Guest Posts

Fragmented Media [Guest Post]

Today’s guest post was written by Andrew Nielsen, or Void from A Green Mushroom. He writes about gaming and modern media from his generation’s perspective. Enjoy! The way we consume media is changing. 4 out of 5 Americans now say they would give up television to keep the internet. This is a huge shift for [...]

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Saying Goodbye to Your MMO Guild [Guest Post]

Today’s post is brought to you by Scarybooster. He’s not really much for playful banter and witty author biographics, so on with the post! Since the start of Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games (MMORPGs), guilds have been there. Guilds are what players call home when they log on. Guilds are our friends and our social [...]

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Book Review: “Out” by Natsuo Kirino [Guest Post]

Today’s post is brought to you by Gordon of We Fly Spitfires. He typically blogs about MMORPGs, so I hope he has enjoyed being able to critique and review something besides quest text. Enjoy! Described as a crime novel, Out is not the sort of book I typically read. It’s written by a foreigner (euch!) [...]

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Movie Review: Robin Hood – A Bull’s Eye or a Near Miss? [Guest Post]

Today’s post is brought to you by Clint Alley, a digital archivist, history teacher, genealogist, catfish enthusiast, and author of the maternally-acclaimed blog Clint Thoughts. When I was seven, my Aunt Pam gave a copy of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves to my brother and me for Christmas. From that moment on, I have been [...]

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“What just happened?”: An Exploration of my Initial Reaction to “The End”

My wife, Jennifer, recently presented a paper on LOST regarding online fan communities and their impact on the series. She is also the one who initially convinced me to watch LOST. So it wouldn’t be fitting if she didn’t have her say about what secrets were both withheld and revealed in the series finale. My [...]

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Looking for Guest Posts

Since my wife and I will be traveling for the first part of June (attending Slayage and then making our way south to Disney World), I was hoping to find a few willing writers to mind the shop while I’m out of town. If you have an idea for a post (or posts!), send it [...]

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Anti-Edward Cullen: A Treatise

This post is brought to you by VampyChronicles, two 20-something, self-professed anti-fans of Twilight. They’re currently reading through Stephenie Meyer’s series, snarkily blogging as they go about chapters, bad merchandise, the movies, and whatever else comes to mind as being ridiculous and/or irksome. Originally, we were going to write about the top five things we [...]

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Don’t Touch That Book, or Why Twilight is Not for Girls

Today’s post is by Bonnie Norman, who analyzes speculative fiction works from a lesbian, feminist, and anti-racist perspective in order to foster discussion about the issues that plague SF and society in general. She can be found at her review blog, A Working Title, which also has links to her other writing pieces. Twilight is [...]

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