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Noise Complaint
The band Agriculture poses moodily in front of a neutral backdrop.

Exploring Black Metal Ecstasy With Agriculture

By Ben Sailer • January 5th, 2026

Agriculture call themselves “ecstatic black metal.” Believe it or not, that isn’t a contradiction of terms.

Exploits Feature

Every Character Creator Is A Fight With Identity That I’m Losing

By Branden Lizardi • January 2nd, 2026

A pixelated mirror.

Feature Story
The classic Boris Karloff-as-Frankenstein's-monster mug shot.

Children of the Charnel House

By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2025

The story of Frankenstein, like so many others, has become something else, something that we each build for ourselves, piece by piece.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – December 2025

By David Shimomura • December 19th, 2025

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” – Mary Shelley

Con Artist

New York Comic Con 2025

By Sara Clemens • December 18th, 2025

Lol. Lmao, even.

Nonhuman Meditations
A still from the short film "Layla" shows the titular robot riding a skateboard in a skate park.

Layla was a Skater Bot

By Alyssa Wejebe • December 18th, 2025

Robotic characters in fiction have long provided another metaphorical arena for human stories to play out.

Here's the Thing
Two firefighters try to extinguish a fire in a controlled parking lot environment.

“But She’s Got a New Hat!”

By Rob Rich • December 17th, 2025

It’s not a new pattern of behavior or anything, but Rob is… just… so sick and tired of seeing “company bad” one week and then “new thing from company!” the next.

Forms in Light
A beautiful, sunlit meadow in the woods.

Whispers of the Grove

By Justin Reeve • December 17th, 2025

The forest in Japanese culture is more than just a landscape, having long been seen as a threshold between the realms of the human and the divine.

Noah's Beat Box
A moody blank-and-white photo of the three members of the influential 1980s American punk band the Minutemen.

A Lynchpin

By Noah Springer • December 16th, 2025

“How,” you may ask yourself, “did Noah, music critic of a sort, make it to almost 40 years and never run across this incredibly influential band?”

Casting Deep Meteo
A duckbilled adventure swoops down from above, cape billowing behind like a medieval Darkwing Duck.

Now or Never or Over the Next Few Days at Least

By Levi Rubeck • December 16th, 2025

The powers of various chat apps and virtual tabletops offered an opportunity to play-by-post with ducks and wolfkin and the rest.

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