Itโs a very weird time to be a Venom fan with the current All-New Venom run. Iโm genuinely enjoying it, curious to see where it goes, and think thereโs some very clever use of language. Two of my favorite symbiotes, Toxin and Sleeper, got some panel time, and thereโs clearly something happening there with SCAR.… Continue reading Media is More Fun When You Don’t Waste Time Hating It
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April Reads and Reviews
Check the end for promos, free books, and special sales from the Bookfunnel community of indie authors. For updates on my own books delivered to your inbox, sign up for your newsletter of choice. Queer Fantasy :: Sci-Fi Romance When the Moon Hits Your EyeJohn ScalziSci-fi (2025, Recent Release!) From Storygraph: One day soon, suddenly… Continue reading April Reads and Reviews
You Can’t Just Boycott, You Actually Have to Understand Ethical Consumption
The past year there has been a lot of new focus on consumption habits, particularly consumer boycotts. Theyโre a common topic of discussion in the various progressive sub-reddits and other communities Iโm in, and I see two things happen with the most frequency. The first is people absolutely falling over themselves for validation that theyโre… Continue reading You Can’t Just Boycott, You Actually Have to Understand Ethical Consumption
You Really Need to Move on from Harry Potter, I’m So Serious
Last week, J.K. Rowling revealed her ass, yet again, around a UK supreme court ruling. This ruling being that, when referencing the Equality Act, โwomenโ specifically means โbiological women.โ Effectively, legally stripping trans-women then status of โwomanโ in regards to the application of the protections of this act. And Iโm seeing people not quite understand… Continue reading You Really Need to Move on from Harry Potter, I’m So Serious
Surprise! The Patriarchy is the Reason You and Your Wife Fight Over Your Comic Book Collection
Iโm an AFAB person with a handful of โtraditionally masculineโ hobbies. Basically Iโm woman-adjacent in a few men-heavy fields. So I get to live both sides of conversations like the one below. Let me tell yโall: if this what your relationship looks like in terms of hobbies, youโve got it more fucked up than you… Continue reading Surprise! The Patriarchy is the Reason You and Your Wife Fight Over Your Comic Book Collection
March Reads and Reviews
For updates on my own books delivered to your inbox, sign up for your newsletter of choice. Queer Fantasy :: Sci-Fi Romance SoftwareRudy RuckerSci-fi, Cyberpunk From Storygraph: "It was Cobb Anderson who built the "boppers"-the first robots with real brains. Now, in 2020, Cobb is just another aged "pheezer" with a bad heart, drinking and grooving on… Continue reading March Reads and Reviews
Video Game Metas and the Logic of Failure
Check out the end for book sales and deals from indie authors. Thereโs a style of online game called a โHero Shooter.โ Think Overwatch, Team Fortress 2, or my recent time sink, Marvel Rivals. For the uninitiated, the gameplay loop is two teams of six fight each other for an objective. Either domination of a… Continue reading Video Game Metas and the Logic of Failure
February Reads and Reviews
Check the end for promos, free books, and special sales. For updates on my own books delivered to your inbox, sign up for your newsletter of choice. Queer Fantasy :: Sci-Fi Romance We Have Always Been HereLena NguyenScience Fiction (2021) From Storygraph: Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship… Continue reading February Reads and Reviews
Spectacular Spider-Man: The Hunger-A Case study in Major Narrative Shifts (Short Version)
Note: There are two versions of this: a shorter outline view and more detailed one describing my logic. This is the shorter version. I've determined there're two ways comics can approach a Big Narrative Change. There's the unexpected and the out of character. And this has nothing to do with fandom response or the quality… Continue reading Spectacular Spider-Man: The Hunger-A Case study in Major Narrative Shifts (Short Version)
Spectacular Spider-Man: The Hunger-A Case study in Major Narrative Shifts (Long Version)
Note: There are two versions of this: a shorter outline view and more detailed one describing my logic. This is the longer version. I've determined there're two ways comics can approach a Big Narrative Change. There's the unexpected and the out of character. And this has nothing to do with fandom response or the quality… Continue reading Spectacular Spider-Man: The Hunger-A Case study in Major Narrative Shifts (Long Version)