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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

The Intrusively Accurate Anxiety of Pure

Honestly, I’m offended.

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Creativity Right Now is Hard (But Please Keep Doing It)

I’m going to be real with you: writing this blog, this last month, has been tough.

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Lost Recaps S1E10: Raised By Another

When it comes to genre television, a baby is never good news.

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The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: Blood

Season two of The X-Files does what every second season of a show should do: it expands the scope of the show’s universe, explores the main characters in greater detail, and throws off the training wheels of its first year.

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A Farwell to Angst

A girl and her angst

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Six Weeks

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Tomorrow marks six weeks in Lockdown. Six weeks since my world stopped spinning. Six weeks since COVID-19, masks, quarantine and social distancing entered my vernacular. So what have I learned? What has this time given me? What has it taken away?

Six Things I’ve Learned in Six Weeks

  1. Human Beings, when appropriately terrified, can work together. In normal times that seemed an impossible ask. Sure enough though, human beings are capable of team work on a mass scale. Albeit when the heat is on. Perhaps when we come out the other end of this, we’ll remember to do it more often.
  2. I am incredibly privileged. My biggest issue in Lockdown has been restricting my Magnum Mini intake. Key workers, people living in poverty or insecure situations do not have that privilege. I am incredibly privileged and in a time like this, that is an extremely lucky thing to be.
  3. I’m…

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Lost Recaps S1E9: Solitary

You know, I’ve been looking forward to this episode a lot. 

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A Fabulous Forage Through My Favourite Found Footage Films

I like found footage movies and alliteration far too much!

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The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: Fire

With a show as diverse in its storytelling as The X-Files, it would be a shame to only focus on its best moments. As much as I love the show, even the most die-hard of fans will admit that it’s far from perfect. For every excellent Monster of the Week, there is a dud, a flop, or one that just plain doesn’t work. Just as Beyond the Sea helped us understand what makes a truly great Monster of the Week episode, it’s only fair that we also look at another season one episode to investigate the exact opposite. 

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