Other Strangeness — merritt k

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  • Holy Spirit Miracle Academy

    Holy Spirit Miracle Academy

    Today it’s hard to remember that there was a time when the right wing was vocally opposed to all things Harry Potter. Back in the 2000s, the biggest crime a piece of media could commit for the religious right was not being “woke,” but undermining Christian values by encouraging children to cast magic spells, capture…

    August 27, 2025
  • Peachtree Carnivore

    Peachtree Carnivore

    Many of the great works of literature deploy narrative in service of a social argument. Madame Bovary rails against the romantic delusions of the bourgeoisie. Brave New World warns against a future where humanity is enslaved by means more insidious than punitive repression. And Ready Player One passionately urges us to never, ever forget Ghostbusters. Peachtree Carnivore by Mark Mitchell is such a…

    August 20, 2025
  • The Batman Claritin Allergy Special Issue

    The Batman Claritin Allergy Special Issue

    As America enters its Century of Humiliation, its political leadership is hard at work trying to make the country as unattractive as possible to potential tourist dollars. Consider that this may have the incredible result of creating a wave of embittered, ex-theme park employees with stolen mascot costumes, easy access to firearms, and a grudge…

    August 13, 2025
  • White Cobra Diamond Fox vs The Golden Eye

    White Cobra Diamond Fox vs The Golden Eye

    I think it was Simone de Beauvoir who said that we will know feminism has achieved its aim precisely when women are allowed to be as deranged, incompetent, and generally mediocre as men without it reflecting on their sex as a whole. And from that perspective, perhaps those women who doggedly pursue lives of self-obsessed…

    August 6, 2025
  • Alligator Pie

    Alligator Pie

    Fish don’t realize they’re in water until they’re plucked out of it. Canadians don’t realize how specific their culture is until they move to another country. It took dedicated effort to purge “toque” and “pop” from my vocabulary when I first arrived in the US. Trickier was not making reference to children’s entertainment whose cultural…

    July 31, 2025
  • Cuomo and the Quest for Gracie Mansion

    Cuomo and the Quest for Gracie Mansion

    You are Andrew Cuomo, disgraced former governor of New York State. Can you beat Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race? Probably not. But try anyway! Six endings to discover and lots of Real Cuomo Facts to learn. Play on itch.io

    July 29, 2025
  • Fighting Fit with Rowdy Roddy Piper

    Fighting Fit with Rowdy Roddy Piper

    As a recent convert to the fighting arts, I approach combat sports with the lunatic zeal of a rich 25-year-old who just discovered Catholicism. Unlike them, I don’t claim to know better than the Pope — I still believe that Bas Rutten is the Punch God’s representative on earth. I’m now hearing that Bas Rutten…

    July 23, 2025
  • My Story Animated

    My Story Animated

    New forms of media spawn new genres of storytelling. Television brought us the sitcom, the police procedural, the drawn-out public humiliation. Video games gave the world JRPGs, point-and-click adventure games, and Flopglopple abuse simulators. Streaming video first presented the vlog, then the head/cumshot compilation, and at last, the metrics-calibrated weapons-grade dopamine trap. For tots, there’s Cocomelon and…

    July 23, 2025
  • Cosmo Meets the Foreskin Justice League

    Cosmo Meets the Foreskin Justice League

    It’s been a calendar year since we met Foreskin Man. It feels longer, though, doesn’t it? Like the protective, elastic skin that Dr. Mutilator yearns to tear from the vulnerable bodies of newborn boys, time has stretched out over the shaft of reality over these last twelve months. Let’s slow jerk a little while the world burns. April…

    July 18, 2025
  • r/Retconned

    r/Retconned

    The early 2010s were a more innocent time for conspiracy theorists. Before Q and Facebook dragged everybody’s weird uncle into the Pizzagate vortex and COVID annihilated what was left of their shattered psyches, you could believe in outlandish and bizarre things that didn’t necessarily make you a mass shooter waiting to happen. Like, remember the…

    July 2, 2025
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Other Strangeness — merritt k