Are you one of the 50 million plus people who have a Goodreads account to track your reading and your targets? Or are you a bit more old school like me, keeping a carefully curated journal about your reading and trying each year to read more than you did the year before? It’s become a bit of a habit for a lot of us, this tracking of hobbies – not just reading. Bullet journals are massive, and people use them […]

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week or so, you’ll have no doubt heard about the plot to storm Area 51 in September, as, like the plan says: “they can’t stop all of us”. At the time of writing, the original Facebook event has over a million attendees, which would make any potential storming look like a scene out of World War Z. Copycats events have also spawned, imploring attendees to Storm the UK Parliament, loot […]

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Hobbies are the thing that keep a lot of people sane, whether they play tennis, climb mountains, paint portraits or write stories. We all need something that isn’t work or the basic day-to-day struggle of staying alive to keep our brains happy and functioning. And because we are all only human, we want to be good at the things that we do. Or maybe not – we don’t have to be the best piano player there ever was. We just […]

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It’s not hard to think of a Satanic horror movie. During and after the 1960s, they were a dime a dozen. Rosemary’s Baby comes to mind immediately. Schlock classics like The Mephisto Waltz and The Devil Rides Out associate devil worshippers with general skullduggery and magical mayhem. These B-horror classics have defined what we think of as a devil-worshipper: suave, personable, and possessed of occult power. Devil worshippers on film tend to be articulate practitioners of intricate magics derived from […]

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Last bank holiday weekend (25th-27th May 2018) saw the return of the MCM Comic Con to London’s ExCeL Exhibition Centre. MCM is London’s biggest comic con that promised attendees a three-day event filled with gaming, comics, art, anime, film, TV and much, much more. The MCM London Comic Con runs for three days twice a year, falling in May and October. Like last year, the May edition of the show fell on a scorcher of a weekend in the UK, […]

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"The stakes are too high to suggest the price of causing offense isn’t worth paying."

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I guess somebody had to create some themed content.

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Japanese-style "ita" bags (literally "painful" bags) have recently made their way over to places like the US and the UK, growing in popularity as a way to express devotion to a character or series.

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In early 2014, James Gates wrote a very personal account after a horrific nervous breakdown brought about by years of depression and anxiety. Three years later, he shares what he has learned in the intervening years, and where his mental health is at now.

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"I finally felt like my hair reflected my character, the person I was meant to be, the genderless alt-model who people looked at in the street wondering what species it was and where it came from."

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"Sadly, in real life, there is no Dale Cooper to bend space and time to undo what has happened to you."

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"Not since the Lizard People have we had such a convenient one-stop-shop that lets us allocate blame for society’s downwards spiral."

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"I just assumed being quiet and unresponsive and sometimes anxious was a phase, something that all teens did, and that it would pass."

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