As a Steven Universe fan, I hear lots about other great Cartoon Network shows. Including, of course, the one that boosted Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar’s fan cred: Pendleton Ward’s Adventure Time.* So many of my nerdy friends/random people on the Internet love this show, so I thought I’d give…
Isn’t it nice to find yourself somewhere different, whoa-oh (Steven Universe, “Island Adventure”) A relatively large number of people I know say they aren’t able to get into Steven Universe because the plot feels too simplistic, which is fair: the series starts slowly and carefully, and it takes almost a…
Real talk: I have moral unease about pirating movies, shows, music, and books. Not because the corporate distribution systems are perfect — they’re not, and they definitely have neither the consumers’ nor the artists’ best interests in mind — but because the collateral damage to individuals and institutions I do…
I didn’t understand the way my boyfriend liked the new Star Trek movies until we saw the new Ghostbusters. As I’ve posted about before, Star Trek, especially the original-series movies, was a formative part of my childhood. I know it not wisely but too well. Contrariwise, as a kid, I…
I haven’t seen all that many episodes of the original series Star Trek. I was raised on the movies, and I somehow obtained a book that novelized every episode of the first season. I read it as a kid. And, obviously, I saw “Amok Time” and “The Trouble With Tribbles,”…
There are dozens of online writers praising Rebecca Sugar’s animated series Steven Universe, which is feminist, queer-positive, and generally amazing. Allow me to join them. Steven Universe is the comic, sentimental, epic story of a boy named, what else, Steven Universe, who is the newest member of the Crystal Gems. Said Gems…
Raise your hand if you’ve ever thought to yourself in disgust, “The book was better.” Okay, now that your hands are all up in the air, wave them around like you just don’t care. And — wait, what was I talking about? Oh, right: and then settle in for that…
If you check out fanfiction.net, you’ll notice it’s strong fanon that Holmes’s father was abusive to him as a child. Without wishing to minimize real-life child abuse, which is horrible, in some types of (fan)fiction, parental abuse is used as a way to explain a character’s emotional issues or bad behaviour,…
Hey there, 16-year-old self! Hey, 31-year-old self! You probably didn’t expect this back in 2001, but The X Files is back! With a six-episode miniseries. No way! Do Mulder and Scully finally make out? Just kidding, I’m way too embarrassed to admit that’s one of the main reasons I love…
So I was gearing up to write about The X Files revival (short version: I think it’s a lot of fun, minus the -isms and -phobias that shamefully pop up on– and offscreen), and then the second episode made me realize that’s not what stuck with me at all. Without spoiling XF…