Blog Series

Books

Gamebooks and Solo RPG Adventures

• First Impressions: Four Against Darkness
• Thriftin’ for Gamebooks: 7 Good and Great Finds
• Interview with David M. Donachie, Creator of Gamebooks and More

Stuff I Learned Writing Catgirl System, A Fluffy LitRPG

• Oops! My “Quick Side Project” is Consuming Untold Years
• Writing a Small-Scope LitRPG?
• What Is a LitRPG? A Simple Guide for the Deeply Confused
• A Talking Cat!?! Finally, A LitRPG Heroine We Can Believe In
• Running Around in Video Game Levels You’ve Completed Already For No Apparent Reason (and Then Also Looking at Maps)
• ‘Tis the Season to Relax-y
• The Creative Thrill is Gone?
• Blue Box Madness (or: The Dark Side of Writing LitRPGs)
• Productivity Talk: My Inner Ned, My Inner Homer
• Catgirl System is Now Live…!! (Plus a Brief Writing Update)
• Intros in LitRPGs…and Beyond
• The RoyalRoad Blue Box Metagame
• The 5 Secret Rules of Catgirl System
• Do I Even Have Time for All My Hobbies?
• Life Keeps Moving
• Schedule Slip and Not-So-Daily Tasks
• The Artist Who’s Never Been Driven At All?
• A Catgirl System Ultimatum
• Let’s Just Chat About Catgirl System
• Behind the Cast of Catgirl System
• We Want Catgirl System and We Want It Now!

More About Writing…and Honestly Also Just Making Art

• How to Draw Comics (When You Can’t Draw)
• StopTank and Writing For the Heck of It
• How to Write After You Break the Streak
• End the Slog: How to Write, Finish, and Have Fun Doing It
• Writers, Here’s Why It’s Impossible to Rip Yourself Off
• Thicken That Skin!
• Don’t Keep Going for the Easy Win
• 5 Things I Regret About The Demon Lord is Apathetic
• Your Audience Wants to Like You
• Every Cartoon Pitch and Writer’s Bible on Archive.org
• 5 Things I Learned from Cartoon Pitch Bibles
• Take a Break: Let Your Body Catch Up with Your Mind
• I DO Have Irons in the Fire…u just cant see them yet >:( grrr

The Harry Potter Readstravaganza
(it’s critical, I swear) (J. K. Rowling stinks)

• Pt. 0: Memories, Book Covers, Other Stuff
• Pt. 1: Harry Potter and the Philosopherceror’s Stone
• Pt. 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Pt. 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Pt. 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Pt. 4.5: Harry Potter Covers: Special Edition Showdown
• Pt. 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Pt. 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Pt. 6.5: Harry Potter and the Kajillion Book Covers
• Pt. 6.75: Harry Potter and the Seventy Fifty Billion Trillion MORE Book Covers
• Pt. 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Pt. 1/2)
• Pt. 7.5: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Pt. 2/2)

Movies and TV

Resources

• Every Cartoon Pitch and Writer’s Bible on Archive.org
• 5 Things I Learned from Cartoon Pitch Bibles

Christmas Movie Watchstravaganza

• Almost Christmas (2016) is Weirder Than You Think
• Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square (2020) Haunts My Dreams
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946): Still Refreshing After 75 Years
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985): The OTHER Santa Origin Story
• The Polar Express (2004): Best Christmas Action Since Die Hard?

Other Televised Nonsense

• Spaceballs and My Life with Parody Film
• The Cowboy Way: The Shit You Find on Cable
• It’s Time to Admit You Love 4Kids Theme Songs
• Top 5 Most Epic Blondie Movie Endings (Without Context)
• Fluke (1995): More Like This Movie Was A Fluke
• Can’t Make Kid’s Programs Like This Anymore (…And Probably Shouldn’t!)
• Riffing on PBS Kids for No Reason
• Logan’s Run (1976): Classic or Corny?
• Every Super Sentai Theme Song, Ranked (Pt. 1)
• Every Super Sentai Theme Song, Ranked (Pt. 2)
• Biased Yet Scientific List of the Greatest Anime Boys

Non-TV, Non-Book Things Liked by Uncles Born Between 1990 and 2000

• Platinum the Trinity Looks So Cool (And I Hate It)
• Going Back to Gen 1 Pokémon Warped My Brain
• The 5 Most Futuristic Covers Of All Space-Time
• Dancercise! …For Those With No Moves
• Dark Secrets of That Disgusting Old Yu-Gi-Oh Card Art

Gender, Sex, Whatever

• Agender: Another ?Trans? Narrative
• Pretty Strong: Ultimo, Manga Heroes, and Gender Roles in the Early 2010s
• Prison School Said “No Sex Forever”
• Searching for Erotic Non-Erotica
• Tales from the Ace Zone: Sex and Gender Musings
• The Feminine, Masculine And/Or Nonbinarinine Within?

Basically Everything Else