In 2023 I read 34 works of fiction, coincidentally the very same number as I read in 2022. I’ve done my best to acknowledge what I’ve read for school, within reason. If I might have read it otherwise outside of class and I finished it, then I included it!

My college boyfriend told me that I had old hands.
He was a coder with delicate fingers and very few palm lines.

I read 34 books this year, which pales in comparison to the 43 I read in 2021.

My anger,
Quiet, hot, and embarassed,
Never seething,
Always afraid.

At my firm, we just had a major deadline pass that really had my head in a clerical space, but I was still finding lyrical moments in my office world.

This word has simultaneously become the calling card of the alt right dude protecting his livelihood of abusing women as well as the self righteous stan overly invested in their unhealthy parasocial relationships.

The uncanny manifests in many ways — with half-human monsters, with doubles, with body modifications, etc. Essentially, some of the greatest hallmarks of gothic literature draw on uncanny themes, and SpongeBob is full of them.

I almost wrote this piece as a book review, before ultimately deciding that that would be a traffic accident and not worth reading. If you want a book review for Bjarne Rostaing’s Phantom of the Paradise, Goodreads will tell you it is valued at an average of 2.4 stars.

I’ve been racking my brain for a productive way to convey the highs and lows of the reading experiences I’ve had so far this year. It was so freeing when I realized that there was absolutely no one holding me accountable for full-fledged essays. I’m done creating unnecesary barriers to writing about things I enjoy. Here are all the books I’ve read this year reviewed in one sentence.

It is no great secret that Disney fears gay characters. Their main goal being preposterous movie sales, they’ve found that including notable queer characters is simply too controversial to be of interest. Then why is Disney SO gay?

Although technology, cultural references, and understood historical parallels offer credibility to these imagined histories, it is the use of language that solidifies them in their moment. Created languages, differing dialects, historical nomenclature, as well as the general power given to language in science fiction narratives establish language as the pivotal factor in building a credible history. 

With a market as niche and demanding as the Christmas film industry, the door is left wide open for networks to run the same movies over and over, curating the nation’s yuletide entertainment as they do so.

I would argue that the corset could be just as liberating as it was, well, binding. Furthermore, I find a historical review of the corset reveals more about the power of clothing choice than it obscures, and in looking to the corset, we may be able to better understand how we view and police fashion today.