Liz's Monthly Journal

2024-11-01

November 2024

Somehow this September saw me slowly emerging from the darker period I’ve been going through. I still crave the sunlight so much that I turn all the lights in the house on to compensate but life’s been pretty good. I’ve been drawing a lot, going back to working on Pious Rot and took part in the filming of a metal music video in a huge abandoned church. Website updates

As the end of the year approaches, I usually look back at the work I’ve done during the year, document it and spend some time on maintaining the tools I use most regularly. One of these is my personal website, which hold all my work and a ton of notes on a wide range of subjects that i use as reference.

In addition to adding some new drawings on there I’ve been working on a music theory page, that I use as a motivation to learn more about it and a future reference when I work on. music. Doing the little interactive keyboard thingy was especially fun.

I’ve also updated my watching and reading pages to display the information better on there and allow me to rate the books and movies and leave notes if i feel like it.

Unreleased Voidxwitch stuff

Me and Hex have also been keeping ourselves busy working on their project, we filmed a music video and are putting the final touches on the next single release. My friend Devine (Aliceffekt) also invited Hex to perform some vocals live at their upcoming show for a remix of Beast of the Black Hill. I can’t share much more about all that for now, but soon i will be able to ;)

Reading:

• The tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Epitath by Brendon Burton

Listening to:

• Harvest Sky / Obvious by Oklou
• alleswirdgut (Underworld Remix) by Brutalismus 3000
• Diablo Tribute Tape by a collection of artists and friends

Watching:

• The Creep Tapes, Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass - 2024

2024-10-01

October 2024

October was a month of rest for me, I’ve been dealing with quite a lot of health and personal stuff. I broke a finger and manage to cut the ligament inside of it and I’ve been battling the health system of Quebec to get it treated properly ever since (it’s in a much better place now). Apart from the color out of space print, the only other project i had the capacity to work on was the pre-production of the next music video we’re shooting in November for voidxwitch. That should be pretty fun and will be an opportunity for me to try shooting with a jib, pulling focus away from the camera and use an easy rig to make handheld shots easier. More details on that after the shoot ;)

I did manage to read, watch and listen to quite a bit of stuff, which has been a good change of things and has been inspiring me. Looking back at this month of October reminds me that creativity isn’t only about output but operates more like breathing, from time to time we have to take some art in to feed our creative selves.

Reading:

• Portfolio by Mark Schultz
• Radical Compassion by Tara Brach
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Color out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft

Listening to:

• Dieu Protège Les Miens by Von Bikräv
• Just like we never said goodbye by SOPHIE
• harvest sky ft. underscores by Oklou
• Tranceport by Paul Oakenfold
• Mineral Hool by Dj Ibon & Vilde Tuv
• The Spiritual Meat Grinder by Zheani

Watching:

• An Cailín Ciúin, Colm Bairéad - 2022
• Human Traffic, Justin Kerrigan - 1999
• Hellboy: the crooked man, Brian Taylor - 2024
• The Abyss, James Cameron - 1989
• Dagon, Stuart Gordon - 2001
• Cassandro, Roger Ross Williams - 2023

2024-09-01

September 2024

September has been pretty much a continuation of August in terms of how fucked and chaotic my life has been. A lot of things are up n the air and uncertain now, I’m trying to hold on to the rest to weather the storm. We’ve also been raising money for our cat Callie in order to be able to afford the care she needs as she approaches the end of her life.

Props for Shadow over Innsmouth

The man project I was able to find energy for this month was the monthly print and two props to accompany it. For the postcard I revisited the photos I took when I traveled to Massachussets and Rhode Island on a Lovecraft themed adventure many years ago and found a suitable picture to illustrate the derelict town of Innsmouth.

In order to recreate the look of a lot of postcards from the 1920’s that used a black and white photograph that was then colorized I desaturated the original photo and adjusted the contrast to get a good base and then recolorized it in photoshop with flat color shapes in slightly garish tones like they used to do.

The Esoteric Order of Dagon pamphlet was based on some research I did of old leaflets distributed by churches at the time, a good selection of fonts and the newsprint paper I’ve been using recently to add variation and a different feel to the paper I use for these props.

Reading:

• Warlike, Howling, Pure by Aerïon

Listening to:

• The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We by Mitski
• Apokalypsys by PAX
• False Lankum by Lankum

Went to see live:

• Zheani

Watching:

• The Neverending Story (1984)
• Kneecap (2024)

2024-08-01

August 2024

The month of august have been especially chaotic and challenging for me with interpersonal and emotional troubles piling up. It feels like one of those moments in life when a bunch of shitting things happen at the same time and you have to focus your energy on solving them and getting through while hoping thing get better on the other end.

I’ve also been having a lot less tattoo clients this summer and practically no client work for illustration or logo work, which makes some things harder but also freed some mental space and time to figure out the hard stuff.

Beast of the Black Hill music video

After spending 5 nights in the woods shooting the music video in July, me and Hex at down at the editing table to put the whole thing together in August. Once again, like we did for the Kill the Pain music video, the storyboard and animatic were super helpful as a base to put down the structure and the main shots of the edit. And this time I went even further and planned some transitions using matching camera movements in the storyboard and the shotlist so when we would get to the editing we would have shots that match for the key transitions. Some of those ended up working and some didn’t but it was fun to try it out and it allowed me to see what was missing in the planning stage to really nail those.

The place where I think I’ve progressed the most is the color grading. In preparation for color grading this music video I went down a deep dive in getting to know Davinci Resolve better and understanding better how to work with raw log footage, color spaces and all that and I think it really paid off. I was able to get much more saturated and moody looks and also figured out how to use gradient masks to apply a color shift on just parts of the image, like the still above where the red tint accentuates the red lights that we put in the background.

I also got to do some composition for the first time, combining the two harbinger characters. For this we did a test prior to going out and shooting the actual music video to see if we could do it in a way that’s convincing, which allowed us to learn about the best way to light a scene like that to hide the seam in the middle.

And lastly I played quite a bit with the infrared trailcam footage in order to find a treatment that would retain it’s eerie quality but still blend well with the footage from the other camera. I ended up using two gradient adjustments, one darker at the top and and one lighter at the bottom and some tilt-shift blur that brings the focus in the middle of the shot and create an even more surreal feel.

Diablo tribute tape

This project that started almost as a joke on Mastodon with some friends became a whole thing pretty quickly, with 10 musicians pitching in one or more Diablo inspired song to create a whole compilation. I used the opportunity to craft a really intricate j-card for the cassette release with a full scene of Tristram on the inside and plenty of small illustration referencing the original game all around. These are currently in production and I’ll update all of you when they’re up for grabs :)

Reading:

• Warlike, Howling, Pure by Aerïon

Listening to:

• Revanchist by Evian Christ
• Harlecore by Danny L. Harle
• Time is but the Drawing of a Sword by Lyndsie Alguire
• Positive Delusion by Clouds

Watching:

• The Boy and the Heron (2023)
• Alien: Romulus (2024)

2024-07-01

July 2024

July was brutally hot, the cicadas got out of the ground way too early and I definitely took that as a sign to slow down on some stuff. I’ve still been putting a pause on client work, trying to find a balance that’s more sustainable. That allowed me to work on some projects on a slower pace with less urgency like the Diablo tape project which has been super gratifying.

Music video shooting for an upcoming voidxwitch single

Most of July for me and Hex was spent on planning and shooting a music video for one of their upcoming singles. Our plan was to make something that would combine the aesthetics of the Blair Witch project and werewolf movies from the 90’s and 2000’s. Things were a bit different this time around since we didn’t got funding for it and we had to figure out a way to do it on a really tight budget and with just the two of us. We settled on 2 locations in the small Ontario town from which Hex comes from, one in the woods and the second one at screaming heads, a wild sculpture garden of giant screaming heads erected in fields and in the woods by an old hippie in the area.

Like we did for the Kill the Pain music video, I did extensive storyboarding and put together a very crude animatic with them to the music to figure out all the key shots, the camera movements and the transitions beforehand. From there we did some lighting and shot tests for the more challenging ones to see if our plan was achievable and to limit the amount of stuff we would have to figure out on the spot. The main technical shot we had in mind was one where hex plays two characters in the same shot, lip-synching and dancing on both sides of a tree. Our test for that shot allowed me to realize that the best way to light that scene without making the compositing really hard was to try to get the two lights on the subjects but barely lighting the tree in the middle, which would be our line where to cut the footage.

Additionally to the planning of the shooting, I also made / sourced a couple of props and accessories for the video; an old rusty shovel, a breakable chain, symbols made of sticks à la blair witch and the key element: a best mask, a leather mask and harness with a snout and ears that would be the statement piece for one of the characters. When the song and music video is out I’ll be able to develop further on the making of all this and share pictures of the process with you here :)

CD version of Earthworks

After the release of my album, the launch party and it’s distribution on all platforms (i caved in, it’s now on spotify, apple music and all other streaming platforms) I wanted to take a break to celebrate the achievement. Since then I’ve been thinking about what the physical release of it could look like. My conclusion is that a CD with a booklet in a digipack would be the best option, it allows the cover art to be a good size, the booklet will contain extra illustrations to accompany each track and the CD itself will allow a really crisp reproduction of the music in all it’s detail.

I’m currently finishing the design files for the digipack and CD and working on the illustrations on the side. They’re probably gonna take me a while to complete but it will be totally worth it in the end i feel. Depending on how much interest there is, I might do a special edition that includes a print of one or a couple of the illustrations with the CD too, we’ll see!

I also had the great surprise of being contacted by the local CKUT radio station that wanted a copy of my album since they’ve been playing it on the air :)

Reading:

• A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K. Nelson

Listening to:

• No help for the mighty ones by Subrosa
• Four Phantoms by Bell Witch

Watching:

• Ghostrider (2007)

2024-06-01

May and june 2024

I’m combining may and june because these two months have been mostly dedicated to re-centering, resourcing and figuring out some shit. Solstice was definitely a peak in energy and excitement as I released Earthworks. Most of my time and energy not spend on other things ended up directed to that project leading on to the release and I’m really of how the whole thing turned out, the album, visuals and videos.

Visuals for the Earthworks launch

That was an idea that I had a bit last minute when preparing my release, I though it would be cool to have the songs on youtube with some kind of visual matching each song for people to listen to the album there since i wasn’t doing the whole distribution thing for that album. I had quite a bit of fun revisiting my ireland photos and combining them in trippy ways for that.

The whole playlist is over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bRLcr2PHpw&list=PL01XwI4lbIITbFpQRVaRpOV7O9uiT-AfB

Nature photos from Lac Rouge

In may i had the pleasure of escaping the city to go spend a weekend beside a lake with my coworker from black circle, the tattoo studio I work at. It was really relaxing and grounding and i got to know better some of the great people i work with. It was also an opportunity to spend lot of time really close and connected with nature, with the carnivorous plants growing on logs on the low parts of the lake, with golden eagles flying close to us while approaching a clearing in a swamp, with tons of green frogs, bull frogs and spring peepers. I took some photos of the whole thing which you can see here: https://ritualdust.com/works/photo/frogs-carnivorous-plants/

I also recorded a choir of frogs at night with my field recording setup and I’m pretty excited to use that in a song :)

Videos and photos for voidxwitch

Beside all that, me and Hex are still grinding at the new Voidxwitch album and doing some short form video and photo stuff for promotion as we slowly prepare for the first single release. We bought a huge 50k lumen flashlight second hand for those and damn, it’s so much fun, and creates the most eerie images. We got the inpiration for that from https://www.instagram.com/briscoepark/ and also from needing a strong light but not having the money to get a big cinema light. We got some photos we took with it coming up, otherwise you can see some of the short videos i filmed (including one shot with our modified trailcam) over here in the shorts section: https://www.youtube.com/@voidxwitch

That’s about it for now, I hope you’re all doing great, I’m really looking forward to my album launch party on the 27th and to have the time / headspace to draw more :)

Reading:

• A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K. Nelson

Listening to:

• 100 gecs and the tree of clues by 100 gecs
• Fine Art by Kneecap
• Wild Silence by Seàn Ronayne
• Death Rave by Violent Magic Orchestra
• LIFA Iotungard by Heilung
• Ruins by Stick in the Wheel

Watching:

• Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
• Twister (1996)
• Honeymoon (2014)
• Godzilla minus one (2023)

Playing:

• Silent Hill 3

2024-04-01

April 2024

Spring is really setting in now, the trees are blooming, sleeping plants are shooting out of the earth and I feel very motivated and inspired by all this rebirth and sun energy coming in.

Here’s a little recollection of the things I worked on during this last month. Some of which I wrote more in depth about here or will in the future as they progress.

Earthworks album

I’ve been putting a lot of work on this lately, ever since figuring out the direction of this album and which songs should go on there. Over a couple years the songs that I pictured fitting on this first album shifted around quite a bit, I made some new ones, rediscovered old ones and played multiple iterations of a live set encompassing part of what became Earthworks.

If everything goes to plan I’ll finish the last song in the coming weeks, get the album mixed and mastered and release it on the day of the summer solstice.

Eternal logo

This is a commission piece for a friend on which I’ve been working on for a while. He’s starting his own games consulting company and wanted something with darker and more experimental feel than most logos for these types of companies. I’ve tried a couple things until settling down on two custom typefaces intertwined together, one being inspired by black metal logos with a shaded treatment and then pixelated.

Trailcam camera rig

In preparation for a music video we’re planning for voidxwitch I’ve been modifying a trailcam to turn it into a versatile video / still camera that can shoot both color and infrared footage. So far I’ve figured out how to make the case smaller, how to power it with regular camera batteries and how to put it in a cage so i can attach more accessories to it. I’ll keep working on this for the next couple months until we’re ready to shoot.

Low poly cursed town for voidxwitch

After completing the PS1 style avatar that I did for voidxwitch visuals we had the idea to make a whole little cursed town n which we could do different animations and scenes. We’re channeling Silent Hill and Blair Witch quite a bit for that alongside real locations from Hex’s past.

Reading:

• Listen to the Land Speak by Manchàn Magan

Listening to:

• Triptych: part one by Harvestman
• Aghavarick Acid by Local Gods
• Ashes of May by myself

Watching:

• Pastoral: to Die in the Country (1974)

Playing:

• Silent Hill 2

2024-03-01

March 2024

March was a month of misfortunes, hardships and incredible experiences. The main thing that occupied my mind and time was planning for and going to see Zheani with Hex in Brooklyn, in a sort of pilgrimage. In the last couple years, all of our travels have been strongly motivated by the desire to go to meaningful places and meet and connect with people who are important for us, and engaging in culture.

The trip to Brooklyn was tiring but also inspiring and powerful, really cementing our intention me and Hex of being artists first and investing a lot of time and energy into our art. Zheani’s show was insane, I’ve never felt such a strong presence and energy from a live performance and the whole thing felt very much like a small collective ritual. I highly recommend going to see her if you can, she’s starting a world tour soon ;)

Zheani sigil

In preparation for going to see Zheani, I discussed with Hex what they’d like to have signed by her and we came to the conclusion that a charm carved in wood with her sigil would be a pretty unique choice. It had been a long time since I had done any wood carving but it was a very welcome change of craft. Zheani’s sigil was very fit to be carved with it’ sharp angles it ended up looking really goof with some areas deeper than other. I finished the whole piece except the sigil with black paint and painted a quote around the edge. At the show we got the pleasure to meet Zheani for a little bit and have her signing it, it is really charged now.

Pious Rot Trailer

As the first module of Pious Rot is getting closer to completion I thought it would be fun to put together a little trailer for the Northern part of the world and introduce some of the aspects that makes Pious Rot unique as far as TTRPG settings go. I used photos I took in Iceland along with some that our friend Des took while living on an island in New Brunswick. The pictures somehow really captured how we were seeing the land that we had created with it’s rough but beautiful nature, ample species of moss and seaweed and the large expanse of cold sea. You can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-aOX7SJKOE&t=29s

Voidxwitch PS1 style character

Inspired by the original Silent Hill game and seeing people online making a low-poly version of themselves in the style of the PS1 I had the idea to attempt to make a 3D avatar of Hex for Voidxwitch in order to use for short videos and images to promote the project and build the world around it. Knowing that I would have around 20 hours to kill on the train to and back from Brooklyn I took some reference pictures and downloaded a tutorial in advance and then got to work while passing through small derelict American towns on the train. I ended up learning a whole lot about the limitations of the PS1 and the way models were textured back in the day. I ended up really enjoying the process and the minimalism of the modelling really allowed me to keep thing manageable for my 3D skill level. This model is now rigged and can be animated and the result is really fun (and uncanny). You can see a first animated video here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JJyNqwTmCZk

Reading:

• Ecstasy is Necessary by Barbara Carrellas

Listening to:

• Silent Hill 1 soundtrack by Akira Yokohama
• Liebe in Zeiten der Kola by Brutalismus 3000
• Satan was a baby boomer by Brutalismus 3000
• Assorted Mushrooms of New England vol.2 by Mycologia
• The horgenaith by Sarahsson

Playing:

• Silent Hill 1

2024-02-01

Februrary 2024

Thoughts about my music project

I’ve had some more revelations about the album I keep wanting to make with Ritual Dust, I keep writing these in disconnected little notes as they come to me and slowly a clearer picture of the shape of the work and the intent behind it is emerging.

It is time to usher in the new ways. It’s not the time for a return to the land but to return the land back. Where we’re going we don’t need a romanticized past to guide us, but instead a deep and honest curiosity for the ways human lived, organized and collaborated outside of the hold of capitalism and white supremacy.

I think I’ll take the title of the album from this first bit; Usher in the New Ways which plays on the whole idea of bringing back the old ways which is deeply flawed and motivated by the fact that as a culture we stuck ourselves in a place where we can’t imagine the future anymore.

There is a yearning for folklore, for deep connection and meaning, for a feeling of being part of the landscape, for rituals and celebrations that bring us together, for magic and enchantment.

I’m definitely gonna be exploring folklore and ritual in the album, and looking into ways to fill the spiritual hole that whiteness created in us as it severed us from the culture of our ancestors.

I want to bring people together to create something akin to a stone circle, a monument, a sacred site, a place of meeting and celebration but above all an incredible act of collaborative work not motivated by greed or centralized power but by a shared mutual interest and excitement, which for me is part of what being human truly is

That’s the most recent piece that clicked in my head, the idea of collaborating and doing the album with other people. Not only it’s something that ha always motivated me, bringing people together to create something larger that what we can accomplish alone but it’s also incredibly motivating and inspiring to me to have the input of other creatives and share ideas. And most importantly it models what I think we need to do at that point in time to bring change in our society and to face stuff like the climate crisis: building community, mutual help and collaborative action.

The more I keep figuring out this project, the more the songs I have been working on seem like a precursor for it instead of a part of it and I’m realizing that I should move forward and get these songs out in an EP first, close that chapter and then start this bigger album project officially. So my current goal musically is motivating myself to finish my favorite tracks I’ve been working and playing live into an EP that I’ll call Earthworks and release it when it’s done.

Putting Fantômes into hiatus for another year

This was the logical succession of figuring out what I wanted to do with my music project and also the other projects that are important for me these days; Pious Rot and the work I’ve been doing with VOIDXWITCH. Since I want to have more direction in my work and focus my energy on these, I’m pausing Fantômes for another year to create space for myself to explore these other things. In an ideal world I wouldn’t have to work a day job on top of that and could really fully engage with the work that is meaningful to me but we still need to pay bills. I’m curious to see how this year will go for those other projects and where we’ll be in a couple months.

Curse pop typography for VOIDXWITCH

Hex came up with that term Curse Pop to describe their music recently and we had the idea of turning into some kind of visual that we could reuse for their project, either as just a static visual, animated in music videos or even on merch. Since doing the new logo for their project I’ve been really inspired by the whole neo-grunge / acid graphics design aesthetic with it’s black metal lettering inspiration, 2000’s flair and chrome effects. So to continue in that line I drew a very spikey version of the lettering with the two words nesting into each other and with a very symmetrical composition, that way when we animate it or make it rotate it’ll work better and we can have the two words doing different things.

Then I headed to blender to do a 3d version of it. I’m so happy to go back to doing 3D in blender, I used to do quite a bit of it back then and even made a little zine with all 3d modeled landscapes and a small game. I find that 3D is such a great way to push visuals further and create effects that would be really hard to get otherwise. I’ve learned a lot of new tricks recently from watching https://www.youtube.com/@intr4 on youtube, like adding imperfections on surfaces and using HDRIs for more realistic reflections. This render is still a work in progress but i feel like I’m getting closer to what I want.

Photo experiments

Following some really early tests inspired by this video on the color style of the movie the Ring I went out on a walk and took more photos to see how the yellow filter combined with the tungsten white balance on my camera would look in daylight. I had so much fun on this little photo walk and was so inspired by seeing the results directly while shooting compared to doing color grading after the fact, I really feel that making visuals choices like that in camera can really change the way I shoot and how I look at different subjects. I’m more and more convinced that a lot of movies that date from the film era were so visually striking because of these bold in-camera choices that the DP took and committed to instead of trying to keep all doors open and figuring it in post. This had inspired me to get some film and start shooting more on film in order to have to be more intentional with what I shoot and how I do it.

Dolmenwood TTRPG illustrations

I recently got contacted by one of the people making the Dolmenwood TTRPG, they had found my work through the album covers I did for Aura Merlin and offered me a commission for a couple of illustration for their upcoming book. This is a big thing for me, I feel like I’ve been looking for that kind of stuff for so long, trying to find a way to make fantasy illustrations in my style for a living and collaborate with publications I’m excited about.

I’m currently still in the concept and sketch phase of the project but I’ll be update you on the process and I go along since those will also be made in full color, a welcome challenge and motivation with the cover of Pious Rot that I was planning to do in the same way.

Reading:

• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin

Watching:

• The X-files
• Godland (2022)

Listening to:

• BLVCK by La+ch, SVDP & Backxwash
• Out of the wind and into the Sun by the Bothy Band

2024-01-01

January 2024

As Imbolg and the renewed energy of spring (it already feels like spring here in Montreal thanks to climate change) arrives, I’m taking this time to reflect on the start of this year, take stock and set some intentions and priorities for the months to come.

Starting in December me and Hex decided to really focus the start of our year on improving our creative spaces and processes and also to take our art more seriously. This has led the start of 2024 to be a time of pretty drastic change. Our apartment has changed a lot, we donated a lot of things we didn’t needed anymore, put some more in deep storage in order to keep only what’s relevant to the work we are doing now and in the future along with some pieces from the past that inspire us. I now have three well-defined work areas in my studio space; the main one with the computers and light table where I do most of my drawing, one with a large cutting mat for printed projects and large scale drawing (that also doubles as a tattoo station when I want to do that) and a third one that’s more like a tiny woodworking workshop. This is still a work in progress and I’ll probably be spending a good part of this month finessing the details of my studio space and changing things around as I figure out what works best but I should be able to make a little tour for you in the coming weeks :)

Now, for some side projects I worked on during the month:

Business Cards for Reliquaire Perçage

One of my friends who’s doing piercing has reached out in January to have some business cards made. The brief was to draw a reliquary containing different piercing jewelry. I took the opportunity to do something pretty old school with the shiny chrome effect and picked some of my favorite fonts to go along with it.

Logo for Fall of Stasis

Alongside the sleep paralysis-themed illustration I did for the band, I also redid their logo and sigil. I went with a very expressive and sharp fraktur variation for the logo, building and improving on their old logo. It had been a while i had work with vectors for that kind of work but it was more fun than I remember, it makes it quite easy to reuse parts of some letters to make other ones and make the whole lettering piece feel more consistent.

Lyric Video for Kerosene Heart

As a normal progression from a short teaser we did a while ago for the Kerosene Heart, me and Hex worked on a Lyric video for the full song last month. I played around with color overlays, creative editing and a variety of fonts to illustrate the feeling of the different sections (including a custom font i made for the bridge).

This month of February will be focused on a couple things for me: finishing the layout and the cover illustration for the Northern Lands booklet of Pious Rot, making a visualizer for the full Ecstasy in Darkness album by VOIDXWITCH. I’m also gonna be working on next month’s Occult Correspondence print and I want to do some photography experiments with color filters.

Reading:

• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin
• Dice Men by Ian Livingstone

Watching:

• Season 5 and 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Heaven adores you (2014)

Listening to:

• Better way to live by Kneecap
• Return to Winterstead by Guild of Lore
• Middle Earth by Jim Kirkwood

Playing:

• Elden ring