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The modern age is oft set on attaching our identities to objects. The things we own, the things we buy, what we can and can’t afford, and what that says about us to the culture as a whole. Objects act as our flags of wealth, identifiers. Find your aesthetic, your wardrobe staples, decorate in farmhouse…
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Societal decay begins with the erasure of complexity and nuance, and ends with brand loyalty. Your Gucci t-shirt was made in the same sweatshop as the Shein knock off, then marked up $100. The woman working 16 hours a day to afford food for her children isn’t going to see a cent of that good…
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Last night I stood on my balcony and watched the light of a wildfire crest one of the foothills that grace the horizon. This morning I awoke with woodsmoke in my lungs and a haze across the sky. Soon, the sun will turn red. When I go to work later today, I will leave this…
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This is a review of Longlegs. !!!Major spoilers for the entire movie ahead, reader beware!!! There’s been an uptick in the amount of media featuring satanic concepts lately, some well-done and others lacking in nuance in a way that might have been fine in the 80’s, but grates nowadays. Longlegs is, unfortunately, in the “lacking…
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I missed yesterday’s prompt because of its eyerolling assumption of comfort as king. I needed to sleep on it, consider why it made me groan aloud when I first saw it at 8:30 in the morning on a Tuesday. There is nothing wrong with curling up on the couch, tucked away from the heat of…
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I like to joke that I majored in climate anxiety. An ecology degree has done nothing for my job prospects, and an unquenchable curiosity about how the modern world works does very little to ease any of the existential ennui I live with day after day. In order to cope, I tend to go out…
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I moved out of my parents’ house five years ago. Finally pushed out of the nest despite financial strife from the sheer stress of being packed unendingly into a box with the rest of my family with no escape, not allowed my daily reprieve of the college campus for the exploding pandemic. So in one…
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We moved. See blog post from about a week ago. Our new apartment overlooks open pasture and a wide, shallow lake and features a balcony that you can watch the local prairie dog colony from. Well, if you’re human. If you’re a dog, you can listen to them bark but I don’t think you can…
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I am not alone in my inescapable inundation with the problems plaguing our world. Every day, I lament an earlier time — not that the past was more peaceful or serene, but that concerns were far more local. In the modern age, you’re expected to keep your finger on the pulse of every national scandal,…
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This Delicious Death is a young adult horror novel by Kayla Cottingham following four girls struggling with their ghoulish urges to eat people. Each of these girls is also queer. What follows will have spoilers — read at your own risk. The central conceit of this book revolves around an event we only ever see…
from the pen of icarus blake 