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Unreliable testimonies, strange bodies, borrowed gods, and the ordinary lives beneath the mythology. Three essays; no definitive answers.
01 / THE ORIGINAL MONOGRAPHThe Abyssal SacramentReligious corruption, marine biology, grief and the elaborate symbolic machinery behind the songs.read the essay ↗02 / DIGITAL INTIMACYThe Abyss as Bed and ScreenDating apps, hookup culture, desirability, PNP and what remains after an encounter.read the essay ↗03 / TESTIMONY & AGENCYDepth, Desire, and PowerTwinks, older/younger dynamics, shifting testimony and the limits of a narrator’s certainty.read the essay ↗
These are interpretive working essays drawing on lyrics and artist commentary. Narrators are not necessarily the artist, and speculation about characters should not be read as a claim about any real person. Some papers address mature sexual themes, power, intoxication and grief.
