This Mortal Coyle Hoshi from How to Date a Magical Girl By Deirdre Coyle • July 1st, 2019 Why bother trying to date in a dating sim when you can play with one very good dog!
This Mortal Coyle Catboy the Cat, and Other Familiars By Deirdre Coyle • May 31st, 2019 Deirdre lists some of the best cat (or cat-looking, at least) familiars in pop culture.
This Mortal Coyle The Abominable Snow Monster from SkiFree By Deirdre Coyle • May 10th, 2019 An adorable cryptid from Microsoft’s 1991 Entertainment Pack for Windows makes it onto Deidre’s friend’s list.
This Mortal Coyle Drea By Deirdre Coyle • April 8th, 2019 For someone who constantly jokes about dying, the chance to date a ghost carries its own morbid comfort.
This Mortal Coyle Rose By Deirdre Coyle • March 5th, 2019 Just let players bang the robot, Todd Howard.
This Mortal Coyle Rochelle By Deirdre Coyle • January 30th, 2019 If the outbreak happened outside my window, I’d be digging through drawers for my most metal band shirts and cursing my lack of foresight in not purchasing a black Violator babydoll.
This Mortal Coyle Willow By Deirdre Coyle • January 8th, 2019 Just like Willow from Don’t Starve, Deirdre can’t control what goes on in the world. But she can keep her sanity meter up in the meantime.
This Mortal Coyle The Encarta MindMaze Witch By Deirdre Coyle • November 21st, 2018 Hidden in Microsoft Encarta ’95 lies one of the foundational goths of Deirdre’s childhood.
This Mortal Coyle Mira By Deirdre Coyle • November 5th, 2018 Donut County‘s Mira is The Best because of a) her punk aesthetic and b) her refusal to take any shit even as her world literally falls around her.
This Mortal Coyle Top Ten Characters I Hate By Deirdre Coyle • September 24th, 2018 September 2018 is the first anniversary of This Mortal Coyle and, to celebrate, Deirdre Coyle lists ten characters that make her blood boil.
This Mortal Coyle Wayward Manor By Deirdre Coyle • September 13th, 2018 Both Deirdre and the titular sentient house in Wayward Manor just want to be left alone.
This Mortal Coyle Spyro the Dragon By Deirdre Coyle • August 20th, 2018 Spyro the Dragon’s thwarted vacation helped fuel the escape from my own.
This Mortal Coyle Vera Oberlin By Deirdre Coyle • June 29th, 2018 Having been in love with the Beast since grade school, Deirdre thought seducing the ilk of Monster Prom would be easy. She was wrong.
This Mortal Coyle Kyle Katarn By Deirdre Coyle • June 11th, 2018 Deirdre makes friends with Kyle Katarn in order to get closer to Princess Leia.
This Mortal Coyle Senua By Deirdre Coyle • May 17th, 2018 In Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Deirdre finds herself confronting her impostor syndrome.
This Mortal Coyle Phase Scout Jess By Deirdre Coyle • April 18th, 2018 After the world ends, Phase Scout Jess and I meet in an industrial park, attempting to harvest resources from the same dumpster. I’m wearing a Black Flag t-shirt.
This Mortal Coyle The Lone Wanderer By Deirdre Coyle • April 5th, 2018 Deirdre writes about Fallout 3, library school and killing our alternate selves.
This Mortal Coyle Bea Santello By Deirdre Coyle • March 6th, 2018 My favorite of Bea’s qualities is that she’s tired.
This Mortal Coyle April Ryan By Deirdre Coyle • February 9th, 2018 April Ryan, the hero of The Longest Journey, is smart, capable and deals with plenty of bullshit from creepy dudes. So basically: Every Woman.
This Mortal Coyle Farkas By Deirdre Coyle • December 13th, 2017 Deirdre Coyle carries the full weight of her marriage to Farkas, the lycanthropic warrior from Skyrim. Or not, actually.
This Mortal Coyle Rynn and Arokh By Deirdre Coyle • October 31st, 2017 When my dragon friend broke into my classroom, I’d climb on his back and ride off into the Virginia sky. The other kids would be very impressed. They’d realize they hadn’t known me at all.
This Mortal Coyle Chloe Price By Deirdre Coyle • October 2nd, 2017 Deirdre wants to do everything for the first time all over again.
The Gothiest Dad – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 94 By Deirdre Coyle • August 22nd, 2017 Dream Daddy’s goth dad gets (almost) everything right about goth.
