Let’s travel back in time four years, and imagine a world where we don’t know the beloved characters of Downton Abbey. Do you remember your first thoughts of the aristocratic Crawley family? There was the beautiful Lady Mary and the high spirited Lady Sybil and of course, the often forgotten, Lady...

  This Sunday, fans celebrated the first annual International Fanworks Day by creating fan art, fanfiction, fan videos, and leaving kudos, comments, and recommendations. The day was started by the Organization for Transformative Works who work to cultivate, preserve, and legitimize fanworks. Every other entity seems to have its own day,...

Image Source: Worship The Brand In many ways, being a grants administrator is a lot like being a doctor…on second thought, maybe it’s more like being a veterinarian. My sister-in-law is a vet, and no matter where she goes, she is often pulled into very technical conversations about ailing pets...

  Alana McCarthy is an amazing, award-winning illustrator.  Her commercial clients have included The Wall Street Journal, Cadbury, Coca-Cola, Scholastic, Penguin Books, and Absolut Vodka. She also created the adorably fresh logo for our sister site Freak4MyPet.com. Alana is best known for her Geeky Pet art, which depicts cats, and the...

  50 Shades of Grey is about to become one of the biggest movies of the year. It is hard to avoid the controversy surrounding the dark drama, but it isn’t the only film to portray side-eye-worthy relationships as #goals. In fact, in one of our favorite fandoms, another dark and...