Some favorites

Fall Out Boy Forever by Hanif Abdurraqib

Nothing is more punk rock than surviving in a hungry sea of white noise.

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ten Years Later, There’s Still Nothing Like Tarsem Singh’s The Fall by Molly Templeton

What if you let someone who loves you rewrite your story?
Who would you be?

Recently read

Hannibal as Comedy: A Queer Approach to a Queer Approach to Horror by N 02/04

Hannibal always takes the time to acknowledge what we’re looking at and genuinely ask, true to form, how does that make you feel?

Hannibal is about, among other things, the experience of watching Hannibal

Vulcan Meditation School: Tuvok teaches you to control fear by Lessons from Heroes 31/03

The idea behind this is that emotions are signals from the brain, intended to guide our behaviour. If we just observe them, it’s like saying “OK, got it, message received.” But if you resist them or wish them to go away, the brain is like “Hmm, the body is not getting my message. I’ll make it louder.”

The Half Room of Living and Loving by Maria Popova 23/03

Hemispheric neglect menaces our sense of reality with the intimation that we too may be missing entire regions of reality because our attention simply cannot be drawn to them.

The trick, of course, is to be intelligent enough and humble enough to recognize that you might be missing half of reality.

Winter is a Time Loop by north window 10/03

There’s an art to living in a time loop. You can bend your life around it, discover its exact contours.

… more articles/essays to come! (have to read them first hehe)