Anna Bell
The Queue: Back to School!
I popped in to a store to get more red hummingbird food (my local hummingbirds are spoiled brats) and was simultaneously surprised and overwhelmed that all the summer outdoors stuff has been shoved off into one little clearance corner, while the rest of the seasonal section is now devoted to back to school shopping. I should not have to compare notebook paper rule sizes while slathered in sunscreen.
This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll answer because why not, life is relentless anyway.
Another new short story, this one featuring Thrall, his kids, the question of legacy — and a Hearthstone Battleground card we love to hate
The games I’m finally buying this Summer Steam Sale (off my wishlist of over 800 games)
WoW (and Blizzard) returns to China, and the details are kind of wild
When is the D&D 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide release date?
When is the D&D 2024 Player’s Handbook release date?
Now live! Pink Mercy is back: Overwatch 2 teams up with BCRF again to offer two Mercy skins and fund breast cancer research
The Queue: Pokemon Go-ing to the polls
I’m not sure what it is about summer that always makes me want to fire up Pokemon Go again. It’s not like I enjoy spending time out there — I’m firmly a cool, crisp autumn girly. Part of it is that I’m looking for something for my veal-calf-like children to do, and Pokemon Go is basically a cheat code for fun little outings in the nearest half mile or so. Libraries, parks, even silly little statues outside restaurants are all charted out for me. The other part is that I’m always looking for iced coffee, and thanks to a marketing tie-in, every single Starbucks is marked as a Pokestop. Sometimes capitalism is good, actually? Mm, let me think on that one for a sec.
This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we provide the answers, just let me catch this Ekans first. Darn. Darn. …Darn.
The Queue: Spiders
While we deal with this blazing heat, one creature seems completely unphased. I’ve been knocking down joro spider webs on a near-daily basis for nearly a month. Right now they’re tiny little babies, about the size of a tic-tac. And yet each one of my tomato cages alone plays host to a half dozen or more, every time.
This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’re really, really grateful for the crab filter.