A Poem by S.H. Fielding
We Birth, we breathe.
We die, we leave.
Life is a warm drink,
swallowed too fast and nurtured too long.
Where do we slide between the hyphen?
Whom do we become before the horizon?
Culture invokes an image,
a facade to be desired.
Some fallacies…
A milepost for the stories that have articulated the love I have for both stories and storytelling. One that will most certainly change and evolve but will forever remain a landmark for the storyteller who once lived here.
Stories are creatures, living things that breathe, age, and occasionally reproduce. They may dwell in the thinnest of shells, or the widest of frames. They may graze between the walls of a rainy afternoon. They may brush past those unassuming, only to induce their curiosity into a frenzy of immersion…
An essay about digesting the “classic” works of art & the difficulties that come with them.
“Required Reading” is a frequent definition given to particular works of literature. Sometimes, it’s understood with works highlighting racial inequity or patriarchial systems or homophobic histories, all of which should be sought out to…
A film review for Shang-Chi & The Legend of the Ten Rings & its wonderful skill in weaving the rich tapestry of Asian artistry with Marvel’s newest hero.
Part of art is travel; it is rewriting the physics of our known universe and providing transit to foreign lands with the scribble of a pen, the flick of a brush, or the rolling of a camera. In your visits, you may often find yourself somewhere unfamiliar. Relative to you…
An essay about no one close to me wanting to read what I write, or even trying to.
One of the reasons I firmly believe that I struggle with chronic depression, rather than a mild or moderate condition or SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), is how my brain spotlights triggers. I…
An essay about the most recent sample of fandom uproar towards an artist’s vision and examining what it means to critique another’s work.
Stan Lee once wrote, “it seems to me that a story without a message, however subliminal, is like a man without a soul.” He did this in…
*SPOILERS*
In an interview with Variety last May, screenwriter, genre pioneer, and mad scientist Damon Lindelof detailed the steps he takes when writing television. For whatever your tastes are, and I’m sure they vary from my own, we can still appreciate the volume of success that Lindelof has had with various…
An essay about how Marvel Studios’ current run on television should be seen as historic for both abusing its clout with an audience, but also rewarding audiences with unique, high-budget experiences that only rhyme with cinematic filmmaking.(Published Before Loki Season Finale)
Marvel Studios is quite obviously a pop-culture phenomenon, quoted…
An essay about Neil Gaiman and the lessons I’ve learned from his fiction and his masterclass.
It was in the spring of 2018 when I began the wreckless endeavor of writing my first novel, diving headfirst into the abandonment of normalcy in the way becoming a writer almost certainly implies…
A review about Atwood’s sequel and its inability to match the tension of her original work.
For all the bleakness and feministic torture imbued within Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, the charm of reading her ecumenical dystopian narrative is found in the underlining tension. How Atwood donates swathes of value to…
