A weekly often humorous, sometimes earnest, always genuine newsletter concerning hobbits, faith, and culture by a too-online lifelong reader and Tolkien fan.
I write about a smorgasbord of subjects, always with a dash of hope. if you love reading about humanity, literature, writing, cinema, video games, and other related and unrelated stuff, let's connect.
Everybody's got a past. The people who can look back on it with an eye toward the experiences they've accrued and the lessons they've learned... Theirs are the stories that I want to hear.
LOTS of film/TV interviews you can't get anywhere else.
John Aspler is an academic with a focus on media representation, stigma, and disability studies - and an occasional TV Critic! This Substack aims to have broad conversations on TV as a medium, reviewing specific shows as examples. Antifascist. He/him.
