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i-D's Substack carries fashion and culture dispatches, including artist interviews, event coverage and essays on media figures. The excerpts show lively, personal reporting with a clear voice and cultural context.

Planet M is a storytelling studio that shares updates on its science fiction audio, its game EOS10: Anomaly, and its first documentary, Section 14, about the forced removal of Black and Latino families from Palm Springs. Issues mix production news and fundraising appeals with in-universe fiction, serialized as transmissions from the EOS10 station.