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Cosplay: A Research Reflection
I do worry that any kind of reflection involving the cosplay research project will just sound like I’m gushing. I absolutely loved my cosplayers. Every single cosplayer who spoke to me was an amazing...
View ArticleShadow Texts and the Ancient Magus’ Bride
It’s pretty normal for media to refer to older narratives, particularly mythologies. Perhaps it’s just my own interests in pop culture, but a lot of the media I’ve been consuming lately is referential....
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How the Body Tells Stories
I wanted to take a moment today to talk about how the body tells stories. Now, this is big, and one that we can talk about in a variety of ways, including the way we tell the stories of ourselves with...
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The Digital Campfire
One of the most magical places to be is around a campfire. Sipping hot cider or hot cocoa, bundled under a blanket, watching flames lick around logs, while listening to the stories of the people you...
View ArticleNotes on a Scandoval
So, look. I know that the cross over between people who enjoy hearing about the intricacies of videogame storytelling and people who like reality television may not be the biggest overlap, but I think...
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Cosplay and Monstrosity
I want to return to monsters once again, today. But this time, in a slightly different way. Even though I talk about monsters as cultural artefacts, I have focused on monsters that we recognise as...
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Clothing and Identity
After spending quite a lot of time with cosplay, looking at how to distinguish it, and starting the process of trying to keep myself from already looking into other potential research projects, I’ve...
View ArticleStranger Things: a Structural Mythic Analysis
A couple months ago, I posted a video essay all on the general thesis of Incidental Mythology as well as me as an academic: our popular culture is our mythology. The video actually didn’t do too bad,...
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Structuralism and Myth
In previous posts, video essays, and just general work I’ve done on pop culture and myth, my actual form of analysis has always been structuralism. So I decided to take some time here to explain a...
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Some Musings on Fan Theories
Fandom is amazing. What I love about fandoms is how it gives space for unbridled creativity, and a place to love the things we love unashamedly. Through fandom, activities that are typically...
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The Reality of Monsters
With the approach of October, comes the slow march of monster season - my favourite time of year. As I’ve done in the past, each blog post in October will be a review of a monster. So I thought I’d...
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Siren Head: Anatomy of a Monster
I do love some digital monsters, if that’s not been made clear already. A favourite of mine I haven’t been able to take the time to explore yet is Siren Head. Siren Head was created by Trevor...
View ArticleThe Mandalorian, Religion and Nationalism
I think one of the reasons I found the Mandalorian such an interesting show, other than its space cowboy vibes, was the fact that the show focused on what felt like normal people. Strong people, sure,...
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Momo: Anatomy of a Monster
Momo became widely known in July of 2018 but rose to particular prominence in the early months of 2019. A string-haired demon girl, Momo, is said to entrance children when she suddenly appears in the...
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Musings on History and Mythology
So on this website we talk a lot about the role of mythology, mostly in and around pop culture but also in a more general sense. In order to understand how contemporary pop culture is contemporary...
View ArticleDetectives as Tricksters
At the beginning of this year, I put out a video essay on Knives Out and the structure of the whodunnit. In it, I analysed how whodunnit narratives are constructed, and how Knives Out plays with that...
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The Ineffable Quality of Mythology
There’s an inherent problem with studying mythology and pop culture narratives in the way that I do. I focus so much on he structure of it all. I think about how things are constructed, how they are...
View ArticleClifford Geertz Meets the Triforce
So, today I want to do something a little different. As may already be obvious by the catalogue of video essays I’ve created so far, I’m a fan of the Legend of Zelda games. They’re really an inherent...
View ArticleNo Face: Disconnection and Consumption
Miyazaki’s Spirited Away continues to be one of the most beautiful animated movies ever made. It tells the story of a young girl, Chihiro, who gets unwillingly whisked off to a spiritual world where...
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Thinking About Things
I’ve recently been thinking about things. I don’t mean thinking about general concepts of life, I mean things. Stuff. The objects and things that we surround ourselves with. Part of this started,...
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