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Hello, my name is Eyan, my pronouns are He/Him, and I use Mx. as a formal address when necessary (instead of Mr. or similar, and one day, I will be Dr. instead). I am openly transgender and switched to masculine…

Summary A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted…

REVIEW Let me begin by saying that I am in no way, shape or form a sports fan. I can count on my hands the number of professional sports games I’ve sat through, and most of them were Rugby, which…

I rarely get involved in a book series unless it has been completed or nearly completed by the time I begin. Inevitably, I’ll catch up, and the anxiety of waiting for what comes next always gets to me. Occasionally, however,…

Many of the blog posts I have coming up will interact with the idea of medievalism and the medieval. Because not many people are familiar with what I mean when I talk about the medieval, I figured I could give…

SUMMARY Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie…

I’ve been thinking about J.R.R. Tolkien and the world of The Lord of the Rings for over 20 years and can likely attribute my scholarly pursuits to an early fascination with The Hobbit. March 25 is the anniversary of Frodo destroying…

Summary Humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace for over a century. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting again. The only good elf, it seems, is a…

SUMMARY Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won’t let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year of high school. Instead of bowing to the bigots and outdated school administration, Jeremy decides to make some noise—and…

“Speculative Fiction” is a broad term meant to denote a specific type of literary work, one that broadly overlaps with many other disciplines, primarily science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy or any genre fiction that may include fantastic elements. Initially coined…