Here Be Monsters Stepford Waifus: The Politics of Aesthetic Homogeneity in Final Fantasy By Emma Kostopolus • May 11th, 2026 The only thing the female characters get to be, all narrative protestations of their strength to the contrary, is small and delicately pretty.
Run It Back 1997 – 2020 By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 8th, 2026 It’s much easier to force desperate people into extractive economic relationships when you’ve fundamentally destabilized their society.
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.
Past Presence Let’s Do It Again, But This Time Better By Dr. Emily Price • April 4th, 2025 Can the Remake trilogy, vastly expanded as it is, be a “good” remake of FFVII?
Who Deserves the Future? By Jonathan Fenn • October 4th, 2024 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes highlights the lack of conviction from which post-apocalyptic stories often suffer, in their insistence in constantly refocusing on humanity’s story.
Letter to a Heroine Aerith By Melissa King • May 11th, 2021 For the one who most needed a phoenix down but couldn’t have one.
Here's the Thing I Hope the FFVII Remake Changes My Mind By Rob Rich • April 10th, 2020 Rob isn’t the biggest fan of Final Fantasy VII (to put it lightly) but he’s hoping that the upcoming remake will change that.
