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.

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Latigo

aerial view of a city at night

Apolytus

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

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Redesis

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

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room