Live and Let Live: Thoughts on Fandom and Acceptance

Let’s take a minute and talk about fandom. We (otherwise known as fans) rally around a show, or a movie, or a band in the way that we rally around all causes. The implicit humanness of the stories, the music,…

Supergirl: Why Karamel is My Favorite Ship on TV Right Now

You don’t choose the ship; the ship chooses you. That’s the motto I live and die by. It’s also the motto that describes my love for Supergirl’s Kara and Mon-El – who have the sweetest ship name in the existence…

The Chastity Belt of Horror

Sex is a killer. No, not killer as I like to think in the fun, sweaty, panting, orgasm way, but a thing in which the next victim is chosen for the sacrifice of serial killers, psychopaths, and bad TV writers…

5 Reasons You Should Tell Your Self-doubt to Fuck Off

It is a universally acknowledged truth that self-doubt is an unwanted and unexpected intruder in our daily lives. It wraps itself around us like cling wrap from hell, sucking away our confidence in our own abilities, the love of others,…

Equality is Intersectional and I Believe in It

I believe in intersectional feminism. I believe that my privilege is less than a white man’s and greater than a person of color’s, not in fairness, or on purpose, but because systemic conditioning and media saturation has created an environment…

The Progressive Girl’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse

The Incomplete Yet Ultimate Guide To Surviving This Political Shit Storm! In no way is this list exhaustive. It is a beginner’s introduction to what you can expect as the world comes to a screaming halt one Cheetos not-president at…

Where’s The Rune To Fix A Broken Fandom?

The Mortal Instruments. Shadowhunters. I was once told that the way to write journalistic essays was to keep your emotions out of things. But when you are writing about fandom, the truth is – it’s fueled by emotion. Everything that…

Let’s Talk About #DressLikeAWoman

There are many, many things that can impact the way a woman does her job. Her education level, her ability to multi-task and adapt, her life experiences and the moments she has enabled herself, her intelligence level , the insults…

Dear Show Runners – There Was A Huge Issue With This Weeks Shadowhunters

You had a responsibility – one job really, to deliver good TV. No one is asking for great, no one expects Shadowhunters to win Golden Globes. No one expects anything besides a plotline that makes sense and is cohesive, words…

So Long, Thanks For All The Fish!

The thing about science is that it’s there, resolute and immutable, whether or not you agree with it. It can be neglected in a corner, told to take a time out, or it can be misunderstood, but it doesn’t go…

Shadowhunters Needs to Fix its Shapeshifting Rune

Of all the senseless additions to the Shadow World that Shadowhunters has introduced over its first two seasons, the shapeshifting rune – that useful little mark that allows all our nephilim characters to seamlessly disguise themselves as other people –…

An Open Letter to Comic Book Fans

Hello, hello. I’d ask how you are, but you’re probably fine. Better than fine. You’re seeing your favorite characters come to the screen, be it in TV or movies, and you’re pumped. It’s a good thing. Even if they don’t…

How To Handle The Holiday Season If You Are A Grinch

It’s December. That means that it’s the time of year where we are all supposed to be merry and jolly, accept the fact that we’re going to eat 20 pounds of sugar, and someone is going to get us some…

Calling Someone A Kardashian Is Not An Insult

“You’re just as bad as a Kardashian.” I was at the store the other day when I heard a man tell his wife (I am guessing it was his wife)) this and by the tone and anger in his voice…

7 Blogs That We Like To Read Daily

In order to stay on top of blogging, you must stay on top of the latest and the greatest. Though we read a lot of how to’s, what’s new in social media, and technology blogs – we have our favorite…

10 Things That Define My Basic Bitchness

Being a basic bitch sometimes gets a bad rap. Now, I take offense because I am as basic as they come. I view being basic as two different levels – the high maintenance basic bitch and the low maintenance basic…

Once Upon A Time: The End of Rumbelle

Funny, I keep thinking of Junot Diaz these days. He has a quote, from his book This is How You Lose Her that has stuck with me, through good times and bad times. It reads: ‘And that’s when I know…

Kensi Blye and The Powerful Case of Disability Representation

Do you know what’s rare in modern television? Showing a disability story honestly. Too often writers gloss over the negative feelings disabled people may have as they struggle with the traumatic incident that put them in the wheelchair, don’t show…

History Has Words For This

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” ¬ Hitler History has words for what has happened to our country. History is marked by the rise of mediocre men yearning for power…

Frequency: The Art of Appreciating What You Have

I came into Frequency totally unprepared. I’d never seen the movie that inspired it, didn’t know any of the actors, and was totally devoid of 90’s nostalgia – or so I thought. My only interest in the show, and in…

My Giant Love/Hate Letter to The Walking Dead

Beware MAJOR Walking Dead spoilers ahead… The Walking Dead is my favorite show to say the very least. Anyone who holds a conversation with me longer than five minutes will learn this very quickly. My love for this show defies anyone’s…