Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Blinkback

n.
the disillusionment of revisiting a pop-culture touchstone of your youth and finding that it hasn’t aged well at all—having to confront its cringey dialogue, hand-puppet characterization, and wildly implausible plotting—which only makes you wonder what else in your mental fridge is past its expiration date.

Appalachian English (dialect) blinked, soured milk + back, in the past.

Los Vidados

Cover image for the Los Vidados word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Anderance

Cover image for the Anderance word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Mornden

Cover image for the Mornden word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images