I’ve always been a big fan of animation and cartoons. And with the recent boom of cartoons featuring queer-coded characters, or just straight up queer characters, it’s never been a better time to enjoy cartoons. My latest article over at Hard Drive is all about the relationship between the fans of these cartoons and who they’re really for.
I’m absolutely obsessed with social media videos about making food like those from Tasty and the Bon Appétit test kitchen cinematic universe. But I’m the first to admit that sometimes the recipes they make are a bit … odd. So I let that love and strange fascination guide me in my latest short list that’s over at Points in Case.
It’s a new year, which means basically nothing since time is a social construct and doesn’t really exist! But as usual, it’s a great time to look forward and plan for things that might or probably won’t happen in the days to come. Meanwhile, Weekly Humorist is still looking back at the last year and it included one of my articles in its Best of 2019 roundup!
Yes, it’s a terrible pun and I fully acknowledge that. But I’ve recently joined the hilarious and awesome folks over at Hard Drive, an offshoot of The Hard Times, where I’ll be writing funny articles about video games and general nerd shit. My first article went live today and it’s dedicated to all my fellow gaymers!!
I wasn’t the best physics student and at one point I was failing the class completely. But thanks to my cunning technique of “tricking” my parents into thinking my high school boyfriend was tutoring me in the class I was able to bounce back. (We actually did study a lot, we were just playing footsie under the table). Now I’m here to tell you that those laws of physics apply to writing as well! My latest is up at Points in Case!
I always wanted to write for Lifehacker, but I know a grand total of zero life hacks. So I did what I do best and made some up! Like most people who grew up obsessed with video games, D&D and mythology, I used to read a lot about the Medieval Era, which of course meant reading about the Bubonic plague. So here’s my tips and tricks on how to NOT contract the plague at Weekly Humorist!
People have been responding to my Twitter jokes a lot lately, which must mean that I’m funny! A tweet of mine that satirizes people who freak out when a celebrity relationship ends was included in a Twitter roundup on the new comedy site, Funny-Ish.com! You can follow me on Twitter for more silliness and queer comedy @CRelyea12!
I was never a very “outdoorsy” child. In fact, I would do everything I could during the summers to spend as much time as I could inside playing video games. So it’s come as a bit of a surprise to myself that in the past year, I’ve grown extremely fond with spending time hiking in the mountains of upstate New York. But with hiking comes the need for gear, and sometimes that gear needs to be broken in. So I offered some of my sage advice on how to break in hiking boots over at Points in Case!
When I was little, I had resisted helping my mom and sisters in the kitchen for a while because I wanted to play Kingdom Hearts and Legend of Zelda. I eventually came around to learning to bake but within the past few years, I’ve really taken to the hobby and learned how to bake bread and all sorts of new treats. I recently discovered, while watching a baking show, that it is RIDICULOUSLY easy to make butter of your own at home. So I wrote about it for Popular Science, but have no fear, the article’s still pretty funny.
Like a lot of millennials, I’ve had panic attacks thinking about what my future will be that eventually lead me to looking at different graduate school programs. Which normally means I look at different writing and acting MFAs when I’m in the throes of my existential panic about the future. But I still have honestly no idea what exactly an MFA is? To illustrate this, I wrote some of my assumptions down over at Weekly Humorist!
This college admission scandal has spread like wild fire across social media. I was able to get my hands on some sample ACT questions that were part of the scam, which you can find at Little Old Lady Comedy.
We’ve all faced a life-threatening situation at least once in our lives. So we should always remind everyone in our social media circles that we are safe after we’ve liked a 4-year-old photo on our new crush’s Instagram while deeply stalking him. Enjoy some life-threatening scenarios in my latest piece at Points in Case!
You know that feeling you have when you have too many tabs open? Like if you don’t read all of these articles and stories that you’ve opened for the day, you’re missing out on becoming a better person? I think that’s something we all experience every day. Sometimes to help me cope with too many tabs, I step back and look at what those articles are really saying. So here’s a list of honest headlines for those unread articles over at Points in Case.
So many people, myself included, in the millennial generation are shackled to debt and loans that seem almost impossible to pay off. With rising interest rates, debt forgiveness disappearing and default around every corner, it’s no wonder the millennials are the first generation to see less wealth than their parents. But just because you sold your soul to the lord of the underworld or whatever demon currently owns your eternal being doesn’t mean there’s no way out! I lay out some advice on how to get out from underneath that demonic anvil in my latest satire piece at The Billfold!
It’s the holidays, which of course means spending time with the family and gorging myself on all sorts of good food. Of course, that also means some family member will spill some deep, dark secret they’ve held on to for years. I always knew there was something fishy going on during the holiday season. Find out all the family truths in my latest article over on Robot Butt.
After several months of writing, rewriting, submitting and sacrificing goats, I’ve finally found a home for this piece. This piece speaks to a particular frustration we’ve all experienced at some point or another in our lives. I mean, how hard is it to find a good sidekick these days!? All I’m asking is this random teenager sacrifice literally everything for me so I can have all the glory of saving the day, is that so much to ask? If you’re interested in helping me out, you can check out my job posting for a sidekick over at Weekly Humorist.
I love movies especially when they have a strong, queer bent to them. Most of the time, Hollywood doesn't do the best job of representing the diverse stories of the queer community, so here is my idea of what studio execs think queer people want to see. You can read about all of the new, hit queer cinema that will probably be coming out in 2019 at Points in Case.
I have always been slightly terrified of the apocalypse in any form: giant asteroid striking the Earth, the supervolcano under Yellowstone exploding, Godzilla. So I've harnessed that fear and wrote an open letter to the Robots that will eventually replace us all, which you can read over on Robot Butt.
I'll be posting new writing that doesn't get professionally published on Medium from now on. Here's a link to my first piece "Editors' Responses To My Unpaid Invoices."
I recently experienced the strange torture that is having a social media post of mine going viral. It was included in a roundup of tweets on the queer news site, PinkNews. You can check out the article here and follow me for more gay comedy on Twitter @CRelyea12.