The Halloween series is my favorite movie franchise of all time. I’d scarcely aged out of the car seat when I began watching Michael Myers stab teenagers to death. I can’t explain why I was drawn to this particular movie (or eventually, set of movies). Halloween has always been a part of my life unexplainably.…
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Writers are always supposed to have the words. From screenwriters to authors to historians, society entrusts writers to find vocabulary for the elusive. We as writers seek to breathe life into the inanimate, make tangible the intangible. And yet as we endure trauma after trauma this year, I like many writers find myself at a…
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I felt many emotions after finishing The Last of Us Part II a couple of weeks ago. Chief among them, accomplishment, for having beat the game before my husband đ But less petty than that: disgust, despair, dissonance. TLOU2 was overall a gruesomely violent game that, at various points, became too heart-wrenching to continue. I…
Read MoreOn April 23, I had a unique opportunity to speak on a panel at C2E2. How you ask? Let’s go back in time a bit.
Read MorePhoto cred: hdwallpapersnew.net This isn’t a review. This is me talking a little bit about why I love Tomb Raider, the first modern video game that I’ve successfully completed (on normal!). This game single-handedly got me hooked on gaming, and has me drooling in anticipation over when the sequel to the 2013 reboot, Rise of…
Read MoreMichi Trota canât remember the exact moment she became a nerd, probably because it wasnât an exact moment. From childhood, she inherited a passion for comics and sci-fi/fantasy series from her parents. Her mother encouraged her to look up to the strong female characters in the series they loved together; not âgirly-girls,â but rather self-assured…
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The Wordy Wench 