it’s never too late to be tender

reporting live from I Love Women HQ, here's silent hill f scriptwriter ryukishi07 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩: (this article features ryukishi07's unedited thoughts, but you can read more of my interview with him and producer motoi okamoto in context here tinyurl.com/ytvy4ze2 ❤️‍🩹🔒) www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

many of silent hill f's most distinctive locations—the treacherous middle school, hinako's haunted house—didn't exist until developer neobards pitched them. ryukishi07 then absorbed them into his story, which was always meant to be a labyrinth behind the scenes 🦉 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

I’m planning a column about women and games next year. I want to discuss how stories about women are told/received in games, and how does womens’ criticism exist- where/what is it? If you are a woman game writer/dev/critic and would like to share your thoughts, dm or email [email protected] !

i'm not saying i could FIX him, but i do think pennywise would walk out with a different perspective if i had him watch the last unicorn 💜

Ashley nailing the interviews, the criticism, the experimental blogging, the Chaotic Good headlines. 2025. The Year of Bardhan.

⭐✨🔴 here's a little list of everything i've written about silent hill f so far: pills 💉 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent... haunted houses 🏚️ plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-1... dolls 🧸 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent... and my new big, buttery interview 🪓 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

like www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

RYUKISHI TELLING PEOPLE TO LIVE AGAIN MY GOAT

this guy fucking gets it

"'Your personal hell is a world of solitude that no one else can perceive, but please do not fall into the trap of assuming that others around you have no hell of their own,' Ryukishi07 warns. 'I would love it if everyone kept this in mind.'" 🩸

this interview is essential reading for SILENT HILL fans 🐜🦟🦗 i know i wrote it 🤧 but 😇😈 silent hill f producer motoi okamoto and scriptwriter ryukishi07 were just so honest with me about their vision for the franchise, and what they need from you... www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

Losing my mind over how good this is

on behalf of the first 🏔️ snow day in nyc — a blog about vicar amelia from bloodborne using some 14th century epic poetry conventions ^-^ 🐏 heroic couplets in iambic pentameter, alliterative verse, etc. because she's worth it ⛪⛓️ plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-1...

trout roe on my potatoes, vintage fox fur on my ears…. the nights are only getting longer, and i have no choice but to once again become a slavic princess 🧎‍♀️

every 4/10 game would be a 9/10 if there was a girl in it

one of my favorite interviews i've done ever ever ever is coming out next week, and all i will say for now is that i have reason to believe me and ryukishi07 are soul twins :3

absolutely nobody else is doing it like ashley 🖤🦇

Incredible stuff from Ashley

after years of resisting medication for my incapacitating OCD, i finally changed my life in 2024 🍪 i was facedown in the dirt before lexapro, fluvoxamine, gabapentin, and trazodone saved me that's why i love eating yummy pills with hinako in silent hill f yay 🥰 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

i’ve cried here in multiple different lifetimes

i've recently deduced that the meaning of life is to try different kinds of marbled cheesecake 🤨

hello ;0 i would be very grateful if you submitted (or just read! 🥤🍄🐇) my longread on dying 1,000 deaths in the very horrible video game shadows of the damned (･_･; #TYIVGB25 plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-0...

As our last EOY piece of the day – more tomorrow! – here's @ashleybardhan.bsky.social with a Don't Nod interview about Lost Records: Bloom & Rage:

omg the elden ring nightreign leather nun let me borrow her dior lip oil the other day so her lips are chapped in her profile picture, but she doesn't care!!! she's so selfless!!

Not one, but two classic literature quotes in a review of a Doom 2 total conversion mod. Beautiful

TOTAL CHAOS — a game title that requires you growl it like kurt russell — made me want to puke and quote lord byron ⛄ that's kinda what the long nights of winter inspire, too @apogeeent.com www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...

imagine "felony" was spelled like "bologna"... i think everyone would be a lot more relaxed

little goody two shoes from @astralshiftpro.com launched 3 years ago 🦢 but it just got a 600+ page digital artbook 🧁 consider this my plea to support "girl games" longterm! the devs that make them are some of the most committed to beauty, mythology, and ART, and i think the biz needs more of that

DOLLSWEAT, my solo ttrpg about turning into a doll, 🐾🪆, will release on january 5, 2026 ⋆｡°✩ it'll be available to download as a free PDF on itch you can keep up with the OCCULT, CURSED, DANGEROUS project here plantorbeast.itch.io/dollsweat 🎧🫀🦢

our planet could have been precious, kind, whole… but EA decided not to publish american mcgee’s alice: asylum 😔

this is how it feels to keep posting about fairies and blueberries and other girly things that interest me knowing i have a 99% male audience

just bought some more DVDs

uhhh guys does my head seem ok?? i‘m worried that i have too many thoughts 😳

weird girl winter yields to psycho spring, which puddles into strange girl summer, until we finally wind up back at phantasmagoria fall \( ˆoˆ )/☃️

bunnymaxxing 🎀

last night i wrote a poem from the perspective of the rabbit plushie in american mcgee's alice games 🐰🍎 i was thinking about how many awful things stuffed animals must witness helplessly. we're a lot like them. or really, they're a part of us 🍏 read on my blog: plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-1...

i'm going to think about teddy bears for the rest of the day :o)

we're hiring! ❤️‍🔥

GamesRadar+ is also hiring a hybrid UK-based Hardware & Tabletop Staff Writer. Come work with @thewordyben.bsky.social and me!

my inner child confronting me about why we aren’t D cups like shaggy in scooby doo 2

me and my recurring nightmare when we find out we both love mazzy star （＾Ｏ＾☆♪

balloon animals have so much to teach us

i love candelabra cinema

update: not only did i get scared by my own imagination, but i was also HORRIFIED to learn i'm really bad at math hehehehehehehe but the points system is fixed now........ DOLLSWEAT, my solo rpg about turning into a doll of rotting flesh, is on its wayyyyy 🌠 (image by 🫁 @metallicaisrad.bsky.social)

if every ashley in the world came together to support one another it would create one of the purest energies on Earth 🫴 (THANK YOU)

i DONT like him but he IS my boyfriend and i WILL cage him like an animal if given the chance <3

occassionally, a video game preview can be poetry — and this is one such time. lovely work @ashleybardhan.bsky.social

We sent Ashley to a mystical forest for this wonderful preview. Despite the '4' in the title, this Metroid certainly feels different.

the new metroid prime is like alice in wonderland, i think 🐰 i spent my time with it in a fantasy forest, but not alone… www.gamesradar.com/games/metroi...