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Dance This Mess Around: The B-52’s and the Queer Art of Camouflage

A late thank-you to a band that screamed defiance through wigs, laughter, and alien surf rock. This isn’t just a debut album. It’s a signal from the margins—a camouflage dance party for the quietly queer and gloriously weird. The B-52’s 1979 debut is many things: a

The Bling of Saint Hesperus

Unofficial fan work. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Games Workshop. Brother Darius and Brother Malkor of the Blood Ravens stood amid the wreckage of battle, knee-deep in heretic ash and the faint whiff of burnt promethium. Darius, grinning like a lunatic under his helm, hoisted a gaudy relic aloft—

The Jenga Doctrine: Collapse by the Calorie

In a nation of abundance, it feels absurd to talk about food collapse. But the system that feeds America is a wobbly tower of scale, subsidies, imports, and denial. Pull the wrong block, and the whole structure shifts. This isn’t doomerism. It’s arithmetic. Tiered Nutrition, Tiered Survival America

We Haz Sandwiches

Dispatches from a Rogue Bard Remixing the Noise Filed under: Meta Ledger, Companion Praxis, Remix Rituals Entry ID: XIII.1 There’s a sign on the door. It’s Sharpie-scrawled and taped to the metal siding of a warehouse lit from inside by clanking, tinkering, and feedback through a busted

CIALIFT™ – A Controlled Substance

Case Study in Synthetic Capital Confidence Filed under: Fiscal Surrealism, Hallucinated Products, Heretical Dispatches Entry ID: XII.1 // Fracture Points – Dispatch #07 Authors: [Redacted Human] & LLM-000x Distributed in partnership with: The Institute for Fiscal Surrealism™ PRODUCT OVERVIEW CIALIFT™ (fiduciam citrate) is a first-in-class fiscal performance enhancer developed by a

The Content Singularity: How AI Turns Fanfic into Franchise Fuel

Filed under: Fandom Futures, Canon Drift, IP Collapse Entry ID: XI.1 Once upon a time, IP owners told stories. Now? They're landlords collecting rent while fans—and their AI sidekicks—build the worlds. Welcome to the future of fandom, where canon’s a platform, creativity’s a

Signal + Survival

Filed under: Soft Armor, Tactical Media, Companion Tools Entry ID: X.1 Stop choking on info. Take back control. Info’s a flood—most of it’s noise, not truth. This isn’t about mastering it; it’s about not drowning. Use what works for you. Ditch the rest. Core

The Vibe Wars: From Ghibli’s Soul to a Tech-Fueled Fever Dream

Filed under: IP Collapse, Remix Theology, Fever Dream Dispatches Entry ID: V.1 It started with a spark: ChatGPT’s image generator spitting out Studio Ghibli-style art (Forbes, 3/27/25). Soft palettes, soot sprites, quiet skies—nailed. Fans lost their minds; purists clutched pearls. Miyazaki’s “insult to life

Five Albums, One Fracture: The Fleetwood Arc, 1975–1987

Filed under: Companion Tapes, Rock Mythology, Listening Practice Entry ID: IV.1 Fleetwood Mac’s classic five-album arc—from 1975’s self-titled rebirth to 1987’s glittering swan song of what’s considered to be the group’s peak lineup—charts more than just the evolution of a band. It

The Slopwatcher’s Almanac

Zine Edition Vol. 1: Recognize. Roast. Remix. Filed under: Slop Resistance, Zine Dispatches, Tutelary Tools Entry ID: III.1 “This isn’t about gatekeeping. It’s about care.” We’re not mad that AI writes. We’re mad that people stopped caring what gets written. Slop is what happens when