Sarah O'Connor

Fan Expo

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September 3, 2018

Welp, another Fan Expo has come and gone, which just means I need to write a blog post about exactly what happened!

My sister and I left for the GO Bus to Union Station at three o’clock on Friday and her boyfriend and his friend got on at another stop so we all traveled to Toronto together. We were meeting another group of friends in Toronto who were already at the Con during the other days. We booked a hotel for the weekend, our first time doing so but it made staying for the weekend so much easier. It was only a five minute walk from the convention centre so we could drop off any merch we bought during the day to make it easier and not have to wake up so early in the morning. Continue reading

A Fatality on the Tracks

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August 27, 2018

I had made plans with one of my friends on Wednesday to have a day at the Ex. It had been a long time since I’d been there and since we’d hung out in general so it seemed like a great place to do both. So we each took the train, her from Etobicoke and me from Aldershot where we would meet at the Exhibition Grounds. Continue reading

What’s With All The Dead Moms?

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August 20, 2018

I just finished binge watching Jane the Virgin on Netflix, a show which I’ve quickly become obsessed with, and with so many cliff-hangers I need to physically force myself to stop watching it. But as I was finishing the fourth season, I found myself reluctant to finish it. I wasn’t trying to bide my time for the new season (which isn’t coming out until 2019 apparently?! What is this nonsense?), or because I was already spoiled about that surprising last episode reveal and cliff-hanger. It was because in the last few episodes of the season Jane’s mother Xiomara is diagnosed with breast cancer. Luckily one of my friends warned me about this as well, but it didn’t make it any easier to watch. Continue reading

Until Next Year

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August 15, 2018

After a six hour drive, I’ve made it back home from my vacation. And it would be easy to write a blog post about my vacation, what I did everyday, who I saw, but it just doesn’t seem right, not when where I’m visiting has become so familiar to me. Continue reading

Welp…

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August 13, 2018

Well I’m not sure what to write today; because this is a post from the PAST (spooky music plays).

I made a queue the day before I left for holidays on my book blog and on this blog with blog posts to keep it active. Last week’s blog post was easy enough to write, I’d been thinking about it for a long time (and I LOVE Steven Universe) but this week’s was harder, mostly because at the time of writing this I haven’t finished (or even started) it yet, though I will by the time it’s published. Continue reading

My Happy Show

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August 6, 2018

I don’t remember exactly when I started watching Steven Universe, only that my mom was alive when I started watching it. IMDB says the show started airing in 2013 which would have made me nineteen, but I don’t remembering watching it for that long while my mom was alive. I think I started watching it in 2014, around the same time I watched Over the Garden Wall. I had watched both before my mom died. Continue reading

Embracing the Geek

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July 30, 2018

Growing up, I remember comic conventions always being a big joke on T.V. I remember a few episodes of The Simpsons where the family went to a comic convention, an early one where Bart goes dressed up as Fall Out Boy from his favourite comic Radioactive Man, and another where the family goes for some unrelated reason except to make fun of the geeks there. Comic Conventions were portrayed similarly on other cartoons or television programs: the cool protagonists going to a convention for some plot related reason and finding a building filled with strange basement dwelling (mostly male) nerds stuck in the fantasy worlds they loved so much. Continue reading

What’s Going On? Part Three

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July 23, 2018

I’m not sure what to write again this week so let’s have another exciting round of “What’s Going On?”! Continue reading

Reading and Remembering

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July 16, 2018

I was setting up a queue for posts for my book blog (because otherwise I’ll forget to post on it) when I saw an interesting topic for a future “Top Ten Tuesday.” To those not in the book blogging community, “Top Ten Tuesday” is a weekly meme now hosted by book blogger That Artsy Reader Girl where book bloggers list ten (or as many/few as they can) books/bookish things that relate to that week’s topic. Past topics have been things like “Top Ten Books To Read on the Beach” or “Top Ten Books That Give Me Nightmares,” a simple and fun enough theme that gets the book bloggers thinking about books and the blog readers adding more books to their To Be Read list. Continue reading

Treat Your Self!

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July 9, 2018

I often pride myself on being independent and knowing how to be alone. I don’t do it in a jerky way (at least I hope I don’t), but I’ve had friends who have found better friends and I’ve seen people who can’t function in the world without someone by their side, so I’ve had to learn it. And I think it’s a good lesson, I can’t see how being independent could be a bad thing and in life you never really know when you’re going to be alone. It could be moving to a new city, starting a new job, or just a falling out with people, but I believe we’re alone more than we think in life and it’s good practice to know yourself, to love yourself enough to know how to be alone. Continue reading