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To Kill a Mockingbird. 1984. Lord of the Flies. Fahrenheit 451. You’ve probably read them in your middle or high school English classes, maybe even several times. These are just a few of the numerous books we consider to be classics today, worthy of a place on everyone’s bookshelves as we reread and discuss them in book clubs and classes time and time again. So what about these books makes them worthy of being timeless classics? What do they all have in common that makes us...

Tuesday, October 11th, marks National Coming Out Day (NCOD) here in the US! It was first celebrated in 1988 on the one year anniversary of the National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights. When faced with harassment, rather than responding negatively LGBT rights activists responded with NCOD to share positivity and celebration within the community and those around. In 1990 the group behind the day merged their efforts with the Human Rights Campaign and has been partnered with them ever since. Today, it’s not only celebrated in the United States but in a few other countries...

It’s spooooOOOOooOOoooOOOOOOky season!!! Corn mazes, haunted houses, scary or campy movies (depending on your taste), and pumpkin spice everything - what’s not to love? Not only that, but we have the perfect release for October: full of witches and vampires and trolls and shapeshifters and all kinds of magic, the fourth installment of Adrian J. Smith’s Quarter Life series drops on October 1st!

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Faye gets in trouble…again.

Unable to keep herself from feeding her addiction, Faye tries a brand new drug...

Some creators love it, some hate it, and some just pretend it doesn’t exist. Yet regardless of how authors feel towards it, fanfictions are still posted online everyday. Stories about alternate universes, character studies, relationships, filling in gaps the original author left unanswered, or just creating new stories about characters and worlds that so many love. The stories range in length from a few hundred words to multiple novels. Some readers fall in love with these stories so much that they even pay to print and bind the fanfiction into a hard copy book. So why do we...

For those who are fans of Pixar or believe that Chris Evans is the superior Hollywood Chris, you know that the new film Lightyear features a kiss between the character Hawthorne and her wife. The scene was nearly cut from the film, which is disappointing but not surprising given the fact that Disney (which owns Pixar Animation Studios) often censors queer content in their films and tv shows. Ultimately the scene was included in the final cut, causing it to be banned in several countries and generating backlash from homophobes at home. 

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