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THE PALE WRAITH

The wind came first, thin, needling, full of ash. He rode where the land broke its own bones, where stone jutted like exposed teeth and the sky had learned to bruise itself...

by WINDIGOkid · 4 min read

#film#story#new

Dec 24

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007 : THE DEAD DON’T CLOCK OUT

The first thing Bond felt was cold. Not the romantic kind, no poetic rain, no moonlit reflection. This was institutional cold, the kind poured into concrete corridors and steel...

by WINDIGOkid · 6 min read

#story#art#new

Dec 24

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007 : NO FLAG BURNS FOREVER

The dead don’t haunt you all at once. They come back in pieces, reflections in glass, names you never say out loud, the smell of cordite when rain hits hot pavement. Bond drove...

by WINDIGOkid · 4 min read

#film#story#new

Dec 24

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007 : EXECUTION CHAIN

The man died without a sound. Bond watched him slump forward across the café table, the espresso still steaming between them, a thin red line running from the corner of the...

by WINDIGOkid · 6 min read

#film#story#new

Dec 24

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The Punisher : THE MEASURE OF MEN

The rain came down sideways, the kind that felt deliberate. Like it had been sent. Frank Castle stood under a flickering streetlight three blocks south of the river, coat soaked...

by WINDIGOkid · 7 min read

#film#story#new

Dec 24

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The Geriatric Ward

The night staff called him Doctor Hale, because that’s what the badge said. They never asked why he volunteered for the overnight shifts. Never questioned why the old patients...

by WINDIGOkid · 5 min read

#film#story#new

Dec 24

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December 23rd, 2025

The Deep Dives browser extension is here We built a browser extension so you can save things to Deep Dives while you’re out browsing. Find an article, a video, a podcast, a...

by changes · 1 min read

#lavishmade#changes#updates

Dec 23

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THIS IS LOVE COMING CHRISTMAS DAY

Greetings, one and all. Some of you know I'm an independent filmmaker in addition to being an indie podcaster. This summer I made my first feature, This Is Love. It's all about...

by Tim · 2 min read

#love#marriage#film

Dec 20

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December 20th, 2025

Deep Dives just got a whole lot deeper Deep Dives are becoming the place for anything you care about, on LavishMade or anywhere else. TL;DR • Save anything from the web with our...

by changes · 2 min read

Dec 20

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Merry Christmas you filthy animal

Every December, just about the time the plastic skeletons are consigned to the trash, and the Styrofoam snow is dragged from the attic, something feels off in my brain. It has...

by For The Dead Travel Fast · 6 min read

#merrychristmasyoufilthyanimal#christmashorror#holidayhorror

Dec 19

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Foley Is Go(o)d

Reposting this from my Facebook. Inspired by Mick Foley severing ties with WWE over their connection to President Trump, I will not be reviewing any WWE premium live events in...

by Tim · 4 min read

Dec 18

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I Was Not Who I Was (Short Film)

This is my short film about the onset of psychosis, I Was Not Who I Was. I think this is the best film I've ever made. It was selected by the Urban Dreams Mental Health Film...

by Tim · 1 min read

#mental health#short film#black and white

Dec 12

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My life is a mess

I have been rereading the Ryan Holiday stoicism books and am currently going through an extremely difficult time. I feel like these books are providing me a glimmer of peace in...

by John Shack · 1 min read

Dec 6

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It’s Like Watching The Video Store Get Bought Out In Real Time

So Netflix is swallowing another giant, and everybody online is talking about stock prices and streaming bundles and whatever. I keep thinking about a very specific shelf in a...

by For The Dead Travel Fast · 4 min read

Dec 5

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Do Other People (A Short Film)

In 2020 I was diagnosed bipolar 1 after suffering a psychotic breakdown. Before that event and subsequent diagnosis I always thought I was just a "tortured artist". Throughout...

by Tim · 2 min read

#mental health#bipolar#short film

Dec 5

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And that's on ad fatigue

STOP ADVERTISING TO ME. No, but seriously, stop. The internet today is just one huge ad. It used to be that there were ads on the sidebar of social media apps, easily ignorable...

by Emily Richardson · 2 min read

#overconsumption#livingsimply#adfatigue

Dec 2

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Pro-Wrestling Is Sex, Sex Is Pro-Wrestling

I've had an idea for an episode of my pro-wrestling podcast, The Work Of Wrestling, for...basically...a decade. And yet I haven't even approached bringing it to life because A)...

by Tim · 6 min read

#pro wrestling#wrestling#wwe

Dec 2

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What we mean when we say "alternative social media"

When people hear "alternative social media," they usually think of a different version of what they already know. A Twitter replacement. A Facebook replacement. A place to move...

by Jeff Richardson · 5 min read

#lavishmade#alternativesocialmedia#mythoughts

Nov 29

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Too much to ask

You gave me education You didn't yell at my(most of the time) You didn't hit me(until it was for my good) You protected me(unless it wasn't convenient) You gave me a Christian...

by Caitlin · 1 min read

Nov 27

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A picture in words

"Shades of watercolour-grey and black shrouded the lone girl trudging underneath the towering buildings. Darkness leaked from the windows lining the skyscrapers other than the...

by Caitlin · 1 min read

#poetry#prose#shortstory

Nov 26