E.M. White, load-bearing grad student
@emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
Pen name. Writes dark and challenging fiction; would write more if life weren't so dark and challenging.
Also a magpie for fine stories and essays, particular about coffee and tea, and a year-round summer camp counselor for two cats.
Also a magpie for fine stories and essays, particular about coffee and tea, and a year-round summer camp counselor for two cats.
Or should I just watch One Battle After Another and make any Americans sitting next to me squirm in their seats?
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Or should I just watch One Battle After Another and make any Americans sitting next to me squirm in their seats?
Yup, yup. One way I knew their particular horror really worked was that it didn't take demons, twisted religious imagery, etc. from my own cultural background to make me feel deeply unnerved.
(Relatedly, watching it with a Taiwanese friend with Buddhist background was something else entirely.)
(Relatedly, watching it with a Taiwanese friend with Buddhist background was something else entirely.)
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Yup, yup. One way I knew their particular horror really worked was that it didn't take demons, twisted religious imagery, etc. from my own cultural background to make me feel deeply unnerved.
(Relatedly, watching it with a Taiwanese friend with Buddhist background was something else entirely.)
(Relatedly, watching it with a Taiwanese friend with Buddhist background was something else entirely.)
Incantation made me appreciate found-footage in horror again.
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Incantation made me appreciate found-footage in horror again.
Yes to all the notes on Exhuma's cinematography, and it was quite simply a journey for me.
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yes to all the notes on Exhuma's cinematography, and it was quite simply a journey for me.
Rather uncanny, too, was that the majority of the "students" looked like generic impressions of what white people think "Asian" people are supposed to look like. Stranger still since I don't imagine the presenter was specifically asking the AI™ to generate students of a particular demographic. 2/2
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Rather uncanny, too, was that the majority of the "students" looked like generic impressions of what white people think "Asian" people are supposed to look like. Stranger still since I don't imagine the presenter was specifically asking the AI™ to generate students of a particular demographic. 2/2
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In my lowest moments, I have been saved by books, music, and films that have shown me the lives of other people, people who gave me hope that better things can still exist. A computer can't provide that.
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In my lowest moments, I have been saved by books, music, and films that have shown me the lives of other people, people who gave me hope that better things can still exist. A computer can't provide that.
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Fittingly, this James Baldwin quote always makes me feel the very thing it’s describing - connected in that very connection
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Fittingly, this James Baldwin quote always makes me feel the very thing it’s describing - connected in that very connection
And tbh, it's quite a U.S. Thanksgiving-themed piece of vocabulary
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
And tbh, it's quite a U.S. Thanksgiving-themed piece of vocabulary