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Home Ice Advantage (Penalty Box #3) by Ari Baran
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I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
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Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
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Recent Work
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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10/28/2025
g o o n i n g
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10/27/2025
diaglogue in genre romance
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black-and-white, pixelated, Gameboy Camera-ified portrait of Mel with their hood up

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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