Eventually the ugly thing will raise its head once again in the night. Prompted by strange thoughts that come from somewhere in the center of the spine. It’s a midnight feeling, at first. Places we live and work in, cluttered with little photographs and ephemera purchased at comic-conventions or on etsy or god forbid our…
DON’T TURN THE LIGHTS ON
I started watching Gundam the only way I know how: being fed an IV drip of the series’ best moments and music through YouTube and Websites (ominous) for ten years before ever seeing a single episode. That’s just how things were done, back in the day: see a picture of a giant robots eye, well,…
WETWARE
We boarded the first Battle Bus some time late in the afternoon. I remember it was still the tail end of summer, just a few short weeks ago. I could finally see myself the way I was: a cute girl in a skirt, this time, or a horrible monster the next if I wanted. Not…
FEAR AND SELF LOATHING ON THE BATTLE BUS
By Bryn Gelbart Fortnite used to be a joke. Literally. On the Giant Bombcast in the years leading up to Epic’s release of the game in 2017, the question “what is Fortnite?” was a running gag. With each passing E3, TGS, and PAX that Epic wasn’t showing its new tower defense building game, it became…
ONE ANNUAL EVENT
The trip always starts with The Drive. I once heard that living as an adult is just a period of drives we have to take. Gasoline journeys to misery: knowing we have to commit no matter what to our lives, and see all of the resolution. That’s what I heard, anyway: it was mostly in…
THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN FORTNITE
by Karin Malady “If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead! Brothers, what we do in life… echoes in eternity.” (Gladiator, 2000) There is glory on the battlefield. Not honor, nothing so pristine. Glory emerges…
READY PLAYER FORTNITE
Come join us the month of September on the Deep-Hell discord as we play as much of the Battle Royale genre as we can possibly squeeze in. All of your friends will be there.
BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN
There’s an old quote that goes something like “whatever world war III is fought with, world war IV will be fought with sticks.” to which I’d like to offer a brief and contemptible counterargument: whatever World War III is fought with, it will still be featured in Call of Duty: World at War IV. So…