Aka the ballad of Steve and Bucky. A totally accurate(…ish) summary of Captain America: The First Avenger — Cast your mind back, back, back, my dearest darling nerdlets, to the year… (*Googles*) …2011! And the first Captain America film! BEWARE: SPOILERS EVERYWHERE!!! Now, my children, let me teach you the ballad of Steve and Bucky… ⭐ Steve and Bucky grow up in 1920s and 1930s Brooklyn, it’s rough, it’s tough, and it’s a difficult place for two ‘good friends’ to grow up…

How did one white man become five black men? Warning: this post discusses a murder case, and related themes such as blood and violence. It also discusses racism, institutional racism, miscarriages of justice, wrongful conviction, borderline torture, and police corruption. There are brief references to sex work and drugs. The name Lynette White is one that’s known all over Wales. Because…

I love it when stories like this do well! — Before anything else — yes, I know it’s mid-June. Covid got me. So, anyway — May was my highest earning month on the Medium Partner Program ever! Woo! I earned over $7! Envy my riches, peasants (lol.) I’m now earning an average of $0.25 per day — up from $0.20, and creeping ever closer to my goal of a dollar a day. (…it’s…

Fear makes you do terrible things… — I love the movie ParaNorman. It’s hugely underappreciated. This beautiful, weird, stop-motion mash-up of classic horror and kids’ adventure tale is surprisingly emotionally mature. It explores the way that fear creates hatred, which in turn creates fear and hatred. And that adults can sometimes act out when they’re scared, in ways that can hurt the people — the…

(…aka, she’s overthinking this Medium thing again) — When I first started writing on Medium, way back in the days of 2021, my plan was to straight-up cross-post from my personal blog, Dora Reads. There turned out to be a lot more work involved in doing that than I thought there was, and since I was working so hard on it anyway, I decided to go ‘all-in.’ That meant posting more frequently, adapting more heavily, adding a sprinkling of fresh content, and engaging with…

A bullet-point review of Talk Softly And Carry Your Big Stick With Pride (TSACYBSWP) by Ariel Jean Bailey — I received a digital review copy of TSACYBSWP as an opportunity to provide a fair, honest, review. ⚧️ This is non-fiction #OwnVoices by a Transgender/Transsexual woman. Transsexual is how the author identifies; TSACYBSWP DOESN’T use the term in a Transmedicalist way. ⚧️ Imho, this book is inclusive of the entire…

The meaning behind the environmental jargon — Carbon offsetting is something you may’ve heard of companies and organisations doing to counteract their carbon footprint. There’s not really one single, concrete, definition — everyone has their own ideas of what ‘counts’ as carbon offsetting, but basically: Carbon offsetting is where someone — usually a business or organisation — attempts to counteract their carbon footprint by supporting environmental projects.