“Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.” ~ Cornelia Funke. It’s gonna be a long one, but hear me out. The stories we sell Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A person — a man, woman, a non-binary, an in-between or beyond — is defined by a trait…

This is the part of the story where it turns out we’re all in this together. You know, I was going to talk shit about The Matrix today. It was, originally, going to be a text about how despite its flaws, the franchise successfully accompanied society’s shared vision of the…

Over 800 episodes in and people are still doing the Klingons dirty. Also: a discussion about cultural appropriation, because why not. This assumes you have some familiarity with Star Trek, at least more than one show. I’ll provide some context, but it’s… +800 episodes of material, this would be twice…

Namely how to stop it. Warning: This article contains spoilers about all the Metal Gear Solid games and Death Stranding. They’re convoluted messes of speeches about nuclear deterrence and the internet, so if you’ve never played them, it might be hard to follow along. In June 2021, well-known video game…

Boy is it weird to live in a meme country. I remember around 2015, when I was living in America, a 19-year-old college sophomore asked me a question. It was Saturday morning after midterms, we were acquaintances but not really friends. …

Wallowing just makes you stay in place. If you enjoy my writing and want to support me, consider hitting that Follow button. It directly helps me and I really appreciate the vote of confidence. It’s year three of the apocalypse, I’m depressed, let’s talk bad sci-fi. Science fiction as a…

Not a lot more dire than your mom asking your help to buy crypto. Although I source some of the more specific claims here and there, you’re on a website for writers with less than 200k active content creators. You know how to Google and you clicked on an article…

The story of over a decade of self-sabotage, bad movies, and maybe one divorce. Rainbow Watson has lived rent-free in my head for over a decade. Originally this was an article about the books I never wrote. It was weirdly sentimental, self-defeatist and I guess sort of genuine, but then…

Or: How reading The Republic incorrectly led us all to a better today. I feel pretty safe in saying that we all proved Plato wrong. There is no need to have read a Plato dialogue in order to read and understand this text, although I gotta be honest, you’d be…