Mind Palaces Mostly Normal People By Maddi Chilton • February 7th, 2024 In the past few years of weird and superficial social media-based media criticism, a character’s relatability (or, used not synonymously but often close to it, likability) is shorthand for how successful they are within their text.
This Mortal Coyle Goth Femmes of Elden Ring By Deirdre Coyle • February 6th, 2024 Ranking Elden Ring’s goth femmes from “least” to “most” goth.
Self-Insert 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 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 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 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 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.