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The Stacks aim to cover media outside the zeitgeist, especially those other writers and researchers simply won't touch. Whether it's an obtuse indie game, an unsavoury piece of erotic software, or a white whale of a magazine, these media deserve to be covered and acknowledged as part of the vast tapestry of history.

  • Created by Joey Wawzonek
  • Located in Canada
  • February 2025
  • Free
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May 15, 2026

It's not what they're known for in the west but, for the vast majority of their existence, Gainax was mostly a software company. The recent announcement of the company's dissolution , like similar announcements preceding it, brought renewed attention to their work over the 40+ years of their…

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March 31, 2026

Welcome to the eleventh monthly overview for The Stacks. Though this is a month of good news (especially because I got a summer archives position), it has meant a lot of slowdown when it comes to scans and other archival projects. This is going to be very image light as my beloved dithering tool…

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March 7, 2026

CONTENT WARNING: Use of transphobic language in context, graphic sexual imagery, mention of pedophilia. While trans bodies have been a part of sexual demand in our culture since the start, they often fail to be humanized, relegated instead to fetishized objectification. “Othering” is another term…

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