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Author: Maddi Chilton

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Cover art for Rollerdrome shows main character Kara Hassan wearing her skate helmet and staring stoically at the viewer. Behind her, a busy scene from the roller arena fills the frame.

And the Crowd Goes Wild

By Maddi Chilton • March 4th, 2024

It’s never quite established what Rollerdrome’s sport is reflecting in the society that watches it.

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Portrait Of A Young Woman In White By Jacques Louis David

Mostly Normal People

By Maddi Chilton • February 7th, 2024

In the past few years of weird and superficial social media-based media criticism, a character’s relatability (or, used not synonymously but often close to it, likability) is shorthand for how successful they are within their text.

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Shelf Fodder

By Maddi Chilton • December 29th, 2023

The sacralization of literature – the item, not the concept – becomes annoying at best when faced with just how much of our literary ephemera is garbage.

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I Will Come Up With a Punny Title I Promise

By Maddi Chilton • October 31st, 2023

Somewhere along the way in Redfall’s development someone should have asked: What is this game, and why are we making it?

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A still from The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart showing a a close-up on a blonde boy wearing a Batman Halloween mask in front of a blue summer sky.

A Secret Third Thing

By Maddi Chilton • September 27th, 2023

The Venture Bros. premiered in 2004. Seven seasons later, it finally gets its finale, or what amounts to one.

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A screenshot from Pathologic shows buildings with strange conical architecture reaching up into hazy grey skies.

Architectural Intent

By Maddi Chilton • September 6th, 2023

For a book that is nominally about the hubristic imaginings of a genius architect, Rose/House seems to have no actual interest in architecture.

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Stacks of books on their sides, just begging to be read.

Marathon May

By Maddi Chilton • July 5th, 2023

This is not the best way to interact with art, but it’s also hard to see what the alternative is.

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