Blog: Common Book Tropes I Can’t Stand

Yesterday, I wrote a post about how modern books are becoming incredibly tropey and how annoying those tropes have become. After writing that post, I started thinking about the tropes that I hate and compiled this list. While some of these are tropes that I hate in general, I would just like to say that... Continue Reading →

Blog: Why Are YA Novels So Tropey?

I was at lunch the other day with my cousin at a restaurant when our conversation switched from school to books, particularly young adult novels. While I haven't read a lot of young adult novels since I was 14, my cousin has and it's something that I have been thinking about ever since. Why are... Continue Reading →

Blog: If Bible Characters Could Text

When one of my friends left for college out of state earlier in the year, I made it my mission to report to her what the sermons at youth group and Sunday church service were about as often as possible. Usually it consists of what the sermon was about before transitioning into me spilling the... Continue Reading →

Blog: Best Elf in The Silmarillion; A Spotlight on Maglor.

Yes, I'm going to be catching a lot of flack from people in comments yelling at me that actually Finrod was the best elf or Beleg was or blah-blah-blah and they'll die on that hill. But hear me out. Of all the characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, the elf prince Maglor is one of... Continue Reading →

Blog: You’re a Book Addict if You do These Things…

Time to out myself. I am a book addict and as a book addict from a family of book addicts, I consider myself an expert on the warning signs of being addicted to literature. So like the title said, here are the signs that you may be one too. #1: You spend half/all of your... Continue Reading →

Blog: How to Write a Morally Complex Protagonist. Today’s Example: Feanor.

Feanor from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion is one of those characters where you either hate him or you love him to bits and will die on that hill. Reddit forums galore have been created centering around him, ranging from having well-thought-out arguments in the form of memes and comments defending/condemning his actions to having a... Continue Reading →

Blog: How Not to Write a Protagonist. Today’s Example: Korra.

Several months ago, I wrote a post about how to write your protagonists in which I went over what to do and what not to do. In continuation of that series (sorta), I've decided I'm going to start doing blogs on examples of good story writing and bad story writing, similar to my book/TV reviews,... Continue Reading →

Review: The Two Big Problems with ATLA (Spoilers).

Yesterday, I posted about everything that was good about the show Avatar: The Last Airbender, however, I failed to talk about the problems that I had with it. If you haven't read my last post, go back and read it, but for those of you who have, you know that I have no major grievances... Continue Reading →

Blog: How to Navigate the Holidays With Food Allergies.

While the holiday season is a time of festivities, family, and celebrations, for many people it can also be one of the most dangerous times of the year. Why? Because there's food everywhere, much of which is not allergy friendly. As someone with a life-threatening allergy to peanuts and tree-nuts who knows other families with... Continue Reading →

Blog: I Threw a Blog Post Into Google Translate. This is How it Went.

I've been watching a lot of Google Translate videos recently where people throw random words, recipes, etc. into Google Translate and explore how badly translated it was. This gave me an idea. What would happen if I put one of my blog posts into Google translate? This led to me to going on a very... Continue Reading →

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