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On All Hallow’s Eve When the Moon is Round
Not gonna lie, I thought of writing about this movie because we actually did have a full moon this Halloween. Also because this pandemic feels like a curse, still here because some of us just have to...
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Toothless, Limbo, and the Love of Good Trouble
Maybe it was because nostalgia soothes an anxious adult, maybe it’s because characters in purgatory are getting more and more relateable. Toothless was one of the first films I felt like rewatching...
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A Monster Calls: the Power of Parables
I cannot recommend this book and this film enough. A Monster Calls is a story by Patrick Ness in which a young boy named Conor is visited by a monster composed out of a yew tree. The monster proves...
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Stranger Than Fiction & Meeting our Maker
Not too long ago, I watched Stranger Than Fiction again and it hit me in a new light. The late movie night was a great reward after a highly productive run of sending submissions out. Even better, the...
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The Neighbor’s Window: Romanticism and Gratitude
“The Neighbor’s Window” is a 20 minute short film exploring the human tendency towards comparison, coveting our neighbors, missing “good old days,” wanting what others have, and a renewed perspective...
View ArticleMademoiselle Noir and The Willow Maid: Songs that Tell Stories
What if the man who found Rapunzel was scared of her singing instead of in love at first sight? What if a man insisted on pursuing a fairy he fell in love with, despite the first answer he got? These...
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Practical Magic and Platonic Love
Well, hello there! I haven’t written on here for well over a year, and it may come as a shocker that I am returning to a christian blog with a movie about witchcraft, having some aroace takeaway from...
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What Remains of the Day: Corpse Bride and Bittersweet Deviance
“With this candle, I will light your way in darkness.” Corpse Bride remains, I believe, Tim Burton’s finest work. I’ve found that even friends who do not normally consider themselves spooky fans have...
View ArticleWriting Aromantic Frankenstein, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction.
So it turns out, yearning is real, and humans have been trying for centuries to capture it. I’ve been writing Aromantic Frankenstein for my Master of Arts in Writing thesis. It began as a short story,...
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Interview with the Vampire and Asexual Loneliness
“I can tell you about it, enclose it with words that will make the value of it to me evident to you. But I can’t tell you exactly, any more than I could tell you exactly what is the experience of sex...
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