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Recent Work
01/01/2025
🔒 a witch put a curse on me
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12/23/2025
Shane Hollander (is three apples tall)
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12/21/2025
Ilya Rozanov & Lestat de Lioncourt
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12/08/2025
Ilya Rozanov the Rake
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12/01/2025
🔒 Camelot is a state of mind
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11/28/2025
Romantasy and choices
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11/13/2025
2 dumb 4 Baudrillard
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11/10/2025
The Posting Life
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11/03/2025
The Vampire Armand
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11/01/2025
🔒 the dark forest theory of fanfic discourse
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Hey, I’m Mel Thomas (they/them). I’m a writer, artist, and content creator. Most people know me for my video essays, which I publish all over the web under the name pagemelt.

My most recent video essay is about scrolling—how it affects our relationship to art, and is it really as bad as all that? It's called "be your own algorithm," and you can watch it on YouTube. And if you're into it, I've got even more videos over on Patreon.

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Music is a thing you can hold in your hands
Oct 3, 2025

Music used to be a thing we did together. To hear music, we had to make it, and what we made was sacred. Then music became a place. Operas, symphonies, concerts. Then music came into our homes.

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