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Littlewit Philips
Bio
Short stories, movie reviews, and media essays.
Terribly fond of things that go bump in the night.
Stories (78/0)
On Deadlines; or, the Story of Every Essay I Wrote for School. Top Story - December 2021.
In hindsight, it's amazing that I only handed in a late project once across my degree. See, this was my usual approach: If a paper wasn't due until next week, I wasn't going to think about it until next week. When the due date finally arrived, I would sit down with a blank document and poke around at it. I'd usually get distracted by YouTube. At some point, the panic-switch in my brain would flip, and all of the sudden I would surge into some kind of flow-state where words just poured onto the page. A few minutes before the deadline (whether that was 5 PM, 8 AM, or midnight) I would have a finished document.
By Littlewit Philips3 years ago in Education
What It Means When Characters Won't Stay Dead
The scene has now become iconic. Three warriors pursue their captured friends into a forest. Someone else is in the woods. Perhaps it is their great enemy. They gather their strength and prepare to fight, but blinding light renders all of their attacks useless.
By Littlewit Philips3 years ago in Geeks
Making NaNo Work For You (Even if November's Over). Top Story - November 2021.
Before we talk about National Novel Writing Month (aka, NaNoWriMo--a misnomer considering just how international it has become over the years), let's look at the writing habits of three New York Times Bestselling authors.
By Littlewit Philips3 years ago in Journal
"Red Notice" REVIEW
The story goes that there are three golden eggs. Together, they're worth millions of dollars. The problem is that one of them are missing, and the other two are locked up tight. However, the prize money is just too tempting for the world's top art thieves.
By Littlewit Philips3 years ago in Geeks
Read This Comic Before Watching HAWKEYE
Hawkeye has been one of the MCU's weirdest inclusions since his first appearance in Thor all the way back in 2011. He's been kicking around for longer than Bucky/Winter Soldier, longer than Mark Ruffalo has been playing Bruce Banner. And yet, the movies have never really had room for him.
By Littlewit Philips3 years ago in Geeks
Can a Story Save Your Life?. Top Story - November 2021.
Towards the end of the stage musical Hamilton, in a song following Aaron Burr's killing of the titular character, Aaron Burr expresses regret by saying that, "The world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me."
By Littlewit Philips3 years ago in Journal
"Last Night in Soho" REVIEW
Edgar Wright is geek royalty at this point, and it's not hard to see why. You could point to the Cornetto Trilogy, where Edgar Wright collaborated with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to create three wildly different, wildly fun genre flicks. Shaun of the Dead brought an unexpected mix of heart and humor to the zombie genre. Hot Fuzz managed to recreate the magic trick in the format of a police procedural. And they topped it off with The World's End, which remains an absolute joy to this day.
By Littlewit Philips3 years ago in Geeks
The Figure Under a Blanket
When I heard that the lake was haunted, I didn't expect the ghost to look like a figure with a blanket over its head. We'd gotten the tip back in Kentucky, and loaded up into the van. Of course we had Donna, our resident mechanic and the team's muscle. Then there was Larry, the science nerd who could make a bomb out of anything. Jean Paul and Marie, the trained exorcist and resident skeptic respectively. And of course, where would we be without Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, aka Bick, the tuxedo cat who learned how to talk after one of Jean Paul's exorcisms went wrong.
By Littlewit Philips3 years ago in Fiction