Writing Exercise, July 17, 2023
The madam’s office stood in stark contrast to the rest of the estate: while tastefully appointed, it reminded Adam of his father’s office, rather than anything to do with sex work. Madam Twilight in...
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The first disappearance of a Supreme Court Justice judge did not terrify people. It unsettled them, to be sure—how does one of the most protected people in the country just vanish? But it wasn’t the...
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A List of Things Likely to Make Up a Good Day
Being able to cook breakfast Being acknowledged by a dog or cat–preferably both The consumption and purchase of good cheese Buying a new comic book Having just enough work to feel productive, while...
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Untitled Thing, January 21,2021
As my corset pressed tighter against my midsection, I felt increasingly more comfortable and ready for the time to come. Without it, my existence felt precarious and uncontrollable, like the wind;...
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Review: “Legion of Super-Heroes” (Vol. 4) #1
Publisher: DC Comics Cover Date: November 1989 Writers: Keith Giffen, Tom Bierbaum, Mary Bierbaum, Al Gordon Pencils: Keith Giffen Inks: Al Gordon Colors: Tom McCraw My first taste of what...
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2019 in Review
So, speaking in terms of the world at large, 2019 was not great, with many many catastrophes great (global warming, the authoritarian terrorists currently in power) and small (Jesus, what a...
View ArticleThe One with Two Amy Ackers (but One Sarah Shahi)
So I’ve been wanting to do something like this for years. I like working on fanvids, but it’s also one of those things I don’t get to do a lot, and not at all since my last video, several years and one...
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Of Course It’s Complex
Okay, so this may just be my favorite pic of myself to date—top three, at least. Good lighting, a solid angle, my hands aren’t just hanging around awkwardly with nothing to do…and of course, it...
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On Irina Derevko
(Note: Spoilers for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and The Americans ahead. And for Alias, obviously.) I’ve never understood why Irina Derevko is so beloved. No, scratch that. I do understand why...
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“Reverie” Has Many Dreams, but No Ambition
From the very start, Reverie was primed to catch my attention. Between starring Sarah Shahi and being super-reminiscent of my videogaming sacred cow Dreamfall, there was no way I wasn’t going to be...
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“Reign” Is Not the Best Show on TV, but It May Be the Greatest
If there is one thing that consistently disappoints me about the CW’s super-hero fare, it is its inability to harness the genre’s capacity for soapy DRAMA. Set in worlds where aliens are real and...
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“Power Rangers”, Mean Girls, and Why Kimberly’s Slut-Shaming is a Big Deal
(Spoilers for Power Rangers ahead.) So in my Power Rangers review, I happened to write the following: A good amount of time is spent on Kimberly’s angst, and on how her recent actions have alienated...
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Review: “Power Rangers” is the Weirdest, and Possibly Best, Remake of “The...
Given its minuscule budget; its dependence on footage, costumes, and stories taken from the Japanese Super Sentai meta-series; and its primary role as a conduit to sell action figures, Power Rangers...
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“Dreamfall Chapters” is the most 2016 Game Imaginable
Chapter One of Dreamfall Chapters was first released in 2014. Development of the game officially began in 2013, after the developer’s Kickstarter was fully funded, and the story was based on ideas...
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Self-Plug: Privilege Undermines Disney’s ‘Gargoyles’ Attempts to Explore...
People who read this may know that I periodically post episode reviews and essays about the Disney animated series Gargoyles on my other blog, Monsters of New York. Recently, though, I wrote an essay...
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Division of Interest: Partners
While the parallels between Nikita and Person of Interest are not as easy to identify as those between Nikita and Alias, they are in some ways arguably more substantive. Produced roughly during the...
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Trumped
So, the elections happened. The results were terrible, to the point where I’m actually currently somewhat grateful for the degree of separation that currently exists between Puerto Rico and the states....
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The CW’s “Nikita” is a Spy Story about Healing
(Series-wide spoilers below) There’s a certain amount of cognitive dissonance required in order to accept La Femme Nikita’s premise on its own terms. The series wants us to believe that clandestine...
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Review: “Dreamfall Chapters”
Dreamfall Chapters is huge. Too huge, really: it’s the finale to a story to a game released ten years ago, dealing with plot points and characters from a game released in 1999, featuring three worlds...
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“Legends of Tomorrow” Is the Arrow-verse’s Largest Show and its Smallest
Sometimes it pays to be skeptical. When news of what would eventually become Legends of Tomorrow first popped up, the concept seemed, to put it in the kindest possible words, contrived. A team made up...
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