As with all the episode recaps, there will be spoilers for the TV show, and minimal jokes referencing the books, particularly since True Blood TV canon ≠ Southern Vampire Mysteries book canon. Because of personal schedule conflicts, I was unable to post the Game of Thrones finale review last week, so it will be posted tomorrow. Fairyland: various attractive brunettes in flowing new agey pastels [...]
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Okay. Okay. I’m typing this in the rapidly dimming light from my parked car in the library parking lot– I’m hoping the smell of children from the school next door and the smell of book glue from inside will cover my location. As it is… I think there will also be a lot of blood in the library, since the WiFi is still on and [...]
A short while ago, I was having a discussion with a close friend about stepmothers. Fictional Stepmothers, you see, the Villainesses (or at least Obstructions) to the goals/life/happiness of their adopted children. We were hard-pressed to think of any female-centric, female protagonist fiction, with a stepmother, that didn’t present that stepmother’s motivations as a) related to their own youth/beauty/lack thereof, or b) related to the [...]
I’ve linked to Racebending before, in my, uh, only other article up so far, referencing how rarely Native actors portray themselves in popular media, and how that widens the disparity between the mass-consumed pop-cultural “knowledge” and appropriation of Native peoples and their history versus the realities of those peoples, cultures, history, and, often, awareness of their existence. I didn’t really talk about the actual Racebending [...]
I have a confession to make: I am addicted to Disney. I think it would be difficult to have been a child of my generation and not been, considering I spent all of my pre-adolescent years in the company’s “Renaissance” period. For every year of my childhood, from my toddler years well into my early teens, there is a Disney memory there. And like most [...]
