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Art from Final Fantasy VIII showing the character Laguna in the midst of battle.

Squall is Extradimensional

By Phoenix Simms • September 8th, 2023

When Laguna knew Squall and his allies were there but felt they were like faeries hovering in the ether unseen, wasn’t that what early encounters on forums and instant chat services felt like?

Here Be Monsters
A closeup on Slenderman focusing on his creepy featureless face and his long scary fingers!

We Can’t Get Out Without Talking About Slenderman

By Emma Kostopolus • September 7th, 2023

Born of a 2009 creepypasta and culminating in the 2014 violent assault of a twelve-year-old girl by two classmates, Slenderman was largely responsible for a digital Satanic Panic in miniature.

Mind Palaces
A screenshot from Pathologic shows buildings with strange conical architecture reaching up into hazy grey skies.

Architectural Intent

By Maddi Chilton • September 6th, 2023

For a book that is nominally about the hubristic imaginings of a genius architect, Rose/House seems to have no actual interest in architecture.

Self-Insert

Mafia

By Amanda Hudgins • September 5th, 2023

KinnPorsche is probably the best example of the mafia alternative universe aesthetic. Everyone is beautiful and darkly dressed and prone to drinking and smoking in dark rooms.

Past Presence
Concept art for Hyrule Field in The Legend of Zelda. Across its wide expanse, one can see a distant mountain wreathed in smoke and the hazy outlines of a many-spired castle.

Object Lessons #1: Field

By Dr. Emily Price • August 31st, 2023

Are fields a stage for action to take place on, or are they the action themselves?

Run It Back

1982

By Oluwatayo Adewole • August 30th, 2023

This month we step on over to 1982 to discuss two films which tell the stories of a Black relationship on each side of the Atlantic.

Noise Complaint

Nu-Metal Might Be Good, Actually?

By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2023

Ben recalls a time he talked shit about a Korn cover band and is forced into several personal epiphanies.

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