I have a lot of favorite fandoms, but some are a little more unusual than others. Here are the 5 unusual fandoms I love the most!
Summer movie season has arrived and it brought with it an insane amount of new movie trailers to keep us hyped all summer long. Among the dozen new trailers that dropped earlier this month include trailers for Bumblebee, Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck It Ralph 2, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and the next installment in one of my personal favorite series, How to Train Your Dragon. The trailer for How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World definitely evoked high levels of hype, so now felt like the perfect time to revisit an old favorite.
Book vs. Movie: The Ultimate Showdown
How familiar is this situation to you?
You find this great book, you devour it, love it, recommend it to everyone, then find out there is going to be a movie. At first you are excited! A whole new group of people will experience this story that you love. But then as the promotional material comes out, you begin to become concerned that the movie will be nothing like that book. You then try to maintain hope that it will be good, but end up being disappointed in the movie.
Note: This piece contains heavy spoilers for Blade Runner 2049. If for some reason you’ve managed not to see it yet, please hold off on reading this until you have. Trust me. It’s worth it.
Hi, my name is Kara Dennison, and I’m once again the last person on the planet to see a Very Important Movie.
Blade Runner 2049 wasn’t on my Don’t Watch List by any means; it was just a matter of finding time to watch it and concentrate on everything it threw at me. Because, let’s be real, we all knew this was going to be a big one if they did it right.
If you listened to Episode 006 of The Sartorial Geek Podcast, you know that our guest Joey Ellis is a big big fan of Batman, particularly the Batman animated movies.
For those of us who have a hard time moving past the fact that not everything animated is for kids (or who haven’t kept up with every piece of Batman news for the past 30 years), here’s a list of our designer’s favorite movies:
There is so much to talk about when it comes to Black Panther, both the film itself and its impact. 90% of those things, if not more, I’m highly unqualified to talk about as a white-passing Lebanese girl. I encourage all of Sartorial Geek’s readers to look around at what the black community – especially young viewers – have to say about the film.
In the areas I do feel qualified to talk in – representation of women, depiction of “fantasy tech,” and nailing the Rule of Cool – they’re still on the ball. And I could happily write dozens of essays on everything this film did right, and all the scenes I’d point to as examples for future writers.
This isn’t a list of my five favorite Black Panther outfits, because that would be impossible to narrow down. Rather this is an appreciation of five amazing outfits in the movie that we will never stop talking about.
Whether you’re a writer, a painter, a sculptor, a cosplayer, or any of the other was you can express yourself creatively, you are sure to have one thing in common with your fellow creators: doubt. Doubt, and big nasty burning hills of it. It comes with the territory.
“Am I really talented?” “Am I just ripping off the creators I like?” “Are my friends just saying they like my work because they’re my friends?” “Why do people only like my work when I copy current trends?” All things we will ask ourselves at least once a week, no matter how well we’re doing or how polished our work is. And then every few months, we hit a spiral. You know the one: where you don’t want to lift your pen or sit at your computer, where nothing seems right, where you cannot convince yourself you have anything good to give.
URAHARA sympathizes, too. And it’s here to tell you you’re not alone – and that your hard work is worth it.
Earlier this week, Geek Girl Strong inspired a twitter conversation about our favorite angry, female characters. Here are just a few of my personal favorites: