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,…
I read Seth Dickinson’s The Traitor Baru Cormorant earlier this month, and it still smarts. (If you haven’t read it yet, fear not: I won’t reveal anything past what you might gather from the cover copy.)
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 my mom and I went to get mani-pedis while I was home over the holidays. It’s not the first time I’ve had my nails done, although I can count the total number on the usually un-polished fingers of one hand. Apart from the discomfort of paying a stranger to…