Damseled Princes
I’m a sucker for gender-flipped stories and the way they shed light on common tropes. A manic pixie dream boy doesn’t teach an uptight female...
The Westermarck Triangle in K-Drama
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K-Drama Tropes
As the mother of a teenager, it is perhaps inevitable that Korean pop culture would become a critical component of my media consumption. The year...
You may be a cartoon villain if…
The other day my kids made me watch Descendants. I’m a fan of the fractured fairy tale, so I liked the premise: a generation after...
The Dadaists and Big Hero 6
So I’m reading Lipstick Traces and it’s slow going because these beautiful sentences go on and on until your realize that they might not mean...