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Rookie of the Year
A trio of Minecraft pandas looks up through a blocky bamboo grove.

Minecraft Menagerie

By Matt Marrone • May 3rd, 2024

So . . . how many pandas does it take to crash Minecraft?

Mind Palaces
Wiktor Szulski, the protagonist of The Thaumaturge, stands moodily holding an open tome while a terrifying creature looms behind him.

Empathetic Magic

By Maddi Chilton • May 2nd, 2024

Wiktor’s entire mode of interaction with the world is one of applied empathy, concentrated and made into magic through the indefinite occultisms of thaumaturgy.

This Mortal Coyle
The Lyktgubbe from Bramble: The Mountain King, holding a glowing lantern, stoops to talk to a small figure in a dense forest awash with flowers.

The Lyktgubbe from Bramble: The Mountain King

By Deirdre Coyle • April 30th, 2024

My adult brain feels desperate to chase after lights in the forest, lights I haven’t seen in some time. As a child, I knew better.

Run It Back
A still from Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives shows several red-eyed gorillas sitting in a misty forest, staring straight at the viewer.

2011

By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 26th, 2024

Tayo heads back to 2011, taking a look at two films which show us how the world beyond etches itself onto our reality.

Musings

The Everlasting Allure of the Shitty City

By Blake Hester • April 25th, 2024

I feel like I’ve never truly cared about where I live, and as such, places have never felt truly comfortable. But I do care about Astoria, about New York.

Noise Complaint
An extremely glitched closeup of the knot of a man's polka-dotted tie, an image with the air corrupted spy cam footage.

My Google Home is Cursed: A Cosmic Horror Story

By Ben Sailer • April 24th, 2024

When Ben’s smart speaker refuses to play music from specific artists, he begins to believe it’s cursed. Could his delusions of demonic possession be true?

Funeral Rites
A black-and-white ink drawing of a badass-looking angel holding a wicked cool sword.

The Tower, The Fool, The Meatgrinder

By Noah Springer • April 23rd, 2024

“His Majesty the Worm is very focused on megadungeon-crawling, and I wanted players to have this sense that surviving the dangers means something.”

Feature Excerpt
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.

Feature Excerpt
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.

Here's the Thing
A still from Netflix's reboot of She-Ra showing Catra and Adora being moody on a bridge at sunset.

Why I Watch YouTube Reactions

By Rob Rich • April 12th, 2024

React videos, as eye-rolling as the concept can be, are a way for me to relive important moments for the first time by proxy.

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