Millie Hardy-Sims
Stories (13/0)
"The Greatest Years of Your Life"
I had been so excited to go to University. I didn't know any better. It was four years ago now. I was 22 years old. I had put off University for four years because I had not made a decision about what I wanted to do. I still hadn't really, as I changed my degree after my first year. I enjoyed doing drama, but I didn't want to perform (which I know sounds stupid, but I was more about behind the scenes and it just wasn't what the degree offered). I changed to film and despite knowing it was a 'Mickey Mouse' degree and it would be very unlikely I would find employment in film, I felt I had at least a small chance once I graduated nonetheless. I was smart and efficient. I'm a First Class student, I work hard, I'm mature (in every sense) and so I really thought I'd enjoy university and have a good chance after graduation.
By Millie Hardy-Sims3 years ago in Education
"The Fandom Chooses the Fan"
I am a nerd, loud and proud. If you could see my house you would not contest it - ceiling to floor with collectibles, merch and everything between of my multitude of favourite fandoms. I am also the president of my university’s fandom society, which I also subsequently started. So yes, I’m a nerd.
By Millie Hardy-Sims3 years ago in Geeks
"If You're Fated, It Doesn't Matter If You Choose or Not."
I realised I didn’t go much into the actual fandom or the books and films in my last post, I kind of just talked about my own experience. Is that the kind of thing you want to read? Or do you want more of a rounded ‘this is the fandom, this is what it does’? I talked about how big the fandom got and how that became intimidating. So this time I’m going to talk a little about the smaller fandoms.
By Millie Hardy-Sims3 years ago in Geeks
"A Journey in the Dark"
I was not a ‘normal’ little girl. Where most girls my age spent their youth wanting to be princesses, vets or mermaids, I wanted to be a pirate. I am, of course, talking about the ‘romantic’ swashbuckling, earring and eyepatch wearing pirate, not the machine-gun toting Captain Phillips type. I mean frock coats and peglegs at dawn, Bristolian accents and gold teeth. To me, even at that young age, I wanted the freedom that seemed to come from a rum-soaked life aboard the Seven Seas. I wanted to look for buried treasure, sing sea shanties and find ‘glory’. I now know much more about pirates than I did then, about how hard life could be and how dangerous that life was, and I no longer desire to live such a life, but I have nonetheless carried that love of pirates with me into adulthood.
By Millie Hardy-Sims3 years ago in Geeks
“Do You Know What a Hero Complex is, Diego?”
If somebody was to say to you ‘superhero television’ you may be forgiven for thinking of the television programmes of Marvel, DC or the one-series-wonder that was Watchmen. You might even cast your mind back to Heroes or Misfits of the last decade. It’s perhaps very unlikely that your first thought would be The Umbrella Academy, unless of course that’s exactly why you sought out this post.
By Millie Hardy-Sims3 years ago in Geeks
“When Gone am I, Pass on What you have Learned.”: Star Wars as a Reboot
“The Star Wars trilogy was a defining influence in the lives of the audience” (Brooker, 2002, 2), but which Star Wars trilogy was a defining influence depends entirely on the receiver. Were the Star Wars trilogies of 1999-2005 and 2015-2019 in fact reboots and not simply a continuation of the same base story being told in the 1977-1983 ‘original trilogy’?
By Millie Hardy-Sims3 years ago in Geeks
Body Image in 'Thats So Raven'
In this post, I will look at the representation of body positivity in the Disney Channel show That’s So Raven. When That’s So Raven, a supernatural, coming-of-age situational-comedy, first aired on Disney Channel in 2003 it arguably changed the channel for the future. Focusing the narrative around psychic African-American teenager Raven Baxter (played by Raven Sỳmone) the programme explored themes of racism, feminism and body positivity in the family-friendly form of a situational-comedy aimed at ages 6-14. The programme broadcast for four seasons and 100 episodes, which at the time ended the Disney Channel remit of no more than 65 episodes per programme.
By Millie Hardy-Sims3 years ago in Geeks