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Best Books I Read in 2022

Counting down the books I enjoyed the most this year, some of them new, some of them old, but all of them loved. — Great books, for me, this year, were hard to come by. This is, perhaps, my first year of making such a list, to be fair. I am used to incorporating the four or five books that fold their way into a compilation of a best-of-the-year list that just shoves everything…

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Best Books I Read in 2022
Best Books I Read in 2022
Books

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Published in Fanfare

·Dec 23, 2022

Best in Film in 2022

A ranking of movies that meant the most to me in 2022, maybe too much. — I am not sure if I will be as advantageous about film in 2023, as I believe my heart has been stolen back by literature. That said, I do think this was a great and unexpected year to go out upon with works that broke past those standard expectations and…

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Best in Film in 2022
Best in Film in 2022
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Published in Fanfare

·Dec 22, 2022

Best TV of 2022

Ranking the TV seasons that stole me away from the world for a little while, in a good way. — There has been a great deal of television this year, a great deal of which that was beloved that did not meet me on stable grounds. Despite the love for White Lotus, Succession, Rings of Power, Andor, The Boys: Season 3, House of Dragon, and many others, those titles will…

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Best TV of 2022
Best TV of 2022
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Published in Fanfare

·Dec 5, 2022

Fatman Beyond is My Church

An essay about how Fatman Beyond became the single most important podcast in my life, what it taught me, and why I think it may be the inciting incident to my story as a writer. — I have always been a lonely kid. From an early age, there’s just been a deep sense that I was unwanted. Whether it be my conservative, traditional family or friend groups, I never felt like a community was ever in the cards for me. Even now, I still feel this…

Writing

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Fatman Beyond is My Church
Fatman Beyond is My Church
Writing

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Published in An Injustice!

·Nov 13, 2022

Wakanda Forever & The Many Paths of Generational Trauma

A small review of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever & examination of how Ryan Coogler voices how people respond to generational trauma — I know what I said about film reviews regarding my reasoning for not seeing Black Adam, but that doesn’t mean I am not going to single out a story I love whenever I find one. So if one of these doesn’t follow a major release of a movie, TV finale…

Marvel

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Wakanda Forever & The Many Paths of Generational Trauma
Wakanda Forever & The Many Paths of Generational Trauma
Marvel

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Nov 2, 2022

Why I Didn’t See Black Adam, in Theaters at Least

An explanation as to why a Black Adam review will not be appearing on my feed any time soon. Today is a day for venting, turning away from the darker realities of the world lies the question of my turning away from DC film and television products. Now, I am…

Movies

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Why I Didn’t See Black Adam, in Theaters at Least
Why I Didn’t See Black Adam, in Theaters at Least
Movies

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Published in An Injustice!

·Oct 4, 2022

Bros Is the Gay Movie We Have Deserved for Far Too Long

A review for Billy Eichner & Nicholas Stoller’s Gay rom-com & its ability to be mature, layered, outrageously funny, and wonderfully gay! — There is a noticeable difference in queer filmmaking between stories directed or written by queer people and those not. It’s always hard to pin down, sometimes not so hard to pin down. It’s not always the most abhorrent, disingenuous thing to see a straight person’s view of the gay struggle…

LGBTQ

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Bros Is the Gay Movie We Have Deserved for Far Too Long
Bros Is the Gay Movie We Have Deserved for Far Too Long
LGBTQ

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Published in Fanfare

·Sep 28, 2022

Don’t Worry Darling: The Problem of Not Being Vulnerable

A Review for Olivie Wilde, Katie Silberman, & Carey Van Dyke & Shane Van Dyke’s Thriller and Why It Doesn’t Feel Like Its Alive — Amidst the successful touring of his debut feature, Get Out, Jordan Peele attended a seminar at UCLA where he would answer eager film students burning questions about his ideas, his views on diversity in film, and a bit more. In answering one of the student’s questions about the specificity of…

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Don’t Worry Darling: The Problem of Not Being Vulnerable
Don’t Worry Darling: The Problem of Not Being Vulnerable
Movies

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Published in Fanfare

·Sep 23, 2022

The Woman King & Telling Marginalized Stories about Victory

A review for Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King & a conversation about the significance of telling marginalized stories about victory. — The movement of manifesting more authentic and evocative representation and diversity in storytelling is still in its infancy. While great strides have been taken, and some are even beginning to strut, many of the lingering issues of storytelling reflecting a singular perspective of the world remain. Changing minds and replacing…

Diversity

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The Woman King & Telling Marginalized Stories about Victory
The Woman King & Telling Marginalized Stories about Victory
Diversity

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Published in Fanfare

·Aug 25, 2022

The Sandman is a Bitter Sweet Adaptation

A review of Netflix’s adaptation of the vertigo comics odyssey and a confession that details my appreciation for The Sandman. — I have made it achingly clear that I share an appreciation for Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, and Mike Dringenberg’s 1989 Vertigo comics series, The Sandman. It is an inescapable landmark in my literary and artistic trajectory. Still, watching Netflix and Allan Heinberg’s ten-episode (now eleven-episode) adaptation, I cannot help but…

Netflix

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The Sandman is a Bitter Sweet Adaptation
The Sandman is a Bitter Sweet Adaptation
Netflix

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