Tipsy Takes — Songs from Anime that Make Me Feel Stuff

Caution: As you might have guessed, this is the second installment of Tipsy Takes. I'm tipsy. My hair is still pink. Read the first post on Karnaval here. I love spell check. Haha. Sober notice: All comments written after I've regained my composure look like, well... this! Song #1: https://youtu.be/8MhwXa75XUg Let's be honest; if you've …

Beating

She holds his heart in her hands. Bloody to the elbows, it throbs against her fingertips.

Reverse Harem in Retrospect: Your Posse in Effect (or, “Bishonen Classification within the Reverse Harem Sub-Genre”)

“That isn’t funny at all, but it almost sounds like it should be?”

TL;DR -- My update schedule told me to blog. I have pink hair. Graduated college again. Anxiety is awful. Random oversharing. I'm making questionable choices. Our house is infested by ants. My Husband and I have different emotional needs, and that's okay. My blog schedule says I'm supposed to update about my life today. Though …

Deus ex Machina and Original Sin: a “Code: Realize ~ Guardian of Rebirth” Otome Review

Wang Xian-Unrestrained (忘羡 – 无羁), English Translation

English translation by Shoujo https://youtu.be/L4zWGOhbFdc Echoes a lonesome sound--flute in an endless night.Dreaming amongst the clouds,wake in fog--determine wrong from right Who can own the praises of the world, its scorn--who can stand to call them just? Hot blooded men, outspoken steel,a zither playing, searching for it must Mourning a life lived on in memory …

I Made a Virtual Classroom! — Preschool Prattle

Today, I took on a new project! My preschoolers now have their own virtual classroom content hub. I made it in the hopes that, should we have to engage in remote learning next year, the kids (with the help of their parents) will be motivated to check our in with our room every day to […]I …

To the Muffin who…

To the Muffin who'd been with me every step of the way since I was eleven years old, thank you. To the Muffin who didn't have a home after her kittens were adopted out, thank you. To the Muffin who found her owner at a Petsmart and took to her immediately even as she hissed …

I’m done!!!! ✨🌸💗

Guys, guys, guys!!!! (I’m from the midwest, everyone is “you guys.”) It’s been 4.5 years full-time for my BA and 3 (not counting the year I took off) part-time for my ECC, BUT IT’S DONE!! I’m done!!!!!!!! I’m done with college!!!!! I spent most of my 20s in school, but I can finally say… I’m …

A Heart Fullmetal, Empowered: In Response to the Depiction of Disability in “Brotherhood”

I wrote this academic paper for my Children with Special Needs class. It will be the last paper of my college career! (Hopefully!!!) We were to write about the depiction of disability in a movie or book. I stretched the prompt a little to write about FMAB and its depiction of characters with disabilities and …