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This is where everything lives.
You’ll find writing, reflections, and notes across games, films, books, music, audio, and television, alongside a few pieces that don’t fit neatly anywhere else. Some posts are fragments, some are longer, and some are best dipped into rather than read all at once.
There’s no intended order here. Follow your interest, or simply browse.
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Pop Culture
When Soft Boys Meet the Internet: The Boyfriend, Adult Content, and the Limits of Fandom Comfort
What happens when affection, desire, and audience expectations collide on social media Every season, it seems to happen again. A contestant from The Boyfriend becomes…
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Who Teaches Us Desire? Porn, Power, and the Stories We’re Allowed to Tell
There’s a strange contradiction at the heart of how we talk about sex. We live in a world saturated with desire. It’s in advertising, pop…
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The Cultural Double Standard: Sex, Soft Power, and What We Pretend Not to See
Sex is everywhere, and nowhere at the same time. It flickers across headlines, album covers, music videos, and glossy magazine spreads. It hums beneath dialogue…
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Let’s Play Death and Taxes – Part 3 | The Final Verdict
If you missed the beginning, Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here Welcome to the final session of Death and Taxes. In this…
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Let’s Play Death and Taxes – Part 2 | Decisions, Consequences & Chaos
If you missed the beginning, Part 1 is here. Welcome to Session 2 of Placeholder Gameworks’ Death and Taxes! In this session, I will be…
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Let’s Play: Death and Taxes – Part 1 | Choices, Consequences, Paperwork
Part 1: “This is part one of a three-part playthrough. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be responsible for the fate…
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Music, Memory and a Writing Practice
This was written as part of a daily writing challenge, where the aim wasn’t polish but presence. Setting the scene: the blogging challenge today is a…
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A Room with a View – Memory, Place, and Stillness
It’s hot, and not a heat I’ve experienced before. There’s a languid humidity over the city. I’m left feeling like I’ve just completed a marathon…
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Unlocking the Mind – A Free Writing Practice
Originally written in 2012. Revised for Sianya.tv. It’s a bank holiday morning in South East London. Grey in the way it often is, but not…
Read MorePaleo – Primal Blueberry Muffins with Dark or White Chocolate
Originally written in 2014. Kept here as part of the Sianya.tv archive. First of all, Â let me say that since moving across to a primal…
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