fiction

  • The Worst Thing a Woman can be is Old

    Before you start pointing pitchforks at me, you must know I don’t believe my headline and the film we’re looking at today doesn’t either. Women aging has been presented as this monstrous thing that we need to run from, and we’re going to see what Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 film Howl’s Moving Castle adds to the

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  • The Modern Urban Legend: How do Slender Man and Siren Head fit in the Folklore Landscape?

    If you read my previous post and thought the Thin Man has a striking resemblance to the internet phenomenon Slender Man, you thought the same as me (if you didn’t, I’ll catch you up to speed). Slender Man has been a monster I’ve known since early high school and is still relevant in online spaces

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