Here Be Monsters Every Game is Happy Death Day By Emma Kostopolus • March 30th, 2023 Videogames, with their very direct focus on death and rebirth as a normal part of play, are uniquely positioned to get us thinking about the horrors of our own mortality.
This Mortal Coyle Skyrim and Existential Angst Redux By Deirdre Coyle • March 29th, 2023 Why can’t I marry Serana? I would like to take this up with Todd Howard personally.
Self-Insert Thread Fics By Amanda Hudgins • March 28th, 2023 In a lot of ways, Twitter is the home of the thread fic and when it goes, so will they.
Run It Back 1982 By Oluwatayo Adewole • March 24th, 2023 This month we’re taking on two grand pieces of homoeroticism, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film Querelle and Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance.
Eyeing Elsewhere Behind the Camera By Phillip Russell • March 23rd, 2023 While the subjects of Minding the Gap share a love for skateboarding, the heart of the documentary lies in the shared histories and traumas surrounding domestic abuse.
Feature Excerpt The Environmental Horror of Elden Ring By Kathryn Hemmann • March 22nd, 2023 Caelid resists the post-apocalyptic fantasy that the detrimental effects of human activity on the environment are temporary and reversible.
Feature Excerpt Hope and Sacrifice in Andor By Kiernan Elam • March 21st, 2023 Andor paints a clear and lucid picture of the absolute power authoritarians can wield over people and how cruel fascism must be in order to preserve that power.
A Time to Harvest By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 20th, 2023 Maybe don’t go collecting rocks and folklore in the hills of Vermont?
