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llyzabeth

aka Elizabeth Wallace. Full-time graphic designer, part-time book reviewer and violinist. Slightly weird, usually nice, occasionally grumpy, always preoccupied.
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Binary System Podcast
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Binary System Podcast #344 – The Birthday Edition from Mammoth Cave

It’s a Binary System Birthday Edition as we’re joined by sister and frequent guest Hannah in the wilds of Kentucky! (“Wilds” meaning “a very nice Vrbo with wiFi and a fireplace.” Except we only get Netflix in the upstairs bedroom. Like SAVAGES.) Listen in as we discuss our first trip back to Mammoth Cave in

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – The Magic Order Volume 3, #6

“…Cordelia’s side has a terrible curse so I’d recommend joining the winners…” It’s the end of arc three! Keep reading for a review of The Magic Order 3, issue #6. Massive, great big spoilers below. I tried to write this review spoiler-free, but it was too annoying. So the Uncle Edgar plot line is on

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TV & Movies
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Binary System Podcast – The Text-Only Travel Edition Strikes Back!

On account of holiday traveling (which was mercifully quick and painless; shout out to anyone still stuck in an airport) this week’s episode is text only! KathrynLast Night Vale recap of 2022… …feels like we need a more auspicious beginning to the episode ElizabethHeh, I tried to think “auspicious” and just went with “all caps”

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Cosplay
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First Stop Cosplay – not just another cosplay company

I think a lot of us have seen those fly-by-night cosplay companies, the ones with janky websites full of mass-produced costumes and props that disintegrate before you can walk inside the convention center. That is not what First Stop Cosplay is about. First Stop Cosplay wants to support the cosplay community with products and tutorials

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – The Magic Order Volume 3, #5

“…because this is what happens when you mess with my family, dickweed…” Keep reading for a review of The Magic Order 3, issue #5. Minor spoilers below. We still have three storylines on pause this issue: Sammy Liu’s questionable use of his powers, Leonard and Salome’s hunt for “The Puzzle” that killed her father, and

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Art
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DesignerCon 2022 Photo Gallery

It was great to get back to DesignerCon this year (I didn’t get to go last year, and of course nobody went in 2020) and soak in all the gorgeous, surreal, mind-bogglingly weird art. Here’s what caught my eye on Saturday! (I’ve put an instagram address on every photo, but if I mislabeled something please

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Comic Books
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Review – I Hate Fairyland #1 (2022)

(Heads up: spoilers below for the previous series!) Four years ago Gertrude, the psychopathic 30-something stuck in the body of a cute little six-year-old, finally escaped Fairyland. Decades of some truly horrific (and most of the time completely unnecessary) bloodshed were over, and Gert finally got to go home. …where she wakes up as a

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Comic Books
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The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country returns in 2023

More Sandman comics are on their way! Here’s the official PR article from DC about Nightmare Country and more! DC’s ‘The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country’ Comic Book Series Returns in 2023 with ‘Nightmare Country – The Glass House’ ‘The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country’ Vol. 1 to Simultaneously Publish as a Collectible Hardcover and a New-Reader-Friendly

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