"nothing happens, and it's really interesting!"

hello! i'm saori mitsueda, an amateur critic, writer, and game developer.
below, you'll find a list of the things i've worked on. check them out! ⬇️
(just keep in mind that the further back you go, the worse my writing probably gets)

games

🥀 prof lily

2022 - i became gay from translating my new roommate's short story

🕹️ solo

2022/12/09 - another reverie (for the gardens of vextro)
2022/06/17 - javascript sokoban prototype (github, twitter devlog)
2020/10/31 - golden rays of sunshine (for the vextro game jam & showcase 2020)
2017/02/28 - l'origine du monde (for the strawberry jam 1)

fiction

📓 fan

2021/11/26 - front support (blue archive, foreclosure task force comedy)
2021/03/30 - landscape with the fall of icarus (revue starlight, claudine/mahiru preslash)

criticism

📚 longform criticism

2021/11/23 - stories worthy of being told (@ lily lab)
2019/08/14 - kase-san and queer thirst (@ anifem)

🐝 cohost writing

2023/01/02 - buried flower

2022/12/24 - bocchi the rock!
2022/12/22 - do it yourself!!
2022/12/20 - yama no susume: next summit
2022/12/19 - revue starlight as a sanbox multimedia franchise
2022/12/18 - arknights: prelude to dawn
2022/12/04 - it's a detached relationship
2022/11/07 - arknights: stultifera navis

🐤 livetweet threads

2022/10/30 - arknights: prelude to dawn
2022/10/09 - yama no susume: next summit
2022/10/09 - bocchi the rock!
2022/10/09 - do it yourself!!
2022/09/17 - if you were none of these
2022/08/25 - gushing over magical girls
2022/08/08 - yuri is my job
2022/08/08 - mai no mushigurashi
2022/08/07 - liar satsuki can see death
2022/08/06 - lycoris recoil
2022/07/29 - the two of them are pretty much like this
2022/07/25 - the end of a dream
2022/07/15 - the executioner and her way of life
2022/07/09 - i'm in love with the villainess
2022/07/07 - school zone
2022/07/03 - arknights event: break the ice
2022/06/16 - unreal life
2022/06/14 - seabed
2022/06/12 - spy x family
2022/06/11 - this channel has nobody but us
2022/06/08 - you are my soulmate
2022/06/07 - love me for what i am
2022/05/22 - a yuri story about a girl who insists "it's impossible for two girls to get together" completely falling within 100 days
2022/04/22 - kaguya-sama: love is war s2/s3
2022/04/20 - shikimori's not just a cutie
2022/04/15 - elden ring
2022/04/09 - yuru camp s2
2022/03/26 - revue starlight movie
2022/03/15 - paper mario: the thousand year door
2022/02/27 - paper mario: the origami king
2022/02/25 - the caligula effect 2

2021/12/07 - final fantasy xiv: endwalker
2021/10/26 - movement mechanics in 2d metroid
2021/07/19 - the caligula effect: overdose
2021/07/14 - code vein
2021/07/06 - yakuza 0 [1] [2]
2021/01/03 - fate/grand order, lostbelt 3: SIN

2020/10/15 - fate/grand order, lostbelt 2: gotterdammerung
2020/10/10 - shin sekai yori
2020/06/24 - fate/grand order, lostbelt 1: anastasia

2019/11/07 - hollow knight
2019/10/27 - stars align
2019/10/26 - beastars
2019/10/06 - ascendance of a bookworm
2019/09/25 - soul blazer
2019/08/14 - kara no kyoukai
2019/07/27 - o maidens in your savage season
2019/07/20 - lord el-melloi ii case files
2019/06/17 - your turn to die
2019/03/27 - boobs are my favorite thing in the world!
2019/03/22 - kemurikusa
2019/03/08 - bang dream! s2
2019/03/07 - wataten
2019/03/04 - manaria friends
2019/02/13 - fatal twelve
2019/01/16 - assorted igavanias [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
2019/01/01 - 7th dragon 2020-ii

2018/12/05 - a silent voice
2018/12/03 - tamako market
2018/11/28 - k-on!
2018/10/25 - ssss gridman
2018/10/21 - tsurune
2018/10/17 - girls' last tour
2018/10/11 - bloom into you
2018/10/11 - zombie land saga
2018/10/08 - watamote
2018/09/11 - himegoto
2018/08/28 - revue starlight eps 7–12
2018/07/21 - harukana receive
2018/06/30 - hanebado
2018/03/30 - fate/extra
2018/03/28 - persona 3 portable

2017/11/12 - 7th dragon 2020
2017/10/16 - metroid zero mission
2017/10/13 - metroid fusion
2017/01/29 - earthbound

🐦 pensive twitter threads

2020/07/04 - questioning universal acclaim
2019/10/28 - yuri: calling lesbianism "yuri love"
2019/10/06 - genre luggage and isekai
2019/08/04 - character aesthetics in under night in-birth
2019/07/08 - yuri: on hanigare, flip flappers, genre language
2019/06/20 - yuri?: divorcing identities from contexts
2019/06/04 - granblue fantasy as an mmorpg
2019/05/24 - tops and bottoms in shipping [1]
2019/04/27 - yuri: on itou hachi's works and context
2019/01/26 - yuri: on yuri becoming more popular
2019/01/19 - yuri: on conveying characters' identities
2018/12/15 - yuri: diegetic gay, extradiegetic gay
2018/12/13 - yuri: how realist gay rep interacts with fantasy cartoon gayness
2018/08/06 - yuri: framing gayness
2017/11/26 - love and hate: 7th dragon 2020
2017/10/20 - yuri: just gals being pals
2017/10/16 - the reckoning of samus aran: metroid fusion
2016/11/14 - "because they're the winners"
2016/09/29 - some thoughts on metroidvanias