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.

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Sitheless

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Midding

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Ne’er-Be-Gone

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Trueholding

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Vaucasy

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Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Agnosthesia

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Amoransia

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Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face