My new book of Madoka Magica Memories comes out on 4/27. Please preorder it! It’s a collection of essays about Madoka Magica, an anime greatly
Category: 2010s Retrospectives
The 2010s Retrospectives series is a long-form series of blog posts covering the entire decade of the 2010s. I analyze how the 2010s changed the world, changed pop culture, and changed my life, through the lens of whatever random topics I’m feeling like. It’s a real eclectic mix of subjects.

Watching movies with poor internet connections will eventually be a thing of the past. Now that the age of 4G is nearly past, it might
When grassroots campaigns succeed, like Operation Rainfall did, it can feel like people have moved mountains. Three great Wii RPGs actually got localized, actually got

Dark Tower the movie. Geez. Man, can you even really think about how big a flop that film really was? Does anyone whatsoever discuss Dark

Madoka Magica came out 12 years ago, but this winter is especially important for me, because it’s my 10th anniversary with the series. Surprisingly, I

Tiktok did it. It came in a flash—the realization that I, Beatrice Baker, had become an old person. And that was the moment that my

There’s one important thing about Ted Cruz Zodiac Killer as a conspiracy theory. One extremely important thing that people often overlook when asking the question

The Newsroom rant is one of the all-time famous moments from TV in the 2010s. And that’s saying something, because the 2010s were absolutely packed

Now it’s time for a very short post on Nintendo Power Metroid covers. My last post was all about Nintendo Power as a whole, but

I really miss Nintendo Power. It’s almost entirely just nostalgia for the magazine era, but I don’t care. I can have nostalgia when I want,