The "Good Articles" folder formerly nestled in the "Other Bookmarks" folder in the top right of the browser
Around the time I started becoming more critically curious in university, I made a bookmarks folder called "Good Articles," for exactly what it says: to keep all the interesting articles and other writing I encountered that I knew I'd probably want to revisit later.
Now, across five years of being heavily online, said folder's come to hold a large library of links—large enough that half of the subfolders are overfilled scrollbar menus covering the entire vertical length of my screen. Depending on which browser was my main one at the time, that scrollbar can be somewhat annoying to navigate (not on Firefox, thankfully), but since bookmark toolbars don't really seem to be made to hold this many in the first place, I'm transferring all its contents to this webpage. Some of these pieces might be irrelevant or out of date, predating the plague years and everything, but I'm sure someone out there will find all these words useful. (Now I can easily find all these again when I'm bored at work!)
Any links in gold are for pieces I know I've revisited multiple times. Happy surfing.
I was originally going to make this collage the background, but I think someone clicking through all these links classifies as web surfing, right?
Latest Additions (10 May 2024)
the role of the artist is to load the gun.
ismatu gwendolyn | 11 April 2024 | Threadings.
-Gregory Bennett | 4 April 2024 | takahē
-ellaguro | 16 March 2024
-Frédéric Lordon | 12 April 2024 | Sidecar / New Left Review
-The “Disney adult” industrial complex
Amelia Tait | 24 February 2024 | The New Statesman
-That Time I Got Harassed For a Review I Didn’t Write (And What It Might Say About Modern Fandom)
Kayleigh Donaldson | 22 April 2024 | Gossip Reading Club
These links have always been uncategorized outside a specific folder for whatever reason, so I'm leaving them like that here.
Heather Alexandra | 8 May 2020 | Kotaku
-Toward the queerest insurrection
Mary Nardini Gang | 2014 | The Anarchist Library
-Getting High Off Your Own Supply
ellaguro | 24 July 2020
-Mental Health Tips feat. Anxiety Wolf
Nicky Case
-I SIT STILL WITH LIGHTNING FOR A HEAD
Skeleton | 29 May 2020 | DEEP HELL
Vidjagaems
30 links
RIP Waypoint 2016-2023, FCGH
Best Of All You Can Play The Whole Game Any Way You Want
Edward Smith | 9 November 2023 | Unwinnable
-Playing videogames: a rambling essay about hating what you love
Keith Burgun | 25 October 2018 | Game Developer
-Poison Tree: A letter to Niko Bellic about Grand Theft Auto V
Tom Bissel | 25 September 2013 | Grantland
-There’s No Such Thing as a Hard Game (Or an Easy One)
Rami Ismail | 31 March 2019 | Variety
-Game Design Mimetics (Or, What Happened To Game Design?)
kyle kukshtel | 9 June 2022
-Divest from the Video Games Industry!
Marina Kittaka | 25 June 2020
-Clash Rules Everything Around Me
Tony Tulathimutte | 27 June 2016 | Real Life
-Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed | 17 May 2019 | RPGamer
-The Ballad of EarthBound’s Gay Tony
Jeremy Signor | 29 May 2019 | Unwinnable
-Liz Ryerson | 5 November 2012 | Midnight Resistance
-How time-loop games offer escape from a world that is running out of time
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell | 17 June 2019 | Eurogamer
-Simon Parkin | 28 July 2010 | Boing Boing
-The Inexplicable Sexiness Of Ivy Valentine
Maddy Myers | 20 November 2018 | Kotaku
-Being sexy and not sexist - a look at Bayonetta and objectification
Katherine Cross | 11 July 2016 | Game Developer
-White Protagonism and Imperial Pleasures in Game Design
meghna jayanth | 30 November 2021
-Game Design in the Imperial Mode
meghna jayanth | 1 June 2022
-A RESPONSE TO DARIUS KAZEMI'S FUCK VIDEOGAMES FEATURED ON THE INTERNET!!!
ellaguro | 2013
-Endlessly Running from Exploitation
Mx Medea | 7 November 2019 | RE:BIND
-Joshua Rivera | 12 December 2019 | Kotaku
-A Timely and Momentous Defence of Girls
Ashley Y. | 18 February 2020 | Timber Owls
-‘358/2 Days’ and the Experience of Time
Carol Grant | 8 November 2017
-How the Photo Mode Became a Homogenized Feature of Commodified Games
Dia Lacina | 30 December 2019 | Waypoint
-THE LAST OF US PART II and the Problem of Being Included in the Apocalypse
Film Crit Hulk | 28 June 2020
-J. Nicholas Geist | 2010 | Kill Screen
-Imagining Decentralized Videogame Culture: Unprofessional Game Criticism
leeroy lewin | 11 November 2020 | Vextro
-Melos Han-Tani | 10 June 2021
-Vicky Osterweil | 25 February 2021 | Real Life
-Sam Adler-Bell | 2021 | Dissent Magazine
-Sam Moore | 12 October 2021 | KRITIQAL
-How is a battle system like a poem?
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell | 3 February 2022 | Eurogamer
Fanopticon
12 links
"being in a fandom means conscripting yourself to the daily ins and outs of performing your fandom for something"
The “Disney adult” industrial complex
Amelia Tait | 24 February 2024 | The New Statesman
-That Time I Got Harassed For a Review I Didn’t Write (And What It Might Say About Modern Fandom)
Kayleigh Donaldson | 22 April 2024 | Gossip Reading Club
-Fandom, Harassment, and Mistaking Criticism and Creation
Aevee Bee | 7 June 2018
-On Letting People Enjoy Things
Esther Rosenfield | 2 May 2019
-What are Fujoshi, Fudanshi & BL?
Sam Aburime | fujoshi.info
-Everyone Loves the McElroys, So Why Is Everyone Mad at the McElroys?
Gita Jackson | 30 March 2021 | VICE
-Slash Shipping, Pseudo-Progressivism, and Reinforcing Patriarchal Standards in Fandom
Stitch | 11 November 2015 | Stitch's Media Mix
-The Fansplaining Shipping Survey
Flourish Klink and Elizabeth Minkel | 30 April 2019
-Aja Romano | 24 May 2023 | Vox
-Josh Tucker | 9 December 2021 | Real Life
-Superhero movies, Harry Potter and the scourge of “leftist” fandom
Y3W_TR33 | 9 April 2022
-leeroy lewin | 23 March 2018 | Vextro
Creation
32 links
tl;dr: just make art for your sicko self
Sam Keeper | 31 January 2023 | Storming the Ivory Tower
-Dismantling the unbearable whiteness of critique
Frankie Huang | 25 August 2022 | The Objective
-DOMINO CLUB | 2023
-"I Wish There Was A World for Us": On The Choice To Consume Small Art
Gretchen Felker-Martin | 27 August 2019 | NYLON
-the reviewer is never right: or how we're just reviewing ourselves
highimpactsex | 13 December 2022
-ten principles for making games
Toby Alden | 12 September 2022
-Art Should Be a Doorway, Not a Mirror
Lincoln Michel | 7 July 2021 | Counter Craft
-Books Are Not Products, They Are Bridges: Challenging Linear Ideas of Success in Literary Publishing
Janice Lee | 4 December 2019 | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
-The Case Against the Trauma Plot
Parul Sehgal | 27 December 2021 | The New Yorker
-Brandon Taylor | 14 January 2022 | sweater weather
-Brandon Taylor | 16 May 2023 | sweater weather
-Brandon Taylor | 17 August 2023 | sweater weather
-We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist
Vida Cruz | August 2021 | Fantasy Magazine
-Dear Olivia Rodrigo: Ignore the internet. “Originality” is overrated.
Emily St. James | 1 July 2021 | Vox
-Yuri made me human — interview with Iori Miyazawa
kati_lilian | 5 May 2019
-Problem Machine | 15 September 2021
-Having trauma doesn’t mean you can only consume mild, boneless art.
Jenn | 2021 | Welcome to Hell Zone!
-Nia Frome | 27 January 2021 | RedSails.org
-Ursula K. Le Guin
-WWXD: A Warrior’s Path of Reflection and Redemption
C.L. Clark | 6 July 2021| Uncanny Magazine
-I Don’t Want to Be the Strong Female Lead
Brit Marling | 7 February 2020 | The New York Times
-Avoiding the Trap of the ‘Self-Aware’ Writer
Molly Fischer | 2 September 2020 | The Cut
-Martin Scorsese | March 2021 | Harper's Magazine
-Greg Buchanan
-D&D Doesn't Understand What Monsters Are
Throne of Salt | August 2020
-Mark Rosewater | 18 February 2019 | Magic: The Gathering
-What Do We Mean When We Call Art ‘Necessary’?
Lauren Oyler | 8 May 2018 | The New York Times
-The Moral Weight of Worldbuilding
John Bierce | 24 August 2020 | /r/Fantasy
-Women Are Already Powerful: The Problem of Privileging Masculine Modes of Power in Fantasy
Casey Blair | 20 October 2020 | Sirens Conference
-Problem Machine | 11 July 2020
-C Pam Zhang on Writing in a Time of Grief
C Pam Zhang | 31 March 2020 | Literary Hub
-What We Talk About When We Talk About Canons
DongWon Song | 11 August 2020 | Publishing is Hard
Vivify
9 links
(viv · i · fy | /ˈvivəˌfī/) verb | 1: to endow with life or renewed life
the role of the artist is to load the gun.
ismatu gwendolyn | 11 April 2024 | Threadings.
-Rhaina Cohen | 20 October 2020 | The Atlantic
-It Doesn’t Hurt, It Hurts All the Time
Jess Zimmerman | 11 August 2020 | Catapult
-‘I’m Not Ready for Isolation to End!’
Heather Havrilesky | 10 March 2021 | The Cut
-There Is No After | Covid-19 and What Happens Now
Molly Osberg | 14 April 2021 | Jezebel
-Marina Kittaka
-Why Men Are So Obsessed With Sex
Steve Bearman | 13 February 2013 | Interchange Counseling Institute
-Masculinity Is the Soft and Vulnerable Thing Inside Me
Jonah Wu | 18 May 2023 | Electric Literature
-The feminine and the Tao: an interview with Ursula K. LeGuin
Brenda Peterson | Embrace the Moon
Techno-hellscape
24 links
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Gregory Bennett | 4 April 2024 | takahē
-ellaguro | 16 March 2024
-The Cult of AI | AI Companies and Advocates are Becoming More Cult-Like
Robert Evans | 27 January 2024 | Rolling Stone
-Everyone's a sellout now | Want to sell a book or release an album? Better start a TikTok.
Rebecca Jennings | 1 February 2024 | Vox
-The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
Nathan J. Robinson | 02 August 2020 | Current Affairs
-Stephen Kearse | 31 October 2020 | The Atlantic
-Nathalie Lawhead | 12 November 2020
-Hyperemployment, or the Exhausting Work of the Technology User
Ian Bogost | 8 November 2013 | The Atlantic
-Alicia Kennedy | 4 January 2021
-Cat Valente | 22 December 2022 | Welcome to Garbagetown
-Jamie Brooks | 22 February 2023 | The Seat of Loss
-Brendan Vance | 16 July 2014
-Emilie Reed | 3 May 2021 | Real Life
-The Labyrinth of Strings: Me, Twitter, and Moral Discharge
May Peterson | 14 May 2021
-Barrett Swanson | June 2021 | Harper's Magazine
-Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety
Hua Hsu | 18 March 2019 | The New Yorker
-Gita Jackson | 20 August 2018 | Kotaku
-Daniel Bessner | 30 August 2021 | The Nation
-The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health
P.E. Moskowitz | 10 February 2021 | Mental Hellth
-Kat Brewster | 22 October 2021 | Defector
-Calm Technology
-The Church of American Startups and Capitalism
Ed Zitron | 9 July 2021
-Entertainment Monopolies Are Zombifying Mass Culture
Luke Savage | 20 December 2021 | Jacobin
-Cory Doctorow | 21 January 2023 | Pluralistic
Politik
36 links
"...we probably will have to face up to the impossibility of the task of knowing everything we need to know."
Frédéric Lordon | 12 April 2024 | Sidecar / New Left Review
-The Bully's Pulpit: On the Elementary Structure of Domination
David Graeber | July 2015 | The Baffler
-Crisis of Humanity: Global Capitalism Breeds 21st Century Fascism
William I. Robinson | 26 August 2013 | truthout
-Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference
Olúfémi O. Táíwò | 30 October 2020 | The Philosopher
-Steve Salaita | 10 December 2023
-Gaza: A Ghastly Window into the Crisis of Global Capitalism
William I. Robinson and Hoai-An Nguyen | 15 January 2024 | The Philosophical Salon
-Why is Everything Political? Because We Tried to Pretend That Nothing Is
Brett Heinz | 5 September 2019 | Medium
-Out of the Closet and Into the Streets
29 May 2023 | Circles Magazine
-Forget Your Middle-Class Dreams
Alex N. Press | 29 March 2019 | Jacobin
-Joshua Rivera | 2 May 2021 | Slate
-Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?
Bertrand Cooper | 25 July 2021 | Current Affairs
-I Don't See An End to This | DaBaby, Lil Nas X, and the Future of Homophobia in Hip-Hop
Craig Jenkins | 30 July 2021 | Vulture
-Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones
30 July 2021 | The New York Times
-Dremel | 9 January 2023 | Red Clarion
-Patrick Wyman | 17 September 2020 | Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future
-Jenny G. Zhang | 7 October 2021 | Gawker
-James Baldwin on Being Gay in America
26 June 1984 | The Village Voice
-The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Jo Freeman
-Ashley Y. | 20 October 2018 | Timber Owls
-Diary of a Targeted Teacher: Resisting the Curriculum of Racist Violence
Willie Randall | 2 June 2022 | African American Policy Forum
-Have You Been to the Library Lately?
Nicholas Hune-Brown | 12 June 2023 | The Walrus
-Why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over?
Judith Butler | 23 October 2021 | The Guardian
-The Myth of Redemptive Violence
Walter Wink | 1999
-Colonialism (Queerphobia) has 'Dis-abled' me
Michael Paramo | 7 August 2022 | AZE
-Gita Jackson | 19 September 2022 | Motherboard (VICE)
-Fear of a Black Hobbit | The Reactionary Geeks Are Mad About 'Rings of Power'
Adam Serwer | 14 September 2022 | The Atlantic
-Culture Wars and Criminalization
Kay Whitlock | 23 September 2022 | Inquest
-Disney, Salò, and Pasolini’s Inconsumable Art
Owen Schalk | 1 November 2021 | Monthly Review
-The Colonial Roots of Present Crises
Amitav Ghosh | 19 October 2022 | Green European Journal
-Marjorie Kelly | 2003
-Amba Azaad | 29 January 2018 | The New Inquiry
-Women and the Myth of Consumerism
Ellen Willis | 1970 June | Fair Use Repository
-Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People
Naomi Kanakia | 14 April 2023 | Literary Hub
-Astra Taylor | 2019 | Lapham's Quarterly
-Sophia Giovannitti | 2020 | Majuscule
-Wesley Lowery | 25 April 2023 | Columbia Journalism Review
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