• The Importance of Background Characters

    The Importance of Background Characters

    There are three types of characters in a story. There are your main characters, your protagonists and antagonists, the guys that drive the story. Then there are your side characters, those that add flavor to the story and either aid or hinder our heroes/villains. And then there are those that fill the rest of the…

  • Murder By Other Means: Visible Improvement

    Back when I first started reviewing books, one of the first I touched on was a little murder mystery called The Dispatcher. I praised it for it’s unique premise but found the actual execution of it to be pretty disappointing. After I wrote that review, I forgot about it, banishing it to the darkest recesses…

  • Earth Elemental: The Rock Monster from Galaxy Quest

    Earth Elemental: The Rock Monster from Galaxy Quest

    I was gonna use a screenshot from the movie, but apparently those just don’t exist in the right aspect ratio, and I’ll be fucked if I’m gonna take the screenshot myself. So you just get a flat image of rocks. Sorry not sorry. Again, earth elementals don’t really have much lore to talk about. Nor…

  • The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Cut): The Proper Way to Watch It

    The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Cut): The Proper Way to Watch It

    There are some movies that have been around in my life for so long that I can’t remember a time before them. The Iron Giant. Galaxy Quest. The original Star Wars movies (hey, even I was a kid at some point). And, of course: the Lord of the Rings series. Before I even knew how…

  • Autumn Anime 2020: Getting Back in the Swing of It

    Autumn Anime 2020: Getting Back in the Swing of It

    A new season is upon us yet again! And it’s looking like a good one! This is a big season for returning shows. Haikyu!! is back with the second half of season four (hype train, baby!!) and both Golden Kamuy (gotta watch that at some point) and Danmachi have returned for their third seasons! Fuck,…