Monthly Link Dump: September 2026

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader (another reason why you should get a feed reader too). Returning to owning things in a streaming worldby Sophie Koonin at localghost Will buying CDs and mp3s instead of streaming services drastically change the way I consume music? Maybe, maybe not? I'll probably give things a more considered listen because I have to decide whether to buy albums. I find streaming services already pretty terrible for discoverability of new music, because they algorithmically recommend you things like what you're already listening to, so you miss everything else (Spotify was the worst for this). I've already been listening to some albums I haven't heard for ages, and remembering how much I loved…