So, in my post about riderless horses, I mentioned that Emma, the pony looking so lonely at Windsor, is a Fell Pony. (Note that the U.K. announcer said she was probably a Highland. He was wrong). And I suspect most readers of this blog have no idea what a Fell…

…regardless of medium. I saw somebody being Judgy McJudgeface over the Barbie movie. They’re a science fiction fan. When I was in high school, my English teacher told my parents to throw out all of my science fiction books and replace them with classics. Science fiction was dumb literature that…

The Queen is dead. If you watched her body being moved to Westminster to lie in state, you will have noted the riderless horse ahead of the procession. During the procession to Windsor, at one point a forlorn looking Fell pony, fully tacked but bearing only one of the Queen’s…

There’s an interesting subgenre that encompasses many things within itself. That subgenre is the “Weird Western.” A weird western has to be set in the American West, and it has to have speculative elements. The most famous example of weird west is probably Wild Wild West, which is the steampunk…

King Charles III is taking some getting used to. But he’s starting to make his own stamp on the monarchy already. And it’s one that’s causing controversy. Why? Because it has to do with Harry and Meghan’s kids. Harry and Meghan have two children, Archie and Lilibet. Until the death…

White people, stop. There are all kinds of “hot takes” circulating about the casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in the live action The Little Mermaid. Many of them are rehashes of the arguments that were maid when she was first cast. …

First of all, I’m not fat. I’m heavier than I used to be and heavier than I like being (mostly because I ride and don’t want to inflict these extra pounds, which I blame on perimenopause, on the horses). But I’m still not fat. At the same time, the vast…

There are some very basic human stories that we tell over and over again. One of them is technically called the courtship narrative, but is more simplistically “Boy meets Girl.” (Or girl meets girl, or…) The courtship narrative is what makes a romance a romance. …

Not everyone has a closed marriage. Some people have a relationship agreement that allows for certain activities outside of their primary relationship. This is a form of consensual nonmonogamy. Contrary to popular understanding, people in these relationships can still cheat. There are typically rules. For example, a rule might be…