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.

Purposely ignoring the aspec is intentional and when it isn’t spurned or sidestepped, aromantics are frequently left out while negative assumptions are made about asexuals. — With Pride Month here, and my first one since coming out in December 2022, something keeps popping up in my brain that I think is finally cohesive enough to fling onto the Internet like wet socks into the dryer. Young people are intentionally kept in the dark about asexuality and…

A hyper-realistic portrayal of ADHD, this movie is even indicative of it on a meta level with multiple themes and genres. An accidentally realistic tax audit scene caps an underdiscussed aspect of ADHD as well. — Earlier this year, I wrote for Wealth of Geeks about the things that movies and TV tend to get wrong about taxes, audits, and how the IRS interacts with the public. 3 Things Movies and TV Get Wrong About Taxes and IRS Enforcement | Wealth of Geeks The United States didn't start collecting income tax on residents' incomes until 1913. It largely only affected the…wealthofgeeks.com

Mid-budget movies were a veritable way for actors to expand their range and avoid being typecast. So why did they die out? — There seems to be this stark duality for filmmakers nowadays. Hollywood is only banking on movies based on renowned franchises with utterly colossal budgets. But as I was informed by my professors when I got my film producer certificate in 2021, there’s more opportunities than ever for indie and low-budget…

Why do people keep using this phrase when it actually reflects frustration and fear of the present moment rather than the unknown? — Maybe it’s just my neurodivergent ex tax law practitioner brain at work here: we get overly analytical and consider literal definitions of concepts and the wide interpretations they have. Especially if you handled tax controversy and audit defense. I do not miss my old field, but some parts are just…

Today, people think of fandoms as groups of “stans” that can be milked by corporations or force change with their voices and wallets. But online fandom was once the realm of a dedicated few. — With my ADHD medication evaluation coming up, I had to fill out some paperwork that would expedite the process. I laugh-snorted at one of the questions about memory. I went through it with a friend who also has ADHD, and I sardonically noted, “Please. I can remember entire plots of…

Traumatic experiences, disappointing patterns, and all-around discontent and disconnect can put you off sex and/or relationships. But how do they play into aspec identities? — I just read a piece the algorithm recommended to me by a queer writer who is apparently frustrated that “cishet people can now just claim they’re queer by putting some gray stripes next to their names, when you’re just like everyone else except you’re traumatized!”