I’ve been an anime fan for most of my life. I’ve seen some weird stuff. Hell, some of my favorite series are objectively the weirdest stuff most folks have ever seen. But when Uma Musume: Pretty Derby...

One of my favorite albums turned 20 last year. The album that I wrote extensive fanfic about, the one I analyzed like any other great work of fiction, one that despite its age feels right at home today in 2025 as it did in 2004. Same shit, new regime. American Idiot in so many ways felt like it was an album crafted just for my teenage brain.

I’ve been rewatching Criminal Minds because my personal Chinese spy on TikTok told me to. While the show certainly lacks the subtlety I once thought it had (cue the episode where a man is determined to bring his dead big brother back from the dead by murdering young men, sewing their body parts together and trying to use the ‘magic’ of tornados to bring him back).

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I grew up in a Dallas suburb in the 1990s. While looking back at the 90s now, it feels like there was crime everywhere but at the time, the 90s felt like a welcomed balm in comparison to the tumultuous 1970s and 1980s. Clinton was in office. The suburbs were quiet and life was peaceful. But two landmark cases rocked the very foundation of my childhood.

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Join hosts AuthorCarola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat a...

Frazier was 1st foreigner to work in production department of Japanese animation studio

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I wanted to write this days ago. I wanted to write something when the feelings were still fresh and raw.  I spent the day immediately after the election talking friends and loved ones down fro…

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I’ve had a little too much free time recently and that means I’ve been playing a lot of video games. While old favorites of course include playing Pokemon for hours on end, I recently picked back up m...

When I was a kid, my aunt was studying at the local university. In their rec room, they had these huge TVs spread across a bowling alley on the back wall. One those screens one day was something I had...