Online fandoms have come a long way since the halcyon days of the internet, when the only way to find people with similar interests was to load up a GameFAQs message board on a sluggish dial-up connection. Nowadays, though, all it takes is a quick search on Reddit, Discord, or (RIP) Twitter to find millions... Continue Reading →
No one complains about anime more than anime fans, but I think we can all agree that it's one of the most diverse and creative forms of storytelling out there. And Flip Flappers is pretty much everything I love about anime. It’s a psychedelic wonderland that combines magical girls, mecha, cyberpunk, DBZ-style fight scenes, Jungian... Continue Reading →
(TW: Transphobia. I was thinking about writing this after my Anime Pride Month posts are done, but it's fresh in my mind and I just wanted to say something now when people still might actually care about it.) When I was in third grade, I did my first book report on Harry Potter and the... Continue Reading →
First off, I'm sorry for writing two angry rant posts in a row; I try to keep the tone of my blog very positive but I really needed to get this off my chest. Second, this post has a big ol' content warning for discussion of transphobia, transphobic slurs, white supremacists, and mentions of murder... Continue Reading →
Well, it's mid-November, and that means the holiday season is upon us. It seems like the holidays start earlier every year. Some stores started putting up decorations and playing Christmas music even before Halloween ended. And while I'm happy for the people who love the holidays, who enjoy going home to see family every year... Continue Reading →
Disclaimer: This post discusses some spoilers of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I tried to keep some of the most spoiler-y bits as vague as I could, so you can still understand if you haven't seen the show, but it does discuss the whole series up to the end. Also, content warning for heavy discussion of mental... Continue Reading →
Trigger warnings: Homophobia, transphobia, mention of sexual abuse Hey there. Wow. There are so many things I want to say. Unfortunately, time travel has still not been invented yet. So there's really no way for you, the person I was at age 15, to understand anything I, the person you will become at almost 30,... Continue Reading →
I think I was eight years old when I first tried on women's clothing. (TW: transphobia, homophobia, child abuse) I had a pretty normal childhood for a white, middle-class American in the 90's. I grew up in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of a seemingly endless chain of suburbs in the Greater Boston Area, to a second-generation... Continue Reading →
Starting Life From Zero 