Daughter of Sand and Stone: A Potential Case of Erasure

This post is a submission to the November 2021 Carnival of Aces on the theme “Inside the Frame, Outside the Frame” in honor of National Novel Writing Month. My submission is about a 2015 novel that, based on the research of the author, had the potential to frame the protagonist as asexual, but either chose …

Shang-Chi: What’s Katy Doing in This Movie?

I don't have a whole lot of interesting thoughts by way of a review for Shang-Chi and the Legend of The Ten Rings, but I did have a lot of thoughts about Awkwafina's character Katy and her relationship with the titular character Shang-Chi. But what I will say about the movie is that, to me, …

My First Good Analysis

When I first started this blog, I intended to slowly transfer over the content from my Tumblr, and somehow there's still much content left. Anyways, on with it! This is my first good piece of analysis on the film Stage Beauty. It's not particularly well written, although the analysis itself still feels good. The bad …

Black Panther: Follow-up Thoughts

After my initial reaction to Black Panther, I've had some more time to process everything and so, I'm writing another review that's more structured. There are some new points and mostly old points, but my thoughts are better organized here: Yes, the hype surrounding Black Panther has everything to do with the all-black cast, black director, black …

Black Panther: THAT Good!

Spoiler Warning! This is an in-depth spoiler review. Wow. I was blown away by this movie. Because there is so much to dissect and break down and I have so many thoughts and I'm just going to barely scratch the surface. I'm going to assume anyone reading this is already familiar with the cultural importance …

My Gushing About Frozen on Tumblr

When Frozen first came out, I was all over it. Here is my initial gushing about the movie.

So What if Ariel Wanted a Vagina?

This is one my Tumblr posts that I like best because I double down on defending a movie and a character I don't like. That being said, I love the songs in this movie.

Beauty and the Beast Review (ish)

I thought the movie was good...and I don't have a whole lot more to say about it. But I do have thoughts on other issues surrounding the movie! First, I'll give my quick review. Not taking into account the 1991 original, I thought this was a really good adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast …

Review and Discussion: The Lunar Chronicles

So this post was sitting in drafts all ready to go (for how many months now?), so I just pressed the publish button: Having finally completed the series, I have decided to post my reviews from Goodreads here. Apparently I never wrote one for Scarlet. And if I ever read and review Wire and Nerves, …

Marvel-Netflix. And Foggy Nelson.

Well, Luke Cage was likely a big hit. It got a lot of praise at any rate, but I don't know what Netflix viewing numbers look like. I finished the show, and I liked it, even though it took me a while to get into it. Of the Marvel-Netflix shows, I haven't reviewed any of them, …