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.
Exploits Feature Is it Alt to Like Call of Duty These Days? By Elijah Beahm • February 1st, 2024 Somehow, some Call of Duty games seem to have slipped out of the mainstream…
Past Presence Romanticize Your Life! By Emily Price • January 31st, 2024 If these things are the glue that makes real “mundane” life less boring, they are hollow pleasures.
Beyond Structures Clockenflap 2023 Day 2: Atarashii Gakko!, Omnipotent Youth Society and more By Khee Hoon Chan • January 30th, 2024 After grabbing an exorbitant hotdog from the festival grounds, which I paid around USD25 for, I continued on to some of the day two acts.
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.
The Temple of Apshai Trilogy By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 29th, 2024 Beware the minions of the Insect God!
Aggretsuko’s Excellence Was Hidden in Plain Sight By Van Dennis • January 26th, 2024 Just as Retsuko herself has a hidden personal life that surprises other characters, Aggretsuko’s supporting cast all have personalities that make an office comedy about animal people feel grounded and astonishingly well thought out.
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.
Metro: Exodus and Learning a Lesson Too Late By John Anderson • January 24th, 2024 I harbored no desire to hasten to the decomposition of Moscow, but the hopelessness of it dissuaded me from making much more than a feeble effort to avoid it.
