HeyJaredSerpent Logic
Serpent Logic is an ongoing body of work: fiction, fragments, and dispatches from inside systems that erase meaning.
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Resident Evil: Godhead (opens the original)
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1Resident Evil was released on April Fool’s Day, 1996. It tells the story of a special forces team tasked with investigating a mysterious mansion overrun with monsters and zombies.That’s the whole game, pretty much. Zombies shuffle after you, puzzles click and whirr, characters say things like “You almost became a Jill Sandwich!” It’s gloomy and ominous.Serpent Logic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, con
Always Be Doing Two Things (opens the original)
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It’s no good to be halfway in when it comes to writing a novel. This summer has been hot, and I’ve been out in it for most of every day, and every night after getting home and hanging out with the family I would open up my Atticus document and dutifully begin typing. Notice the word “typing.” I saw a post on Instagram from Emma Johnson, I believe, where she mentioned that she takes the summer off from writing because there was lots of farm work to be done. And I thought to myself, Oh yeah…of cou
Chinese Evergreen (opens the original)
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1Tie Xi Qu was filmed over the course of two years between 1999 and 2001[1] and details the slow decline of Shenyang's industrial Tiexi district in the midst of unemployment crisis known as "Xiagang" (meaning to step down from the post). This area was once a vibrant
Getting Unstuck w/ Takashi Miike, Charlie Kaufman, and Hayao Miyazaki (opens the original)
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I’ve been blocked lately, which is always frustrating. I have so many ideas, but none of them were cohering into narrative. Anyhow, I was bullshitting on Youtube last night, and these three videos unblocked me. I’ve been writing on my phone all day at work. Enjoy!<div class="subscription-widget show-subsc
Open the Cage and Shut Your Mouth (opens the original)
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It’s July 3rd, 2026. Happy 250th birthday, USA!1Vigilantism is having a moment on the conservative end of the art spectrum. Citizen Vigilante exploded in popularity after Elon Musk posted the movie for free on X. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, CV is about an American who goes to Europe to kill rapists, murderers, and the judges who let them walk free. I haven’t seen it, and probably won’t, because I’ve already heard the plot rehashed dozens of times and have seen clips of all the majo
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