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Wednesday 13 November 2019
Month in Review(s) - October 2019
October... what can I say about October?
October was a month, that happened, I guess! 😅
...complete with colds and a lot of work-stuff. But meh *shrugs* it was fine. Just an average month, really! 😅
Sunday 10 November 2019
Nerd Church - Why I Love WW1 Poetry
Morbid li'l goth-emo child that I am, I LOVE World War One poetry.
I read it all year round: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenburg, Ivor Gurney, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke...
*sighs happily*
So, seeing as how it's Rememberance Sunday, and it's the 11th of November tomorrow, I figured I'd let you in on the beautiful jewel of life that is WW1 poetry.
(Note: when I use the phrase 'WW1 poetry' I mean English-language WW1 poetry, mainly from British soldiers, with the odd Commonwealth soldier chucked in for good luck.
I'm sure that other nationalities also wrote poetry in a variety of languages and styles, but the WW1 poetry I and most people in the UK are familiar with is that I've just described.)
Friday 8 November 2019
Friday Fics Fix - Haunted
'Diego was still screaming but his voice was drowned and consumed, overtaken by the dead that hung around him, but Ben was screaming too...'
It's Umbrella Academy time!
...I think a lot of you will have guessed that I couldn't resist an Umbrella Academy fanfiction post for much longer (especially since I read a butt-tonne of Umbrella Academy fanfiction!)
Thursday 7 November 2019
Comics Wrap-Up - This Shining City Built of Gold, A Far Cry From Innocence
It's Thursday, dearest nerdlets, and Comic Wrap-Up is back from its break with all the comics-y goodness!
Sunday 3 November 2019
Nerd Church - Whose Dystopia Is This? A Discussion of Marginalisations in Dystopian Fiction, Focussing On Vox by Christina Dalcher
(Warning: this post discusses persecution of marginalised groups, sometimes in detail)
Dystopia, as a genre, is largely based on the oppression – either knowingly or unknowingly – of groups of people.
...Usually in a way that seems extreme in the context of the author’s cultural background, or else involves sufficient robots and sh** to convince us that this world is The Future™.
Friday 1 November 2019
Friday Fics Fix - Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble
'"The handwriting on the first spells is far too legible to be Satan's," Aziraphale reasoned, reasonably, like a reasonable person who had just critiqued Satan's penmanship.'
Halloween may be over, but that doesn't mean we have to retreat from the gothicky side of life, dearest nerdlets!
And what I have for you this week is both gothicky and fun as all hell! (Pun unintended, but now I'm actually quite pleased with it.)
Thursday 31 October 2019
The Five Year Blog Anniversary Post! (Ft. My Wisdomous Blog Advice)
It’s Halloween! And that means it’s my blog-anniversary-thingummy! Woo!
So let’s have an awesome-sauce post with the following awesome features:
- me giving what is most probably contradictory and confusing blogging-advice
- me ruminating on my 5 years (5 years!!!!) of blogging
- me generally over-using both exclamation points and brackets
(There was probably too much caffeine and/or YouTube consumed in the making of this post. #JustSaying.)
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