A (painfully) short dive into The Stanley ParableAs a relatively new gamer (having recently graduated from mobile games to desktop/console games) what fascinated me the most was not the…May 29A response icon7May 29A response icon7
Dying is Good for You — How Hades uses repetition to push its narrative forwardI first got Hades back in 2021 — I was going to start my master’s that year, somehow weathered a pandemic with (most) of my sanity intact…Mar 1Mar 1
The Work I Enjoyed in 2024It’s been a year of changes. I switched jobs, moved to a new city, moved within the city, took up running, and tried a lot of things: I…Dec 26, 2024Dec 26, 2024
Intimacy in the City: Sarnath Banerjee’s ‘Corridor’ and Delhi as a space for intimacyI was tasked with exploring the ‘city’ as a space in modern literature — how the context of the city shapes, influences, pervades everyday…Oct 8, 2023Oct 8, 2023
Failure is Death, and Death is Progress: The use of repetition/replayability and narrative…Title Card for ‘Hades’, by Supergiant GamesAug 23, 2023Aug 23, 2023
A mid-season huddle: Is Richmond finally going to turn around?With only 6 episodes left until the end of the show (sob), it looks like threads are slowly being tied up — but it also seems like…Apr 25, 2023Apr 25, 2023
An Homage to Video Games — a Review of John Wick: Chapter 4The new John Wick was recently released, and I — like every other fan of Keanu Reeves out there — booked the first ticket I could. I went…Mar 29, 2023Mar 29, 2023
Tender Moments in Hard Places: A Review of The Substitute (2022)The Substitute (2022) was a surprising film — not only for its depiction of how the drug trade insidiously affects the community, but for…Feb 13, 2023Feb 13, 2023
Is Avatar 2 Worth It? Meh, Not Really]It’s been 17 years, but it’s finally arrived — Avatar: The Way of Water. Evoking memories of water-bending and ATLA (which reminds me…Dec 27, 2022Dec 27, 2022