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TWISTED TALES; jack and the beanstalk
I know this was just remade recently – and it wasn’t bad! – but can I please have a version that is not so overwhelmingly white? Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring: Keahu Kahuanui as Jack Eric Steinberg as the Giant Andrea Navedo as the Giant’s Wife Aamna Sharif as the Harp So Jack climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed till at last he reached the sky.
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jan – mar 2019; it’s a wrap
I am trying something a little bit new! Last year, I tried to do the monthly wrap-up thing and failed miserably, so I wound up doing a mid-year and end of the year wrap-up only. But this year, I’m going to try a quarterly wrap-up. Major updates every three months. Should be managable. Right? I’m going to try and find a style for this that suits me, so next time around my wrap-up might look and sound a little different. Who really knows what can happen in three months. Let’s start with how life and family have been, shall we? Most recently, my daughter turned 2! We held her birthday…
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RACEBENT ROMCOMS; runaway bride
I remember finding this movie enjoyable, but it could definitely do with a revamp. Someone please, let’s give it a facelift! Racebent Romcoms has me taking existing Hollywood romantic comedies (and romances), and recasting them for the modern day with a more diverse cast. Featuring Nicole Gale Anderson as Maggie Carpenter and Nick Sagar as Ike Graham. Look, I guarantee there’ll be tough times. I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don’t ask you to be mine, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know, in…
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;art attack!
This is not exactly a book-related blog post, but! I am excited! If you follow me on my various social media accounts (truly, I have too many and need to start cutting down on them), you might have seen me mention once, or twice, or twenty times that my daughter turned 2 this year. Her birthday was a few weeks ago, and her party was this past Saturday, and for once in my life, I was ON TOP OF THINGS and I am very proud of myself. Last year, I made the mistake of thinking things could be done and ready just a couple of months before her birthday. Last…
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handle with care; the romance edition
I can’t believe it’s still a conversation online on what classifies as a romance novel? Like, it’s kind of a given that it is NOT A ROMANCE NOVEL if it doesn’t end with a Happily Ever After. It can be a romantic book, but it is NOT A ROMANCE, thanks. If I’m reading a romance novel, I want that HEA. That’s why I’m reading romance. There are a lot of good tropes in the romance genre. And then there are some that need to burn away in a fire until there’s nothing left. And there are some that fall in between the ‘ohmygod yes please‘ and ‘oh god why‘, and…
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review; mirage
Mirage by Somaiya Daud In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated moon. But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped by the regime and taken in secret to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram. The princess is so hated by her conquered…
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review; the fill-in boyfriend
The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West When Gia Montgomery’s boyfriend, Bradley, dumps her in the parking lot of her high school prom, she has to think fast. After all, she’d been telling her friends about him for months now. This was supposed to be the night she proved he existed. So when she sees a cute guy waiting to pick up his sister, she enlists his help. The task is simple: be her fill-in boyfriend – two hours, zero commitment, a few white lies. After that, she can win back the real Bradley. The problem is that days after prom, it’s not the real Bradley she’s thinking about, but the…
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recipe; nutella mug cake
Uh, no, I did not go over to my uncle’s house while I was on holiday at my parents’ to bake this for photos because I thought February was a dessert post month. I am not that extra, thanks.* *Except I totally am that extra and I totally did this. This molten Nutella mug cake – yes, the center is gooey and chocolately and utterly wonderful – is the perfect indulgence for a day you want to feel guilty. I actually have the recipe for a microwaveable version of this cake, but because of health reasons, I no longer use the microwave. Stumbling across an oven-baked version of the cake…
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TWISTED TALES; peter pan
This story has been retold so many times, but once more, with feeling diversity. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring: Forrest Wheeler as Peter Pan Sasha Rojen as Wendy Darling Janel Parrish as Tinkerbell Alexander Siddig as Captain Hook Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile…
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RACEBENT ROMCOMS; the wedding date
This movie has a Bollywood remake that has some pretty good songs, so you should all check that out too. Racebent Romcoms has me taking existing Hollywood romantic comedies (and romances), and recasting them for the modern day with a more diverse cast. Featuring Gemma Chan as Kat Ellis and William Jackson Harper as Nick Mercer. The hardest thing is loving someone and then having the courage to let them love you back. But if you know her shit and she knows yours, and at the end of the day if you still would rather give up than try, nothing’s ever going to be worth it.