Philip is a VIU student majoring in Creative Writing, with a focus on poetry. His favorite poems to write are love poems, but he also enjoys introspection and novelty of form in execution as well. He spends most of his time reading and writing, but also plays a few instruments, and occasionally dabbles in video … Continued
Above: Nanaimo skyline via Wikipedia By contributor Philip Gordon The streets of Nanaimo are shifting. Where the salt-air and diaspora meet, hundreds of displaced people gather in huddled masses to talk about how broken the system is that put them there. Downtown Nanaimo is currently a hub of invalids, mental patients, and drug addicts—all of … Continued
Above: Touhou 15 (Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom) via axeandnyan.wordpress.com By contributor Philip Gordon You may have seen the word “Touhou” floating around the internet on a YouTube video, or a song, or a weird anime thing your brother liked once. By way of a short explanation, Touhou is the name of a series of shooting games … Continued
By contributor Philip Gordon When I played role-playing video games as a kid, the characters I would make were all the same—game-appropriate, slightly better-looking versions of me. Video games were a power fantasy in a normal life of feeling ineffectual and useless, and watching my avatar complete grand quests I could never dream of navigating … Continued
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