Fata Organa

Fata Organa

n.
a flash of real emotion glimpsed in someone sitting across the room— their mind wandering away from whatever’s happening around them, their eyes lighting up with pensiveness or vulnerability or cosmic boredom—as if you could see backstage through a gap in the curtains, watching actors in costume mouthing their lines, fragments of bizarre sets waiting for some other production.

From fata morgana, a kind of mirage that warps the appearance of distant objects so that sailboats look like fairy castles + organa, methods by which a philosophical investigation may be conducted. Pronounced “fah-tuh awr-gah-nuh.”

Foilsick

Zverism

The Kinder Surprise

Suente

On Tenderhooks

Fardle-Din

Hanker Sore

Lilo

Drisson

Fata Organa

Mornden

Dead Reckoning

Mottleheaded

Moledro

Etherness

Lookaback

Hubilance

Amoransia

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Aimonomia

close-up of a plant with lights glowing in background

Etherness

Nyctous

a person walking in the middle of a street

Momophobia

Punt Kick

Thrapt

Emodox

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building