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Author: Autumn Wright

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A portrait of Alan Wake looking tortured, red branch-like markings scattered across the dark image.

It’s Not a Loop, It’s a Spiral

By Autumn Wright • April 18th, 2024

Maybe Alan Wake is like me. Maybe I’m like Alan. Trying to write my way out. Maybe the writing is just incidental to this compulsion, something we’re drawn to.

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The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

By Autumn Wright • January 2nd, 2024

While The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes is a coming-of-age drama without any action – all its conflict is psychological – it still invokes all these tropes.

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A screenshot from Goodbye Volcano High shows a three-piece band of teenage anthropomorphic animals getting read to thrash some chords.

When the Fire Falls From on High; Or, the Meteor Is Not a Metaphor

By Autumn Wright • October 10th, 2023

Comparing the animation in scenes that appear both in its 2020 reveal trailer and the final product, it’s obvious that three years of something bad happened to Goodbye Volcano High.

Always Autumn
Wakanda Forever's Prince Namor wearing a regal feathered serpent headdress in his underwater domain.

A Golden Halo That Could Be the Sun Part II: The Ones Who Stay and Fight

By Autumn Wright • July 13th, 2023

What does it mean to be born of the dead?

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The sparely-lit stage of a punk show, camera moved during shuttering to create a purple and yellow-blurred portrait of a drum kit, a guitarist, a singer.

Last Night I Went to a House Show

By Autumn Wright • June 13th, 2023

Folded arms, cold gazes, straight couples dressed like they wanna be at a club in Williamsburg, which is to say “Kind of gay, but don’t be mistaken.”

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A Golden Halo That Could Be the Sun Part I: Whose Apocalypse Is This?

By Autumn Wright • February 9th, 2023

What does the beauty of a world born anew look like from the depths?

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Biking the Beat

By Autumn Wright • February 1st, 2023

“After biking some 2,000 miles in the city last year, my memories of my new home are tied to rides and their soundtracks.”

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