Recently, WWAC writer Ray Sonne took one for the team and tried out Thinx, period-proof underwear. This got a conversation going about the type of menstruation products out there, and what this usually means for WWAC is “start a roundtable!” In fact, this topic got so many of us going that lifestyle editor, Ginnis, had…
Apps We Love
This past month for lifestyle, we talked a lot about helpful and favorite apps. Both Melinda and Catie reviewed meditation apps, while Jessica talked about the productivity app Trello. At the beginning of the month, Ray reviewed Litsy, a book app. I then asked for a few more recommendations for apps we love, especially ones…
What We’re Playing: Gardens, Interior Design, and More
The WWAC Games section chats a lot about the games we’re all currently obsessed with, and it’s not just Stardew Valley (though a lot of our talk has been about the gardening game). Here’s a sneak peek into the games consuming our time and what we’ve been talking about behind the scenes.
Seek Higher Things: 4 Takes On The 100 Season Finale
After a controversial season that saw the deaths of major lesbian and black male characters, season three of the CW’s apocateen drama, The 100, ended with torture, sacrifice, and the start of another nuclear apocalypse. Surprisingly low on mass murder, though! The 100 is a regular subject of complaints—and sometimes compliments!—in WWAC’s Slack, so I thought…
6 First Impressions of AMC’s Preacher
AMC’s television adaptation of the classic 90s Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon comic debuted this week. Preacher‘s debut drew “modest ratings” this past Sunday night and trended briefly on Twitter. Is the comic too 90s for adaptation at this point? Did the material, known for being, uh, risqué, translate well from page to screen? Six WWAC…
Comics Are For Everyone, Or So We Say: Goodbye, Comics and Cola
For the past five years, Comics and Cola has been a reliable source of information, connection and reflection upon… comics. Very little Cola content. But Zainab Akhtar has had enough of the Islamophobia that’s permeated comics so blazing since #jesuisCharlie, and before and after that, and all through everything. She doesn’t want to be a…
Getting Our Hands Dirty in Gardening Games
Games allow us to do a great many things: fly, fight ghosts, garden out of season. While gardening may not be the most magical of skills, nor the most common topic for gaming, it can be almost as rewarding as the real thing when it’s done right with few of the downsides.
Searching for Glendower: Reflecting on The Raven Cycle
In 2012 Scholastic took the Young Adult book world by storm when they published The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, the first book in the new Raven Cycle series. It stared a young girl named Blue Sargent, who lives with her aunts, all of whom are clairvoyant, in a small town. Blue’s life may be unconventional…
Hook Rules! Disney’s NEW Live Action Peter Pan Can Only Drool
The humdrum Cinderella and half-assed Jungle Book weren’t enough — Disney is continuing with its program of turning old cartoons into new live action CGI films with a live action adaptation of Peter Pan. Wait, didn’t we just do this? No, that was Pan, the awkward and unpopular movie with Hugh Jackman as Captain Hook and…
Back to Stars Hollow: A Gilmore Girls Revival Roundtable
After much speculation and back and forth, the Gilmore Girls (GG) revival is finally underway and currently filming. Several of the WWAC GG fangurls, Draven Katayama, Ginnis Tonik, Al Rosenberg, and Kate Tanski sat down, figuratively, to discuss our hopes and dreams for the revival and even share a little flash GG fanfiction!
Returning to the Four Lands: A Shannara Chronicles Roundtable
Season one of The Shannara Chronicles came to a dramatic close, then spiraled into a cliffhanger that promised more adventures in the post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Based The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks, the show takes us on the journey of half-elf Wil Ohmsford (Austin Butler), human rogue, Eretria (Ivana Basquero), and the elf princess,…
