I’ve talked in length about my history with Hey Arnold! fanfiction. What you may not realize is that my first COMPLETED fanfic was not about Hey Arnold! – it was actually a crossover between Pokémon and Barney the purple dinosaur. In 1998 I created a website on Angelfire dubbed Pokécutie; it was a fanpage dedicated […]
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How to Not Make a Mountain out of a Molehill
Or: There’s no Use Crying over Spilled Iced Coffee I was on the subway the other day. I sat across from a person in the subway car that was taking up two seats as he lounged and sipped on an iced coffee. At some point during the trip, he accidentally dropped the coffee on the […]
Is Blogging a Waste of Time?
Ariana Grande has put the blogging community on notice. The “God is a Woman” star spoke out to publicly defend Justin Bieber’s performance at Coachella. In the process, she spoke out against bloggers in the infamous, now-deleted tweet: “People are so lost. One day everybody that works at all them blogs will realise how unfulfilled […]
Why Fanfiction Should Be Taken More Seriously
The Hugo Awards, which celebrate the very best literary achievements in science fiction and fantasy, had announced they would be nominating Archive Of Our Own in the Related Works category. [UPDATE: AO3 won! Congrats!] For those not in the know, Archive of our Own (or AO3, as it is affectionately called) is an online compendium […]
Writing While Black – Expectations in Genre Fiction for People of Colour
I had a lot of time to think about Jordan Peele’s movie Us. I saw it with my sister opening weekend, and my initial reaction was…not favourable. I expected popular opinion to follow suit, but turns out I was in the minority. The film blew up the box office, becoming the highest-grossing horror movie since […]