Self-Insert Hybrid Shifters By Amanda Hudgins • September 29th, 2022 Ultimately you see in hybrid shifter fiction a desire to create people who are closer to their “natural instincts” over reason, a call back to nature. Is the reason usually sexy? Of course it is.
Run It Back 1987 By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 28th, 2022 Tayo’s back discussing two films from 1987, both by trailblazing gay directors, Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys and Derek Jarman’s The Last of England.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2022 By Noah Springer • September 27th, 2022 1997 was a good year for hip hop and an even better one for Noah.
Revving the Engine 2020s Tech, 1980s Spirit By Ben Sailer • September 26th, 2022 Dykom Software’s twin-stick side-scrolling shooter invokes 80s geek culture nostalgia while hiding a few twists underneath an absurdist premise.
Feature Excerpt To Be a Bird on an Island By Taylor Hidalgo • September 23rd, 2022 During unsteady times, it’s easy to get caught up in the sadness of uncertainty. Thankfully, there are little animals tromping around an island to remind us that it doesn’t have to be that way.
Feature Excerpt Shark Party By Michael Lee • September 22nd, 2022 The kinds of relationships people form in online spaces can be as meaningful and socially rewarding as physical encounters with human bodies.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – September 2022 By David Shimomura • September 19th, 2022 Welcome to the spoopy season, new columnists await!
The Enemy Within By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 19th, 2022 Hail Tzeentch! Er, I mean, nice empire you got there, sure would be a shame if something were to happen to it…
Feature Story Blue Keys on a Red Planet By Hilver • September 16th, 2022 The DOOM games show the limits of lifeless worlds as game settings, but it is no coincidence that each time id Software had to reinvent the series for a new generation they returned to Mars.