Jenna Stoeber

|Master's degree in Media and Culture from University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in horror media and video game cultures. Now an independent creator, making sometimes smart and sometimes dumb video essays on horror, games, media, and technology.

|Video essays on YouTube

|Twitch stream archive on YouTube

|Burnt Cook Book Party: actual play Pathfinder podcast. Four heroes of varying skills, attractiveness, and stupidity, race against time — and TIME LOOP — to prevent a war.

|The three Ts: Twitter, Tiktok, Twitch

|Just a whole tree of links

|Contact: jenna.stoeber ((cat)) gmail.com

Streaming

Live streaming on Twitch at the_jenna

Videos

Subscribe to my my personal YouTube channel! for recent videos!

Gamemastering

Podcasts

Burnt Cook Book Party - updating biweekly!

• |An actual play podcast based on Pathfinder. Four heroes of varying skills, attractiveness, and stupidity, race against time to prevent a war.

Fandalites

• |A weekly (and complete!) Animorphs fancast I co-hosted, co-edited, and co-produced with my friend Brent Naylor.
• |Read the TRUTH about Andalites at AndaliteTruth.org!

Dungeons and Daddies, guest starring as Ratticus Finch

• |Ep. 46 - The People vs. Glenn Close (ft. Jenna Stoeber)
• |Ep. 47 - Glenn Close's Damages

The Polygon Show

• |Episode 42 - LOOK AT THIS SILVER MONKEY
• |Episode 46 - Press square for son action
• |Episode 54 - E3 2018 Extravaganza

Insert Credit

• |Mario's Big Spaghetti Time, with Jenna Stoeber

Spirits Podcast

• |Episode 218 - Creepypasta

Dress for the Podcast you Want

• |Episode 501 - Wildly Successful Plateau Baby

Quality Control

• |How Fortnite became the world's biggest game

Juvenalia

• |Episode 59 - Sailor Moon

Writing

Essays

• |The wrong person won Squid Game
• |The Dip scenes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit scare you straight back to childhood
• |Fallout 76 succeeds as a fever dream instead of competing as a simulation

Reviews

• |We Have Always Lived in the Castle does Shirley Jackson’s gothic mystery justice
• |Brian De Palma’s Sisters delivers weirdness in a way modern movies don’t
• |World of Horror lets me bring doom upon myself
• |Sayonara Wild Hearts is the wickedly neon bisexual fever dream of a pop album I didn’t know I needed
• |The horror movie Sea Fever embraces the feeling of quarantine and contagion
• |Dracula, Motherf**ker! is exactly as stylish as the name implie
• |My Vegetable Scrubber Brings Me Peace of Mind
• |My Side-Loading Toaster Is Better Than a Toaster Oven

Blurbs

• |Remembering Tumblr’s wildest community drama: Woody's Roundup
• |The best scenes from 35 years of Studio Ghibli movies: 16. Eating pineapple for the first time, Only Yesterday
• |Polygon’s favorite poems: “Humanity i love you” (1959), by E. E. Cummings

Fiction

• |Unreal Estate: A real estate agent discovers more pictures on her online listing than she remembers taking — hundreds more. But the images are the least of her concerns

MISC

I like to hike, knit, and brew beer too! I also coded this whole site by hand. By keyboard? Anyway if something's broken, that's why. It would be cool of you to tell me so I can fix it!