The Bookshelf

Finding purpose in the aftermath. A discussion of environmental storytelling in Breath of the Wild.

What a sight his sharp scales and spines must be. It was very rare for someone to see him so…openly. It was nice.

To look at your home And your hobbies And think to yourself, "I love this so much...

When we talk about D&D, we love to talk about mid-adventure things. Characters triumphant in battle, mourning the loss of a friend in a...

It's not really something you think about when you're a little kid. I think I only really started thinking about it in school. I went to...

My most popular piece of writing is 4100 words long and has more than 300 views, 39 likes, 7 saves, and 4 comments. I know, I know, that...

A Review of Disney's Return to Oz (1985).

I arrived at my mental archive, ready to pull down the projects of the day, and found the doors barred. No Entry - Renovations in Progress.

As with any subculture, fandoms have their own language for referring to the things that their community interacts with or creates. Fans...

When Rey was introduced as the protagonist of the new Star Wars trilogy in December of 2015, the internet’s reactions were, predictably,...

A step-by-step guide to the most nerve-wracking part of acting.

It’s hard to believe it’s really been a year since I started writing as a job. I’ve been telling stories forever, and when I published my...

On November 15, 2019, YouTube was introduced to something very strange. On a brand-new channel, popular YouTubers Mark Fischbach and...

Ask any fan older than about 18 what the worst piece of fanfiction ever written was, and almost invariably, they will answer with a...

There’s some debate over what the first “official” fandom was in the modern sense of there being a community cropping up around a...

My mother has a lovely chess set that she kept beneath her bed when I was a little girl. Both sides are carved from pretty green and red...

This story is a preview of my upcoming short story collection Fruits and Finery, which will be available for purchase on January 19....

I'm not usually a huge fan of prequels to a completed series. When this book was announced, I'll admit, I was intrigued but not...

This is a book of beginnings. Some are familiar. The beginning of a gothic cautionary tale, the beginning that they never tell of a...

In a time during which nothing else is certain, you would think that the marked passing of time in the form of annual holidays would...