Fire Light - A Short Story
What a sight his sharp scales and spines must be. It was very rare for someone to see him so…openly. It was nice.
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Cat Webling
Mar 17, 20211 min read
What Does It Mean To Be Lucky?
To look at your home
And your hobbies
And think to yourself,
"I love this so much...
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Cat Webling
Mar 11, 20214 min read
Adventure Hooks for Your Next Campaign
When we talk about D&D, we love to talk about mid-adventure things. Characters triumphant in battle, mourning the loss of a friend in a...
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Cat Webling
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Thoughts on Living as a Woman
It's not really something you think about when you're a little kid. I think I only really started thinking about it in school. I went to...
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Cat Webling
Feb 27, 20215 min read
Fanfiction Is a Valid Literary Genre, and Here’s Why
My most popular piece of writing is 4100 words long and has more than 300 views, 39 likes, 7 saves, and 4 comments. I know, I know, that...
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Cat Webling
Feb 25, 20215 min read
The Wonderful Nightmare of Oz
A Review of Disney's Return to Oz (1985).
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Cat Webling
Feb 24, 20214 min read
Mental Renovations
I arrived at my mental archive, ready to pull down the projects of the day, and found the doors barred. No Entry - Renovations in Progress.
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Cat Webling
Feb 20, 20214 min read
The Fandom Dictionary
As with any subculture, fandoms have their own language for referring to the things that their community interacts with or creates. Fans...
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Cat Webling
Feb 13, 20218 min read
The Most Controversial Character in Fanfiction
When Rey was introduced as the protagonist of the new Star Wars trilogy in December of 2015, the internet’s reactions were, predictably,...
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Cat Webling
Feb 10, 202115 min read
Acing an Audition - a Nervous Actor's Guide
A step-by-step guide to the most nerve-wracking part of acting.
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Cat Webling
Feb 7, 20215 min read
What I've Learned in One Year of Freelancing
It’s hard to believe it’s really been a year since I started writing as a job. I’ve been telling stories forever, and when I published my...
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Cat Webling
Feb 6, 20215 min read
The Channel That Lived To Die
On November 15, 2019, YouTube was introduced to something very strange. On a brand-new channel, popular YouTubers Mark Fischbach and...
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Cat Webling
Jan 30, 20214 min read
Why We Love to Hate The “Worst Fanfiction Ever Written”
Ask any fan older than about 18 what the worst piece of fanfiction ever written was, and almost invariably, they will answer with a...
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Cat Webling
Jan 23, 20212 min read
The Game’s Afoot
There’s some debate over what the first “official” fandom was in the modern sense of there being a community cropping up around a...
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Cat Webling
Jan 15, 20213 min read
Checkmate
My mother has a lovely chess set that she kept beneath her bed when I was a little girl. Both sides are carved from pretty green and red...
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Cat Webling
Jan 5, 20215 min read
The Graveyard (A Preview of Fruits and Finery)
This story is a preview of my upcoming short story collection Fruits and Finery, which will be available for purchase on January 19....
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Cat Webling
Jan 3, 20216 min read
Sympathy for the Devil - A Review of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
I'm not usually a huge fan of prequels to a completed series. When this book was announced, I'll admit, I was intrigued but not...
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Cat Webling
Dec 29, 20201 min read
Introducing My New Short Story Collection!
This is a book of beginnings. Some are familiar. The beginning of a gothic cautionary tale, the beginning that they never tell of a...
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Cat Webling
Dec 24, 20201 min read
Happy Holidays
In a time during which nothing else is certain, you would think that the marked passing of time in the form of annual holidays would...
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Cat Webling
Dec 20, 20202 min read
Taking a Guided Tour of the Fangirl Universe
Having been active in fandoms for nearly a decade now, I'm always interested in learning more about the weird, fun subculture that is...
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