In bringing you that hard-hitting varanid journalism, one picks up some unexpected morsels of life in interacting with big lizards. There’s even more facets to reptile husbandry beyond the care and stewardship of monitor lizards, endangered Komodo dragons, geckos, snakes, and then their amphibious counterparts like frogs, toads, and newts…

Gal and Dino is one-third each live action, stop motion, and cartoon, and 100% adorable silliness that made me temporarily forget my woes. — Having just finished an anime that’s the diametric opposite of this show, Tokyo 24th Ward which is unabashedly political and full of moral quandaries, I found myself laconically browsing through Funimation’s vast offerings in order to satisfy my inner weeb. After paging past numerous shows with the same old themes…

Making and getting lots of phone calls was a raison d’etre for millions of Millennial girls in particular, but once we hit our thirties, the phone became the equivalent of junk mail. Did this have unintended consequences? — Millennials, especially those of us on the older end who were born in Reagan’s second term, are a generation of many dualities. Duality comes up in so much of my work and I always thought it was just because of a vast amount of personal circumstances and life events.

Being on the asexual and/or aromantic spectrum while being cisgender and heterosexual can make you feel isolated from both straight and queer culture. But here’s why we do belong. — I read Matt Mason’s brilliant piece on feeling weird about claiming to be LGBTQIA when you’re cisgender and/or heterosexual, and have been sure of these things most of your life. …

I investigated and debunked the latest stupid manosphere brouhaha chock full of boring and reductive 20th century slut-shaming so you don’t have to! — So there’s this trend on Twitter, Reddit, and now it’s arrived at Medium: “manosphere” chuds who purport to be experts in women’s anatomy and sexuality are trumpeting about “pair bonding”. AskAubry on Twitter braved Reddit and 4chan so we didn’t have to, and yanked up a bunch of rants about so-called pair bonding.

Regardless of your gender identity and sexual orientation, chances are that you didn’t ascribe much to many traditional gender norms in dating if you wound up coming out somewhere on the aspec. — In my Demiromantic Chronicles for The Ace Space that specifically examines grey and demiromantic experiences, I delved into how many aspec folk always knew we were different — but couldn’t quite articulate which axis of our lives MADE us different.

When you come out anywhere on the rainbow, including the grayer side of the aspec, there’s a massive revelation then closure you must have with yourself. — At the time of writing, it’s been a couple weeks since I came out as demiromantic. It’s been a major revelation to me that’s almost as huge as when I found out I have ADHD at 34. In that suddenly, so many things throughout my life now made sense.

A little monitor lizard offers a lesson to humans about determination and having faith. — I keep saying that lizards have so much to teach us, and my amazing monitor lizard Liora keeps proving this over and over again. Last weekend, something very amusing happened in our home. Liora is a Kimberley rock monitor and this species loves to eat a variety of insects in…

Raising a giant lizard from a baby teaches you that trust is a two-way street. — While I’m so stoked that I’m now writing about my lizard husbandry adventures for Reptiles magazine, a dream I had since I was 10 and that I didn’t even see on my 2022 bingo card, I must take a moment to gush and kvell about my baby in a place…