Coffee at Leblanc

  I came across this book one late night as I was scouring YouTube. I was looking on Amerie's channel and saw she had a review about this book and watched it. The story of this novel revolved around gaming and game developers intrigued me since I am a game developer myself and I decided to purchase this book some time later. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow   hereby referred to as TTT was written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Penguin Random House. Gabrielle Zevin is best known by her book The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry , but this is my first novel from her. As I previously stated TTT is a story of gamers and game developers. There is no plot to TTT. This is a character driven story. We learn about the lives of Sam Masur, Sadie Green, and Marx Watanabe coming together to create video games. Though the paths that lead these characters together were video games this story is also very much a story about the relationship of three friends. Some might argue that Sam and Sadi...

  Today marks the second annual Black Fae Day. What is Black Fae Day? Black Fae Day is a celebration of representation and diversity in the fantasy genre. The high fantasy genre has taken pop culture status in the past few decades due to properties like Dungeons & Dragons , Final Fantasy, Lord of the Rings , Harry Potter , and Game of Thrones . The holiday was created by Jasmine Le Fleur, Twitter handle @JupiterJazz, as a way to highlight black faces, creators, and fans of these mystical tales.  Black Fae Day was on May 8th last year where cosplayers took off with it, getting it to trend on #2 on Twitter last year on the holiday.  Hundreds of black women and men alike around the globe dressed up like faeries and posted their photos across social media. Some even took going beyond having dedicated photoshoots, picnics, and parties for Black Fae Day. Today, I would like to highlight some of the cosplayers who have dressed up for the day: Firaga Fox is a big gamer with...