Trigger Warning/Content Warning: descriptions of CSA and religious abuse. Note: Most of my sex education and all of my experience with sex happened after my family was excommunicated from The Fellowship when I was 14 years old, but my beliefs around sexuality and sexual/romantic relationships was absolutely informed and influenced…

Content Warning: descriptions of violence and child abuse — “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” — Matthew 5:48, NIV The above Bible verse is one my father would quote to me and his other children anytime we’d complain that his expectations of us were unreasonable. After that he’d usually point out that Jesus was fully human…

I never really felt like part of the world. I don’t just mean part of the secular world, though that was definitely a component. I never felt like I belonged to any kind of community or group; most of the time I haven’t even felt like a person. For a…

I almost died on July 15th, 2022. The Ides of July? Is that a thing? I don’t care. It wasn’t the first time. It almost certainly won’t be the last. I’m not a person who works in an especially dangerous environment. I work from home for a software company. In…

#10: “Bad Moon Rising” by Rasputina The Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3o4kIbvZ0U I was reluctant to include a cover on this list, but I truly feel Rasputina captured this song’s horror in a way its own writer, John Fogerty, never could have. John Fogerty himself was quoted by Rolling Stone as saying he wrote this song about a hurricane…

“Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him.” — Echo and the Bunnymen Grief will wait until you give yourself to it. It’s always there. (Spoilers throughout for the plot of Pig) The second year of a devastating pandemic…

“To be an artist means to never avert one’s eyes.” — Akira Kurosawa The upsetting muses my boyfriend has drawn inspiration from have earned him no small number of critics over the years. I’ve never shown him special deference when it comes to my opinions of his work; if anything…

The controversy surrounding the questionable lyrics and public statements of singer/songwriter Lana Del Rey is not a new one. Her words have been a recurring matter of scandal and criticism in the musical community, among feminists, and among activists working to put a stop to domestic violence. What’s not widely…

Warning: spoilers throughout for the story in the Bachelor’s run in Pathologic Pathologic (Classic HD) is described by Steam as a first-person “survival” RPG horror game. …