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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

Star Wars Cinematic Universe Retrospective: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

I love this movie and nothing will change my mind

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Banality, Bipolar, and Brassic

When it comes to depictions of mental illness on television, there’s an all-or-nothing attitude. It’s either 13 Reasons Why all-consuming-DEPRESSION or nothing ever going wrong at all thank you so much and if it does it’s certainly resolved by the end of the episode, no in between; either mental illness is consuming the life of a main character, or it doesn’t exist at all.

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Thank You

You know, I try to do a little post every year, around the time that this blog ages up again. And every year, I go holy shit, people are still reading this? I’m still writing it? And it feels absurd and ridiculous and brilliant all at once.

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Don’t Watch This Movie

Get FUCKED UP team

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Movie Review: Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria)

God I fucking love Pedro Almodovar

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Carnival No

“Muttonchops,” intones Orlando Bloom introspectively, near the start of the first episode of Carnival Row. I spit out my tea. This is, as I had feared, not off to a good start.

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Star Wars: The Rise of the Skywalker Trailer Analysis

Let’s get fucked up on Star Wars!

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In Passionate Defense of Fanfiction

Look, fanfiction gets a bad rap, and I get it. I get that most people think of the iconic Ebony Demenita Dark’ness Raven Way I get that maybe they even looked up, to their great regret, that one story about the giant squid having sex with Hogwarts castle. I get that, well, Fifty Shades of Grey happened because of fanfiction. But I’m here to make a defense of fanfiction, and you’re here to read it and then maybe do your own alt-universe slashfic take on it where this article has soft, tender sex with this article? Fanfiction is so rich, guys, I’m telling you.

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Movie Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Give me some of those Good Spooks

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