Sunday 19 May 2024

Nerd Church - Things Happen When They Happen

 


Title: Things Happen When They Happen



I'm trying to remind myself that, so long as I'm working on things, they'll be ready when they're ready.

I'm an impatient person by nature - I want things done yesterday or earlier, thanks very much - but that's not the way to get sh** done in the long term.

Friday 17 May 2024

Friday Fics Fix - Klaus' Ghosts in a Specific Trope





'Five was scowling, “Try harder. We’re trying to figure out-“

“Blah, blah, how to get home. I know .” Klaus rolls his eyes. “I’d like to see you try to listen with all this noise.”'



Title: F3. Background: kaleidoscopic patterns



I love it when there are tropes that are specific to the fandom.

Like, someone -

(or several someones, separately, in fandom harmony,)

- will come up with an idea - like, for argument's sake: Klaus from The Umbrella Academy (TUA) makes the ghosts visible to his siblings and they Freak. The eff. Out. -

(If you're new here - I can't swear, because my mother. If you're not new here - I still can't swear, because my mother. I can only swear in fiction, I don't know why. 😅)

 - and then fandom will take this idea to their beautiful, nerdy, hearts, and freaking run with it.


Sunday 12 May 2024

Nerd Church - What Does 'Enough' Even Mean?





Title: What Does 'Enough' Even Mean?



I never feel that I’m ‘enough’ of anything.


Not good ‘enough,’ not attractive ‘enough,’ not successful ‘enough,’ not ‘enough’ of anything.

Friday 10 May 2024

Friday Fics Fix - Vampires and A Smidge of FrostIron

 

'"Science waits for no man, Steve! Also Loki there's a welcome basket on your coffee table, let me know if you need help with anything!"'

 

Title: F3. Background: kaleidoscopic patterns


This is some good, ol' fashioned, Avengers fanfic.

...Only Tony Stark is a vampire, because why not?

Thursday 9 May 2024

Comics Wrap-Up - The Freaking Chaos

 

Title: Comics Wrap-Up. Background: lined-notebook-style with speech bubbles containing heart symbols


It's Thursday, we live in a ridiculous timeline, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness right here on Dora Reads!


Sunday 5 May 2024

Nerd Church - Unpopular Opinion: I've Never Liked Gavin and Stacey


...confessions of a rebel Welsh chick, I guess. 😅



Title: Unpopular Opinion: I've Never Liked Gavin and Stacey



OK - I know that there are international fans of this series, but since it's less well-known outside the UK, a little background:

Gavin and Stacey is a BBC sitcom about a Welsh woman from Barry and an English dude from Essex meeting on the internet, falling in love, and trying to get together despite being from opposite ends of the country.

It's also where James Corden hit the big time, in the UK at least. So... there's that. Make of it what you will 😅