Desiree Rodriguez

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Read my short story, "Dog Lover" on Your Story Club!  First time really putting my work out there so I'm excited!  Michelle woke with bleary eyes, blinking against the harsh ray of sunlight that pelted her from the doorway.  She groaned turning over.  Michelle had repeatedly told her sister to leave her door closed.  The windows of their hallway were positioned in such a way that the light pierced right into her room like a knife.  She gave a cautionary


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Cowl Girl is Here to Save the Day!

For those of you who maybe haven’t heard, there’s a new web series cleverly named Cowl Girl debuting soon. The show is about a young woman who goes by the identity of “Cowl Girl” and is on a mission to meet Pee-wee Herman. On the way, she goes through a series of misadventures and wacky, comedic shenanigans filled to the brim with enough geek references to please any fan. 


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Geek Girls are Here To Stay

There's been a long standing--and unfortunate--tradition of men making women feel uncomfortable in their--or what they believe is theirs--spaces.  Around May there was some controversy surrounding the cover of Teen Titans, DC's popular teen-centric comic.  The cover featured a teenage Wondergirl with breasts strangely shaped like cantaloupes.  Wondergirl isn't the first adolescent


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Film Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Having seen each and every Marvel movie to date (from the original Hulk, to the reboot, and the Blade movies) I have to say Captain America: The Winter Soldier takes the cake, bakes another, and leaves you full, satisfied, and wanting more. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is one of, if not the, best movie Marvel has released to date–which is pretty high praise because Marvel has re


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What Makes Night Vale So Special?

Welcome to Night Vale has become its own podcast fairytale by starting off as a small, relatively unknown original podcast in a sea of fandom podcasts and smashing through barriers by becoming one of the most popular podcasts of all time.  With its very own fandom at that.  In this piece I delve into what attributed to Night Vale's shocking success. Welcome to Night Vale is th


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5 Shows You Should Be Watching

Some of these shows have finished out their fall seasons, which means it's the best time to catch up before the cold catches up with us again.  Read my article Five Shows You Should Be Watching on PaperDroids!  There’s still a distinct lack of ladies being their own heroes and driving the plot on screen. All too often women are either being reduced to singular love interests, being


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Film Review: Justice League: War

DC’s latest animated movie, Justice League: War, is an adaption of Geoff John and Jim Lee’s Justice League: Origin. The movie, and it’s adapted comic book, tell the origin story of the Justice League for DC’s new 52 line of comics. Think you know these decades old characters? Think again. Read my film review of DC's Justice League: War on Paper Droids!


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The Best Overlooked Onscreen Romances

There’s been so many couples to grace both the big and small screens it’s near impossible to keep up with them all. Everyone has their favorite TV or movie romance, and right now everyone is making list after list about them. However I’ve found those lists follow a rather stringent pattern. So here are some couples that all to often get overlooked, but are no less epic. Written for the&


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If You’re Selling, We’re Buying: Why We Need More Movies with Female Leads

There’s been a long prevalent myth that movies with women as leads don’t do well at the Box Office.  Studios are often reluctant to produce and fund movies with female leads unless the movie falls under the genre of romance. What studios don’t comprehend is that by making this assumption they are, in fact, closing out a huge market of potential profit.  Part of the problem is that


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Where Is Our Wonder Woman Movie?

DC and Warner Bros set the internet ablaze when DC when they announced Gal Gadot (Fast and Furious) had snagged the role of Wonder Woman in the upcoming Batman/Superman movie back in early December.  While fans are excited (if wary) to finally see the Amazonian Princess on the big screen for the first time ever, the decision to include Wonder Woman in a movie with a Batman/Sup


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