In Francky Knapp's photo series, aptly titled "Chivalry is a Feast," the artist reimagines chainmail and armor using plants. The brilliance of constructing garments that are meant to be hard, enduring, and tactical, using materials as tender and ephemeral as vegetables felt so mf-ian to us. We’re so delighted to include this piece in our issue.| mixed feelings
This Medieval Feast cake has it all: giant proportions (for the era), butter AND eggs, sugar AND honey, spices, and gilded cherries.| mixed feelings
Since time immemorial, people have been screaming, crying, and throwing up over their faves. Today we swoon over anime characters, Lady Gaga, our K-Pop bias, etc. But many of the hallmarks of fandom — effusive emotion, cults of celebrity, fan fiction, and the proliferation of merch — have synergies with popular Western European literary and religious culture during the period between roughly 800 and 1500. In truth, fandom is as medieval as jousting on feast days and parading around in tig...| mixed feelings
mixed feelings is making its first foray into print with the launch of The Medievalist, a limited-edition magazine exploring the cultural revival of “medievalcore.” This inaugural edition of mf print dives into the interwoven threads of medievalism in today’s fashion, food, idolatry, pop culture, literature, and fantasy. Buy the issue now!| www.mixedfeelings.earth
Come celebrate the launch of our first print issue in NYC on August 14th. RSVPs are open now!| mixed feelings
I was first introduced to Ayra Starr through her 2023 Teen Vogue cover, and soon after, her 2022 single “Rush” became one of my songs of the summer (albeit one year late). Since then she’s picked up a host of accolades including award show wins and nominations, charting on both the Billboard Global and Nigerian Albums Chart making her acting debut, and collaborating with artists like Coldplay and Wizkid. And most recently, she released the highly vibrational new single “Hot Body.” ...| mixed feelings
Wildly unserious until they’re required to be otherwise, Lunny and Macieira left me with my sides split. In between condemning sh*t behavior from political leaders through music that’s meant to be listened to twice over to catch its real meaning, it’s nice to occasionally chat about the beauty of having a cocktail and a cigarette on the beach.| www.mixedfeelings.earth
"At the end of the work day I am so exhausted from staring at my screens...that I am so depleted I barely have mental space to respond to text messages...I feel like a really bad friend. I also feel that people aren’t going to want to keep in contact with me when my responses are so flaky. When I am in person with someone I am extremely present. It’s much easier to give my energy that way. I do respond to time sensitive messages appropriately. It’s more so the sending of TikToks and dai...| www.mixedfeelings.earth
Having beef with slow walkers. Perfectionism. Garlic aioli. Hannah Montana reruns. Zapping the clamminess off your hands.Yes, mfers, we got @katseyeworld to tell us what what it looks like inside their collective brain, (which is where I would live if I could). Read (and watch) it all NOW right here.| www.mixedfeelings.earth
No one is able to discern what qualifies as artistic identity from the stars they pay money to hear and what is the product of a publicity team’s focus group research. Writer Steffi Cao lifts the veil behind what it actually takes to make a K-pop hit.| www.mixedfeelings.earth
If you're like me, your collection of concert tees is both a source of pride and a bit of a predicament. Overflowing drawers of cotton commemoratives tell tales of shows attended and memories made, but it begs the question: Is there more to merch than a design slapped across a white or black T-shirt? Well, yes, yes there is.| www.mixedfeelings.earth
"I recently came out as nonbinary. But there’s one thing that’s eating away at me: I’m AFAB and my partner is a cis man...I can’t shake this deep, deep fear that in the pit of his heart, he still sees me as a woman. Part of the reason I feel this way is that he identifies as straight. I have no doubts that he’s still attracted to me as I shift my gender presentation, but there’s a small part of me that can’t reconcile the idea of him being straight, but dating me, a person who i...| www.mixedfeelings.earth
If fanfic is the horny nationals, then fan games are the horny Olympics.| mixed feelings
"On multiple occasions, I've invited a friend to hang out with another friend group. After seeing them get along really well, I get insanely jealous…"| mixed feelings
Dove Cameron has spent many hours googling Kristen Stewart's coffee order, researching shower heads, binging Drag Race, and stanning the Phantom from Phantom of the Opera. She joined mixed feelings to do our Hyperspecific questionnaire. Read it in full, now.| mixed feelings
inside the complicated world of custom content mods in the Sims 4, which offer both rebellion and escape.| mixed feelings
i feel happier, lighter, but my friend has stayed the same| mixed feelings
The rise in popularity and democratization of reselling has opened the floodgates to those ready to make a quick buck and take advantage of the system. But thankfully, there are still sellers and platforms out there ready to make your journey of curating a quality secondhand wardrobe possible.| mixed feelings
How long do you hold onto clothing from an ex? A couple days, a few months, a year? Based on a survey we did on Instagram earlier this week, the results are mixed, to say the least, with 22% of you ditching items immediately, 27% after a few weeks, 20% after a year, and a whopping 30% never. We collaborated with Tinder to be part of their ExCycle campaign, an art concept dedicated to upcycling and reworking clothing from past relationships.| mixed feelings
A drastic shift is happening in how people relate to each other in our digitized world, and it's deeply influencing how we date and connect. Society is facing a global loneliness epidemic and as a result, AI-driven services are being marketed to make people stand out and overcome their isolation. Are we being offered genuine ways to connect, or will these tools only serve to deepen our sense of detachment rather than foster real interpersonal bonds?| mixed feelings
The only men who meet the qualifications for "white boy of the month" must be broadly beloved by marginalized communities, and are those who play roles that position them in proximity to — and in reverence of — marginalized women. Especially women of color.| www.mixedfeelings.earth