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On Organizing My Skyrim Library and Living in a Human Body

By Deirdre Coyle • December 2nd, 2022

Organizing books makes me not care that I’m a decaying meat-coated skeleton living by the light of a dying star. I love skeletons! I love stars! Who cares, just let me read!

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The protagonist Bailey Ward from the videogame Switchcraft. She is a young woman with long auburn hair shaved on one side and an olive skin tone. She is casually dressed and smiling in what looks like the interior of a cafe.

Ruby Blue from Switchcraft

By Deirdre Coyle • September 30th, 2022

Ms. Blue’s aesthetics speak volumes: she wears librarian clichés – cardigans and tortoiseshell glasses – with bodycon animal prints, statement jewelry and long, blue nails.

A black and white engraving of a large ship on stormy seas.

The Mary Celeste

By Deirdre Coyle • May 10th, 2022

I watched the 1935 thriller The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (released in the U.S. as Phantom Ship). I took notes while watching, which include helpful annotations like “what is even happening” and “yikes this is racist.”

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Along an autumn path, a figure in a fur-collared cape and horned helmet leans over to retrieve a small log.

The Witch from Wytchwood

By Deirdre Coyle • February 28th, 2022

The main question I have while considering Wytchwood is, why isn’t this my life? Should I acquire a goat companion? Would the goat get along with my cat?

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Maureen Corley from Full Throttle

By Deirdre Coyle • January 28th, 2022

Were Ben Throttle and Maureen Corley secretly boning after all?

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A burning, post-apocalyptic landscape.

The Ultimate Apocalypse Team

By Deirdre Coyle • November 4th, 2021

Hunters/Gatherers/MacGyver-ers Assemble!

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Two young woman stand ready to either dance or fight in a town square at dusk.

Ginger from My Time at Portia

By Deirdre Coyle • September 27th, 2021

Romance and courtship in the post-dystopia.

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Three Neopets in a field with a rainbow.

Model_Interference the Aisha from Neopets

By Deirdre Coyle • May 6th, 2021

Deirdre goes to a magical land of friends and Flash.

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Arthur Morgan drinks with Lenny at a bar.

Drinking With Arthur Morgan

By Deirdre Coyle • March 12th, 2021

One more couldn’t hurt, right?

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Joy Johnson-Johjima from Monster Camp

By Deirdre Coyle • January 6th, 2021

If I overheard someone talking about a bookish goth who listens to Rumours on repeat too much, I’d assume they were talking about me.

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The Forest Spirit

By Deirdre Coyle • December 1st, 2020

“I would be grateful to see the forest come to life.”

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Roach from The Witcher

By Deirdre Coyle • September 30th, 2020

Roach is always there for me.

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Belle

By Deirdre Coyle • July 8th, 2020

Deirdre played these Beauty and the Beast-inspired games so that you, dear reader, don’t have to.

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Gerry from Graveyard Keeper

By Deirdre Coyle • June 8th, 2020

I mean, really now, who hasn’t wanted to be friends with a talking, alcoholic skull?

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Iris From the Drawn Trilogy

By Deirdre Coyle • May 8th, 2020

The concept of turning artwork into reality—into an escape—has never been more tempting.

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Rowan from Seers Isle

By Deirdre Coyle • April 14th, 2020

This spectral figure makes an impression as a great storyteller long before she’s ever introduced.

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The Ad Salesman from Animal Restaurant

By Deirdre Coyle • March 9th, 2020

Animal Restaurant is a mobile game that does the impossible: It makes promoting in-game ads adorable.

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Jesse Faden from Control

By Deirdre Coyle • February 7th, 2020

Deirdre desperately wants to be friends with Jesse Faden, someone similarly comfortable with the surreal and unexplainable.

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Asra from The Arcana

By Deirdre Coyle • January 13th, 2020

Who doesn’t love obsessively pondering over fictional characters’ tarot readings?

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Goth Stereotypes as Videogame Characters

By Deirdre Coyle • December 12th, 2019

If you’ve never dabbled in goth subculture, you may not realize how many gothic sub-subcultures exist.

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Alice from American McGee’s Alice

By Deirdre Coyle • November 8th, 2019

American McGee’s series seemed like a natural extension of Deirdre’s lifelong Alice in Wonderland obsession.

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The Exile from Grim Soul

By Deirdre Coyle • October 1st, 2019

Deirdre survived a lonely summer by escaping to an equally lonely game.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Rose

By Deirdre Coyle • March 5th, 2019

Just let players bang the robot, Todd Howard.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Wayward Manor

By Deirdre Coyle • September 13th, 2018

Both Deirdre and the titular sentient house in Wayward Manor just want to be left alone.

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Spyro the Dragon

By Deirdre Coyle • August 20th, 2018

Spyro the Dragon’s thwarted vacation helped fuel the escape from my own.

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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.

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Kyle Katarn

By Deirdre Coyle • June 11th, 2018

Deirdre makes friends with Kyle Katarn in order to get closer to Princess Leia.

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Senua

By Deirdre Coyle • May 17th, 2018

In Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Deirdre finds herself confronting her impostor syndrome.

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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.

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The Lone Wanderer

By Deirdre Coyle • April 5th, 2018

Deirdre writes about Fallout 3, library school and killing our alternate selves.

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Bea Santello

By Deirdre Coyle • March 6th, 2018

My favorite of Bea’s qualities is that she’s tired.

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