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A still from Children of Men shows a man leading a woman and her just-born child through a throng of soldiers.

Apocalyptic Pregnancy

By Natasha Ochshorn • April 19th, 2024

Perhaps an emotional response to a presidential election year, the weather, uncontrolled rent, or genocide – people on a large scale are questioning parenting as an ethical choice.

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A portrait of Alan Wake looking tortured, red branch-like markings scattered across the dark image.

It’s Not a Loop, It’s a Spiral

By Autumn Wright • April 18th, 2024

Maybe Alan Wake is like me. Maybe I’m like Alan. Trying to write my way out. Maybe the writing is just incidental to this compulsion, something we’re drawn to.

A grainy photograph of Kurt Cobain playing his guitar and singing into a mic while wearing a slip dress and rhinestone tiara.

Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time)

By Juno Rylee Schultz • April 5th, 2024

We may never know for sure, but I think there’s a reason that so many trans women have been able to identify with Kurt Cobain’s joy, pain and suffering, so strongly.

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Liminality: Fear of Transition

By Kasio Dalton • April 1st, 2024

“It’s a terrifying suggestion that someone might call a transitory space home.”

Funeral Rites

Between the Skies and Beyond the Horizon

By Justin Reeve • March 28th, 2024

Designer Huffa Frobes-Cross refers to Between the Skies as “rules minimalist, fiction maximalist.”

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Key art from The Last Guardian showing the player character offering a feather to the Trico, a large winged creature with the sweetest face.

Ueda, Buddha & Me

By Perry Gottschalk • March 27th, 2024

Don’t come to these games as experts of others, come to these games as someone who has never played one.

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An incomplete jigsaw puzzle featuring Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch.

This is Your Badness Level: Lilo & Stitch and Mental Health

By Orrin Grey • March 26th, 2024

Sometimes watching a cute little blue alien struggle with the same things we struggle with can make it a little easier, at least for a while.

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The Century-Long Humanification of King Kong

By Van Dennis • March 1st, 2024

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

Funeral Rites
A black and white drawing of several ducks in mystical robes and armor traversing the stairs of a castle.

Embarking on a DuckQuest

By Alyssa Wejebe • February 26th, 2024

“What if ducks weren’t the comical sidekick? What if ducks were the heroes of the adventure?”

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A distorted version of the album cover for Harry Styles' "Harry's House," featuring an anime character next to Harry.

Made With Love: Anime Mashups and Their Creators

By Justin Kim • February 23rd, 2024

They’re not just shitposts!

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