Lilancholy is a guide to surviving encounters with fairies. I jokingly call it “evil warioware” as it’s filled with a plethora of tiny games that fairies will challenge you to. A collection of school yard games warped into horror experiences, all wrapped inside of its own fiction. 

This is a special book. An experiment of form. A marriage of fiction and play. The end product of the lyric game movement.  Originally published in 2022, it was updated in 2025 with new layout, writing, and corrections.

It’s a novel. It's meant to be read and experienced.

It’s a guidebook. It's a collection of rules and spells.

It’s a (lyric) game. It’s meant to be played. 

You can buy physical copies at nerves.store.

Writing, art, and layout by Snow Battle

Editing by Vi Huntsman

Hi, I'm Snow. I'm a trans writer living in Chicago with my two partners and our cats. I am a full time writer and game designer. I made the award-winning .dungeon and My Body is a Cage. I write non-fiction for youtube and my blog. I love how, when it snows, the world becomes as it was when I was a child, as if that time exists forever-and-always in the sky, waiting to fall slow to the earth. I am safe. I am in love. And Everything is perfect.