So I’ve gone from my blog for just under a year now (November seems to be when I try to get back into blogging, clearly) but I hadn’t been posting a whole lot before hand. One of the things holding me back was that I felt I was drowning under a backlog of reviews I…
Anger: powerful, frightening, driving, intimidating. Anger is something we have been taught since childhood to fear and despise. We are angrily told not to get angry, our arguments or value discarded whenever we allow ourselves to become angry. Some amongst us are so afraid of this emotion that they will forbid themselves from feeling it…
So this year marked my attending my first Nine World con. And it wasn’t just my first Nine World con, it was my first SFF geek con altogether. I had been to anime cons in the past but my experiences at them had always been dreadful (bar the very first one at the time but…
Note: I am here to discuss the exploitation of queer characters and themes in fandom. I am unsure as to whether this happens to PoCs too, though I can unfortunately see how it would, but as a non PoC myself it is something I have yet to become aware of. I tried to look up…
I’ll start this post by saying this: I have never read any of the Marvel comics, nor do I intend to. My only links to superheroes when growing up were through the old Superman TV show, and the cartoon versions of the X-men and of Justice League. I have never been drawn to comics despite…
Quick disclaimer: 100% of the books I read and therefore am talking about fall under the wide SFF umbrella term. Out of those about 90% are YA, so it’s from that pool of books that I am drawing my experiences and conclusion. I don’t care if other genres are doing things differently, this is what…
Another personal ramble. Sorry if this one is even less coherent than the last. Been very emotionally overwhelmed by a lot of things today and I think I just needed to get some of it out there. Maybe someone will read this and find they’re not alone and that’s literally all the good I can…
This is a very personal, kind of rambly post that I wrote yesterday when I was upset and hurting. I was all ready to chuck it in the recycle bin after I wrote it because I felt ashamed and embarassed by my emotions. I still am today but I realise that maybe, one day, someone…
Another post taken from my work on my emotional therapeutic course! There were elements of this session that caused me all sorts of issues, namely the concepts of male and female archetypes. I bring it up in the report below, but I also ended up writing another post about it (here) which I sent to…
This is another report I have written for the course I am currently on. As with the last one it’s very blog-post like, so I hope it’ll make for an interesting read! Fear is one of our primal emotions, alongside love, one of the first things that, as a new born, we are able to feel.…
The Serpent's Quill 