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May 2

May 2 I Was Wrong About...Game of Thrones

The first episode didn’t do much to dispel my assumptions of it being generic fantasy. It felt slow and full of information about bloodlines and such that I felt little investment in; not to mention names that would go in one ear and out the other. Slowly, but surely, however, I began to see the characters as more than stereotypes. Characters like Jamie, who initially appear to be almost stereotypically evil, develop in surprising ways, making you reevaluate your feelings about many of the characters. Except Joffrey. That guy is always terrible.

Mar 3

Mar 3 5 Failed Sci-fi Predictions

Esko Suoranta

Fiction, Films, Literature

While speculation in fiction sometimes turns out to be correct and sometimes not at all, it’s value is not in predicting the future as such. Rather, fiction can help us imagine things differently, to see our world, and our present, in a different light.

Mar 3

Mar 3 June 17th 1978

Danielle Amorim

Short story, Fiction

Sometimes Irene Carvalho wondered if she was brought into this world only to see herself fade.

While everyone around her went about their normal lives as mundane shapes and colours, she remained still, and somehow untouched by the moving of time...

Mar 3

Mar 3 To The River

Elina Virva

Poetry

I can smell burnt nerves
below my nose
in this dizziness, caused by a fire;
there is not enough air left for me here...

Mar 3

Mar 3 Chief Editor's Note: On A Bus With Seniors

BTSB

Chief Editor's Note

The world is a village now; social media connects us to every corner of the world, millennials work in multilingual environments and regularly holiday abroad. There's a huge generational gap when it comes to language.

Mar 3

Mar 3 About the Complex World of Dog Shows and Dog Breeding

Eveliina Kammonen

Culture

Last July, something life-changing happened to me: my sister got a schnauzer. You’d think it wouldn’t affect me that much, since it’s not my dog, but no; I’d been waiting for that schnauzer quite as much as she had.

Mar 3

Mar 3 Let’s Get Ready to Rumble

Jesper Simola

Sports

When I last wrote about wrestling for BTSB, I spoke about a burgeoning women’s revolution in the WWE. Since that article, several milestones have been broken but none, perhaps, as significant as the one that occurred on January 28th of this year.