Oh my god, bbc. How embarrassing.

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Yesterday, Remnants' penultimate episode came out. Next week, the finale will air. Is it possible to listen to all 59 episodes before then? I'm not sure, and I think you might end up melting into a puddle of tears if feedback on the show so far is anything to go by...

oh also... 33. 52. 55.

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As a special apology treat, though, I will tell you this: Episode 59 is titled 'Sir'. It flows pretty directly into Episode 60, which is titled 'Apprentice', and will be out next week so that you're not having to wait in tension for too long!

So I wrote this up on Tuesday, and by Thursday when it was posted, I was starting to get sick, and over the following three days proceeded to just get sicker. I am feeling much improved today, but I'm not confident that I'm working to the best of my ability, so Remnants' 59th ep will be out tomorrow

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They have the same expression on their faces, this is so lovely <3

I've been this way since forever. When I started telling stories as a child, they all ended the same way: 'and then they all died', I'd recite, in my trite little four-year-old voice. Dispositionally I have always been this, and I kind of love it, and it's not something that's likely to change.

There are SO MANY other creators who make work that's much lighter in tone and topic than mine! So many! I promise you they're out there. I know what I am. I'm a big, doomy, Gothic-Romantic. My soul wears a velvet dressing gown. I like writing about blood and death and forced hands.

It is GREAT as a reader/listener to want to vary the stories you're engaging with, but you cannot will a creator to become something they're not. Framing part of a work's essence (in this case, its Gothic drama) as a failure because it connects that works to others I have made is daft.

I don't think that my work is all doom and gloom, though. The endings usually hit people the way they do because of the hope baked in there, from what I can tell. That's certainly my intention and from what I've seen, I've been successful in communicating that.

I saw a comment earlier and I'm feeling a Kind of Way about it. My work is Gothic, in the sense of big having emotional overtures, gloomy imagery, and emotionally fraught subjects. It often gets very dark, and I'm not shy about that! They're all listed as horror and thriller and dark fantasy.

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