Murder is often a minor offence; an inconsequential event in the wider context of the world – or at least, that usually seems to be the case in video games. Whether your victim is a mythical beast, a common bandit or a humble priest, they probably deserved it, right? Most of the time, your character […]
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Album Review: Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
This album is about vampires, as ‘The Great Undressing’ glibly admits. Blood Bitch, however, is really an “investigation of blood” and the myths surrounding it; why is it easier to speak of vampires than it is of menstruation? What makes one type of blood-myth less taboo than another? The vampiric conceit speaks to fantasy, but […]
Mythbusters: Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves.
As we enter the Halloween period, let us cast our minds towards one of the quintessential features of this frightful time of festivities: the monsters. In particular, three of the most well-known monsters: zombies, werewolves, and vampires. Here are their origins, and some possible reasons for them to have come into existence. Zombies “Zombies” are […]