I recently spent 2 weeks in New York City to feed my nostalgia and revisit this place that I kind of grew up with. I used to stay with a...

I'm not a fashionable person, I wear t-shirts and hoodies about 98% of the year. I can't handle dealing with all the fancy outfits and whatnot that you'd find in...

The Drowning Empire series by Andrea Stewart is a trilogy of novels consisting of The Bone Shard Daughter, The Bone Shard Emperor and The Bone Shard War. I was interested...

A week ago, we said goodbye to our 13 1/2 year old dog, Bifi[note]pronounced the same as beefy[/note]. She was a street mutt, named after the African country Biafra by...

What strange fate has had me slumber upon this gem for two decades? The subject of my thoughts is Deadwood, a TV show first aired in 2004. Being almost 22...

Greek Mythology and I have a complicated relationship. I definitely learned about Greek myths in school at some point, and to this day I still have a fairly basic book...

Whenever I make my chocolate cookies, I get a lot of requests for the recipe. A long time ago, this was a recipe that I got from the internet[note]"Wendy Gaynor's...

In my previous post, I posted mini-reviews about roleplaying games that I've played that are not DnD, but that are mostly fantasy. This post is part two of that post,...

I've been playing DnD for quite a few years now and blogged about my DnD characters about a year ago. A lot of roleplayers are currently going through a bit...

Is there even a point in blogging about Baldur's Gate 3? This game is over 2 years old, and surely it's old news by now? Perhaps, but I'm probably not...

I love to watch historical TV shows, especially those that are a bit gritty and not stereotypical period dramas[note]A stereotypical period drama for me would be anything containing British or...

Eight times I've been to New York in my life so far, and I feel the relationship that I have (or had) with this city has taught me a lot...

Yesterday five years of hard work finally came to a conclusion in the defense of my dissertation. Being a PhD student was the most challenging thing I ever did in...

Rarely have a been carried away by a video game as I have been by Red Dead Redemption 2. What an absolutely amazing, outstanding, and somewhat heartbreaking game. Admittedly, Arthur...

As a long time fan of Doctor Who (2005), I hit a wall watching the show around 2020. I really wanted to like the new (Thirteenth) Doctor, but somehow the...

Since its release of v4, I've been an avid user of Midjourney, one of the currently most popular image generation tools aside from DALL-E and wombo.art. The current popularity of...

About a year and a half ago, I first discovered the world of Horizon in the video game Horizon: Zero Dawn. I was absolutely enamored with this world. It's so...

One of the most famous vampire books of recent cultural history, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire has received a new adaptation last year by American TV network AMC —...

Ich gucke ja viel Zeug (wie man sieht, wenn man sich mal durch meine Reviews klickt), aber etwas das ich sehr selten gucke, sind deutsche Produktionen. Es gibt ungefähr 2...

I would like to express a massive SPOILER WARNING for this entire post. If you ever plan to play Red Dead Redemption 2 and would like to not have your...

I'm happy to report that my job search is finally over! As of July 2023, I am employed again! I'm now working as a developer in the field of conversational...

It's been a very long time since I read novels out of my own free will. Having been forced to read some pretty annoying stuff during my time studying literature...

In the city where I live, there are quite a few public bookshelves. Whenever I leave my apartment or just happen to pass by one of them, I check them....

Lord of the Rings is such a vast and epic topic, where to even begin? And what can I write about it that hasn't been written about it yet? I'd...

About eight years ago, I revived a very old hobby of mine: writing letters. I used to have a few pen pals when I was a kid in the nineties[note]yes,...

Everybody loves Brandon Sanderson, don't they? Well, as my enthusiasm for reading had been rejuvenated in the past year, I have been spending a lot of time on literature websites...

The Unwind Dystology was by far one of the weirdest things I've ever read. It's a captivating, easy to read series aimed at young adults, but despite that, it's nowhere...

SPOILER WARNING: This entire post contains heavy spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3, and in particular The Dark Urge origin! Proceed to read at your own peril! Written in the Year...

If you, like me, enjoy watching weird and mind-bending TV shows, often with a bit of a sci-fi twist, I have a few mini-reviews for you of shows that I...

I jumped on the Fourth Wing and Romantasy bandwagon in 2023, when I was researching cool books to read. Back then bookstores were plastered with these novels, so I honestly...

Back when Dexter first released, I was a big fan. I even wrote a review about the first season, which was phenomenal and probably one of the best seasons of...

If you've followed the news today, you're probably just as depressed as me by the German election results, with actual fascists having gotten 20% of the votes, and the majority...

Just when I thought I was done blogging about Dexter... they released another new show. Yes, another one! I couldn't quite believe it myself when I saw Dexter: Resurrection popping...

About 2 years ago, I had the idea to start an English-language roleplaying event here in Düsseldorf, where people can try out RPGs, get to know other roleplayers, or find...

I've been having a terrible book hangover ever since I finished reading the Realm of the Elderlings series, about which I extensively blogged. It was such a great series and...

I've been a fan of the works of Neil Gaiman since roughly 2003, when I read American Gods. During the 00s, I read most of his published works, including Neverwhere,...

Last week I visited the Baltic countries, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. I've been interested in visiting them for a while since they have such a fascinating history, and they are...

I previously wrote a spoiler-free overview, a series by series reading experience report, and a deep dive into the book series Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. This post...

After I gave a a spoiler free overview of the Realm of the Elderlings, as well as a very long series by series review and reading experience report, I want...

How was it to read The Realm of the Elderlings? After my spoiler-free overview in the previous post, this post will contain more in-depth reviews which were largely written as...

Never in my life before have I undergone such a monumental task as reading a 16 book series. I've read a book series here and there, mostly though with only...

After I just had to stop watching the 4th TV series within a few months about 10mins into the first episode because I could not handle the shaky, handheld camera,...

Browsing Moxie's blog, I found the Blog Question Challenge 2025, which originated on Ava's blog. Back in the golden age of blogs, these challenges were quite fun to participate in....

Jack Dorsey hat Bluesky einst gegründet und rechtzeitig vor der Twitter-Übernahme ausgelagert. Inzwischen will er damit aber offenbar nichts mehr zu tun haben.

With the new season having been on the horizon, I decided to (re)watch almost all of Fargo this January. Yesterday my journey culminated in the phenomenal finale of Season 5, and all I can say is: thi...

Prompted by having read the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I recently decided to re-read the Hunger Games novels. First of all, I was curious about the prequel - how can a prequel a...