I’ve been seeking out the perfect Internet since I could remember. The primordial ooze from whence I came is an era of burgeoning online fandom. From 2009 to 2016, I used a grand total of three websites: DeviantArt (DA), an American art community platform; Tumblr, a blogging platform for Anglophiles, and Twitter, which needs no introduction. At this time, I was a young, weird kid with exactly two friends. Once I was introduced to a roleplaying forum by another weird kids on my bus route, I was off to the races. 

Staff journalist Ian Vansegbrook presents an introspective look at sex shops, and their role both as facets of sexuality and identity, but also as vendors of sex toys.

Media tropes, cinematic metaphors, or simply the common themes which we see across genres of entertainment have engineered the foundational societal understandings of how particular groups of people, genders, or general happenings are presented. The “Bury Your Gays” literary trope, which appeared in the late 19th century, has since entered popular social discussion resulting of the aggressive social outcry which followed the on screen death of popular The 100 character in 2016.