Polygon:
I’m currently an Editorial Intern at Vox Media’s Polygon, where I write video game and entertainment news and analyses. I cover daily news hits and video game explainers, as well longer pieces and essays about media and online spaces. Sometimes they’re serious, sometimes they’re funny, but they always aim to go deeper.
All articles can be found here.
Some highlights include:
Longer Pieces:
- The polarized reactions to Pixar’s ‘Bao’ are rooted in culture
- The Sims 2’s storytellers showed me how to be a better writer
- The Sims 4 Seasons gets back to what the Sims series does best
- How an ironic, abusive meme drove Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown off Twitter
- Explainers for Pokémon: Let’s Go! and Super Smash Bros Ultimate
News Hits
- Steven Universe honored a relationship and broke ground for LGBTQ culture
- West Virginians are the most excited about Fallout 76
- Donut County lookalike is number one on the App Store
- Greta Gerwig and her Lady Bird cast to make perfect-sounding Little Women movie
Humorous Pieces:
- Super Smash Bros. fans are upset about Solid Snake’s butt
- Xbox’s next exclusive is an American Girl doll set
- Everyone’s in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate … except Waluigi
- Mario Tennis Aces characters, ranked by the internet
Mashable:
From January to May of 2018, I served as a Web Culture Editorial Fellow at Mashable, where I covered a range of quick hits and longer pieces.
All articles can be found here.
Some highlights include:
Longforms
- An investigation into Finder Spyder, television’s most used fake search engine
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Bicycle-powered Lego Millennium Falcon took to the streets of NYC for Star Wars Day
- An ode to the wonderfully wholesome world of ‘Sesame Street’ Twitter
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A gift guide for graduates that’s full of things they actually want
- 7 animated feature films that deserved more attention than their Oscar competition
- A very serious and extremely important ranking of Olympic mascots
Quick Hits
- This 87-year-old grandma makes the most amazing art in Microsoft Paint
- A tennis-playing Chain Chomp is the true star of last night’s Nintendo Direct
- Mexican Olympic skier finishes last but still gets a hero’s celebration
- Delightful Japanese mascot has a necessary need for an airport’s baggage claim
The Independent Florida Alligator:
Editorials:
In the Spring of 2017 (Jan-April), I served as the Opinions Editor for The Independent Florida Alligator. In addition to managing a team of columnists, I wrote the daily editorial.
Some highlights include:
- Memes and Dada
- PBS Kids’ Arthur
- The (actual) future of dystopian United States
- Why it’s important to remember you’re going to die
Columns:
In the Falls of 2016 and 2017, I wrote a weekly column for The Independent Florida Alligator.
All columns can be found here.
Some highlights include:
- On being multiracial
- Hurricane memes
- Not knowing what you want out of life
- Making friends in the online world
- Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Why the NBC broadcast has failed the Olympic message
HerCampus:
From August of 2014 to May of 2016 (and then again in Fall 2017), I was a features writer for my university’s chapter of HerCampus, an online magazine written by women for women.
All my HerCampus Articles can be found here.
Some highlights:
- 7 Things That Are True When Your Sister Is Cooler Than You
- The Definitive Ranking of Jane Austen Men
- Learning to Love my Body Hair
- If Jane Austen Heroines Went to UF…
Fiction:
Various works of fiction I have had published or have hosted on other types of blogs.
- Five Fights
- Summer Nights
- Enter the Labyrinth (Project for Camp NaNoWriMo, which essentially is an attempt at a novel written in a month)
- Other Projects