Welcome.
About Me
Howdy. My name is Dayten Rose.
I’m a writer, editor, and storyteller based out of Kansas City, MO. My lifelong work is to convince you that having fun is as culturally significant as
Professionally, my background is linguistics (politeness and cognitive metaphor theory), literary publishing, and local journalism. I think of myself mostly as a collector. Currently in my library: magical medieval robots, cowboy songs, action movies, early video game peripherals, and abandoned Missouri towns.
I’m an avid Dungeon Master and homebrewer in Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons. I also recently smashed a haunted mask by accident, so anything you read from here on out is written by a ghost.
The best place to follow my work is on my blog, Supernormal! Subscribe for weekly low-cultural criticism.
Portfolio
My blog about fun and games. Updated pretty much weekly on pretty much Thursday. Check out my posts on caffeine, healing mechanics, and Dance Moms (among other things).
9/10: Supernormal received an honorable mention in Adam Mastroianni’s 2024 Blog Extravaganza. The post was a little different from my usual beat. It’s a story about murder and memory in the vanishing town of Goldsberry.
9/16: “A Taxonomy of Background Music,” my post about history of ignoring music, was syndicated in Dirt!
Check out the history stories I’ve written for Tedium about:
My analysis of how the plastic guitar, the iPod click wheel, and the Wiimote changed the way we play games, and what that means for preservation.
“Brazen heads,” magical medieval robots, and what they tell us about our relationship with machines. It has nothing to do with an imminent superintelligence takeover. It does have a little to do with demons.
The history of the spoiler: from the Arabian Nights, to the ego of Alfred Hitchcock, all the way to up to Netflix originals.
I supported 26+ local newsletters in cities from Seattle, to Boston, to Austin, to Nashville, and my hometown of Kansas City. Here are some favorites from my daily coverage of local culture, history, and development:
- Go Down The Rabbit hOle in North Kansas City
- Your stargazing guide to astronomical events in 2024
- Answered: Your thoughts on the Chiefs stadium renovation
- Laugh-O-Gram Studio and the start of Walt Disney’s animation career in Kansas City
- West Bottoms micro-village moves forward with new tax incentives
- KC Curling Club gets new digs (plus its accompanying Reel)
- Q+A with Swayyvo
An audio story about the Mount Erebus disaster, where Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed in 1979, and the investigation that followed. I took on this project both to learn the basics of audio editing and storytelling, and to give an outlet to my passion for research nonfiction. Mostly though, the events of this air crash gripped me, and I wanted to honor it somehow. Really a labor of love, my first time working with audio, and a piece I’m still proud of.
"Speak Up!" and "Lexical Legacy"
I produced “Speak Up!” and “Lexical Legacy” as part of my internship with Truman State University’s Dept. of English & Linguistics. Tasked with making recruitment materials to draw students from state high schools, I began researching and scripting two short, show-in-class sized videos on topics in linguistics. Since very few local high schools actually introduce students to lingusitics as a discipline, I designed one to be shown in second language classes, and one for English classes. Through this two-year internship I got to manage a small team, work with some incredible writers and designers, and cut my teeth in audio editing and narration.
The 43rd edition of Windfall Magazine, Truman State University’s undergraduate literary magazine. I got to contribute to the book’s publishing as editor-in-chief, and got to give tons of up-and-coming poets, writers, and artists their first byline. Also, given the pace at which our situation was changing this year, the quick switch we made to a digital format was basically herculean. Hugely proud of the work we did, which you can check out here. (You can find the magazine online, including the archived 42nd and 44th editions, which I was also involved in publishing.)
A short biography of a guy on the moon. Published in Windfall 2021.
Contact
Call or text to (816) 810-3657.
Email dayten.rose@gmail.com.
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