Amethyst Marie

Category: Blog Posts

  • Welcome to Night Vale #WebWednesdays

    It started with Tumblr. It seemed every other post I saw was a joke about something called Night Vale. A very insidey joke. I deduced that there were characters named Carlos and Cecil and something about a dog park and glowing lights and angels and the NRA, but that was about it. After a few…

  • Housekeeping

    I’m trying something new in an effort to blog more consistently. Everyone loves alliterative blog prompts, right? Good. Here are the ones I’ve come up with.   Media Mondays – Commentary on movies, tv shows, music, basically any kind of pop culture and entertainment media. Except stuff that uses the internet as its primary medium. I’ll save…

  • Goodbye, Persephone; hello, blog

    The Autumnal Equinox has passed, summer is gone, and I owe my readers a few updates. Remember that webseries I write? The one that has two published volumes and that I said would eventually have four? Well, believe it or not, I am still working on Volume 3 and have been all year. Right now…

  • Not All Like That: A Follow-Up

    Last December, I wrote a response to gay rights activist Dan Savage’s challenge for LGBTQ-affirming Christians to stop telling him “We’re Not All Like That” and start telling other Christians. Since then, progressive Christian blogger and author John Shore has partnered with Savage to launch The NALT Christians project. I feel like Savage has addressed…

  • Dear Glee, Please Don’t Kill Finn Hudson

    The news of Cory Monteith’s tragic death was the last thing I read before I went to bed last night. An RIP post on Tumblr tipped me off. I Googled Cory’s name hoping to find it was a rumor or a hoax. Instead I found a full page of links confirming that this beautiful, talented…

  • Star Trek Into Whiteness: Why I’m Glad [Spoiler] Was White

    I finally got to see Star Trek Into Darkness over the weekend. Thanks to Tumblr, Facebook, and friggin’ Pinterest, I’d already been spoiled as to the real identity of Benedict Cumberbatch’s villain, billed only as John Harrison prior to the movie’s release. Stop reading now if you haven’t seen the movie yet and are among…

  • Imagine There’s No Labels?

    Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace – “Imagine,” John Lennon This part of Lennon’s classic song has always bothered me. Not that I’m offended by the concept of a world without religion or national…

  • Still Here

    Hey everyone, just wanted to write a quick post to keep this url out of the Blog Graveyard. I’ve been busy with afk/offline stuff, working on the third volume of Thalia’s Musings, and starting another writing project that I don’t want to say much about until I’m sure it’s going to turn into something. Yes,…

  • 2012 Blog of the Year Award

    Mary from Ocean Owl nominated this blog for Blog of the Year. 😀 As you can see by the icon below, I have accepted the nomination. Here are the rules of acceptance as per Mary’s nomination post: 1. Display the award logo on your blog. 2. Link back to the person who nominated you. 3.…

  • Hey, Dan Savage – I’m Not Like That, And Neither Are Our Conservative Allies

    Update: On 9/4/13, I wrote this follow-up post in response to Savage and John Shore launching the NALT Christians Project. I do support the NALT Christians Project, which addressed a lot of my concerns regarding Savage’s original challenge at its launch.  I have such mixed feelings about Dan Savage. I love the It Gets Better…