Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to assemble a team-up of fictional characters in order to pull off the ultimate heist. With Mission Impossible: Fallout hitting theaters this weekend, we’re doing things a bit differently for this week’s five by Friday. Instead of ranking our top five characters, songs, or robots this week, […]
Happy Veterans Day! Today is a day that we honor those men and women who have joined the military and chosen to commit their life to serving their nation. To commemorate the date, we have chosen to highlight characters that to us, exemplify the spirit of fighting the good fight, and who serve their fictional […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! Apparently July 8th has been given the designation of Video Games Day, so we’re talking about our favorite video game protagonists. PC or console, you name a game and between the three of us it’s highly likely that at least one of us has played it. We’ve traveled Skyrim, we’ve wandered Thedas, we’ve somersaulted […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! Today marks a day that’s twenty years in the making! All three of us are enormous fans of Independence Day and alien films in general, and today Independence Day: Resurgence is finally hitting theaters in the US. The original is in common rotation in all three of our households (we tip […]
If you’re anything like me, you can’t get anything done in a soundless vacuum. The opportunity for distraction is far too great. Someone walking by, the sound of construction nearby, a conversation at the next table… no matter where you are, the possibility of your focus being anywhere but on what you’re working on is […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! This week we’re talking about our favorite fantasy and science fiction worlds that we’d actually like to live in. Sure, there are tons of places out there that are exciting to read about, but when it comes down to it you wouldn’t want to set foot anywhere near there. I mean […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! This week we’re talking about robots, artificial intelligence, androids, cylons… all those man-made creations that come with personalities of their own. Science fiction is full of them, and we’re huge fans. So this week we’re taking a look at our five favorites. Join us in the comments or on your own […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! This week’s topic is OTPS! We’ve spent a lot of time discussing some of our favorite non-romantic pairings (drift compatibility, anyone?), but we’ll admit we have huge soft spots for our favorite OTPs. Our top pairings span movies, televisions, and books, but no matter the media they all have one thing in common: solid, trusting […]
This article contains spoilers for the Mass Effect franchise. If you have yet to play it, tread carefully! There’s no denying it: Mass Effect is my favorite game franchise of all time. I’ve played the game a ton of times, making different choices along the way. I have played as both renegade and paragon, and […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! Join us in the comments or on your own blog–we’ve even provided a graphic for you, which you can either save to your own space or link from tinypic using the HTML code below. Just remove the asterisks, and you’re all set! This week’s Five by Friday takes a look back at […]