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I have been racking my brain now for hours, trying to decide what to write on this freaking blog. Nothing has yet come to me. I think my mind is slowly leaving me. So young too, I thought I would for sure have another nine years at least before it started to wander off and […]
More like Mean Girls is the tamer version of Heathers, since Heathers after all did come first and stars the amazing Winona Ryder as the main character, Veronica Sawyer. While Mean Girls stars Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron and in many ways the two movies are similar. Of course, Heathers is rated R, so there […]
Alright party people, buckle up for a ride and let’s enter a pointless and misguided thesis this fine evening: visual novels are comics and i dare you to prove me wrong First up, what is a visual novel? Simply put, Visual Novels (VNLs from here on out) are a kind of game marked by minimal […]
TW: Some disturbing images and references, body horror shown It can be easily said that Junji Ito is one of the most, if not the most, recognizable and famous horror manga artists ever. Even if you aren’t into horror manga, the likelihood that you have seen his work before is pretty high, with some of […]
Back when I was a little kid, I wasn’t the biggest fan of reading. It was a huge accomplishment when I finished a multi-chapter book cover to cover. I was also in a mother-daughter bookclub, and we would read some heavy books! When I was 10 or 11, we read Marley & Me. I should also […]
I recently (yes recently- as in two weeks ago) FINALLY watched Wonder Woman! And I LOVED it. And although I can’t imagine anyone else fitting the role as perfectly as Gal Gadot, the Wonder Woman that was brought to the big screen is not the original Wonder Woman. Photo credit: io9.gizmodo.com The Wonder Woman created by […]
“I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.” Natalie Portman narrates in a faux-English accent, “I know,” carrying the implication that the American audience does not. Author, Alan Moore’s name will not be found anywhere in the film’s credits; Instead it simply […]
I’ll just get straight to the point. This whole article is dedicated to silly drawings of vaguely humanoid blobs, and a chicken. These are comics by rubyetc (or rubyetc_ on Instagram) depicting some of her experiences with mental illness. Typically, when we imagine an illness, we think of the flu, or tuberculosis, etc. Something related […]
The popular television series Rick and Morty which first aired in 2013 has been an ongoing series that has caught the attention of thousands of viewers. At first chugging along at a slow start, in the last couple of years the series has gained an increased percentage of viewers who thrived on the weekly showings of the […]