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“Joy” Articles

LTN Advent Calendar 2021: Joy and Tabletop Roleplay

Each week, as we make our way through this Advent season, LTN Writers will provide short nerdy devotionals for you and your family to enjoy. You can find them all here. Also, if you want more nerdy advent content, check out our Advent Calendar from 2018. Our third Advent devotional centers on the joy of […]

Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing: A Reflection on One Piece’s Ebisu Town

While we are all pressured to pretend that everything is okay when it is not, One Piece's Ebisu Town encourages us to a more meaningful, hopeful form of grief.

Final Fantasy XV, Joy, and the Pandemic

Joy can feel unimportant during dangerous times like the coronavirus pandemic, but Final Fantasy XV shows how we always need it, especially amid dark times.

In Dropsy, the Key to Happiness is The World Rightly Ordered

It doesn't help his nightmares, and it doesn't end the mourning of others, but Dropsy does good anyway.

LTN Advent Calendar 2018: Joy and Wandersong

As we enter the season of Christmas, the Love Thy Nerd writers want to share moments from nerd culture that resonate with them and reflect the weeks of the Advent calendar. Week 3 – Joy – Shepherd’s Candle Sheep are a lot more like people than we’d like to admit, but being out away from […]

LTN Advent Calendar 2018

As we enter the season of Christmas, the Love Thy Nerd writers want to share moments from nerd culture that resonate with them and reflect the weeks of the Advent calendar. Week One – Hope – Prophet’s Candle Kingdom Death: Monster – Madeline Turnipseed The Children of Israel were scattered, conquered, enslaved, and subject to […]