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  • Surviving Humanity in Subnautica

    Like most survival video-games, Subnautica’s main premise is straightforward: you have crash-landed your spaceship on an alien planet. You have naught but your wits and…

  • Kiss of the Rose Princess

    Guilty pleasures come in all categories—food, books, and TV shows, to name a few. But none of these are as quirky as manga, which can…

  • Bowie Fiction

    There was a time during the twentieth century when the position of the greatest science fiction author was officially split into three. The greatest authors…

  • Jessica Jones and the Mechanics of “Post-Series Depression”

    Warning: The following content contains spoilers. While I should have been studying for exams, I finally gave in to the hype and watched the first…

  • An Ongoing Lack of Spontaneous Combustion

    Poetry has comfortably slipped into its current position as the most honest medium of writing. It allows the poet to play with images, scenarios, and…

  • Lonesome no More!

    Different writers speak to different people. There can be lots of writers that you like, and lots that you don’t. But I think for each…

  • 5 Speculative Anime You Must Watch!

    This post caters towards those who have already watched most, if not all, of Studio Ghibli’s classics such as Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess…

  • Disconnected Tales: Contrasting Ken Liu’s Original and Translated Works

    While I was growing up, the Chinese realm of my life was wholly separate from the English one. The two only overlapped when I struggled…

  • How Dark Souls Taught Me to Close-Read

      Like any English undergrad, I’ve been lectured on the concept of close-reading by nearly every professor I’ve encountered. During discussions of how to find…

  • Enter the Raccoon

    I would never have known about the existence of Enter the Raccoon if it wasn’t for Beatriz Hausner herself, who came in as a plenary…