Megan at A Geeky Gal is currently hosting the 30 Day Geek Out Challenge and I decided to give it a go myself this month as well! Continue reading
Blog Birthday Tag
It’s A Geek Girl’s Guide’s birthday! Happy four years to this little blog of mine. And you bet sharing a birthday with Harry Potter was intentional. So to celebrate today, here is a tag all about the blog! Continue reading
Real Neat Blog Award
I was tagged with a Real Neat Blog Award by Ashlee at Her Geekery! Continue reading
Emoji Charades Review
I have had a lot of fun playing party games with friends and family over the years. And it is always great to see a new one to try, especially if you’ve been playing the same ones for a while. So when I got sent Emoji Charades, I definitely wanted to try it. Continue reading
Favorite Unconventional Fandoms
I saw this post from Mickey at Nerdily and decided I wanted to give it a go since I do have the less popular fandoms I love. Some fandoms have more of the spotlight than others, so why not share to smaller and unexpected ones you love?
The Backlog Tag
Back with another tag, but this time it is of my own creation! Us geeks always have a backlog of things we want to watch, read, or play. So let’s talk about my backlog. Continue reading
Video Games to Play Based on Your Zodiac Sign
Zodiac, to me, is a fun thing to look into and maybe get some momentary insight. I don’t take it super seriously myself, but I thought it would be a fun post idea to recommend games based on your zodiac. Continue reading
Underrated Disneyland Attractions
This week is the official anniversary of the opening of Disneyland. July 17th to be exact. So today I am sharing my favorite underrated attractions at the park. Continue reading
My Hogwarts Story Tag
In order to get back into the swing of blogging, I’ taking on some new tags to share! And since July is a very magical month, I’m doing My Hogwarts Story Tag. Continue reading
Idle Theme Park Review
I have been playing a lot of idle mobile games lately. Idle mobile games are games, most often a tycoon or simulator style, that will continue to play while you are offline. Usually, the offline gameplay is just resource generation. So this particular game is all about managing a theme park. Continue reading
Thank You, Next Book Tag
It has been a while since I have done a book post, so when I was tagged in the Thank You, Next Book Tag by Holly from the Nut Free Nerd, I decided to give it a go. Thank You, Next is inspired by the Ariana Grande song “thank u, next”. So if you’ve ever heard the song, you’ll see where these prompts came from. Alright, onward to the tag! Continue reading
The Fictional Characters Tag
Emily from Monsterlady’s Diary created this Fictional Characters Tag, so I decided to give it a go and share some of my favorite characters across many fandoms. Continue reading
First Look: Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Alright, witches and wizards, it is officially here! Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the latest Portkey Games and Niantic game which released this past weekend. I have spent the majority of the weekend trying it out and this post I will be sharing my first impressions of the game! Continue reading
Field Trip: Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas! I spent some time there during my vacation and decided to share the things I did while visiting so you can get a peek at what a trip to Vegas can be like. Continue reading
Field Trip: Silver Dollar City
On my recent vacation, I got to spend some time at Silver Dollar City, which is a theme park located in Branson, Missouri. Since I am used to the Disney parks, getting to see a whole new park to me was a lot of fun. So I’m going to dive into my trip and share my experience. Continue reading
25 of My Most Favorite Things
Happy Birthday to Me! Yes, today is my birthday! I’m officially a quadranscentennial, which sounds like an awesome dystopia cyborg. So for today’s post, I’m sharing 25 of my most favorite things in honor of, well me! Continue reading
First Look: The Avant-Guards
The Avant-Guards is a comic from BOOM! Box about Charlie, a former sports star and transfer student to the Georgia O’Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics. While struggling to find her way around and her place among the student body, she gets recruited to the not-so-good basketball team. Continue reading
Favorite Broadway Musicals
This Sunday is the Tony Awards, which is Broadway’s biggest night. To celebrate, I’m sharing my favorite musicals with you all in this post. Let’s raise the curtain, shall we? Continue reading
Monument Valley Review
Monument Valley is a relaxing puzzle mobile game from ustwo studio where you play as Ida, who must solve the monument puzzles to unlock her story. From the outside, it looks like a very simple game, but there is much more to it once you begin playing. Continue reading
Board Games for Non-Gamers
If you’re a fan of board games, you know how hard it can be to get others to play games with you if they don’t also enjoy board games or their extent of games is Cards Against Humanity and Monopoly. However, there are some great games to help you on your quest to play games with your non-gaming friends. Continue reading
The World Next Door Review
I recently finished playing The World Next Door, which is a narrative-driven, action-adventure game. We play as Jun, a human that wins a special lottery to visit the planet Emrys. However, things go awry when she gets trapped on Emrys and is trapped, which could lead to her death. Continue reading
How To Celebrate Geek Pride Day
May 25th is Geek Pride Day, meaning we geeks have our own holiday! So I thought I’d share some ideas of ways you can enjoy the day in the geekiest ways possible. Continue reading
First Look: Let’s Play
Let’s Play is a webcomic created by Mongie which follows Sam, an aspiring professional game designer who’s first game gets played by Marshall Law, a let’s player akin to those on YouTube. With season one recently ending and season two on the way, I decided to share a first look at this series and share my thoughts with you all. Continue reading
Arcade Spirits Review
I did a first look at Arcade Spirits recently, and that demo intrigued me enough to get the game and play it myself. Did this visual novel live up to my initial thoughts? Here is my spoiler free review. Continue reading
First Look: Lore Olympus
Lore Olympus, created by Rachel Smythe, is a retelling of the mythology of the Grecian gods and goddesses. It particularly focuses on one of the most famous myths, the Taking of Persephone, and how she became the Queen of the Underworld. Continue reading
DisneyBound Tag
If you don’t know what DisneyBounding is, it is essentially an everyday cosplay of Disney characters. It’s great for going to the theme parks and getting to feel like you’re your favorite character without breaking park rules about dressing up. So while I’ve had Disney on my mind, I decided to make a little tag about DisneyBounding. Continue reading
The Broadway Musical Tag
After not writing about musical theater for a while, I’m bringing it back today after falling back into a musical mood recently. This tag was adapted from a Facebook tag I saw an old friend do, so I decided to take it and tweak it to fit the blog and ask a little more! Continue reading
Geeky Graduation Gifts
It’s that time of year where students will begin the final moments of their education with graduation! Here are some gift suggestions for the graduating geek in your life, whether it be high school or college.
May is Mental Health Month
May is Mental Health Month, and mental health is an incredibly important thing to me as someone who lives with mental illnesses. So for every post this month I’ll be including this message and resources as a reminder that there should be no stigma for mental illness and that everyone has mental health.
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Pumpkin Patch: Bad Seeds Review
I was given an opportunity to play and review a new game, Pumpkin Patch: Bad Seeds, from Brouhaha Games. The aesthetic and theme of this game really caught my eye, but does everything else live up to that first impression? Continue reading
Favorite Book-to-Movie Adaptations
With tomorrow being Independent Bookstore Day, I wanted to celebrate books a little today. And while many times when a book gets a film adaptation it is not the best ever, there are exceptions. And you may enjoy an adaptation more than everyone else does, and that is ok too. So here are my favorite book-to-movie adaptations. Continue reading
The Weird Place Review
If your friends went through a mysterious door and got lost in an alternate universe, would you come to their rescue? That is the setup of The Weird Place, a crazy miniseries from Achievement Hunter and Rooster Teeth. But how weird does The Weird Place really get? Continue reading
Mobile Games To Help You Destress
One of my favorite things about mobile games is the portable factor is having it on your phone. And there have been many games made for mobile with relaxing and stress relief in mind. And since I shared video games to help you destress, I figured mobile games would be fitting too. So in this post, I am going to share some of my favorite mobile games to help you destress that I have found. Continue reading
#SelfCare Review
While I try many different mobile games, I haven’t played one quite like this. #SelfCare is not about winning, it’s not about surviving, and it’s not about the game really. The goal is simply to feel better. Continue reading
The Gamer Tag Remastered
I have done a tag called The Gamer Tag before, but then I saw that Kim from Chimmyville did one with completely different questions. So I decided to give that one a go and thus I have The Gamer Tag Remastered. Continue reading
Achievement Unlocked Award
If you’re a blogger yourself or have been a reader of blogs for a while, you’ve seen the various awards that get shared between bloggers. And while I love that those exist and bring bloggers together, I’ve noticed that there is not one specifically for us geeky blogs. So that changes today as I am introducing the Achievement Unlocked Award! Continue reading
Video Games To Help You Destress
I know a lot of gamers, including myself, that use video games to destress from the stresses of real life. And I find certain games are really good for relaxing with and are great for gamers and non-gamers alike. Continue reading
First Look: Arcade Spirits
Arcade Spirits is a visual novel romantic comedy set in the year 20XX of a future where the 1980s video game crash never happened and arcades are still a thriving form of entertainment. They have a demo of the game available on Steam so I decided to give it a go and give you all a first look. Continue reading
The Disney Tag
It’s been a little bit of a rough end of March for me, so I’m taking it a bit easy and doing another tag this week. This time it’s the Disney tag and I saw that Jacie from Come to the Nerd Side did it which is why I decided to do it. Continue reading
The Blogger Tag
I’ve decided to take a mini break from the geeky writing and do The Blogger Tag! I saw Princessdeia do this and decided to do it too. Continue reading
Disney Bucket List
My dive into Disney recently has made me want to make a bucket list of all the magical Disney things I want to do, so that is this is! It’s been fun to explore all of the amazing experience Disney has, and here are the ones I would love to experience. Continue reading
First Look: Disney Heroes Battle Mode
Disney has many different mobile games with all different types of gameplay, so when I saw Disney Heroes Battle Mode getting advertised to me I figured I’d give it a shot. The game is full of Disney characters both new and old and the battle mechanic feels a little different for Disney. So here is my first look at Disney Heroes Battle Mode. Continue reading
Furistas Cat Cafe Review
I am a lover of cats and a tycoon-style game player so when I saw other’s talking about Furistas Cat Cafe I was intrigued at the idea of running a cat cafe. And as I do with trying out new mobile games, I’ve got to share my thoughts with you all. Continue reading
Wizarding World Bucket List
I’ve been itching to go an adventure and dreaming up all of the awesome and geeky things I could do, so I decided to write a post about my Harry Potter and Wizarding World specific bucket list items. Continue reading
5 Movies to Watch Before a Disneyland Vacation
When you are prepping for a Disney vacation, it’s always fun to get in a magical mood prior to your trip. And you may be planning a trip where it’s someones, whether a child or adult, first time to the parks. Watching the films that inspire so much of the parks is a great way to get into the mood for Disney magic. So for me as a Californian, I specifically thought of the films that would be best to watch before a trip to Disneyland Resort. Continue reading
Favorite Disneyland Memories
I’ve been watching a lot of Disney Parks videos recently, and I really love the parks more so than any other part of Disney. So I wanted to just have a fun post about some of my favorite memories of Disneyland (and DCA by association) and how to make memories for yourself in those parks. Continue reading
Gris Review
I first saw Gris when I first got my Switch as it was available as a pre-order and released shortly after, and I was entranced by the artwork and knew I had to play it. And I first tried it during my 12 Days of Gaming, and with that taste, I knew I had to play through this entire game and share my thoughts. Continue reading
First Look: The Arcana
Since I am a pretty consistent player of mobile games, I get other mobile games advertised to me often. And most times I am not interested in any of these games. But after seeing some talk about The Arcana beyond the Instagram ads, I decided to give it a go. Continue reading
Card Thief Review
Card Thief was a game I kept seeing pop up in my Google Play recommendations but didn’t really give it a fair shot until recently. And I have to say that this is one of the best mobile games I have played, and here is why. Continue reading
How To Discover New Board Games
We really are in a board game renaissance and there are now tons and tons of new board games coming out. It’s pretty overwhelming to sift through every new game that hits a shelf, and some that only hit Kickstarter. So here is how you can start searching for new games in the great tabletop sea. Continue reading