Your Medieval Weapon Based on Your Sign ⚔️
Are you a halberd or morning star? Longbow or flail?| mixed feelings
Are you a halberd or morning star? Longbow or flail?| mixed feelings
It all started with a random DM...Since deciding to pursue music full-time in 2019, Umi has brought their R&B-meets-alt-pop sound to dozens and dozens of tracks, opened for Jhené Aiko and Conan Gray, and now is back with a new album: people stories. Their new oeuvre is a collection of songs all inspired by the stories of others that range from love to heartbreak to taking a break and touching grass. Umi came to the studio do to our Hyperspecific questionnaire. Read it in full now.| mixed feelings
King Princess loves Call of Duty and "Gilgamesh-ian journeys" and hates JK Rowling and loud bar music. The artist, who just released their new album 'Girl Violence', stopped by our studio to do our Hyperspecific interview.| mixed feelings
The unique thrill of bathroom camaraderie at Bad Bunny’s historic “No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí” residency.| mixed feelings
We spoke with Atlanta-based Faire dwellers Rhea Callisto, shop clerk, and Anthony Scott, axe thrower, on all things Ren style and bringing the Middle Ages to modern-day dress.| www.mixedfeelings.earth
Artist Rui Gao explores how the rise in medieval fashion aesthetics could be an act of political defiance.| mixed feelings
The viral J-pop star released his third album today, and stopped by our studio for a weird and wonderful rendition of our Hyperspecific questionnaire. Here's a snippet: "I want to go in a meditative state of mind. But make sure to play some funky shit at my funeral. Like, Kool & the Gang 'Celebration', Earth, Wind & Fire 'Boogie Wonderland', and of course, Fuji Kaze. I recommend 'Matsuri'."| mixed feelings
When did Timothée Chalamet in The King, with his bowl cut, grey wardrobe, and penchant for rolling around in the mud, become the poster child for style in the Middle Ages? Sometime in the last 50 years, all the color, pomp, and play was drained from medieval fashion in film. The irony is that this drab aesthetic is as much a Medieval fantasy as fire-breathing dragons, magical sorcerers, and immortal unicorns.| mixed feelings
The Wednesday stars sat down with us mixed feelings discuss chronic overthinking, quirky eating habits, and wishing they could be actual students at Nevermore Academy.| mixed feelings
The wildly popular digital comic is a crazy web of queer/trans romance drama and intricate fantasy lore. Creator ToniRenea's titular character, Osora, did our Hyperspecific interview.| mixed feelings
So, where to buy great vintage chainmail? Viv Chen of The Molehill shares her expert tips for online sourcing.| mixed feelings
“It’s no longer enough to escape into a small-town romance where somebody owns a cupcake shop, because you know that the tariffs are going to eff up their business and all the workers are going to get kidnapped by ICE,” Leah Koch, co-owner of the romance bookstore The Ripped Bodice, says. “I think people want nothing of our disastrous world, and the only way to achieve that is to go to a completely different planet.”| www.mixedfeelings.earth
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
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
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
