Carolyn Petit·Jun 18, 2021Lake and the Alluring Escapist Fantasy of the Readily Available, Decent JobSometimes, when I’m in the mood to break my own heart with the difference between the world I imagined as a child and the one I’m actually…A response icon1A response icon1
Carolyn Petit·Apr 5, 2021Humanity’s Exiles: My Trans-Loneliness and Zack Snyder’s Justice League“Make love.” — Daft Punk, 1993–2021A response icon2A response icon2
Carolyn Petit·Sep 12, 2020Tell Me Why and the Limits of Positive Trans RepresentationDontnod has a knack for place, for memory, and for the link between the two. In Life Is Strange, I relished the opportunities I was given…A response icon1A response icon1
Carolyn Petit·Aug 19, 2020and all the sinners saints: Hope and Salvation in Perry MasonNOTE: This piece assumes the reader has watched season one of HBO’s Perry Mason.
Carolyn Petit·Jun 29, 2020Broken People, Broken Worlds: Thoughts on The Last of Us Part IIPLEASE NOTE: This piece is intended as post-game reading. It discusses plot events in detail, including the ending.A response icon20A response icon20
Carolyn Petit·May 6, 2020Remake Fakeout: The Strange Defiance of Final Fantasy 7 Remake(PLEASE NOTE: This post contains spoilers for Final Fantasy 7 Remake.)
Carolyn Petit·Mar 25, 2020This Makeshift Life — Personal Reflections on Animal Crossing: New HorizonsBefore its release, I was suspicious of Animal Crossing: New Horizons — suspicious of the idea that it could have anything to offer me…
Carolyn Petit·Jan 25, 2020Hard Times: Revisiting Acts I-IV of Kentucky Route Zero While Desperately Looking for WorkWhen Cardboard Computer announced that the fifth and final act of their magical realist adventure game Kentucky Route Zero was finally…
Carolyn Petit·Dec 31, 2019Of Star Wars, Wonderful Lives, and Terrifying New Beginnings at the End of the DecadeThis is my attempt to write something cleansing in the final hours of this decade, so that I can start the next one with the right mindset…
Carolyn Petit·Dec 5, 2019Ruthless Individuality: Criticism’s Past, and Hopefully Its FutureWriting in The New Yorker in June of 1981 about the upcoming film Raiders of the Lost Ark, film critic Pauline Kael made it clear that she…
