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Angela Vale

Angela Vale

Frieren: Beyond the Journey's End

My boyfriend has been obsessed with Frieren since it started airing. I've just started watching, and I get the hype. It's a beautiful story about a nigh immortal elf trying to understand her own humanity. It turns fantasy trope on their head. The Big Bad Demon

Blogging by the Cards

I have trouble blogging regularly I have tried to start blogging regularly for years, and the normal advice of "find your niche" has never worked for me. I have so many interests I want to share with the world, but, more than that, I have trouble just sitting

Mythical Retellings and other Fan Fiction

As I struggled to fall asleep last night, I listened to "Myths and Legends", one of my favourite podcasts. It was episode 351, a version of the myth of St. George and the dragon. The initial set-up was amazing: a child raised alone in the woods with his

A New Start

I've wanted to start a blog for years. Bought the domains, built the sites. Then, nothing. Nada. Zilch. They'd site empty, still saying 'coming soon' to a world that would never see them. I tried talking about movies, books, ideas, mythology, history, writing. Nothing

When there's no right answer...

I'm not a decisive person. I don't make decisions quickly, and once I make a choice, I question it over and over. Was it the right choice? Could I have made a better one? Should I have chosen something else? So many times, there is no

Starting is HARD

It's something everyone can relate to. Starting anything is hard, and when you don't know what you are doing or how to do it, it's worse. You feel the need for a plan of attack, some idea of what you should be doing. You