Personal Essay Night Changes by Prithiva Sharma 24 Oct 202424 Oct 2024 Artwork by Michael Abshear ‘Cause even when the night changes,it will never change me and you… Grief is pervasive, it comes unannounced and doesn't leave. I remember being a teenage…
Personal Essay a whole lot of history by Anushka Bidani 18 Oct 202419 Oct 2024 I can’t stop thinking about it. Strobe lights from laptop screens, cheering under the blanket, spending entire piggy-banks on new posters. The relics of my teenagehood, an inheritance from memory…
Critical Analysis… A.C.E. by Valentina Linardi 4 Dec 2023 It’s been about two years, maybe more, since I got into k-pop. I like the music and, I must admit, the whole style and super cute boys and girls are…
Personal Essay… Frightened Rabbit: Personal Music Retrospective by Mark McConville 15 Oct 2023 I often wanted to steep my head in bleach so my mind could be fumigated. It sounds ludicrous, but the demons in my mind were rummaging around too much for…
Fan Culture… [ISSUE I] How Coffee Shop AUs are the Perfect Example of Why Fanfiction Culture Thrives and Always Will: A Barista’s Perspective by Tiana Gaudioso 11 Apr 2022 The stigma surrounding escapism via artistic avenues is more complex and diverse than the average consumer probably realizes. I believe most of us can agree that any and all critique…
Fan Culture… [ISSUE I] ‘I Love A Coffee Shop AU’ And Other Ways To Immediately Let Me Know You’ve Never Worked In One by Chloe Sheila 11 Apr 2022 "Can I have a cappuccino with no milk?" My head shoots up, fingers poised over the sticky till. The air is hot both with the steam from the coffee machine,…
Fan Culture… Before we ride the wave, some notes by John Rey Dave Aquino 15 Aug 202117 Oct 2024 I am a K-pop fanboy. It started in 2016. During a group meeting (we were rushing a group assignment for our Reading Process class), my friend (who once told me…
Fan Culture… The Better to Heal You With by Beth Winegarner 20 Oct 202018 Jul 2021 Image source: The Telegraph A veil of resinous incense enveloped me as I walked through the narrow, wooden doors of the St. Pancras Old Church in London. The small, stone-walled…
Personal Essay Chemical X— The Strongest Chemical Known To Us by Neha Kapoor 22 Jul 201922 Jul 2019 ‘Fighting crimeTrying to save the worldHere they come just in timeThe Powerpuff Girls’ A show that I grew up watching, one that unknowingly acted as the foundation of female friendships,…