Hi book lovers! Hope your week has been snowy and magical or tropical and dreamy, whatever floats your happy boat. I have my last exam Friday, and I can feel the freedom. I’s so close. I also saw Fantastic Beasts on Tuesday and was very surprised at how much I liked it. I have a lot of…
The WWAC Ethical Holiday Shopping Guide
This holiday season, we at WWAC are focusing on handmade/homemade gifts and gifts from indie companies, sellers, or even non-indies that support ethical labor practices. I asked some of our contributors to share their recommendations. Please share your own recommendations, charities, and other means to ethical gift-giving in the comments! – Ginnis
Knit Your Comics: BB-8 Ornament and Chart
On the 12th Day of Christmas my true love gave to me … a BB-8 ornament on a Christmas tree!
Cook Your Comics: Wookiee Life Day Cookiees
The holidays are here again, and this year, we have Star Wars in the mix. The big holiday in the Star Wars universe is Wookiee Life Day, as first depicted in 1978’s so-bad-it’s-not-remotely-good The Star Wars Holiday Special. Despite LucasFilm’s best efforts to erase it from the world’s collective memory, the legacy of The Star…
Merry Scary Christmas: The Wolfman and The Wolf Man
“Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.” — original poem written for The Wolf Man In 2010, when I watched The Wolfman in the theater, I’d never seen the 1941 original The Wolf Man….
Drink Your Comics: Marvel Holiday Comics
Drink Your Comics is wrapping up the year with a tribute to Marvel’s Christmas comics which include villains like Venom Claus, and even Hydra Claus amidst stories titled “A Spider-Man Christmas Carol,” “Catastrophe on 34th Street,” and “The Night Before X-mas” and were either written for or collected into a variety of holiday specials. Fortunately, Al and Kate…
WWAC Talks Self-Care and the Holidays
We started this month with Jamie’s Guide to Less Stressful Holidays, which was followed by Robin’s tips for fighting seasonal affective disorder. In this article, Desiree, Catie, Cathryn, Jamie, and Robin talk about the importance of self-care to your mental and physical well-being during the holiday season.
X-Files Gift Guide for the Holidays, or Just in Celebration of the Revival
If the 2016 X-Files revival in January isn’t enough justification for you, Ginnis and Kate have cobbled together a holiday gift guide for the X-philes in your life, including you because you are in your life, right? Okay, just get your wallet ready.
Jamie’s Guide To Less Stressful Holidays
Listen… Do you hear what I hear? The distant sleigh bells coming ever closer… the hoofbeats of reindeer… The inexorably shambling footfalls of shopping mobs… It can only mean one thing. They’re coming. They’re coming! They’re almost here! Are you ready for the holidays?! Are you ready for the stress that inevitably comes with them? Yes, the…
Holiday Gift Guide For Trekkies
Your prime directive this year: finding the perfect gift for that special Trekkie in your life. Will you boldly purchase a wearable item? Or maybe you’d rather give a decorative piece to hang in their ten forward? We’ve compiled a list of Star Trek themed gifts that we would happily accept this holiday season, and you…
Top Ten Holiday Movies
Ok, we lied. We’re counting down our Top 12 Holiday Movies, because we couldn’t stop at just ten. So you’ve unwrapped your gifts, had your breakfast of cookies and ‘nog, and now you’re settling in for the time-honoured tradition of avoiding your family until turkey. Have we got some distractions for you! 12. Hogfather It’s Hogswatchnight, when…
