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21st Century TV: The Age of the Title Sequence

How many of us watch opening credits anymore? Over the decades we’ve seen credits decline from a 3+ minute staple at the beginning of a...

GIF It Good: Reaction GIFs (Part Five - The Final Installment)

[Be sure to check out part one, two, three, and four in this series!] Here we are, friends! The final leg of the race. Although, if this...

Fic things: What’s Up With That Strange!Bang?

A few weeks ago I received an email from an editor I’m working with that had “Urgent” written in the subject line. Always a great way to...

GIF It Good: Grab-Bag GIFs (Part Four!)

[Be sure to check out part one, two, and three in this series!] Now, before we finish this series off with GIFs primary function—as a...

GIF It Good: GIFs as Fics and Storytellers (Part Three!)

[Be sure to check out part one and two!] Groundhog Day much? Haven't we already been here before? Sure, the GIFs I talked about in our...

GIF It Good: The Intersection of GIFs and Memes (Part Two!)

(Part One of this series on GIFs can be found here.) In my previous blog post I gave a basic run-down on GIFs, specifically how we use...

GIF It Good: Unpacking the Tumblr GIF (Part One!)

Recently I had a paper published on Harry Potter GIF-sets, examining some of the work that GIFs----particularly tumblr GIFs----do to...

A Poor Use of Paratexts: How Much Are You Judging Your Book By Its Cover?

Did anyone else go through phases as a kid where there was such a thing as too much popularity? Where somehow instead of wanting to fit...