Life And Love In Speculative Worlds
“Where do you see yourself in five years?” This question has always caused some anxiety in me. I can come up with ideal scenarios while also coming up with the worst case scenarios. People never want to hear worst case scenario five year plans. After Read More …
Since its publication in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell has become one of the best known works of critical theory ever. Whether you are in the academic sphere or not, odds are you have heard of it. Odds are that you Read More …
Full disclosure, I have never really been interested in Lolita. It’s one of those novels that one feels one MUST read because of the place they have been given in the canon. Maybe if I had not known much about it I would have lasted a Read More …
There is a scene early in the 1990 movie The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter where the protagonist Bastian Bux has this exchange with the book seller Mr. Coreander: Koreander: [spotting Bastian with the book] Put it back! [Bastian jumps and ends up slamming the book Read More …
I honestly debated about publishing this because I have a problem with accountability. Not that I don’t think it’s a good idea, it really is. Putting things out there on a public forum means that someone else knows that you are doing something. It means Read More …
Sometimes you are watching a movie and someone says something that makes you almost jump and say “That’s me!”. If there is one that made me do that it’s in The Princess Bride. The boy, having agreed to have his grandfather read him a story that was Read More …
Shipping, it makes the fandom world go round. Coming from the word “relationship”, it is how people describe the pairs (or more) they like in a given piece of media. “Shippers” can be very passionate, there is a lot of reasons why someone wants a Read More …
I’m going to go ahead and start with a cliche: there was a time, young ones, where computers did not have many distractions built in and pc gaming to most people meant your computer had Solitaire at the least. There were a few other card Read More …
Let’s not kid around, a lot of people have a soundtrack to their lives. I don’t mean a playlist in your music player, or that there is literal music that follows you around. A lot of you have probably said the phrase “this reminds me of Read More …