’Merica Madness: Sex Round 1
Let’s get it on.
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Posts by Stokes on Overthinking It
Stokes has been writing for OTI since the very beginning. (No seriously, he wrote the first post on the site.) He's probably the guy to talk to if you want to pitch an article about music theory or horror movies. Check out his 50,000 word exegesis of Cowboy Bebop, his three-part series on plotting in early video games, or his alternate rules for Monopoly.
Turn Down For What and the Party Fetish
Let’s talk about sex…and why this video ties itself in knots over it.
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Overthinking Cowboy Bebop: The One-Eyed Spike and the One-Handed Jet
Who knew that Cowboy Bebop was basing its characters on Proto-Indo-European mythology? French philologist Georges Dumezil, that’s who!
Game Of Thrones Unlocked: Season 6 Episode 8 “No One”
Who should rule Westeros? The man with the plan, or the man with the knife to that man’s neck?
Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 6, Episode 6 “Blood of my Blood”
This week, Game of Thrones asks its characters who they really are, and gets some pretty wide-ranging answers.
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Game Of Thrones Unlocked: Season 6, Episode 4, “Book of the Stranger”
Game of Thrones is a show about magic, and trauma, and people refusing to talk about magic or trauma.
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Rap Genius Can’t Explain Rakim’s Genius Rapping
Annotation can only get you so far in understanding what makes great rap work so well.
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Is the Perfect GIF Even Possible?
When we talk about the meaning of the animated gif, the question isn’t “What do they mean,” but rather, “How do they mean?”
Musical Talmud: Hotline Bling
On a surface level, Hotline Bling is about slut-shaming. But dig down deeper….and it’s still about slut-shaming, but in a way worth of Overthinking.
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Should we cut Ted Cruz some slack about Rorschach?
There’s a crucial difference between Rorschach and Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, and the rest.
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