iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i bet it feels kinda suffocating to be a bug in a rug and not really that snug at all :/

ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

happy resident evil movie day 🐾☕️🖤 for my blog, i wrote a longish read about how i imagine resident evil zombies eating my brain like the inside of a cadbury egg: 🎠 join me in becoming a jill sandwich: plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🦋 new blog 🦋 i tried to write from maria's perspective in the born from a wish DLC for silent hill 2, because we never see her arrive into existence, she just is, and i don't remember my birth either. she / i / we never asked to live with so much discomfort... plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

GREAT halloween costume idea for a group of ladies on mood stabilizers: maria from silent hill 2, nikki from obsession, christina aguilera at the 1999 teen choice awards

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

why must fromsoftware lock this beautiful, decrepit snake woman inside a nintendo switch 2 exclusive..................... why must men... always choose wrong..........

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

the gallery of unused NPCs from demon's souls, dark souls 3, bloodborne, and dark souls suggests someone, somewhere is trying to prevent me from looking at ladies with interesting headgear 🤨

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

it’s autofiction month 🙂‍↕️i started playing @astralshiftpro.com’s hell maiden, and anime girl homer is now the most historically accurate version of the highly mythologized poet imo. sry chris nolan! i wrote about her and messages i may have received from olympus 🍇 plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

this was the hardest thing i ever had to write www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/i-...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

i was so moved by fatal frame 2 and silent hill f's shared outfit DLC and what it means about WOMEN, FASHION, and GHOSTS in video games that i wrote about it on my blog this month :x can't help myself when i see a DUSTY PURPLE BALLET FLAT!!! plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0... 🚺

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

i'm so glad developers figured out that girls play horror games, because now we can all stop caring about boob physics and instead start noticing shimmer physics. look at that gold glitter on hinako's blouse. i'm crying

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

i am in no way applauding **** and **** torture. however, it's important for art to depict ugly things like genital mutilation and pinhead making u listen to trance music. nothing should be off limits in a serious medium if it serves the story, though AAA games often shy from shock... NOT THIS ONE!

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i'm a "tradwife" in the sense that i'm married to pyramid head

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

* while puking into a bucket * i am grateful to experience the horror

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

his name is billy the puppet, and we’re going out for bbq tonight

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

there's an invisible umbilical cord connecting every strange girl to the cat nearest to her

emily the strange sleeps among her cats in 2011 nintendo ds game emily the strange: strangerous

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

i decided what the world needs is an 1800-word personal essay about why i feel sorry for the lumbering chunk twins in resident evil requiem, 🍒 so i put that on my blog this month. featuring quotes from the unabomber and sylvia plath plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

“attractive” is never a simple issue in horror — selena corey is a beautiful woman in a princess nightgown, but she’s also covered in… mold…. and her appearance isn’t what makes her a siren:

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

a snail 🐌 woman 🎀 in the bloodborne DLC falls from the sky and DIES. she's nothing, a sacrifice to show u fishing hamlet is located above the hunter's nightmare. but i wish i knew how she felt before she fell, so this is the last page in her diary, written by me 🐌 plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

reading anne rice to the centipedes in my walls

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

i love chronicling the (unrecognized?) wave of late 2000s games that appealed to women w dark fantasy. i associate them with bigger cultural moments like twilight, panic! at the disco, and im glad the haunted vaudeville look is slowly coming back in fashion for the sake of the weirdo population 🙏

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

uploading my guts to google docs ⬆️

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

i'm depressed. guess i'll write a manifesto! plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

hey so this broken remake of a game from 2003 is actually more important than gta 6! hope that clears things up!

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

actually, there is no universal "girlhood" 〰️〰️〰️

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

one of the sweetest emails i've ever received – from 2023, don daglow, who's being honored with a lifetime achievement award at GDC this week :-) i was 23 years old and probably wouldn't still be writing about games if it weren't for people like him

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

without sweetness, i am bitter & nothing 🍴

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

i can't defend myself, but i also won't apologize

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

u know how recipes by suburban ladies always have like 8 paragraphs on forgiveness before they tell u the ingredients for mac salad 🪺 i wanted 2 channel that for my new blog about why i love dessert and lebkuchen from @astralshiftpro.com's little goody two shoes 🍪 plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

i'm going to buy this outfit on depop

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

27 years old, takeout containers piling up in the garbage, miasma collecting on the ceiling as the world fills with poison, and my heart fills with poison, and time starts to slow and ... only magical girl anime can help me now :c 🍄 www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

the world feels like it's crumbling in the foolish hands of the disgraceful US government, and i'm crumbling with it. maybe the leather nun from nightreign can keep me from losing it completely 🍇 not with a wimple, but a bang. new blog: plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

it’s another year for my blog plant or beast 🐞🌹 to start, i’ve commissioned the eroguro artist bl00dina for a portrait i’ll use as a new logo <3 to me, and i hope to you, this image explains that i’m looking forward to writing — no matter what ♪♪ plant-or-beast.net

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

im exactly where im meant to be 🩶

jennifer sits tied and bloodied in a room in rule of rose

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

wishing for no more war, sweet berries, sweet kitties, and a 10/10 resident evil game in 2026 🌠

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

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...

a collage shows vicar amelia from bloodborne praying before her candle surrounded by illustrations from medieval manuscripts, as well as dramatic photos of me looking like a veiled babushka

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

i’ve cried here in multiple different lifetimes

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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 🎧🫀🦢

a collage shows polaroids of a woman whose face seems to be peeling, and a photo of a kewpie doll with pins in its eye

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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

a photo shows a prosthetic bust of lucy liu with her brain exposed from the movie kill bill

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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...

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