Over The Effing Rainbow

Reader, reviewer, blogger, tea drinker. Serving chronic enthusiasm since 2012. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Mostly.

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Hello and welcome to the first of my reviews for Wyrd and Wonder! We are starting with a little magic, a lot of monsters, and a healthy dollop of refreshing change…

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There’s a new kid in town over at Serial Box, and the wonderful folks behind the curtain were good enough to offer me a complete ARC of Season 1. To my joy, I clicked right away with the first episode. So today begins my weekly review spot!

Let’s discuss Born To The Blade.

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What a (Wyrd and) Wonderful World - Over The Effing Rainbow

It is the 1st of May, and that means it’s time to go down the rabbit hole. Through the looking glass. On an epic quest. I have chosen my companions (that’s all of you!) and it is time for Wyrd and Wonder.

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Earthsea: Reading Schedule - Over The Effing Rainbow

Hello there, friends and enemies! Just a quick stop today to detail the plan for my upcoming foray into the next unread fantasy classic here at Casa Rainbow – Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy!

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Tremontaine S3E13: A City's Favor - Over The Effing Rainbow

In the final episode of Season 3, some problems are resolved (for now) while others get more complicated… Let’s discuss Tremontaine.

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Recap: March 2018 - Over The Effing Rainbow

Another month has come to an end, and there’s an exciting (and busy!) time ahead for this reader. Let’s take a look back…

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The High King, Part 2 (Chronicles of Prydain #5) - Over The Effing Rainbow

We have come to the end of this journey, and my heart has been broken and mended and broken again. Move over, Lord of the Rings. (Spoilers follow for chapters 11 onward!)

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Tremontaine S3E12: Surrounded - Over The Effing Rainbow

In this episode, the rixinkun finally makes his decision regarding the chocolate monopoly, and Rafe learns a valuable lesson – with a little help from Reza. Let’s discuss Tremontaine.

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The High King, Part 1 (Chronicles of Prydain #5) - Over The Effing Rainbow

In the first half of THE FINAL PRYDAIN BOOK (*tiny sob*), not much is what I expected, but everything I wanted. Also it is SUPER DRAMATIC. Spoilers for chapters 1-10 follow.

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Tremontaine S3E11: Dragon Rampant - Over The Effing Rainbow

In this episode, Diane absorbs her hardest losses yet in her war with Davenant. Where can she go from here…? 

Let’s discuss Tremontaine.

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[jeniphyer]

I don’t understand how you can see Killmonger disrespect culture, attack women, basically was trained by military to tear down civilizations, his own father says he is disappointed in what he’s done, move to arm black people outside of Wakanda with high tech weapons (yes cuz giving Leroy and em cannon blasters is gonna help the cause) and y’all still fix ya lips to say he was right lol when Nakia exists. Wild.

[reverseracism]

I was waiting for someone to say this.

There’s a reason he was the villain. He killed his girlfriend in cold blood. His anger was understandable, true, but his methods abhorrent and destructive. The end result would have been huge amounts of death and chaos. No positive outcome.

[Killmonger was an amazingly written villain and a great, if not perfect, example of how to execute a “tragic backstory villain arc”. Due to his characters anger and Michael’s incredible acting it made Killmonger a character a large amount of people could empathize with. An amazing villain. Truly.]

Nakia LITERALLY was team “let’s stop having Wakanda be an isolationist nation and help the worlds oppressed” from the jump and she doesn’t get enough credit.

[larryleeds]

this whole thread is A+

[dearthofequanimity]

exactly! she was meant as a foil to killmonger with the same founding principles to demonstrate his extremism while also being ABSOLUTELY RIGHT

[optimysticals]

Killmonger : we have to help people who look like us and here is my plan.

Nakia :

[blackourstory]

Happy Black History YEAR!

[badbilliejean]

Greatness.

[shiny-bonsly]

loving how my old history teacher talked about them like a terrorist group

[laborreguitina]

boost me up

[centralkvetchmonolith]

Wow okay so for those skimming, there’s a memo up there from THE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI that sets a mission to LIE about the good things the Black Panthers were doing, spread rumors of them being terrorists, and terrorize the communities supporting them.

If you think the Black Panthers were terrorists and you’ve never heard of the community-building, it’s because there was a literal government conspiracy to make you and people 45 years ago think that way.

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i’m reblogging again (bolding mine), because people need to fucking know this. especially white americans. 

[quinnception]

A special place in hell is reserved for people who saw other people feeding children and thought, “How can we sabotage this?”

[tariah23]

They literally tried to paint The Black Panther party as being just as awful as the KKK… They STILL do…

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Tremontaine S3E10: A Blur Of Bright Water - Over The Effing Rainbow

In this episode, it’s time for reflection, careful plotting, and some introspection for good measure. It’s a very thoughtful episode from Tessa Gratton, and so I’ve been thinking about it a lot. 

Let’s discuss Tremontaine.

@serialboxpublishing2 @tessagratton

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Tremontaine S3E9: Sword and Spirit - Over The Effing Rainbow

In this episode, everyone is behaving surprisingly uncharacteristically – and Reza makes a very surprising move on Diane. 

Let’s discuss Tremontaine. Spoiler alert!

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[bernardperroud]

Utroba Cave in the Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria. Carved by hand more than 3000 years ago (?), it was rediscovered in 2001.

Archeologists hypothesize that an altar built at the end of the cave, which is about 22 m deep, represents either the cervix or the uterus.

At midday, light seeps into the temple through an opening in the ceiling, projecting an image of a phallus on to the floor.

When the sun is at the right angle, in late February or early March, the phallus grows longer and reaches the alter, symbolically fertilizing the womb before the sowing of the spring crops.

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These people were drawing dicks on the ground with the sun in 1000 BCE. All you fools messing with Sharpies need to step up your game.

[jabberwockypie]

“Hee! That looks kind of like-”

“Come on, self, don’t make it weird.  It’s just a cave.”

*reads article*

“Oh.”

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Literally my first thought...

It’s strange, to feel guilty and vindicated at the same time.

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I’m doing an experiment

Reblog with your sign and the first song you think of when I say “hey now”

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Tremontaine S3E8: Behind the Mask - Over The Effing Rainbow

In this episode, everyone’s facing new troubles – but no one is dealing with them quite the way I would have expected… 

Let’s discuss Tremontaine.

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