Madisen L. Ray, author & nerd.
Blog posts are from 20-something, pre-pandemic Madisen. Read at your own risk.
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EXPeriencing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Spoiler-Filled Review Pt. 2)
Cover image via. This review/stream-of-consciousness digestion of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is going to be full of spoilers. You have been warned. You can read my non-spoiler review here. There is a lot to unpack in J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne’s play. So much, in fact, that this is less a review and
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EXPeriencing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Review Pt. 1)
Cover image via. I’m a privileged member of the Harry Potter generation. I grew up with Harry and have been reading J.K. Rowling’s books for more than 15 years. When I discovered Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was being released last weekend, I had two thoughts: 1.) How did I not know this was coming
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Re-EXPeriencing My Love of [All] Movies
Cover image via. Two weeks ago the Republican National Convention ended, and I needed a distraction from reality. After looking through my collection of movies I’ve seen a million times, I turned on Netflix to find something else. Criminal Minds didn’t seem appealing; neither did Fixer Upper. So I turned to the movie section and found that
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EXPeriencing the 2016 Tony Awards
Cover image via. At 2 a.m. on Sunday, June 12, 49 people were shot dead and 53 were wounded at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Eighteen hours later, the 70th Annual Tony Awards were held at the Beacon Theater in New York City. On a day where the LGBTQ community—and the United States—was devastated by
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EXPeriencing Overwatch (and Why It’s Better than Team Fortress 2)
Last year I wrote about watching the amazing cinematic trailer for Overwatch. I also noted that while it was an awesome trailer, it looked like a Team Fortress 2 ripoff. I am here to report that after playing Overwatch in its first week, it may have similar elements to TF2, but it’s not a ripoff. In fact, I am having
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EXPeriencing the Rock Clock
I suffer from depression, which, among other side effects, makes it hard for me to get up in the mornings or sit down and write for myself (hence why I haven’t written a blog post in three months). I take generic Prozac to help fight my depression, but even with medication it can still be hard
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EXPeriencing ‘Arrow’
Cover image via. I probably never would have started watching Arrow without having become addicted to The Flash first. Considering The Flash is a spin-off of Arrow, and considering The Flash is so well-written and engrossing, it stands to reason that Arrow should be about as good, too, right? I would say yes, but it’s a slower build up than The Flash. When Arrow started,
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EXPeriencing ‘The Flash’: Season One
Cover photo via MoviePilot. I typically think of myself as a Marvel Universe fan. I immersed myself in Marvel in the early 2000s when I saw X-Men and Spider-Man in theaters. They were fun, had intriguing characters, and everyone was full of powers that I craved as a teenager. (To the point that I was writing
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EXPeriencing Fox’s Monday Lineup (And Saying Goodbye to ‘The Bachelor’)
Cover image via Know Your Meme. I had every intention of bringing my laptop home from work this evening so I could live tweet the second half of The Bachelor and then write a blog post about what I thought of the show four weeks in. That plan was derailed when I kept my TV on
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Completing My Harry Potter Re-Read
Cover image via The Fantasy Forum. When I began my Harry Potter re-read in late September last year, I was convinced it would only take me seven weeks to read the whole series. One book a week. I got that, easy. Wrong. My Harry Potter re-read took me three and half months, from the end of
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