Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)
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- Chris has written several excellent essays for us. Please consider helping him.
- gofund.me/9b00b5084 This, unfortunately, is urgent. The good news: I have a job. Bad news: turns out if a radio tower gets enough ice on it it will kill you crazy style, so I can't really work until it clears out. I'm asking for help raising a week's wages at the least.
- Most recently he wrote an incredible contemporary political history of basketball www.typebarmagazine.com/what-happene...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Unfortunately, haven't slept. I meant to reshare this in the morning, and it is now the morning. This is urgent. We've got a storage unit bill to pay as well as electricity and rent coming up. Even if the ice on the road melts, it's still going to be until next week before I get a full week of pay.
- gofund.me/9b00b5084 This, unfortunately, is urgent. The good news: I have a job. Bad news: turns out if a radio tower gets enough ice on it it will kill you crazy style, so I can't really work until it clears out. I'm asking for help raising a week's wages at the least.
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)A reminder that you should read my short story. Yes, you.
- FICTION: I Have the Key to All of This by @gaycannibalism.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/fiction-i-ha...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)This essay was really cool. Fueled by a deep passion for cyberpunk as well as an even deeper curiosity for the genre’s philosophical and biological underpinnings. An interesting read!!
- A key element to understanding cyberpunk? Cognitive science www.typebarmagazine.com/the-weakness...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Do you know what TropiWeird is? Have you read "Blanquitos"? If not, here's your opportunity to fix that!
- FICTION: Blanquitos by @kjy1066.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Loved this story -- a masterclass in showing just enough that the reader's imagination goes OH FUCK NO
- FICTION: Blanquitos by @kjy1066.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)FYI I wrote this short after seeing how you grew DHS and ICE, ramped up deportations that even now you STILL have the highest rates, and increased anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies that led to exactly this moment www.seizethepress.com/2022/02/07/v...
- FICTION: Blanquitos by @kjy1066.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/
- "Two lonely people have come together through a love and desire that’s unique thanks, in part, to the typewriter." www.typebarmagazine.com/secretary-an...
- Super Mario 64 was a classic...that also ruined the then-classic elements of the Mario franchise www.typebarmagazine.com/not-so-class...
- Whatever happened to YouTube dub shows like "Dragon Ball Z Abridged" and its ilk? www.typebarmagazine.com/anime-abridg...
- A modern political history of basketball www.typebarmagazine.com/what-happene...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)This essay ended up getting pretty popular (the most popular of Issue 8 so far). People really seem to like interesting philosophizing about mythical creatures often seen in fantasy narratives!
- "Dragons have no origin. There is no first dragon, because “dragon” is not a concept. It is a box. A line drawn around a collection of ideas because language sacrifices context at the altar of convenience." www.typebarmagazine.com/there-is-no-...
- "Dragons have no origin. There is no first dragon, because “dragon” is not a concept. It is a box. A line drawn around a collection of ideas because language sacrifices context at the altar of convenience." www.typebarmagazine.com/there-is-no-...
- "The internet, of course, also has a politics, and it hollows us out. It renders us all into interfaces, into proxies, a depersonalization process that is best seen as extractive." www.typebarmagazine.com/pulse-demonl...
- The Tangled Lands represents a necessary component to climate fiction: the acknowledgement that solutions require confronting the powerful and the violence they enact to protect their destructive wealth www.typebarmagazine.com/technology-p...
- How the Jackass films became a pale ghost of the Jackass franchise www.typebarmagazine.com/jackass-and-...
- FICTION: I Have the Key to All of This by @gaycannibalism.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/fiction-i-ha...
- The rise, fall, and rise again of science fiction www.typebarmagazine.com/science-fict...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Sega Channel was a fucking moment in history
- Sega Channel and the early history of digitally downloading video games www.typebarmagazine.com/game-pass-in...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)I remember pining for Sega Channel so much in the '90s, I was endlessly jealous of the kids who had access to it
- Sega Channel and the early history of digitally downloading video games www.typebarmagazine.com/game-pass-in...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)This ended up being Issue 8’s most popular essay (so far) by a wide margin! I think typebar magazine’s core product is food for thought and this essay does a very good job of delivering said product.
- What is a dragon, anyway? Unlock your imagination by leaving fictional taxonomies behind www.typebarmagazine.com/there-is-no-...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)This is a fascinating essay diving into some really philosophical questions about cyberpunk and human cognition. Definitely something to check out for anyone who writes or reads the genre!
- A key element to understanding cyberpunk? Cognitive science www.typebarmagazine.com/the-weakness...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)This essay really does an excellent job of thematically analyzing the typewriter down to the selection of typewriter model!
- Can a typewriter be erotic? The answer you're looking for is YES! www.typebarmagazine.com/secretary-an...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Love this one because it’s a well argued point that I think drives people kinda nuts because it has a kernel of truth. Mario was never the same after this—whether you think that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
- Super Mario 64 was a revolutionary game that also kinda ruined the Mario franchise (or at least turned it into something else) www.typebarmagazine.com/not-so-class...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)I am so glad we got to publish this exhaustively researched bit of video game history. I really wish mainstream places paid more attention to games and gaming history. It’s a pretty major part of culture!
- Sega Channel and the early history of digitally downloading video games www.typebarmagazine.com/game-pass-in...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)I remember being really moved by this book because it depicted climate change as it’s really happening: there is a solution but the powerful won’t make money from it so instead we suffer and die.
- "The Tangled Lands" is climate fiction that grapples with the reality of climate change: winning will take more than solar panels and good vibes www.typebarmagazine.com/technology-p...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Great read. I always felt this way about the Zelda games, actually. For my money, Link to the Past is superior to all 3D outings since.
- Super Mario 64 was a revolutionary game that also kinda ruined the Mario franchise (or at least turned it into something else) www.typebarmagazine.com/not-so-class...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)STP Issue #13 is out now! A bumper issue of weird fiction, wretched vibes, queer cyberpunk, vengeful aliens, an unhinged horsegirl, and loads more. The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.
- What is a dragon, anyway? Unlock your imagination by leaving fictional taxonomies behind www.typebarmagazine.com/there-is-no-...
- A key element to understanding cyberpunk? Cognitive science www.typebarmagazine.com/the-weakness...
- In 1973 Richard Rohmer penned Ultimatum, a novel posing a now too relevant question: Can the United States ever really be trusted? www.typebarmagazine.com/ultimatum-a-...
- Can a typewriter be erotic? The answer you're looking for is YES! www.typebarmagazine.com/secretary-an...
- In cyberpunk, what does it mean to have a body? What does it mean to have a self? www.typebarmagazine.com/the-weakness...
- Super Mario 64 was a revolutionary game that also kinda ruined the Mario franchise (or at least turned it into something else) www.typebarmagazine.com/not-so-class...
- Sega Channel and the early history of digitally downloading video games www.typebarmagazine.com/game-pass-in...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Typebar are running an INCREDIBLE 50% off for new subscribers right now, so if you want to read my horrible short story about masculinity, queerness, and something nonhuman hiding among us, now is a GREAT time.
- FICTION: I Have the Key to All of This by @gaycannibalism.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/fiction-i-ha...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)the degree to which this is true: there is a backlog to get work in to the mag not due to lack of quality but because a lot of peers of mine inundated the inbox with dream pitches that were hard to home elsewhere. good ass problem to have. it’s a great mag
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)great piece by the homie Jake www.typebarmagazine.com/pulse-demonl...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Pulse, Demonlover, and Meanings of the Internet www.typebarmagazine.com/pulse-demonl...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)MY FIRST TYPEBAR ESSAY IS OUT www.typebarmagazine.com/the-weakness...
- Good news: Redirects from the old URL structure to the new site are currently working! Now all the backlinks should stop leading to 404 pages.
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)This is the type of essay where I feel like mainstream publications have abdicated their duty on culture analysis. Millions of people have watched Anime Abridged videos over the years. YouTube culture deserves the same academic lens and study that TV and movies get! Brilliant essay here. Read it!
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)A book from 1973 offering prescient wisdom: everyone should fear America, especially its allies.
- Ultimatum: A Journey Into an America-Fearing Canadian Mind by Alexander Taurozzi www.typebarmagazine.com/ultimatum-a-...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)wrote for @typebarmagazine.bsky.social about Pulse & Demonlover as the best films about the internet as a network of depersonalization www.typebarmagazine.com/pulse-demonl...
- Sega had invented Game Pass in 1994. The story of the Sega Channel. www.typebarmagazine.com/game-pass-in...
- "The Tangled Lands" is climate fiction that grapples with the reality of climate change: winning will take more than solar panels and good vibes www.typebarmagazine.com/technology-p...
- What happened to the game that I love? Basketball after the vibe shift. www.typebarmagazine.com/what-happene...
- The Jackass movies and what we lose when everything becomes Fortnite www.typebarmagazine.com/jackass-and-...
- What is a dragon, really? www.typebarmagazine.com/there-is-no-...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)This is one of the most thorough and emotional pieces of sports writing I’ve read in a long time. A really great analysis of what basketball means to American culture over the last 30 or so years. A great read. Miss this type of sports writing.
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)The thesis here is no doubt going to upset people but yes I think it’s fair to say sci-fi as we’ve thought of it over the last few decades is fading away and being replaced with something else.
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Interesting piece conceptually that’s also very well executed. Enjoyed this one and there’s even some original interviewing done!
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)I read this book a few years ago and it’s the best depiction of the power structures at play within our era of climate crisis. Absolutely zero good vibes to be found but good vibes won’t get us out of this. A great book and a great essay analyzing it.
- Technology, Power, and Violence: How the Tangled Lands Tackles Climate Fiction by @simonm223.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/technology-p...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)I love this type of essay. So much fun to read gaming history through a critical lens. @ernie.tedium.co did an excellent job!
- Not So Classic: How Super Mario 64 Changed the Mario Franchise for the Worse by @ernie.tedium.co www.typebarmagazine.com/not-so-class...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)I love cultural artifacts from the 90s and aughts because they exist Avon the cusp of this really major inflection point in history. The internet is a major part of that (along with 9/11, 2008) and this essay gets into media that understood better than most what was ahead for us.
- Pulse, Demonlover, and Meanings of the Internet by Jake Pitre www.typebarmagazine.com/pulse-demonl...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Can a typewriter be erotic? The answer you’re looking for is YES!
- Secretary and the Erotic Nature of the Typewriter by Nina Luther www.typebarmagazine.com/secretary-an...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Sega channel was the greatest thing that ever happened to me in the entire world or at least it was when I was in the second grade. Read this very thorough analysis of a digital video game download service too far ahead of its time.
- Game Pass in 1994: The Too-Soon Brilliance of the Sega Channel by Adam Ansley www.typebarmagazine.com/game-pass-in...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)I loathed the jackass movies even when they were popular but this essay is interesting (and correct) in that we have lost something since then. What happens to culture when everything is just an excuse for another tie in to something else?
- Jackass and the Tragedy of Cinema's Slop Era by Beckett Flynn www.typebarmagazine.com/jackass-and-...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Dragons aren’t real and you can do whatever you want in your stories. Now apply this to everything else magical or otherwise supernatural and have fun.
- There Is No Proto-Dragon: The Illusion of Fictional Taxonomy www.typebarmagazine.com/there-is-no-...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)A story that really lives up to the author’s “gay cannibalism” handle! This may or may not be a spoiler 🤐
- FICTION: I Have the Key to All of This by @gaycannibalism.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/fiction-i-ha...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Here it is, friends! Subscribe and enjoy a nasty, bleak little story from yours truly.
- FICTION: I Have the Key to All of This by @gaycannibalism.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/fiction-i-ha...
- Anime Abridged: The Rise and Fall of a Once Iconic YouTube Format www.typebarmagazine.com/anime-abridg...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)FICTION: I Have the Key to All of This by @gaycannibalism.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/fiction-i-ha...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)There Is No Proto-Dragon: The Illusion of Fictional Taxonomy www.typebarmagazine.com/there-is-no-...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Jackass and the Tragedy of Cinema's Slop Era by Beckett Flynn www.typebarmagazine.com/jackass-and-...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Game Pass in 1994: The Too-Soon Brilliance of the Sega Channel by Adam Ansley www.typebarmagazine.com/game-pass-in...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Secretary and the Erotic Nature of the Typewriter by Nina Luther www.typebarmagazine.com/secretary-an...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Pulse, Demonlover, and Meanings of the Internet by Jake Pitre www.typebarmagazine.com/pulse-demonl...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Ultimatum: A Journey Into an America-Fearing Canadian Mind by Alexander Taurozzi www.typebarmagazine.com/ultimatum-a-...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Not So Classic: How Super Mario 64 Changed the Mario Franchise for the Worse by @ernie.tedium.co www.typebarmagazine.com/not-so-class...
- Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!)Technology, Power, and Violence: How the Tangled Lands Tackles Climate Fiction by @simonm223.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/technology-p...
