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What Penguindrum Means to Me
I really, really care about Mawaru Penguindrum.
The Perils of Transgender Essentialism – 14 Theses on Detransition
A path towards greater relations between trans and detrans communities - and a look at what impedes that.
The Division Between Headcanons and Readings
Headcanons and readings seem incredibly similar, but they’re used quite differently. In this piece I explore that difference.
The Postponed Communist Eschaton in Disco Elysium
What does Disco Elysium have to say about communist eschatology?
Simple Fried Chicken Sandwich Recipe – Full Recipe on Patreon
So, I’ve wanted to post recipes for dishes I’ve really worked out for quite some time now, and I figured what better way to do it than post…
Modern Transience in ‘The Morning Schedule’
An examination of the theme of transience and value in Susumu Hani’s ‘The Morning Schedule’.
Why Rehabilitate Kautsky?
In 2019, certain factions of the DSA and Jacobin attempted to rehabilitate German theorist Karl Kautsky. Why?
Can Books Topple Class Society?: Measuring Capital’s Role in Ascendance of a Bookworm
Is Ascendance of a Bookworm pro-capitalism or anti-capitalism? As always, it’s complicated.
Nat Turner and John Brown’s Role in my Conversion
Quick little piece on the role Nat Turner and John Brown played in my conversion to Christianity.
“Only a Teenager Could Like This!” – An Observation on Boogiepop Phantom, Gunslinger Girl, and Adolescent Dreariness
There’s a certain type of anime — and it’s not just anime, but that’s the easiest example for me to draw upon — that I feel like I…
Querying is Draining My Soul
I have made nothing in the last month. This isn’t due to Covid or depression, though the former has led to a bit of the latter. It isn’t…
Imperialism in Code Geass
In Code Geass, the foremost enemy for the heroic Japanese freedom fighters is the Holy Britannian Empire. The series could hardly be called a developed political tract, but…
The Central Problem with Idol Anime
Really, I just have some serious problems with how Ensemble Stars was handled.
2019 is Dead, Long Live 2020, or, I Didn’t do 12 Days and Therefore Had to Write This as its Own Thing
Another year has come to an end, and with it, I feel the need to recap what I achieved and didn’t, accompanied by a set of my resolutions…
Miyazaki’s Marxism – The Politics of Anime’s Legendary Director
Hayao Miyazaki began his career as a Marxist, but by the mid-90s, that all had faded away. What impact have those politics had on his works, what do…
Star Wars: No Way Forward, No Way Back
On the tension between progress and nostalgia. It took a lot not to write about dialectics.
The Best Game of the Decade Has Zero Gameplay
An explanation of Seabed's place as my game of the decade.
Is Sequel Culture Killing Anime?
Studio 3Hz’s Blackfox, which released on Crunchyroll at the start of October, is an entirely unfinished product. Initially developed as a normal, single cour TV anime, production difficulties…
Translating Borders: International Metagames in Fate/Stay Night
This is a paper I wrote for class. If my professor finds it, please don’t mark me down for plagiarism, it is mine. Otherwise, please read it as…
Why Japanese Cyberpunk is Different
Cyberpunk, the anxieties of the nineties traced in neon and thrown across billboards. It appeared as it was all too late to believe the lies of high modernist…
Yuri 101 |A 40-Year Long Gap
1945-1970, the two-and-a-half decades immediately following the deadliest war in human history, a war which reduced much of Japan to rubble. The first period of Japanese industrialization and…
Flip Flappers: The End of Psychosexuality
Flip Flappers was developed as a project drawing from topics which interested director Kiyotaka Oshiyama, and among those topics were the various branches of psychoanalysis, especially those of…
25 Yuri Manga You NEED to Read RIGHT NOW (2019 Edition)
I sure haven’t made one of these in a while, have I? Well, it’s 2019, and you know there’s a lot of yuri manga right now, some of…
Yuri 101 | Setting the Stage
Crossdressing theater is a centuries-old practice in Japan, as it is in Western Europe. Traditional and aristocratic noh plays always boasted male actors and Kabuki, a genre more…
The Definition of Iyashikei Isn’t So Simple
Yep, I'm revising my definition again.
Anime Central 2019 Press Report
Once again I was accepted as a member of the press for Anime Central 2019, and I’ve finally prepared my press report. No full transcript of my interviews…
Yuri 101 | Birth of a Genre, Birth of a Nation
In 1853, Commodore Perry’s fleet of “black ships” reached Japan, demanding the end of the country’s Sakoku policy and the opening of ports. 15 years later, recognizing the…
Witch Hat Atelier Volume 1 – Manga Review
Published by Kodansha Comics, Kamome Shirahama’s Witch Hat Atelier stars one Coco, a young girl with a fascination for the magic that exists within her world. Unfortunately for…
Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart – BL Manga Review
Released by Seven Seas Entertainment, Syundei’s Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart centers one Hoshino Terumichi, a young man who’s fallen in love with his classmate, Yamada Omihito,…