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This Mortal Coyle
Fia, a character from Elden Ring, sits on a bed in a dramatic black hooded robe.

Goth Femmes of Elden Ring

By Deirdre Coyle • February 6th, 2024

Ranking Elden Ring’s goth femmes from “least” to “most” goth.

Self-Insert
A still from Twilight shows Bella Swan surprised the person she's speaking with could even think such a thing. She's too cool for school!

Mary Sue

By Amanda Hudgins • February 2nd, 2024

She is you, a teenager who is stuck in a small town with no friends, with cruel acquaintances who don’t love any of the things that you do, who has been told for years that boys bully you because they like you.

Past Presence
A screenshot from Coffee Talk showing a pixelated cup of coffee with the words, "Black Lemon. A perfect – if unlikely – combination of sour and bitter."

Romanticize Your Life!

By Dr. Emily Price • January 31st, 2024

If these things are the glue that makes real “mundane” life less boring, they are hollow pleasures.

Run It Back
A still from Saltburn shows the partially robed main character from behind, gazing outward across the lawn of a large estate scattered with the remnants of a wild party.

Sex and Cinema

By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 30th, 2024

At the same time as a quasi-accepting era which brings us more art focused on marginalized people, a soft Hayes Code re-emerges, allowing for the clean lines of queerness but not the smudges.

Noise Complaint
A portrait of the band Paint it Black seated beneath a wooden pergola. They're all dress in, you guessed it, black.

Age, Angst, and Paint It Black

By Ben Sailer • January 26th, 2024

On their latest album Famine, long-running hardcore punk band Paint It Black prove that righteous anger has no age limit.

Funeral Rites
A young mouse wearing a leather knapsack holds an ornate crown and stares off at the horizon, ready for adventure.

Collaborating on Microcosmic Adventures in Mausritter

By Phoenix Simms • January 25th, 2024

Mausritter has come a long way from its homebrew session and zine days.

Feature Excerpt
A blonde woman in blue intarsia sweater and blue pom pom hat stands facing the viewer.

Why I Played a 20-Year-Old Nancy Drew Game Over the Holidays

By Amanda Tien • January 24th, 2024

Twice a year for more than a decade, I’d gather around a computer with my mom and sister so we could play the newest Nancy Drew game. This was our ritual, until the games stopped coming.

Feature Excerpt
Ahti attends to his work while listening to his 80s-style headphones.

Solace and Play Within Games

By Alyssa Hatmaker • January 23rd, 2024

Sometimes being reminded that you’re playing a videogame is a welcome feeling.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – January 2024

By David Shimomura • January 18th, 2024

Welcome to the new year!

Here's the Thing
Fallout 4's Sole Survivor and their dog stare towards the last rays of the setting sun underneath a decrepit billboard.

Surviving Fallout 4

By Rob Rich • January 11th, 2024

Fallout 4 has a bit of a reputation for being exceptionally mediocre at best, but a new outlook and approach to the 2015 title has turned it into Rob’s latest obsession.

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