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Reading a book and assuming everyone is telling the truth all the time is like believing the barista has fallen in love with you   When I was getting notes back from my beta readers for ALU, I started to notice this trend where my readers were taking the main character very literally. In fact, because of that, they really didn’t like her at the beginning and it was hard to win them back. Now, of course this was in part my fault (all things are, look it up), but it also spoke

“gates this movie came out in June” shut up, I watched it three days ago   Tim Goode / PA Images via Getty Images I have loved F1 since Drive to Survive became my comfort show in 2020. Picture this—you’re an 18-year-old film student who moved away from home for the first time only to almost immediately get put into lockdown where you’re confined in isolation to a room the size of a walk-in closet. Now imagine you’re watching a bunch of cars going Real fast. Not so bad, huh?

I promise its not just me In March of 2020 Nintendo released a game for the Switch called Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH). Like many others, I was stoked for this game—I was literally counting down the days like it was Christmas. We were all still fresh into Covid lockdown, and along comes this new addition to an iconic franchise about hanging out with your neighbours and spending time outdoors.  It was perfect. But was it? Once the fresh glow of a new Animal Crossing ga