Amethyst Marie

Category: Blog Posts

  • 10 TV Pairs That I Love

    Tonight is the night! After six years of idiocy and two years of cohabiting couplehood, Special Agent Seely Booth and Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan FINALLYYYYYYYYYY tie the knot. I thought I’d try something different for Media Monday in honor of these long-awaited nuptials. Instead of reviewing a single work, I’m going to fangirl about some…

  • Halloween Cosplay Countdown 2

    I’d had something else in mind for this post, but thanks to last night’s episode of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, I no longer remember what it was. I have no idea what the writers or the rest of the fandom are calling this costume, so I shall call it Adventurer Alice. This has…

  • Batman and Sons: Holy Parenthood, Batman!

    Do you like Batman? No? Begone, spambot! Yes? Then read on, O flesh and blood human, and behold the fancomic that is Batman and Sons. This series, by deviantART user The-BlackCat, puts the comedy in comic books. The premise is Batman being a single dad to his three adopted Robins and the Batbaby that Selina…

  • Feyland: Faerie Queens and Gamer Girls

    I discovered Anthea Sharp’s Feyland books in Story Bundle’s young adult bundle. The excerpt from the prologue of Feyland: The Dark Realm piqued my interest in that it avoided a lot of cliches that annoy me. Its futuristic setting didn’t suck significantly more or less than the present. The teenage heroine, Jennet Carter, wasn’t described…

  • Cosplay Countdown to My Imaginary Halloween

    For this and the next two weeks, Frivolity Friday will feature the fabulous costumery that I’m sure some version of me somewhere in the multiverse is planning to wear for Halloween. This week: Steampunk Batgirl! Or Batwoman. Or some OC fanfic ancestress in the Wayne family tree who got the whole Batperson thing started and…

  • The Premier of Emma Approved is Amethyst Approved

    I’ll bet I’m the only blogger to use that clever opening. Pemberley Digital, the same web entertainment group who brought us The Lizzie Bennet Diaries last year, has launched a new Jane Austen update based on Emma. The first episode was posted to YouTube on Monday. Emma Approved is as distinct from The Lizzie Bennet…

  • The Electric Lady: All Hail the Q.U.E.E.N.

    I don’t listen to a lot of R&B. I do listen to a ton of classic rock. So that’s my frame of reference when I say that, if Freddie Mercury and David Bowie made a baby together and that baby grew up to be a tiny black woman, that tiny black woman would be Janelle…

  • Open Letter to my Future Spouse

    Dear ____________, I don’t know your name yet. I don’t know anything about you. I don’t even know if you identify as a woman, a man, or both, or neither. I don’t know if I’ll be the first bisexual person you date. I don’t know if, at this point in time, dating a bi woman…

  • A picture of my dog #FrivolityFriday

    You’ve heard tell of her in my bio; now meet the one, the only, Pinky Tuscadero! Actually, she’s not the one and only if you count the Happy Days character I named her for. Contrary to popular belief, her name didn’t come from Pinky and the Brain or My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.  …

  • Sleepy Hollow #MediaMondays

    So far, Sleepy Hollow ties with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as the Fall 2013 show I’m most excited about. Since it seems like everyone else has done Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I decided to start my Media Mondays prompt by reviewing Sleepy Hollow. And by reviewing, I mean shamelessly fangirling. In this modern-day twist on Washington Irving’s classic,…