Category: 2024
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You Don’t Have to Care About Taylor Swift
It was the Winter of 2021. My partner and I were in Cincinnati visiting one of my good friends, and we all decided to take a trip downtown to check out a Christmas market there. It was a really lovely afternoon – cold and blustery, but not so cold that we couldn’t enjoy checking out…
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Death to the Muse – “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” Review
(The Swiftening Series: 1. folklore | 2. Lover | 3. reputation | 4. 1989 | 5. Red | 6. Speak Now | 7. Fearless | 8. Taylor Swift Bonus: evermore | Red TV | Midnights | Speak Now TV | 1989 TV | evermore revisited | THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT) If you know anything at all about Taylor Swift, you know she writes songs about the men she’s…
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Ultimate Taylor Swift Song Ranking Smackdown (Part 2)
Last week, I began my ridiculous mission of ranking the songs on every single one of Taylor Swift’s ten studio albums in advance of her eleventh, coming next week. I highly recommend you go back and check that one out first to hear a bit more about my thought process going into this project, but…
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Ultimate Taylor Swift Song Ranking Smackdown (Pt 1)
Okay, so… let’s just say I’m a little excited for the impending release of Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Let’s just say I also happen to be in the midst of writing my master’s thesis, and thus, am in a bit of a manic mental state. Let’s just say that I…
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Growth and New Beginnings – “Deeper Well” Review
The world is waking up again. I go outside and I can hear birds again. Plants are starting to poke back up, strong and green. I see the family of rabbits that live near my apartment darting between trees, just now starting to grow leaves (or even bloom with little flower buds). This time of…
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A Lapsed Anime Fan Recommends You Anime
There was a time not so very long ago that I was a dedicated fan of Japanese animation. I was always working my way through one show or another, participating in fan communities and reading and looking for fanart and fanfiction to enjoy. And then… something changed. My tastes, I guess. Some of those anime…
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A Thematic Exploration of “Midnights”
Before the release of my personal most-anticipated re-record, Speak Now Taylor’s Version, I wrote a post analyzing the themes of the album as a way to speculate on and look forward to all the ways that the re-record might iterate upon and build on the story the original album told. I think of that post…
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Giving My Unsolicited Opinion on Every Neopets Species (Part 2)
Last time you saw me, I was inspired by my recent and enthusiastic foray back into my nostalgic childhood playground of Neopets to review every one of the 55 pet species available on the website. Of course, that’s a tall order for just one post, so I decided to split it into two. Therefore, if…
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Giving My Unsolicited Opinion on Every Neopet Species (Part 1)
If you haven’t heard yet, let me be the first to let you know that nearly 25-year-old browser-based pet game Neopets still exists in the year 2024. I know I told you about this last year, but recent events have led me to believe, shockingly, that things are actually getting better on Neopets. Despite some…
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A Gentle Message for Cozy Gamers
The role of video games in my life has always been strangely fraught. This is something I’ve written about before, but even though I loved games as a kid and spent almost all of my free time as a kid playing Nintendo DS and computer games I checked out from my local library, I simultaneously…
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