Feature Story Whose Body Horror Is It, Anyway? By Ruth Cassidy • October 21st, 2022 A look at body horror, the just world fallacy, and lungs that turn into glass.
Friction Burns Finding The On-Ramp To Route Zero By Ruth Cassidy • September 26th, 2022 Kentucky Route Zero carries its own ghosts of its critical legacy. How do I get past that?
Friction Burns I Was A Teenage Exocolonist: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again(?) By Ruth Cassidy • September 14th, 2022 Consequences matter when you decide, but sometimes death is useful.
Friction Burns There’s Two Sides To The Story in Signs of the Sojourner By Ruth Cassidy • August 29th, 2022 There’s a truth at its heart of Signs of the Sojourner’s conversational card games: you cannot prepare the perfect conversation.
Friction Burns Wholesome Games, and the Context Collapse of Branding Culture By Ruth Cassidy • August 10th, 2022 Whether they meant to or not, Wholesome Games have staked unique ground, so their choices invite criticism about what is and is not included.
Friction Burns Shifting Tides and Dynamics in Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.Jpg By Ruth Cassidy • July 29th, 2022 Like the changing tides, and the pitching skies, the perspective in Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.jpg shifts.
Friction Burns Life Is Strange: Artificial Colors By Ruth Cassidy • July 13th, 2022 Characters’ quirks and quips are endearing, but they never feel like more than the LARP versions of themselves: there to give information or resources, or be acted upon.
Friction Burns In Card Shark, The Devil Finds Work For Busy Hands By Ruth Cassidy • June 16th, 2022 The easiest mark is one distracted by believing they’re getting one over on someone else.
Friction Burns Conversation In The Ruins Of Interplanetary Capitalism By Ruth Cassidy • June 3rd, 2022 An interview with Gareth Damian Martin about Citizen Sleeper, and its bodies
Friction Burns NORCO Is A Connected Web Of Estrangement By Ruth Cassidy • May 12th, 2022 The desire for connection and rejection of it shapes the core family in a web, but it plays out across the story’s politics too.
