I was raised Southern Baptist Convention, so, duh, that came with an Evangelical Christmas. I was also lower middle class, growing up. So there was always a roof over our head, food on the table, new clothes each school year. Extracurriculars stretched the budget, but there was usually room. But our cars were used, a… Continue reading Recontextualizing Christmas
My grandmother passed a couple of months ago, preceded by my grandfather in 2007. Over the past decade as she’s moved in with different daughters, the family has been collectively downsizing her belongings and spreading them out to whoever would most benefit from them.I have two bookshelves that are designed to hold mass market paperbacks… Continue reading The Erosion of Identity in the Rise of Corporate Decor
So we’re in the middle of an organized boycott of Disney products because of their response to government pressure to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Great cool. Kimmel’s back on the air as I write this, so it looks like it might have worked. But honestly, who knows! Yay government overreach! In those exact… Continue reading Media Piracy Isn’t Inherently Revolutionary, You Weirdos
There was this trend of conversation on BookTok for a bit, but outside that I still occasionally see conversations about wanting a book rating system similar to the MPAA or ESRB. I've said in a TikTok before, and I'll say again, "no you don't." Especially not in the current climate when so many books are… Continue reading I Don’t Need to Tell You Censorship Laws are Bad, but Do You Realize How Bad They Really Are?
Pride month means all my queer comic and comic adjacent subReddits are talking canon sexuality among Marvel characters, particularly the Marvel Rivals cast. And I do have to express a level of chagrin that people are boxing it into “gay, straight, bi” because like…asexual? Split theory of attraction? Whatever.One of the big points of discussion,… Continue reading The Bi-Vestigation of Eddie Brock
The past year there has been a lot of new focus on consumption habits, particularly consumer boycotts. They’re a common topic of discussion in the various progressive sub-reddits and other communities I’m in, and I see two things happen with the most frequency. The first is people absolutely falling over themselves for validation that they’re… Continue reading You Can’t Just Boycott, You Actually Have to Understand Ethical Consumption
Last week, J.K. Rowling revealed her ass, yet again, around a UK supreme court ruling. This ruling being that, when referencing the Equality Act, “women” specifically means “biological women.” Effectively, legally stripping trans-women then status of “woman” in regards to the application of the protections of this act. And I’m seeing people not quite understand… Continue reading You Really Need to Move on from Harry Potter, I’m So Serious
I’m an AFAB person with a handful of “traditionally masculine” hobbies. Basically I’m woman-adjacent in a few men-heavy fields. So I get to live both sides of conversations like the one below. Let me tell y’all: if this what your relationship looks like in terms of hobbies, you’ve got it more fucked up than you… Continue reading Surprise! The Patriarchy is the Reason You and Your Wife Fight Over Your Comic Book Collection
Check out the end for book sales and deals from indie authors. There’s a style of online game called a “Hero Shooter.” Think Overwatch, Team Fortress 2, or my recent time sink, Marvel Rivals. For the uninitiated, the gameplay loop is two teams of six fight each other for an objective. Either domination of a… Continue reading Video Game Metas and the Logic of Failure
It’s Valentine’s Day this week. We’ll be spending it watching Korean horror movies. Because our first date by sheer happenstance was in February, my husband and I have also been together, officially, fifteen years (married eleven). We dated about a year before moving in together that next January, had ongoing conversations the whole time about… Continue reading The Agendas Hidden in the American Marriage
Pixels and Pins Studio 