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A photograph of dozens of Final Fantasy VII cosplayers, including several Clouds, Aeriths, and Tifas as well as Sephiroth, Barret, a Moogle Mandelorian and more, all posing together in a concrete convention floor

Meeting Your Imagined Community on the Show Floor

By Gianna Mulvey • June 10th, 2025

The only Final Fantasy fans I know personally are two of my friends and my brothers, and I’m pretty certain there are more than five Final Fantasy fans out there in the world.

Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 5th, 2025

Embark on a quest for the most perfect green paper!

Past Presence
Anne Hathaway wears a cerulean blue sweater in a scene from The Devil Wears Prada.

Stop Telling Me What I Want

By Emily Price • May 2nd, 2025

I never used to think of myself as a stubborn person.

Delinquent Elementals

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 21st, 2025

A treasure trove of counter-culture!

A crop of some art from Old School Essentials with a large red dragon coveting a glowing orb and facing a purple-robed wizard under the night sky

On Becoming a Grognard with Grace and Self-Awareness

By Ryan Whalen • April 10th, 2025

All of our geek touchstones were someone else’s cringe reboot.

A screenshot from Amnesia: The Bunker in a hellish red tunnel surrounded by cages and nets and two hands wrapped in bandages pulling the pin out of a grenade

I Want More Historical Horror

By J.M. Henson • April 9th, 2025

We cannot lose sight of the fact that our shared past is directly connected to our shared fears.

Area of Effect
A photograph of a lush landscape in Argentina features a stunningly massive waterfall emptying into a large lagoon flanked by green trees.

Worldbuilding

By Jay Castello • March 11th, 2025

I’m building worlds in my brain and I’m being in worlds in real life.

Rookie of the Year
A top-down photo of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree after it was taken down in January 2025. Photo by Erin Stevenson O'Connor.

The Darkening

By Matt Marrone • March 7th, 2025

Or, the night the lights of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree are turned off for good.

A screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle with Indy's arm mid-punch on a nazi's face in the desert

They Called Me Slurs While You Dragged Their Bodies

By Autumn Wright • February 25th, 2025

This isn’t about the Nazis.

A pile of various old media formats including a CD, cassette tape, game boy cartridge, 3.5" floppy disks, and more

Physical Media and Collective Nostalgia

By Paige Eldridge • January 30th, 2025

But even though discs can be seen as outdated, they’re not out of style yet.

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