Think of your favorite straight character. How do you know that they’re heterosexual?My favorite thing to do in comic book discussions is say “okay, but what does the text actually say?” Because comic book readers are notorious for pulling one panel or one issue out of context and drawing all their conclusions from that. You… Continue reading PRIDE: The Punisher is Textually a (Closet) Bisexual and Your Straight Bias is Making You Miss the Fun
Like any good little queer, probably autistic, sci-fi reader, I dearly love the Murderbot books even if I’m not fully caught up with them (shh, leave me alone). So when the show was announced, I was obviously excited. When I saw that Alexander Skarsgard was the lead I was like “hm.” Not because I don’t… Continue reading PRIDE: MurderBot Isn’t Non-Binary
Hello. I’m asexual. I’m also non-binary. I tend to settle on “queer” when it comes up in conversation to cut through the chatter.Good, now we’re caught up.Asexuality is one of those things people just really really really struggle to understand. So much so that even some of my fellow aces gatekeep it into this hyper-exclusionary,… Continue reading PRIDE: Asexual People Can Have Sex and That’s Good for Everyone
The Met Gala happened recently. For those unfamiliar, it’s ostensibly a fundraiser for The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that is also a big fashion who-si-whatsit. It began in 1948, and it’s gone through a few iterations to get to the big celebrity blow-out that we’ve come to know. In the age… Continue reading The Met Gala Isn’t The Capitol, and I Need You to Stop
Check out the end for free books and special offers from indie authors. Join the newsletter to get a free short story, news, and updates on my work and releases. Project Hail Mary is still all over a lot of my subreddits, especially the crafting ones. Embroidery, cross-stitch, crochet, all still coming out with Rocky and… Continue reading Understanding Movie Adaptations: Where the HELL is my MCU-flavored Black Alien Goo?
See end for special deals and free offers from independent novelists. Last week, in the newest issue of Venom (as part of the Death Spiral event) Torment, a new villain, killed long maligned character Paul Rabin. And there was much rejoicing from the Spider-Man community. For those familiar, you’ve certainly developed your own opinions of… Continue reading In Defense of Paul Rabin
Check out the end for free books and special offers from indie authors. Join the newsletter to get a free short story, news, and updates on my work and releases. Fang FictionKate Stayman-L.ondonFantasy, Semi-Urban, Romance2024Prose Novel, Adult From Storygraph: “Tess Rosenbloom is no stranger to the dark. A grad school dropout and chronic insomniac, she… Continue reading Reading Highlights Q1 2026
I, like many others, saw Project Hail Mary last week. It was one of my favorite books of 2021, so I had followed the development of the movie closely. It was both a wonderful movie in its own right, and, I feel, a good adaptation. It fell well within all the parameters that I’m looking… Continue reading Project Hail Mary and the Covert Pretension of Sci-Fi Readers
Who is Venom? What is the Venom symbiote’s “name?” Why even ask this question? Why do we care? Because the fandom community around this character has very strong opinions around who and what “Venom” is. There’s a hostile undercurrent in regards to nomenclature that claims, with certainty, that only the bonded host and symbiote as… Continue reading You Can Call the Symbiote Venom: A Textual Analysis
So, like, I’m white, y’all. Like…so white I’ve got sun damage in my eyes through my skin despite wearing sunscreen every time I go out. Whatever layering hyperbolic declaration of my European ancestry is most amusing, pretend I wrote it.It’s also the least interesting part about me.If the cursory ancestry provided by my parents is… Continue reading White Racists are Just…Boring: Racism as a Function of Identity
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