͉̘͛̅̅h̶̥̜̅ |Alan Wake 2 fan art|

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One thing I like about the Alan Wake fandom is that Wake is necessarily so self-serious about his role as writer, like that is his primary identity and he's super famous and well known, so much so that he becomes transformed into the platonic ideal of that role.

But despite this, based on what we actually hear and see of his work, a substantial part of the fandom has decided that Wake's actual books are... probably pretty shit? Like the more you read and hear of them the more you get the impression that they are super-pulpy super-tropey but very marketable cheap thrillers, and I think that's super funny and ultimately better thematically. That this big role of the capital-A Artist is filled by somebody who at the end of the day is quite crap, but the universe doesn't care because what the supernatural force cares about most is aesthetics rather than quality.

And like, this is also why the style of horror that he manifests into the real world is in many ways pretty corny and cheesy, because he's writing with pretty stock standard tropes, which are scary but only because they've been made real. Like part of the humour of it is that people are being chased around by shadow monsters and axe murderers that have been pulled out of a list of stock characters and are now bizarrely manifest in reality, where they feel very out of place because of it.

Anyway, the "Alan isn't actually a very good writer" interpretation is extremely funny and interesting to me and I support it wholeheartedly.