Here’s to Almost Outlasting Capitalism

The world may be ending, but rent is still due.

As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, Elliot navigates malfunctioning payment portals, empty grocery shelves, office fire alarms, and the quiet banality of a system that stoops for none, even at the end of the world. Between awkward small talk, bureaucratic dead ends, and the unspoken hum of collective dread life grinds with a maddening normalcy.

Elliot knows it’s absurd; he’s not blind. But when normalcy can no longer comfort him, he takes a chance on connection — on love, grief, and truly being seen. For him, the apocalypse stops being something abstract and terrifying. It becomes a final cocktail, a rooftop sunset, and a hand held tight as the end greets him. Here’s to Almost Outlasting Capitalism is a tender, funny, and moving meditation on late-stage capitalism, queer intimacy, and what it means to intentionally choose softness in a world that refuses to slow down, even at the very end.

Here’s to Almost Outlasting Capitalism was featured on The Peliplat Dispatch.

Here’s to Almost Outlasting Capitalism is available to read here.