Time to improvise! Sarah hosts this week’s episode and makes her, Jenna, and Meaghan make up a story together! What could possibly go wrong? Continue reading
I’ve talked about dead women a few times on this blog, usually in relation to dead mothers, a trope I’ve become a lot more aware of since my mom died. When I wrote about the dead mom’s trope I counted seventeen different T.V. shows and movies that have characters with dead moms or use the trope in some way to further the plot and talked about how this trope is usually is written to make the child of the dead mother a destined character of some sort, that mother’s during the 1970s era of television were less interesting to write about, and possibly that the trope puts men in a position to think about how they can make themselves better fathers. Whatever the reason, mothers have disappeared or are killed in fiction to make a more interesting story for main characters. But fictional mothers aren’t the only ones who suffer its fictional girls and women as a whole who do. Continue reading
What do pirates and witches and queens all have in common? You’ll have to listen to our newest episode hosted by Meaghan to find out! When Meaghan’s hosting you never know what you’ll be discussing!
Sometimes the things you read about online happen to you in real life. You can deny that these things will ever happen, read the articles with a chuckle and move on about your day, but perhaps these articles are more than just stories to read on your lunch break or while waiting in line to renew your driver’s licence. Perhaps these stories are a warning for your own safety and well-being, a warning for the horrors you may be faced in life. Continue reading
If you’re a Schwabling then you know about The Near Witch and how exciting it’s re-release has been. This book alone is worth having just as a physical inspiration and Schwab’s introduction to the re-release of The Near Witch is a must-read for any aspiring authors. The history of how this novel came (and failed, and came again) to be is fascinating, inspiring, and a cold harsh look at the publishing industry and how if you’re going to be an artist you can’t ever give up on your craft, you have to keep pushing forward despite the struggles. Continue reading
I’ve mentioned before about how I’ve newly come to enjoy the horror genre, though that hasn’t really crossed over to movies. The music cues and jump scares just get to me and make the whole experience stressful and scary, which I guess means the filmmakers have done a good job. And that of course is what makes a good horror movie, it has to scare its viewers and there has to be a reason it’s scaring them. But I have seen a few horror movies, occasionally on my terms but usually not, and one that sticks out is Deliverance. Continue reading
An epic fantasy and one of the most hyped books of 2019, Samantha Shannon doesn’t disappoint in her action packed and dragon filled monster of a book.
Shannon creates an amazing world that is both like and unlike many great fantasy novels before Shannon’s. It’s hard not to fall in love with this medieval type of world filled with courtly romance and myth and remember just how amazing the fantasy genre is to escape into an entirely new and fantastic world. It’s easy to get lost in Shannon’s beautiful prose from the scenery of the different worlds, the description of the dark waters, to the shimmering scales of the dragons and wishing you could see one to the (sometimes frustrating) description of food that made me so hungry (let me eat the magic orange!). Continue reading
A few weeks ago I got onto the topic of children with someone. After talking about their kids for a bit they asked me if I had any kids to which I laughed (too loudly) and said no over and over again. The person said I had a pretty extreme reaction and the first thing I wanted to say to excuse myself was that I’m too young to think about having children when I realized I’m not anymore (instead I excused my reaction by saying I was missing some parts to the children equation, which is also true but not as interesting). Continue reading
Episode 2 is here! This week Jenna planned and hosted a strange and surprise game that ended up being hilarious! Which twin will win in this Ultimate Quidditch Match? Listen to find out!
As you may remember I was accepted into the HamilTEN Festival earlier this year for the play I wrote, Beep, a short and personal play about my mom’s death and how people who have never dealt with death react around people who have. It’s a very important play to me for obvious reasons and getting to put it on in April was such an amazing and unforgettable experience that wasn’t as scary as I originally thought it would be. It was time for me to write about my mom, about grief, and to show people how I had been feeling and I’m happy I had the perfect medium to do it. Continue reading
Sarah O'Connor 