There was a period in my life where my life was more or less organized around gaming. I didn't really have friends besides a few boys near my neighborhood who I would walk to and from school with and occasionally play minecraft with. Around when I turned 14 I started to drift heavily from the online spaces I hung out in at the time, mostly out of a sense of disidentification; I had actually started to use tumblr a lot…

One of my favorite stories of all time is a comic by the artist Michael Deforge called "Dogs 2070." It's about a dog who is a divorced dad and lives a very banal, yet hauntingly sad life. This is a 3 minutes and 40 seconds long film about a dog who smokes weed and who lives a banal, yet recognizably sad life. Some day maybe I will write an essay about what the form means here (cutout animation/colors/pace), and what…