Interlinked Fragile Traditions By Phoenix Simms • January 9th, 2026 Porcelain as a material metaphor is a way to emphasize not just legacy, but the hands-on and time-consuming craft that creates objects of precious worth.
Life in the Human World is Far from Perfect: Watching Saga of the Phoenix (1989) Without Knowing What’s Going On By Orrin Grey • January 8th, 2026 The Hell Virgin is actually a pretty good-natured sort.
Don't Stop Believing How Art Helped Me in 2025 By Elijah Beahm • January 8th, 2026 We might not even realize it as it happens, but what we engage with shapes us.
Mind Palaces Bad Good Ideas By Maddi Chilton • January 7th, 2026 I am on board, conceptually, with Adaptation’s ambition.
Past Presence Indie Sampler 2025 By Dr. Emily Price • January 6th, 2026 Was this just an excuse to demonstrate how many indie games I played this year? Anyway.
Noise Complaint Exploring Black Metal Ecstasy With Agriculture By Ben Sailer • January 5th, 2026 Agriculture call themselves “ecstatic black metal.” Believe it or not, that isn’t a contradiction of terms.
Exploits Feature Every Character Creator Is A Fight With Identity That I’m Losing By Branden Lizardi • January 2nd, 2026 A pixelated mirror.
THAT’S WHAT THE BLOG IS FOR! Mad Men S1E1–S1E2 By Natasha Ochshorn • December 23rd, 2025 The thing about Don is that he really doesn’t believe in love and he also believes in love with his whole brain and body each and every time it happens to him.
Feature Story Children of the Charnel House By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2025 The story of Frankenstein, like so many others, has become something else, something that we each build for ourselves, piece by piece.
