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This was a really stunning, tragic story and I was very proud we were able to publish it!

I liberated my latest short story from Typebar's paywall and put it up on my website for free. Enjoy, weirdos! rs-benedict.com/2025/10/28/t...

In a prior issue of Typebar Magazine, @theworldsgreatestwriter.com wrote an excellent essay about the domestic horror of Shirley Jackson’s novel Hangsaman www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/11/28/s...

Earlier this year Seann made a compelling case for 4E being the best iteration of D&D! www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/02/23/d...

By popular demand: I've opened a Kickstarter for a HOP T-shirt! If I get 50 preorders I'll do a print run! www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...

On some ways in which sexual power dynamics are addressed through sci-fi world-building and characterization, there's this particularly thouhtgful piece by @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social:

Citing the fomer is "The Death of the F*ck" (ttile censored ironically, I assume) by @emilylynell.bsky.social, focusing more on the market and social forces underlying the current moment:

Digging at the problem of sex and sex appeal as something sanitized for marketability, "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny" by @rsbenedict.bsky.social should be required reading:

On this topic, a quick thread of other good reads about this whole sex-in-literature thing 🧵

An ode to Jenny Hval and cross-medium artistic curiosity www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/a...

Forgive the cobbled-together feel of this, but eat up! Nine stories in this TropiWeird combo - including two stories never before seen! As they say in PR: buen provecho! kyr-1066.itch.io/a-series-of-...

Drawn in by the LL Cool J reference, stayed for some knowledge.

When businesses trusted Facebook, Facebook turned around and charged everbody money to reach their own audience. Substack will inevitably do the same. It's baked into the model!

Typebar magazine published a great essay by @ernie.tedium.co earlier this year about this. If you don’t own the audience relationship then you don’t own anything. www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/07/14/d...

The first literary thriller? Homer's Odyssey. www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/h...

"The best dystopian fiction, and the best cyberpunk fiction by extension, trades on this human element. Rather than chain itself to paltry political metaphors, these genres examine how people choose to confront a horrifying and inescapable situation." www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

"To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist. It flatters our desire to be special and also our desire to be absolved for our failures." www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/w...

to read for @upstartarts.bsky.social

Despite releasing nearly 30 years ago, Hideaki Anno's live-action, feature-length debut Love & Pop is an eerily relevant film about contemporary loneliness www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/l...

Here's the full essay. It's great! www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/11/28/s...

Dread Delusion's numerous gameplay limitations are, in actuality, masterful narrative-sculpting decisions www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/g...

I loved Between the Lions!

Between the Lions—a PBS children's show complete with puppets and literary enthusiasm—was arguably the zenith of children's media, especially compared to modern YouTube slop. www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/b...

Hello friends! Does anyone know a web designer experienced with the Ghost platform? We'd explain more but it's top secret! 🤐

My essay on @jennyhval.bsky.social ‘s books and music is now free on @typebarmagazine.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/a...

Just wrapped 2077 last night so I'm looking forward to reading this.

I enjoyed reading this piece. I've ended up playing through this game a few different times, mostly provoked by writing and major updates and asks to do so, and each time I've gotten something different and weirder from it.

My latest is now free to read!

This is a fucking excellent review of reviews that takes roundabout aim at the by now exhausted and exhausting surface level didacticism of our criticism.

Great article. One of the persistently funny things about the release of this game is how clearly so many reviewers had marinated in online discourse based on a largely imagined version of the genre. Of course the rough launch didn't do much to help it lol

@gaycannibalism.bsky.social wrote an excellent essay and has got me thinking about giving the game another try.

If you liked my Cyberpunk piece, you'll love the numerous excellent thinkers and writers here at Typebar. Read around and subscribe, you won't be disappointed. Here's a thread to get you started.

I think this might be one of the most clear-eyed articles about Cyberpunk 2077 I've read. Actually looking at the game's themes, rather than getting caught up on a thought-terminating cliche and single word in the title.

I enjoyed this article!

Pretty good summary of the frustration I felt with early reviews of the game and whether it was "punk" when cyberpunk as a genre never was, not in the way people talked about it anyway. For better and worse it's a piece of art driven by the genre's exhausted cynicism

If you follow me you know how annoyed (too soft a word) I get with the superficial and misplaced criticism that Cyberpunk (big C but also little c) isn't "punk" enough. This essay goes at that criticism as well as I've seen it.

Good essay that digs into many of the reasons I was attracted to this game and jumped at the chance to work on the sequel

incredible thematic analysis

May I humbly request all treats and no tricks?

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This cyberpunk 2077 essay pairs nicely with the @gaycannibalism.bsky.social one about dread delusion. One game is a ridiculous power fantasy that ultimately says nothing and the other limits player power (and other mechanics) to make a narrative point! www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/g...

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"Longing for simplicity leads to the pernicious belief that dystopian narratives in games must be a power fantasy where authority is dismantled." Great stuff here on how punk and its cyber-extrapolation has become stripped of nuance, and how we can get it back.

Very excited about this issue. Lots of excellent analysis across several media types (games, classic literature, TV, etc). Now F-R-E-E FREE!!!

I had never heard of this show before meeting my partner. After looking into it, it was such a marked departure from what children are exposed to today. This is a great essay showing what we've lost and what we should model rebuilt children's programming on in the age of AI slop.

This essay was fantastic and the film absolutely blew me away with how adept it is at tackling modern loneliness despite being from 1998.