It's Thursday, the world is still wacky, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
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It's Thursday, the world is still wacky, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Sometimes, when you're watching a series of nerdy video essays, you realise (about 6 videos in,) that you've become ensnared in an ARG 😅
...and there's no hope after that 😈
ARG stands for 'Alternate Reality Game.'
(Not to be confused with Augmented Reality (AR) games like Pokemon Go.)
They're not what everyone would automatically think of as a 'game'
- they're less like a video game or a sport, and more like a choose your adventure book, especially those Goosebumps ones they used to do. (Shout out to my fellow 90s/00s kids!)
And even that doesn't cover the half of it.
Oh boy does it not cover the half of it...
'John’s gotten sick in plenty of bars, but he’s almost sure that this is the first time alcohol hasn’t been involved.'
Ah, John Constantine.
A moody, broody, British Bisexual warlock and master of the occult, who's a character in my beloved Arrowverse show Legends of Tomorrow? And is played by a Welsh actor (Matt Ryan)?
Yeah, if you know me at all, you know that I had zero chance to resist.
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, let's get some superhero-y comics-y goodness!
I originally wrote this poem and published it on Medium -
- because Iris B. Stehn over there was doing a writing prompt, so I wrote it for that.
I figured I'd share it here so that you could all see it too, 'cos I'm nice like that. 😊
Warning: this post discusses mental health problems and symptoms
Disclaimer time: I am not any kind of medical, mental health, scientific, etc., professional - I'm a chick with a blog and some personal experience, m'k? M'k.
Are you ever watching a TV show or a movie, or reading a book, and just...
...have to...
...pause...?
'He was hurt alright. That look wasn't a new color on him; Nandor seemed to be hurt quite a lot lately. Laszlo didn't want him to be alone.'
Vampire. Mockumentary.
Do I have your attention?
Good.