I’m back with another plot re-imagining—sorta. This week I’ll be analyzing teen rom-com Wild Child (2007). It stars Emma Roberts as the spoiled prima donna, Poppy Moore, who gets sent away to an all-girls English boarding school to straighten up her act. I will admit, these kinds of films are my guilty pleasure. Wild Child […]
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Disney’s Upside-Down Magic (2020) is a children’s fantasy based on a book series of the same title. It stars Izabela Rose as Nory, a spunky shapeshifting teen who can’t seem to get her powers right. Nory and her best friend Reina (Seina Agudong) get accepted to the prestigious Sage Academy, a magic school. During their placement
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Gino is tired of living in his older brother’s shadow, much less in his secondhand clothes. Martin is handsome, outgoing and the center of attention–all the things Gino is not. But when Gino meets Dulce at his cousin’s quinceañera, he begins to realize that perhaps to get out of the shadows, he must simply take
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Hi everyone! I’m updating to share that I am now on Youtube! Shantal Creates is a channel that I created as an extension of Shantal Writes, where I hope to share more creative projects in video format. Check out my first video: My Minimalist Workspace Tour. If you’re looking for home office design ideas or workspace inspiration that
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IN TODAY’S NEWS There’s a silent monster Lurking in the spaces we don’t fill Threatening to take up house inside of us And the worry that we won’t make it Like a flame slowly dying We Pray And stay away From each other We lock our doors Arm ourselves with weapons to
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