LadiesCon 2019 is mere days away and it’s just about all we Ladies can think about. While we put the finishing touches on this year’s convention, you can enjoy this helpful Q&A on what to expect once the day finally arrives. If you’re already an expert on all things LadiesCon, feel free to share it with friends who are coming for the first time or might be interested in checking it out.
Read MoreThis month, in part 4 of our “Why ELS Game Day?” is dedicated to the S in ELS Gameday as we talk story gaming and Mary Shelley.
Read MoreThe NoSleep Diaries Entry 6: It Came With the Storm
Please welcome guest contributor Lindsay Moore of Hellcat Press. Lindsay has written for us before, sharing her experience putting together an all women horror anthology. In this series, she'll share her experience writing horror stories that were adapted for the NoSleep Podcast.
Read MoreHere in 2019, the US is going through what feels like the puberty of our social development - one long awkward phase of gender, racial, and sexual understanding. We’ve matured in so many ways and yet still suffer from metaphorical bad skin and gangling limbs.
Read MoreSmalerie suggests some not-so Summer Reading.
Read MoreAs much as I loved both X-Men and Spider-Man when they first aired, I see a lot of their flaws in hindsight. The struggle to deal with massive casts of characters and often unwieldy “inspired by the comics” storylines didn’t always bother young Cartoon Sara, but they’re tough to ignore today. Time is seldom kind to computer graphics of the past and Spider-Man’s CG cityscapes haven’t aged well. Some of the worst animation caught my attention even back then and it’s even harder to watch today, ranging from passable to “This downshot of two characters walking is making my eyeballs scream” with some scattered moments of quality along the way. It didn’t help that Batman: The Animated Series came out around the same time, making X-Men and Spider-Man look all the more like textbook examples of the hard-to-animate character designs that Batman was rebelling against. The single episodes I saw of Iron Man and Fantastic Four from the syndicated Marvel Action Hour didn’t even pass the relatively low bar of my 90s TV watching standards.
Read MoreIn Part three of our look at why we are called ELS Gameday, we’ll talk about the L in our name, and talk about strategy and Ada Lovelace.
Read MoreBack in June, when the season was new, we hosted our Third Annual Fanfiction Theater. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite Ladies events…
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