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May 14, 2020

The Stuff of Legends

Welcome to the special feature, Your Barista Today Is: an entertaining AND educational feature designed to bring you information you can use and enjoyment that you need during the challenging times of the coronavirus pandemic. With everything turned on its head, why not work and play at the same time? Your barista today is a…

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May 8, 2020

Fanfiction Vocabulary

Welcome to Fanfiction Friday, your passport into the world of fanfiction! This week, we’re starting this new feature with some essential vocabulary that is necessary to understand before we dive in to the real content. If you’re already a fanfic veteran, please be patient and stay tuned for next week, which will be right up…

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May 1, 2020

Fanfiction Friday

I am excited to announce a new feature that will be posted on Fridays, in addition to the weekly post on Thursday. Fanfiction Friday is your passport into the world of fanfiction—or fic, also known as fanfic or fic, although don’t be confused: fic is also the term for an individual work of fanfiction!

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April 2, 2020

Unsolicited Job-Seeking Advice

Welcome to the new feature, Your Barista Today Is: an entertaining AND educational feature designed to bring you information you can use and enjoyment that you need during the challenging times of the coronavirus pandemic. With everything turned on its head, why not work and play at the same time? Your barista today is an…

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February 27, 2020

The Real Story of Lady Ambrosia

Alternate post title: Who Wants to Live Forever? (courtesy of Freddie Mercury). You’ve heard of Lady Ambrosia—probably from watching The Blacklist. But do you want to know the REAL story? Keep reading to find out.

(Mostly) Book Reviews

fairytale focus

February 6, 2020

Is the Curse of the Black Pearl Real?

A couple of weeks ago I explored some of the legends underlying the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. As you may recall, the cursed Aztec gold is currently in Utah, and the curse seems to consist mainly of just killing people off if they try to retrieve it. So was…

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January 30, 2020

National Puzzle Day

Did you know that yesterday—January 29th—was National Puzzle Day? If you want to do a little after-the-fact celebrating and torture your mind with a real-life puzzle, read on!

(Mostly) Book Reviews

fairytale focus

January 23, 2020

Ghost Ships (and other curses)

I recently rewatched Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl while home for the holidays. I was having dinner with my family when my mom brought up the detail about Captain Barbosa and the apple, which I had completely forgotten. PotC is one of my favorites, so it was no hardship to refresh…

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January 16, 2020

Kirby Star Allies

This week we have another video game review—Kirby Star Allies—as well as the end of the unofficial scrapbook-style series. Read on for the review and the full-page image of the past three reviews!

(Mostly) Book Reviews

video games

January 9, 2020

Link’s Awakening

This week we have another first: a video game review! I was gifted with a Nintendo Switch over the holiday season so I have been taking a (partial) break from my Netflix binging and doing some video game binging instead. I am a big Legend of Zelda fan so Link’s Awakening was definitely on my…

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