In honor of Mother’s Day, here is the Sartorial Geek’s list of top 20 fictional parental figures we’re obsessed with. Sending a big, IRL shout-out to all the mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, friends, et. al. out there who take care of their fellow humans (and animals). You’re the real MVPs.
This episode is sponsored by The Colorful Geek.
This week, I was lucky enough to visit the ReedPOP offices! ReedPOP is home of NYCC, ECCC, C2E2, BookCon, Keystone, Star Wars Celebration, and pop culture conventions all over the world.) I chatted with Katie and Taylor, two of the wonderful women behind content coordination.
At the start of All Summer Long, our protagonist Bina finds herself feeling emotionally unprepared for all of the changes that are coming her way. Her childhood best friend Austin is trading their summer break rituals for an elite soccer camp. Then while he’s away at camp he stops responding to her texts. Does that mean he doesn’t want to be her friend anymore? They get a chance to figure things out when he’s home again, close to the end of the summer.
Avengers: Infinity War is an absolute riot. Watching all of your favourite superheroes joke, and bicker, and kick ass together is like being a kid and getting all your A-list toys into one big game all at once. What’s not to love about that?
Directors Joe and Anthony Russo had a mammoth task ahead of them, cramming every major player from the MCU into a single movie. And it still had to feature all the action and pizazz of a summer blockbuster. But honestly, I think they pulled it off.
It was incredibly easy to pass The Bold Type as something that has been done time and time again. Young women in their 20’s, New York City, glamorized jobs at a women’s magazine… It’s all reminiscent of some of our favorite rom-coms from the early 2000’s, with a dash of Sex and the City sprinkled on top.
I love meeting fellow geeks and learning about all of the fun and unique ways they show off their fandoms. For some people it’s tee shirts (I definitely have an addiction), for others it’s enamel pins, and still others collect Funkos or posters or other memorabilia. But some folks – myself included – like to permanently display our favorite pop culture goodies. That’s right – I love me a geeky tattoo. Well, actually, I love tattoos in general, but I wanted to share some advice from my two most recent tattoos, which happen to be fandom inspired.
“When I was your age, television was called books,” the grandfather from The Princess Bride movie tells his grandson. Television and movies often start out as books, and The Princess Bride is no exception. It was based on the 1973 book The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure: the “Good Parts” Version and was written by William Goldman. William Goldman also wrote the screenplay for the movie, which makes for an interesting comparison between the two.
The Answers centers around a famous director stuck working on the same passion project. He believes that he needs to be loved in order to find the motivation to finish his new film. With his mountains of money and influence, he creates a project to see if he can outsource all the different “roles” a romantic partner would play to different women.
If you’re like me, you’d really like to be able to stare at Jesse Williams for unnatural amounts of time, because have you ever seen anything so spectacular? Luckily we will be able to do so, minus any pesky legal ramifications, in the form of Quantic Dream’s Detroit: Become Human, which releases May 25, 2018.
Fandom, as a rule, attracts people who are playing life on Hard Mode. Be they physical ailments, mental illness, or regular encounters with prejudice, many of us come to the things we love as a means of escaping the inescapable. And it’s a wonderful thing. We meet more people like ourselves through our hobby. We’re able to empathize. And we get that escapism we desire.
And in an age in which we fight actively to be seen for our passions and talents, it’s sickeningly easy for an unscrupulous person to offer us what we want… with a catch.