Last year (har har har obligatory New Year's Joke done) I'd started talking about Found Family, one of my favorite tropes in pretty much any narrative work, from movies to novels to comics and webcomics. Found family is when a bunch of characters, usually unrelated and mismatched, end ...

Meet the Found Family
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 14, 2023New Year's Eve Thoughts
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 31, 2022
It's customary during the final days of a year to do resolutions for the next one or overviews of what happened in the one that's ending.
Even if we buck the system, we kinda do think back and ahead, especially during New Year's Eve, don't we ...
It's the New Year!
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 1, 2022
It's 2022! Can you believe it?
WE SURVIVED!
Here's to more surviving for 2022, and hopefully, down the line, we can start living!
There's a tradition of making lists of new year's resolutions every season when the year changes. And I'm not going to tell ...
The Empire Strikes Back is 40 - and More Baffling Silliness from Disney Lucasfilm?
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 31, 2020Spoilers for recent Star Wars, eg the Mandalorian.
It went unspoken in my year of Newsposts, but 2020 is the 40th Anniversary the release of The Empire Strikes Back.
that's not true! That's impossible!
No, man! Search your feelings! you know it's true! Forty damn years!
Though ...
Celebrate Another Completed Year!
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2019
In just three days, 2019 will be in the past!
Often this is the time to make our obligatory “resolutions list” for the year to come, usually from looking back and seeing just what we didn't achieve in the year that is ending.
Making tallies of things we need ...
New Years' Resolutions
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 29, 2018
It's almost 2019!
Yes yes, I've already made an article about the year ending, but what about the one starting?
Among the singing and the partying, we also tend to make resolutions about how we'll do better in the coming year: we'll diet, we'll make ...
The Romantic and the Cynic
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 2, 2017
The year 2016 was not as horrible as some people thought it to be. I did go through some personal changes that might not be seen as monumental in the wide scope of the world. I have always been a true romantic–a label given to me by an English ...
My New Year's Eve at a Nerd Convention
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 4, 2016
"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And ...