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I Created A LGBTQ+ Book Database and You Should Check It Out!
There has been a recent uptick in book bans across the country which disproportionately affect queer authors and stories. As a huge book advocate, I was wracking my brain for what I could do to bring more visibility to queer literature. I work with GSA Link, Inc. , a non-profit that supports LGBTQ+ youth and their families. Since this aligns with the work I do there, I proposed an idea: a…
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Guide to Physical Media Collecting Part I: DVD and Blu-ray
I grew up on VHS and DVD. I used to light up the second my mother agreed to go rent a movie at Hollywood Video or our local video rental store. It was always special when my grandfather would tape TV shows I loved onto VHS for me for my birthdays. I would watch and rewatch my favorite shows and movies over and over to my heart’s content. However, as time went on, streaming became the “next big…
Dearly Departed: A Love Story About Grief, Community and The Price of Isolation
Hayden Harlow is a funeral director who used to be Hades–the god of the Underworld. But after the Immortal Retirement Act forced him into a life of semi-mortality, he is determined to find a loophole in the supposedly irreversible law. Levi Wilder is a florist whose life was forever rearranged by grief when his brother died in a tragic car accident in his childhood. He has felt the need to be…
Ring Shout: Klan Hunters, Propaganda and The Monstrous Nature of White Supremacy
In P. Djèlí Clark’s historical fantasy and horror novel Ring Shout, the real-life notoriously racist 1915 film The Birth of a Nation has, as it did in real life, propagandized white folks all over the United States, and the KKK is exploding in numbers: terrorizing, brutalizing and killing Black people across the country. In this story of 1920s Georgia, Klan members who are fully invested in white…
40 Years of "Little Shop of Horrors": My Definitive Song Rankings
Little Shop of Horrors, a 1986 movie musical starring Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene, turns 40 this year. Based on the off-off-Broadway show written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, which itself was an adaptation of a 1960 horror film of the same name, Little Shop is a cult classic. The stage show also continues to thrive off-Broadway, with lots of big stars chomping at the bit to perform in the…
13 Horror and Thriller Novels to Haunt Your Halloween
If you didn’t already know, based on the mountain of reviews I have done here on WTTN over the years, I am a HUGE horror and thriller novel fanatic. I can’t do horror movies (childhood trauma regarding Scream), but I reclaimed horror as a middle schooler through books and have been hooked ever since. To top that off, I’ve also found a love for thrillers over the last few years. As Halloween…
What is (and is not) a Book Ban
As someone who has been advocating against book bans since I was a child, I have gotten pretty sick of both books being banned and challenged, and people totally misusing the term “book ban”. I was recently scrolling through the comments section of an Instagram Reel about why the creator doesn’t read or promote authors like Sarah J. Maas (I recommend watching this video from ReadswithRachel on…
Ranking Every Episode of "Game Changer" Season 7
One of my best friends and I have a watch party every other week for Game Changer, a variety game show on Dropout. Every show is a different game with different contestants, and they have no idea what the game is before they start to play (with a few exceptions for “game samers”, the term they use when they repeat a game concept). I decided I wanted to rank every episode of season 7, the most…
