Demons' Souls

May 29, 2026

• My husband is into FromSoftware games. They look fun, in a punishing sort of way. I recently screamed my way through beating some early-stage Elden Ring boss. It only took, like, 90 tries. I am way too high anxiety to play these games. Plus, I panic-move the camera like a person who doesn't have eyes.

  Anyway, none of that matters. I have a bone to pick with the game Demon's Souls.

  Namely, why is this game called Demon's Souls? The title implies that the game concerns the souls of a character named Demon. However, my understanding is that the main antagonist is an entity known as the Old One. It is unclear to me whether the Old One is a demon.

  If we assume he is a demon, and the souls belong to him, then the title doesn't really make sense. I don't believe he is ever referred to as "Demon" in the game. Therefore he is "a demon," and thus the title should be The Demon's Souls.

  If we assume he is not a demon, then obviously the title isn't referring to him. There are plenty of lesser demons in the game. I believe that is the whole point of it. So the title could be referring to them.

  But even if that is the case, the title still doesn't make sense. If it's referring to the souls of multiple demons, then it should be plural possessive. Demons' Souls, not Demon's Souls.

  (Though of course, the best title would have been Demon Souls. The double S runs together anyway, so you might as well remove one. As it stands, I insist on pronouncing them separately. Demons' Souls.)

• I have a list of movies that I've fallen asleep in. But here are some where I was fully awake but still did not fully see the movie:

  Thor: Love and Thunder
  Before the movie I had an edible (rare, for reasons that will soon become obvious) that got me ridiculously high. There was something about some kids locked in a cage on a faraway hell planet, and then I spent the rest of the movie on my own faraway hell planet.

  On the way home I had a panic attack and yelled at my husband for going too fast as he rounded a corner at 2 miles per hour.

  Dune: Part Two
  Ditto, minus the panic attack. But keeping the hell planet.

  28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
  I had a perfect view of a mouse in the theater that kept hopping up and down the stairs. Near the end of the movie, it got way too close for comfort.

• You ever hear a phrase and it won't leave your head no matter what? One of mine is this: freaky deaky.

  I first heard someone say it on Jerry Springer in the late 90s. I repeated it to my friend one day, and her older sister laughed. After that I chose to never say it again until a couple weeks ago when I told my husband about this.

  You know why I don't repeat it? Because it's awful. I want to delete it from my mind. But I can't. It's freaky deaky.