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You’ve Written A Strong Female Character, Now What?

You’ve done the unimaginable – you’ve written a strong female character, who seems to derive her self-worth, not from the world, but from herself and her choices. This character isn’t necessarily good, or even bad, but she’s strong, opinionated, capable,…

Love and Monsters: Can Love Co-exist in the Apocalypse?

Love and Monsters is a witty, charming take on the apocalypse, featuring the goodest boy to ever dog and some other good actors.

Pride and Prejudice and Persistent Positivity

This article has spoilers. For a book that was published in 1813. One that has spawned numerous movie and television adaptions. Seriously, it’s not my fault if you’re spoiled. But, you know, read ahead at your own risk. A convenient…

Palm Springs Review: A Tale of Two Movies

We both hated and love Palm Springs in equal measure. Okay, maybe not in equal measure. Maybe we are leaning towards hate.

The Remarkable Act of Not Giving a F*ck

For the purposes of this editorial, I want to make clear the act of not giving a f*ck versus apathy. Apathy is total disinterest, defined by a lack of enthusiasm or concern. When you’re apathetic about something you don’t care.…

How to Train Your Patronus – Protecting Your Spheres

Dementors first premiered in J.K Rowling’s 1999 release of the Prisoner of Azkaban. They are soulless beings who feed on the happiness of others, creating a bleak despair that is incapacitating, which is why they are used to guard the…

Was Captain America’s Ending Meant To Be Happy? Spoiler Alert: Not Really!

After three solo movies and four Avengers movies, Captain America’s story came to its inevitable conclusion in Avengers: Endgame. There was never any doubt that his story arc would be dramatic, maybe painful, but I never thought that it would…

Fashion Documentaries to Binge on Netflix

I know nothing about fashion. My mind, however, is a weird place that goes down rabbit warren highways, searching for information I will never use. That is how I started binging fashion documentaries on Netflix, and that is why I…

Let’s Make Some Old White People Angry: Vote

The truth of the matter is that the world has always been cruel, unkind to people of color, immigrants, those with disabilities, people in the LGBTQIA community, and women, and willing to crush anyone whose voice is not backed by…

Hope in the Age of Nilhilism

You fight, and you fight, and you crawl through hate, and you shake, and you cry, and you do everything in your power to shine a light, and then those who only care for money, for pain, for the suffering…

7 Historical Women We’d Love the ‘Timeless’ Crew to Meet

With Timeless right around the corner and International Women’s Day here, we thought it was about time we put together a list of amazing historical women that we’d love the Timeless team to meet. Each and every single woman on this was a fighter,…

Now Is The Time To Talk Gun Control

Aberjhani  said, “Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s…

May the Force Be Female: The Lessons of ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’

Warning: Major spoilers below. Read at your own risk. Star Wars: The Last Jedi, while not a perfect movie, far excelled in landing every message it sought to send. More than anything, for the first time in probably all of…

The Principled Stand and How to Resist It When You’re A Hero

We’ve all seen those movies and TV shows where the – usually white – lead is faced with a moral dilemma. The easy path is carved out in flashing neon lights. The bad guy wants them to do something a…

Regarding the Recent Allegations in Hollywood: We Believe You

Regarding the recent allegations in Hollywood, I would like to make one thing very clear. To each and every one of you, you are my heroes. You have strength you thought was weakness, you have bones made of steel and…

Stop Fucking Blaming Women for Being Assaulted, Mother Fuckers

When I was 18, I was pretty naive. I trusted, as most teenagers do. So when a coworker asked for help one day, near the closing time of the store, I had no hesitation saying yes, though I didn’t know…

Walk the Wyatt Way, With Respect – An Ode to Timeless’s Wyatt

Inevitably when you have a character who was ex-special forces, military down to the bedrock of their life experiences, and living on in the wake of a dead spouse, you have a fractured, damaged, alpha man who is equal parts…

The Emmy’s And Sean Spicer

The reason that we hold our media to such a high standard is because our films and television shows have the power to be subversive, start conversations, and create a status quo that can be seen in trends, in who…

Can Does Not Equal Should – Why Not All Art Should Be Produced

I can’t believe I’m having to dive into this conversation when, presumably, we’re all adults here – or at least the reading comprehension of one – but this needs to be said, so I will say it. We have probably…

A History of Hate (And What We Can Do About It)

On December 24, 1865 the Ku Klux Klan was founded in Tennessee as an extremist, hateful reaction to what many in the news now willingly and ignorantly report as “economic anxiety.” This was a period of southern reconstruction following the…

Captain America Has The Best Superhero Arc in the MCU

AKA: LIZZIE IS WRONG To preface this argument I want to make it clear that I am talking about the MCU and not the comics. I readily admit that I do not care about the comics, especially now that Cap…