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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.

Totally Generic
A still from Weapons shows main character Justine walking nervously through a school parking lot.

Watching Weapons

By Natasha Ochshorn • December 12th, 2025

Everyone is watching each other but very few are keeping an eye out.

Area of Effect
A screenshot from Pokémon Legends: Z-A shows the skyline of the city of Lumiose.

Habitat Fragmentation

By Jay Castello • December 11th, 2025

Pokémon and people do not live in harmony in Lumiose.

Rookie of the Year
A promo image of an arm holding a 1L beer stein for the 2025 Sam Adams Stein Holding Contest.

Stein Hoister of the Year

By Matt Marrone • December 10th, 2025

Just like that, a legend was born.

Interlinked
A greyscale drawing of a small boy asleep in a four-poster bed, moonlight shining through the window.

Negative Spatial Awareness

By Phoenix Simms • December 9th, 2025

Environmental storytelling and puzzles are at their best when they’re kept simple and almost subliminal.

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Control shows Jesse floating in a long hallway that spirals impossibly around her.

Control Explores Theology in the Multiverse

By Elijah Beahm • December 5th, 2025

In CONTROL, faith is a fundamental force like gravity.

Here Be Monsters
In a screenshot from Resident Evil 4, Leon considers a gigantic knife.

Hear Me Out: On the Pitfalls of Resident Evil 4

By Emma Kostopolus • December 4th, 2025

Try as I might, I simply cannot overcome my animosity towards this game, this most lauded and vaunted of the Evils which Reside.

Mind Palaces
Clea Duvall and Natasha Lyonne gaze at each other in a dance club in this still from But I’m a Cheerleader!.

Does This Dress Make Me Look Straight

By Maddi Chilton • December 3rd, 2025

Walking away from the practice of homogenous heterosexual cohesion is just as legitimate as walking towards it.

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