Seconds turn into a minute. As his eyes slit, and his new reality begins to hit him like a train. He sees his driveway below him, but his feet don’t touch it. They are far above it in the air. His window is a few feet behind him. Nothing supports him, yet he still stands up in the air. His body feels as if it weighs nothing at all. 

“Okay, what do I do now?” he asks himself while he floats motionless. He thinks back to how he’s seen it in superhero movies. He tries throwing his arms in the air which just makes him look dumb. He then tries to lean forward. That makes him just spin like a wheel. 

“How are you supposed to do this?” he asks while dizzy and frustrated. 

“Make your own momentum,” a voice says. Eve’s body jolts as he looks to find where it came from. Once again, no one is in sight. His body tenses up as he tries to ignore what just happened. He begins to rationalize it by playing it off as a memory. He remembers someone in a superhero show saying that you created your own momentum when flying. You just have to press off of it. 

Eve puts his legs in a squatting position and throws his arms into the air. Then, he throws his arms and legs down. He feels his body get thrown far up into the air. Nothing can stop him. He flies further and further into the sky. He turns his body like you would turn a skateboard to switch directions. He soars through the clouds. His eyes begin to tear up as he’s never seen this kind of view before.  

He struggles to turn but begins to get the hang of it. He is the only person in the world right now who can feel this feeling of exhilaration and excitement. He points himself upwards with his arms wide open. He then closes his eyes and stops thinking while trying to end all the momentum he has so he can fall and land. 

Wind flies past his face as it pulls his hair upwards. His stomach rises to his chest as he falls closer to the ground. He tightens his face as he tries to focus on his flight. He tries to slow his descent down. The more he focuses the less he realizes how close the ground is to him. The less he realizes he’s not slowing down. 

When he opens his eyes, he can see how close the ground is to him. He freaks out and kicks his feet. This launches him forward. He tries to slow down, but nothing is working. He is close enoguh to fly through the streets. Windows break as he breaks the speed of sound.  

“Oh, Shit,” he says as he sees a building in front of him. It’s a small mom and pop shop that he uses to go to with his mom all the time. They used to have some of the best retro games there. The two owners were so sweet to him. They’re a nice old couple just trying to find something to do during retirement. 

This building used to mean so much to him. Now it is a pile of rubble along with the long line of buildings that goes for a few blocks. Eve lays at the end of this trail of destruction. His eyes are wide open as he can’t believe what he has just done. Who knows how many people died in that. He now has blood on his hands all because he got a little too curious.

This is a show I started watching around January or February of this year. I had heard about it so many times on the internet and because of being such an iconic show. I knew slightly what it was about. Old guy cooks meth with some younger guy and lives a double life. Thats about all I knew before watching it. It wasn’t until I started watching it that I found out that it’s so much more than that.

It starts off introducing the main character and his life. He lives a normal life with his family. But, due to a shortage on money, he takes up the mantle of the best meth cook past the border of Mexico. He does this job with an old student of his that went down a very bad path in life. The show if full of suspense and thrilling missions and always kept me on the edge of the seat. It was really fast paced for the first two seasons. I was hooked to the show. I could not stop watching because I had to know what was going to happen next. It seemed really realistic and well written.

Near the end of season three, the show does slow down a lot and takes a little bit to pick up again. This is the moment where I find that many people lose interest in the show and abandon it for a while. That is something that I did too. Eventually, I went back to the show to finish it. I didn’t have much left, so I finished it up pretty fast. I am so glad I made that decision, because now I can call that show one of my favorite shows of all time.

The last two seasons do pick up the pace again and really help you see how twisted the characters have become and how much better some have become since the beginning of the show. The ending was really unique, sad, and amazing all at the same time. I felt like that was a very appropriate ending to the show. Some may be upset by it, but I feel as if it really made sense for how the story went.

I really enjoyed watching this and I definitely will be getting into the spin-off shows shortly. I recommend this show to anybody who hasn’t watched it yet. It may seem like a basic recommendation, but there is a reason people always recommend it.

Superior Spider-Man is probably one of my favorite Spider-Man comics ever. I liked this comic so much that I even wrote a screenplay on it for a creative writing assignment last year. So, now you all have to read my yap about Superior Spider-Man.

It first came out in the 90s and was left alone for a while until the better version of it was made in 2013. It starts off with Spider-Man going to meet a dying Otto Octavius (who had been known to be reformed). He wanted to say goodbye before Otto died. They were talking to each other for a while until one of Otto’s robots rose and stabbed Spidey in the neck with a needle. That needle transferred Otto’s brainwaves to Spidey’s mind, and Sidey’s brainwaves to Otto’s mind. So, this meant that peter was now in Otto’s dying body and Otto was now Spider-Man and Peter died.

Otto was ready to ruin the name Spider-Man, but instead he saw all of Peter’s memories. His happiness, his struggles, his family, and his reason for being a hero. This changed Otto. Otto still was cocky and had his personality, but he had Peter’s ambitions. He was ready to be spider-Man. But he was going to be a Superior Spider-Man.

Otto quickly got to doing Spidey work. The only problem was, he had no idea the extent of Spider-Mans power. So, when he fought Scorpion first, he knocked his jaw off with one punch. That obviously killed Scorpion. That made Otto realize that Peter could’ve killed him at any moment, but instead pulled his punches. He saw Peter as weak because of that. That gave him one more reason to think he was Superior. 

He continued his work as Spider-Man. All he did was beat villains to a pulp. The public saw this and started to hate Spider-Man. He was no longer the Friendly-Neighborhood Spider-Man they knew. He hated that. He started to feel less superior and tried to fight more crime.

At some point, the Green Goblin started a rampage on the city. Doc Ock had to try and save the whole city from him. This was when he realized that he just wasn’t good enough. Then, he heard Peter’s voice in his head. A part of Peter lived on in his mind and was fighting to take back control. Him and Octavius then had a conversation, and Octavius agreed to give Peter his body back. This was the end of Otto Octavius and thus, the old Spider-Man was back to save the day.

Subnautica is a videogame that released its early access in 2014. It’s an underwater horror/adventure games where you swim around an alien ocean collecting materials to find a way to get off of the planet.

I played this game last year with my friend who begged me to get it. I had already known what it was due to my favorite youtubers playing it when I was younger. I also had it already; I was just too scared to play it. I was scared of the big open ocean that I had to explore. But, because of my friends begging, I played it anyways.

When I got into the game, I started off in a shallow area where I could collect basic materials without much risk. I was even scared of that part, but I still played because I knew there was a story to the game. I eventually progressed so much that I had a submarine and could go to the deep ocean where there was a lot of scary sea creatures. I was freaking out throughout the entire time I was playing, but I had so much fun. It had me thinking a lot and was a very beautiful game. It had a bunch of journal entries and data logs around the map that gave you some lore about the things that happened on that planet. Some of the aliens there weren’t even from that planet.

There were voice logs and crashed life pods everywhere that gave so much lore about the company that got the main character there. The main character isn’t even important to the overall story kind of. He’s just a janitor that just so happened to survive the crash landing and to something that really developed the whole story. What he does at the end of the game is really the only thing he does that contributes to the story. The rest of it is just him being vessel for the player to use to figure out the story and play the game. I thought that was really interesting.

Subnautica was a very big part of my early 2024. I loved going home to play that game knowing that I was closer and closer to finishing a masterpiece. I eventually downloaded the spin-off game and completed that too. All of this to say that YOU ALL SHOULD PLAY SUBNAUTICA. IT IS SUPER DUPER FUN. Also, Subnautica two is coming out soon. After years of waiting, we are finally getting it. So, when it’s here, don’t talk to me because that’s all I will be thinking about.

This weekend, I had the pleasure of going to bot Miscast shows. I wasn’t able to get tickets when they were on sale, so I thought I wasn’t going to be able to attend. Thankfully, I met some really nice people who gave me free tickets. Seeing that show was life changing to me. I have seen your average choir performance before, but that show was something else. Not once have I ever sat down and heard someone sing like that in person. I don’t think a single person did bad. They all sung their hearts out and you could really tell how hard they were working.

The point of Miscast is for people to sing songs that they normally wouldn’t sing. So, girls would sing songs traditionally sung by guys, and guys would sing songs traditionally sung by girls. They all got a chance to come out and sing solo songs and some got to also do duets or quartets. Some people had more theatrical songs that required them to move around and act, and some had less theatrical once that had them just sing their hearts out.

I have heard the vocals practice in the morning with warm-ups and stuff, but I have never heard them go all out. I’ve never even heard my roommate sing like that and he sings in the room all the time. Therefore, it was amazing to see all my friends in vocal and other people sing with their soul and give it their all. It really reminded me how talented people here really are. I was so happy to congratulate all the people who sung and worked on the show. The lights were stunning, the stage was set up nicely, and everybody did great. Except for a few audience members that didn’t know proper theatre etiquette.

I got to meet a lot of parents and new people while I was there too. Everyone was just so sweet. Also, I think the quartet and Keegan Carpenter’s was the best ones. The quartet sounded so nice and fun, and you could really tell they worked hard on it. Keegan is my roommate so I’m very biased, but I was so astonished to see him sing like that. It was so amazing. 

All in all, Miscast was a near lifechanging experience for me. The music was beautiful, it was set up with care, and everybody was nice. I can’t wait for the next vocal event.

For a long time, this question has been floating around regarding the live action Spider-Man movies. So, in this blog I’m going to sort them from worst to best. But when I say worst, I still think he’s good, just not the best one.

Tom Holland

I still really love Tom Holland. I love the movies and everything that this Spider-Man is in. I just don’t think he holds up like the other two. I feel as if his story was rushed a little too much. I see what they were trying to do with not showing his origin, but everything else about it was just strange. It felt like he never got to go through the big struggle of Spider-Man due to everything being given to him by Tony Stark. Yes, he still had to learn how to be a better hero and deal with his mistakes, but other than that, there wasn’t much for him to learn with him basically getting spoiled. The second movie shows him without Tony, but he still used a bunch of Tony’s equipment and had Happy to guide him. The third movie is where I think he does start to really start to feel like Spider-Man with the help of the other two. They did set it up for him to be more like the comic Spider-Man at the end of that movie, thankfully. But recent leaks show that he may still be on the huge multiversal stuff in the next movie rather than street level fights. Hopefully, this isn’t the case.

Tobey Maguire

Tobey Maguire’s portrayal of Spider-Man is pretty comic accurate. He is a really good Peter Parker. He really does encapsulate the nerdiness of Peter. But his Spider-Man, though extremely courageous and a really good hero, just doesn’t give off the Spidey energy. Spider-Man normally has really funny quips that are meant to be corny on purpose. The purposeful corniness of them is what makes them funny. Tobey’s Spidey is really serious a lot. Of course, he does joke around throughout the movies, but it seems like he’s actually trying to be really funny, but they just come off as corny in a bad way. Other than that, he is a really good Spider-Man.

Andrew Garfield

This one may be really biased due to him being the Spider-Man I grew up with, but I just really like him as Spider-Man. He doesn’t give off the nerd vibes, but he does give off the loser vibes of Peter Parker. He’s really awkward and gets bullied a lot. He normally keeps to himself like Peter does in his early years. When he is Spider-Man, he is really funny. He is pretty corny but does add in some real humor to it. I love seeing him beat up villains and mess with them in the process just to annoy them. His movies weren’t written the best story wise, but he seems to me to be an amazing Spider-Man. I also think the villains in his movies are pretty cool. I feel like they were some that most may not have thought to make a movie out of, but they did, and their stories were pretty cool.

Frank Ocean is a music artist that has been making alternative R&B music since 2010. He has won two Grammy’s and one Brit award. His last release was back in 2020 when he dropped two singles. I cannot wait until he finally drops again. In this blog I will be listing my favorite Frank Ocean songs. 

5. Pink+White

This song was featured on an album of his called “Blonde.” This is a slower song that focuses on the music in the background and how they work together. The music mixed with his voice make a beautiful, harmonious mixture of soft melodies that are pleasant to the ears. This is a more calming and positive sounding song. The song is about his cousin that passed away. This cousin was more of a role model for Frank and taught him a lot of things in life. This song memorializes his cousin and shows how much Frank misses him. This song is at fifth place due to the slower pace and the repetition of many parts. This song is still one of my overall favorite songs, as is most of his songs.

4. Super Rich Kids

This song was feature on his album called “Chanel Orange.” This song focuses on Frank’s voice and is mainly telling a story. It is about a rich boy who feels as if he was given too much, and he just want to have a normal life with someone to love. This part of the song repeats multiple times to show his longing for that life. In the middle of the song, he sings about getting that love and hanging out with them while drinking his parents’ wine. Because he is drunk, he ends up joking too much while they are sitting on the roof. He jokes to his love about jumping off the ledge and almost falls, but she catches him. When she catches him, she scolds him. But then his sleeve rips and he fall off the multiple story roof. The part about longing for a normal life then repeats one more time, as if his life is flashing before his eyes. Frank’s tone of voice throughout this song and the background vocals does an amazing job at making you feel his longing for his normal life. This song is in fourth place due to the imagery in this song and the amazing and sad story that is told.

3. Pyramids

This song is also in Chanel Orange. This song focusses on both the background and lyrics. The lyrics are telling a story like many of his other songs, and the background music also has moments where it plays and give the listener more feeling. It tells the story of how black women used to serve a huge role in power in history back in countries like Egypt, and now they are people who get walked are over and mistreated. He compares this story to the tale of Cleopatra and how she became Marc Antony’s mistress and her whole empire lost respect for her. He then talks about a girl in the story who is just a common stripper that “Frank” dates. He tells how she makes him money and she is objectified. I’ve put this one at three due to the message it gives and how pleasing this song is to listen to. This song is ten minutes long, so I put it lower due to that.

2. Novacane

This song is the lead single form his album Nostalgia, Ultra. This song is pretty inappropriate, so I won’t go into detail of what it’s about. I will say it is about the use of drugs and how he feels using them. But this song really amazing. It is one of his most catchy songs that I’ve heard so far. Every time I listen to it, I get it stuck in my head and can’t get it out. Though the premise of the song is inappropriate, this song is very upbeat and really makes feel it, sort of like a drug. This song does a really good job at portraying the drug part through the sound. The catchiness and the Rythm were made to feel like a drug, and it does a really good job at doing that. This song is only at number two because the last one beats all of these combined in my opinion.

1. White Ferrari

This song is also featured on Blonde. This is probably one of his most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. There are so many sounds in the song that work together to make a beautiful melody that I think sound like Heaven. These sounds are hard to put into words, but they do such a good job at portraying the raw and emotional tone of the song. The song is about a past relationship and the pain he feels from it. The lyrics are extremely raw and painful. So much so, you really feel the emotion flowing through you so much, it makes you really want to cry. He travels through the song showing how it feels to love, lose, and grow. This song will be ranked at number one due to the emotions it’s able to convey and the beauty of the lyrics. This will forever be my number one song.

My last blog about this had way too many words, so I decided to do a part two. This one has my favorite character and my least favorite character.

Rex Splode

Rex Splode is a side protagonist that is on the Guardians of the Globe (the Justice League) who can turn anything he touches into an explosive. In the first season, he was funny, but he was not very likeable. His girlfriend was another side protagonist that I will go over soon, and he treated her badly, hence the reason he was not generally liked. He was very cocky and acted tougher than everybody else, but in the second season, he ended up getting a redemption ark that was very likeable. Many redemption arks I have seen have been bland and seem like the show is just trying to make a new likeable character to make more money, but this show makes his redemption ark better, and it makes a lot of sense. He slowly becomes better with time, and an important moment in the show shows him how bad of a person he was, and he realizes something must change before he hurts others. He keeps his cockiness for comedic affect, but he becomes a better hero who is way better to his friends in the end. 

Amber Bennet

An Invincible character overview is not correct until you go over how awful this character is. I am not sure if any of you have watched this show, but if you have, I am hoping you agree with me on this. Amber Bennet is a side protagonist that really feels like an antagonist at some points. She is the girlfriend of Invincible, and she really does not understand his struggle. I have tried to leave out spoilers in this overview but there may be a few here. When they start dating, Mark ends up leaving her alone on their plans a few times because of some important hero work that really needs to be taken care of. Invincible does not tell her that he is a hero in the beginning because he did not want anything to happen. So, you can understand why she gets upset with the constant change of plans, right? Wrong. When the balancing gets so tough for Invincible, he ends up telling her that he is a hero. And instead of finally understanding why he has been leaving her alone so often, she says that she knew he was a hero all along and that she is still mad. All because he was not honest with her. After he tries to explain why this was happening, she shuts him up and breaks up with him. The only reason they got back together was because his dad’s absence was covered up as his dad’s death and she felt bad for him. Thankfully, they finally officially broke up at the end of the second season. I have an undying hatred for this character, and I am so glad she is going to be seen a lot less.