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.

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril

Rubatosis

Rivener

Allope

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person

Ringlorn

Craxis

a tall house of cards

Liberosis

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Nementia