Category Archives: Sexuality

Impure Evil

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Nathan

One Bible verse I’ve heard a fair amount recently is from Isaiah 5:20: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for … Continue reading →

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The Strange, Silent Type

Posted on February 12, 2023 by Nathan

SPOILERS, as usual. Strange World – It’s weird that Disney came out with a new big-budget animated feature that just fizzled out at the box office, and I’m not quite sure why it did. I guess it was largely bad … Continue reading →

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Attack of the Puberty Panda

Posted on December 31, 2022 by Nathan

Turning Red – This is the first Pixar film to be directed solely by a woman, and it explores the familiar themes of the awkwardness of adolescence and trying to fit in with an overbearing family. That it uses menstruation … Continue reading →

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I Guess You Can Kill the Boogeyman After All

Posted on October 16, 2022 by Nathan

I have three movie reviews this time, all of fairly new films, although that wasn’t really intentional. Two are relevant to the Halloween season and one not, and it should probably go without saying that there are SPOILERS for all … Continue reading →

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Multiple Massacres

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Nathan

We’ve started watching horror movies for the spooky season. We watch horror at other times of year, too, but around now Beth likes to focus on them to the extent of anything else. Not that we’ve been watching all that … Continue reading →

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The Male Must Get Through

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve noticed an obsession the far right seems to have with masculinity. Someone on Twitter linked to this article, which is four years old at this point, but seems pretty accurate. It’s based on a non-scientific study, but it supports … Continue reading →

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Stay Out of the Deep End

Posted on June 23, 2022 by Nathan

I’m going to guess you want more fish-people, but I’ll admit I’m very bad at predicting what other people want. So let’s just say I want to write more about fish-people. I often go to TV Tropes to see examples … Continue reading →

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The Plane Truth

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Nathan

A Barnstormer in Oz, or A Rationalization and Extrapolation of the Split-Level Continuum, by Philip Jose Farmer – SPOILERS! I watched a discussion of this book as part of the last virtual OzCon, and I’d considered reading it earlier, so … Continue reading →

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The More Real Than Real World Beyond the Real

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Nathan

Across the Green Grass Fields, by Seanan McGuire – Another book in the Wayward Children series, this one has a girl named Regan visit the Hooflands, a world of mythical hooved creatures, but before that deals with the treacherous nature … Continue reading →

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There’s Only Three Real Monsters

Posted on March 23, 2021 by Nathan

Son of Kong – Released only nine months after the original King Kong, this does a bit to explain the aftermath of the first movie, in which Carl Denham brings a giant ape out of his natural habitat to New … Continue reading →

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