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Mind Palaces
A scene from Dune shows the silhouette of a man looking out across a vast expanse of organized troops in a desert landscape.

Honor Among Adaptations

By Maddi Chilton • May 4th, 2023

A faithful adaptation can be satisfying, but an unfaithful adaptation can be invigorating.

Self-Insert

Cisswap

By Amanda Hudgins • May 2nd, 2023

Known under many tags (including Rule 63, genderbending, gender swap, Always a Different Sex), cisswap is an fandom device most commonly used to make male characters women.

Empire of the East

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 1st, 2023

So wait, demons are nukes? Apparently! At least as far as Fred Saberhagen is concerned.

Self-Insert
A top-down view of several thread spools, most with colorful labels on top.

Thread Fics

By Amanda Hudgins • March 28th, 2023

In a lot of ways, Twitter is the home of the thread fic and when it goes, so will they.

Mind Palaces

Almost All About Eve

By Maddi Chilton • March 3rd, 2023

She was flagrantly, cheerfully, and simply bisexual. Odd that her biographer did not seem to have noticed this.

Past Presence
The main characters of the TV show Normal People cuddle in an autumnal field.

Being So Normal

By Dr. Emily Price • February 28th, 2023

Sally Rooney books are basically Victorian novels in millennial form, Middlemarch if Dorothea and Lydgate had cell phones and email.

Past Presence
A top-down map from the videogame Dwarf Fortress showing the labyrinthine halls of a massive underground cavern.

Recursion

By Dr. Emily Price • January 26th, 2023

Over the break, I started playing Dwarf Fortress, a game about avoiding the recurring, inevitable spiral of collapse for as long as you can.

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