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.

Hailbound

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Etherness

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Chrysalism

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Malotype

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Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Plata Rasa

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Typifice

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Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Lookaback

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Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Dorgone

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Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside