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DARKLING

JLG Noga

Home of ANTARA, a literary anthology series set in a fictional East Asian city-state + other assorted short stories and flash fiction + REEL STORIES, an essay series on book-to-movie adaptations.

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if heaven could feel

For against .


We met in that watery year—羊水—when the world wasn’t damned and my skin wasn’t bad. Dead Poets near Centrestage, 13/F, 22:00, buzzed by booze and blued by mood lighting, 7-ELEVEN’s grape strong sour in your hand, glass...

a month ago
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3 poems with names relating to god(s) of some kind


The first poem is a Petarchan sonnet. The second is an Onegin stanza. The third is a combination of an English haiku and prose-poetry. Much love to , , , and for reading some of these. Enjoy.


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2 months ago
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‘kahit saan’/‘no matter where’


The following is my translation of ‘Kahit Saan’ by Huseng Batute (pronounced Who-seng Bah-tooh-teh). It is a love lyric written in Tagalog with 6 stanzas consisting of 5 lines each. Batute, otherwise known by his real name José Coraz...

3 months ago
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addendum to ‘grant morrison and the end of batman’


This post assumes familiarity with my previous essay, which you can read here:

It was intended to be standalone, but following a robust comment put forth by , I thought it deserved an equally robust response. Said response has since...

4 months ago
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grant morrison and the end of batman

UPDATE: This article has been updated as of 01/02/2026.

This article was excerpted and expanded from the ‘Batman’ entry in Neo-Passéism.

Grant Morrison () has publicly stated a preference for they/them pronouns. As such, this essay u...

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