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Run It Back
Detail of the Penguin Classics cover of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, showing a bright graphic of orange, cream and blue zig-zagging lines and dots.

1934

By Oluwatayo Adewole • July 27th, 2023

In this case it seems dear reader, that the enemy of our enemy is not quite a friend – or at least they’re one who we shouldn’t invite to stay in our home.

Always Autumn
Wakanda Forever's Prince Namor wearing a regal feathered serpent headdress in his underwater domain.

A Golden Halo That Could Be the Sun Part II: The Ones Who Stay and Fight

By Autumn Wright • July 13th, 2023

What does it mean to be born of the dead?

Mind Palaces
Stacks of books on their sides, just begging to be read.

Marathon May

By Maddi Chilton • July 5th, 2023

This is not the best way to interact with art, but it’s also hard to see what the alternative is.

The Unknown

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 26th, 2023

The truth is out there!

Casting Deep Meteo
A grandiose painting of the famous Trojan horse from The Illiad being wheeled through the gates.

Threading the Timeline

By Levi Rubeck • June 9th, 2023

What is myth and legend other than image control, public relations, bending truth into natural blondness (or just that if one’s hair is blond they are a blonde).

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.

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