When Fiction and Reality Collide
I think one of my favorite cliches about the “Ruthless Character with a Heart of Gold” is to what lengths authors might go to show no,… Read More »When Fiction and Reality Collide
I think one of my favorite cliches about the “Ruthless Character with a Heart of Gold” is to what lengths authors might go to show no,… Read More »When Fiction and Reality Collide
If book sales in the past decade are any indication, there exists a significant faction of readers out there who view stalking, obsession, and controlling… Read More »Symptoms of a Sociopath
This is the very first Average Everygirl comic I drew. In fact, it’s where her name originated. I had taken to doodling plot points that… Read More »How It Should Have Ended
Alas. Logic brings a swift death to romance. Goodbye, unjustified Urgency of Choice! Today’s installment pokes fun at what is, perhaps, my biggest beef with… Read More »Choice is but an Illusion of Power
TVTropes.org lists 13 different types of Triangle relationships. The possibilities, when those relationships get used in tandem with additional characters and sub-triangles, are seemingly endless.… Read More »Relationships founded in Delusion
I’m not going to say that the Love Triangle is a hallmark of sloppy storytelling, per se, but lately it’s been the Hamburger Helper of… Read More »The Love Triangle: Choose Wisely, or Else
This comic closes the Hot Guy series, though we certainly haven’t seen the last of him. As I’ve already ranted said my piece regarding this particular… Read More »To Blush or Not To Blush
This is one of those scenarios I can smell from a mile away: the smart, put-together heroine taken off-guard by her potential love interest. Awkward… Read More »Career in the Rearview Mirror
Why? Why, why, WHY? Oh, why is this trope so pervasive, especially in chick-lit? Do we delight in watching fictional women reduce to babbling incoherence… Read More »The Hot Guy: A Trope to Set a Girl’s Teeth on Edge
I’ll admit it. I went through obsessive periods of reading when I was a teenager. I had my Montgomery phase, my Christie phase, my Austen… Read More »Obsession Ad Absurdum