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The Unexpected Virtue of Cringe

Or, How Loving Media Keeps Me Alive

Oct 7, 2025 • Erica Kitch

Soulless Creation: The Rise of AI, Anti-Intellectualism, and Devaluation of Creativity

On Ao3, AI Scraping, and Protecting Your Intellectual Property

Jun 2, 2025 • Erica Kitch

Photo Diary #6: The Long Catch-Up

I haven't done one of these in...9 months?

May 7, 2025 • Erica Kitch

the second person lionizes the first

Mar 21, 2025 • Erica Kitch

To Love Someone: An Epitaph for Jack

For Jack: Thank you for the dreams.

Dec 24, 2024 • Erica Kitch

Essays

The Unexpected Virtue of Cringe

Or, How Loving Media Keeps Me Alive

Oct 7, 2025 • Erica Kitch

Soulless Creation: The Rise of AI, Anti-Intellectualism, and Devaluation of Creativity

On Ao3, AI Scraping, and Protecting Your Intellectual Property

Jun 2, 2025 • Erica Kitch

To Love Someone: An Epitaph for Jack

For Jack: Thank you for the dreams.

Dec 24, 2024 • Erica Kitch

This Isn't Fun Anymore: A Creative's Quest to Defeat Imposter Syndrome (While Losing the Battle with Mental Illness)

An intrusive look into horoscopes, religious OCD, and how depression begets writer's block.

Sep 3, 2024 • Erica Kitch

To Be a Writer Is to Be a Slave to One’s Whims

On shifting roadmaps and guilt

May 29, 2024 • Erica Kitch

I Resent the Regional Artist Label

An Ode to Appalachia

May 5, 2024 • Erica Kitch

Burn It Down, Generative A.I., and Richard Karinsky: Starving Artists and Other Fibs

On capitalism, Hollywood, AI, and the myth of the starving artist.

Apr 17, 2024 • Erica Kitch

Girl With No Face: An Open [Love]Letter to Allie X

Fanmail by way of essay, or; Have you heard the good news? Allie X has a new album out RIGHT NOW

Feb 25, 2024 • Erica Kitch

Creative Writing

the second person lionizes the first

Mar 21, 2025 • Erica Kitch

the starter home

a free-form poem

Oct 8, 2024 • Erica Kitch

Written Apologies Dated October 1st, 2024, Penned During Rainfall

Oct 2, 2024 • Erica Kitch

morning lovesong for my wife

A morning reflection of old memories

Sep 25, 2024 • Erica Kitch

Old Boffin’s Menagerie of Rubber: A Memoir

The story of an old clown, told in prose.

Sep 13, 2024 • Erica Kitch

“I have often found myself at the mercy of the cocktail Ennui + Melancholy”

Feb 2, 2024 • Erica Kitch

The Trans-Allegheny Heretic [Short Story]

Where my witches at?

Oct 31, 2023 • Erica Kitch

The World's Best Cranberry-Blueberry Muffin - Recipe Adapted by Alanna Best [Short Story]

A ghost story about family ties and the snacks that bind us.

Oct 11, 2023 • Erica Kitch

Photo Diaries

Photo Diary #6: The Long Catch-Up

I haven't done one of these in...9 months?

May 7, 2025 • Erica Kitch

Photo Diary #5: Creative Slump Crawl

Sometimes, the inkwell dries.

Aug 19, 2024 • Erica Kitch

Photo Diary #4: Taurus Season's Unceremonious Close

Flowers, the night sky, and miscellanea through grain and haze.

May 20, 2024 • Erica Kitch

Photo Diary #3: And Life Goes On and Life Goes On and Life Goes On—

I'm in the weirdest headspace right now!

Apr 5, 2024 • Erica Kitch

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