Area of Effect All’s Well in the Kingdom By Jay Castello • July 11th, 2023 The wells in Hyrule are incredible. I want someone to talk to me about all the wells in Hyrule, as well.
Dungeons & Dragons ReAction Figures By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 10th, 2023 Toys, toys, toys.
Rookie of the Year Breaking Up With a Videogame By Matt Marrone • July 7th, 2023 I won’t name the game or the platform. It knows what it is and I’m not here to rub any salt.
Noise Complaint Learning the Hard Way With Lucero By Ben Sailer • July 6th, 2023 Lucero’s music has always had two speeds: “I’m going to party hard” and “I shouldn’t have partied that hard.”
Mind Palaces 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.
Erol Otus Interview (Remastered) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 3rd, 2023 Erol Otus? Erol Otus!
Past Presence The Wake of the Wake By Emily Price • June 30th, 2023 Folk-punk, increasingly experimental band AJJ is best listened to when you randomly remember them, like a book of poems you skim through annually and then put back on the shelf.
Run It Back You’ve Gotta Stop Living Like You’re Already Dead By Oluwatayo Adewole • June 29th, 2023 What use is it to name the knife that slides between your ribs if you can’t let yourself be helped?
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – June 2023 By Noah Springer • June 28th, 2023 It’s half-way through 2023 somehow, so it’s time to round up some notable releases from the first half of the year.
Funeral Rites Depths of the Abyss By Noah Springer • June 27th, 2023 To play, at least for Max Moon in the world of The Abyss of Hallucinations and MÖRK BORG, is to participate in a ritual that can potentially break the reality laid out by the capitalist trap.
Feature Excerpt Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time) By Juno Stump • June 23rd, 2023 I don’t know if Kurt Cobain would still be here today if he had the ability to inject estrogen instead of heroin, but I know his journal pages carry the same pain as me.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – June 2023 By David Shimomura • June 20th, 2023 Come as you are.
Here's the Thing The False Myth of the Black Cat By Rob Rich • June 15th, 2023 While the times have changed, black cats are sometimes still saddled with unfair stigma – and Rob rants about why that’s ridiculous.
Forms in Light Fantastic Follies By Justin Reeve • June 14th, 2023 These wildly impractical structures were made for purely aesthetic purposes, perfectly complementing their pastoral surroundings.
Always Autumn Last Night I Went to a House Show By Autumn Wright • June 13th, 2023 Folded arms, cold gazes, straight couples dressed like they wanna be at a club in Williamsburg, which is to say “Kind of gay, but don’t be mistaken.”
Orcs By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 12th, 2023 Pig-faced orcs are the best orcs…but why exactly do they have pig faces?
Casting Deep Meteo 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).
Area of Effect Flooded Memories By Jay Castello • June 8th, 2023 What traces will our current sea level rise leave in the record? Cities under the water, yes, but what myths emerge from real Atlantises?
Rookie of the Year The Legend of T2419 By Matt Marrone • June 7th, 2023 We tried every dumb thing you might think of, and more. But none stood the test of time like T2419.
The Burnt Offering The Kosmische Cosmos By Stu Horvath • June 6th, 2023 Electronic music is thoroughly modern music. And the truth about the folklore that these sorts of projects score is that it’s thoroughly modern folklore.
Interlinked Mythology of the Commons By Phoenix Simms • June 2nd, 2023 While there isn’t necessarily an overtly intersectional EcoGothic tone to Folklore, it does deal with bodies irrevocably changed by nature, binaries and transformed bodies.
Noise Complaint Black Metal Mythmaking, Gatekeeping, and Points In Between By Ben Sailer • May 31st, 2023 Black metal musicians have long used secrecy and controversy to generate notoriety.
Mind Palaces Our World and the Others By Maddi Chilton • May 30th, 2023 Our scientific mindset, our modern rationalism is a handicap when attempting to represent the premodern, where the boundaries that we consider so key for understanding our world have no presence.
Cycle of the Werewolf By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 29th, 2023 It must be a full moon tonight.
This Mortal Coyle Elora the Faun from Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage By Deirdre Coyle • May 26th, 2023 “I’m a faun, you dork!”
Past Presence Virtual Citizen By Emily Price • May 25th, 2023 A legend, per the OED, is “a story from ancient times about people and events that may or may not be true.” If the residents of Wild World are anything in my memory, they are that: ancient stories.
Funeral Rites Composing the World of Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City By Phoenix Simms • May 24th, 2023 Luka Rejec’s world is suffused with mind-expanding, psychedelic heavy metal and is also inspired by “the Dying Earth genre, and Oregon Trail games.”
Feature Story Whatever Knows Fear By Orrin Grey • May 23rd, 2023 The uncanny history of Marvel’s muck monster.
Feature Excerpt Painting the Past With a Broad Brush By Saniya Ahmed • May 19th, 2023 Intimacy and ordinary life in art is lacking when attention goes toward religious and imperial powers. Mundane, everyday things are forgettable and not as well-preserved through time as a monument.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – May 2023 By David Shimomura • May 16th, 2023 Welcome to myths and legends.
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 15th, 2023 The best of the first wave of TSR-produced D&D modules? Certainly the quirkiest!
Here's the Thing The Importance of the Small Stuff in the RE4 Remake By Rob Rich • May 12th, 2023 Resident Evil 4 Remake has won Rob over, but a big reason why is because of all the really small things it’s changed and refined.
Forms in Light After Us By Justin Reeve • May 11th, 2023 There’s a remarkably prevalent misconception that if people suddenly disappeared from the planet, the environment would eventually return to how it was before we started transforming the landscape.
Casting Deep Meteo Beats and Feets at PAX East 2023 By Levi Rubeck • May 10th, 2023 PAX East 2023, mostly the same as it ever was. (A place with cool games!)