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Tuesday, 21 October 2025
The "Life of a Showgirl" Backlash is Making Me Nauseous
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This essay is not an analysis of Life Of A Showgirl. Not exactly. Is it even a coherent analysis, or is it just a messy, confused vent a...
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
September Ended, I Overslept
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I’ll get an essay or a poem out every Tuesday, I said. Can’t be that hard, I said. Well, at least I haven’t missed any days with the seriali...
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
What We Owe Our Fans: The Emotional Contract of Storytelling
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[Warning: This essay contains spoilers for The Last of Us and Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire , as well as Mass Effect. I’m talki...
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Creative People Aren’t Good (Part 2)
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Last week, I had a few things to disentangle about the commonly-held societal more that being able to make stuff means you’re holistically...
Tuesday, 19 August 2025
Creative People Aren’t Smart (Part 1)
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Another day, another discussion about media where I find myself mildly dismayed by the creative implications of someone’s choices, or lack...
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