(Minimal spoilers — I’ll be describing the basic plot premise, the characters, and a scene that occurs about a third of the way through the movie without giving the particulars.) Every genre of writing is tough in its own special ways, and mystery writing is no exception. I’ve discussed some…
NOTE: The style of communication I’m about to describe is culturally specific: Western, white, upper-middle class, Anglo-Saxon. Not every professor or TA will feel comfortable with this culture. It’s OK if you don’t either! It’s also OK if you choose not to use these tips because this style would make…
AKA, I wrote the first version of this before the final season of Game of Thrones*, but I guess it’s even more ~*~relevant~*~ now? If there’s one thing I’ve learned from teaching a course on professional presentations, it’s that sticking the landing is the hardest part. New speakers — heck,…
It’s Eevee. I picked Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee. The first brand new Game Boy game I ever requested and got — as opposed to, say, hand-me-downs from my cousins or whatever the store clerk told my parents to get for a birthday present* — was Pokémon Blue. I can still…
Winter is a tough time for me, so although I was expecting the trouble I had compiling this list, I was expecting the opposite kind: actually, there were too many things that made the past three months better for me! #blessed Seriously, though, I am really lucky that so many…
Gamers tend to have strong feelings about motion controls. Part of this is due to hardware limitations that make most motion controls less precise than button presses. Other times, it’s because it turns out that imagining yourself, say, throwing a Poké ball in the world of Pokémon, is a very…
Travelling and seeing new places can be expensive, but the biggest obstacle between me and seeing the world isn’t time or money. It’s gender. Let’s lay some groundwork. I’m a gender non-conforming woman. Although my gender identity coincides with the one I was assigned at birth*, the clothing I wear,…
“Well, what if something good happens?” Among the many improvements to my mental health for which I have to thank Steven Universe, the above quote ranks pretty high. It further develops a theme present in songs like “Here Comes a Thought” and “Let’s Only Think About Love”–the theme of acknowledging…
Sitting in a seminar on the skill of feeling grateful, I realized that I was feeling resentful instead. And I wondered why.
I promised you more about the new DuckTales cartoon, and, by Scrooge, when I duck-promise, I duck-deliver! I’m a fan of the old Uncle Scrooge comics with stories by the likes of Carl Barks, William Van Horn, and Don Rosa. For me, these comics evolved into the 1990-1991 DuckTales comics…