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i’m obsessed with this

and then, two months later....

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We all love the “becoming the very thing you sought to destroy,” trope. but I have a growing fondness for “destroying the very thing you sought to become”

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Found this on facebook but reposting to SAVE A LIFE.

Or at least some of y’all’s GPAs.

You’re welcome.

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i support mpreg but more importantly i support mabortion

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unironically, the tv show Andor (12 episodes) is forreal-forreal wizards vs lesbians. the main lead is a guy but two of the other leads are women in a relationship with each other and they're all fighting Empire together in a surprisingly well researched and grounded depiction of revolution? i really think the podcast should consider covering it bc tbh it's one of the best depictions of empire and revolution i've seen in fiction (let alone sff) of any medium period and it having lesbians in it makes it a perfect shoe-in for the podcast!

Now this one's gonna be a hard sell for me! I'm aware that the best art that comes out of big IPs these days is always the second-tier TV adaptations that nobody is paying attention to - with Marvel as with Star Wars, or so I'm led to understand. Folks use the brand tie-in to get the money and approval they need to tell their stories, stuff that they'd never be able to get through otherwise. So that's in your corner. Twelve episodes is also a big plus.

On the other hand, fuck Star Wars. Fuck Marvel. Fuck Disney, basically. Fuck Disney again for good measure. Fuck the military-industrial-entertainment complex as a whole. Fuck the compromises a creative person needs to make to live in that world. Fuck all of it.

We have so many good books to read, you guys. Stuff that's remarkable primarily because someone managed to smuggle decent art into mass media doesn't cut it anymore. I'm done settling for it. There's a universe of better stuff out there without the corporate fishhooks.

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#OP you would love PH Lee's Great Sweet Sea stories

A lot of writing advice says ‘throw the reader into the action’ and I respect where that’s coming from, but personally I kind of love an elaborate and unnecessary-to-the-plot framing device.

The credits before the grainy movie or long, dramatic anime opening; an endlessly looping videogame title screen; some hype man at the beginning of a renaissance play purely there to let the crowd know shit’s about to get real.

The following pages are transcribed from papers found in a cave thought unreachable by humans, and written in an ink whose chemical composition could not be determined. Something howls in the forest and the stranger at your campfire looks up from under the brim of their hat and strums their guitar to begin the Ballad of Howlin’ Joe. Reader, the tale you are about to read is entirely made up and every character fictitious, but each and every word of it is true.

Once upon a time! It was a dark and stormy night! Atmosphere IS story and you don’t have to cut out every moment of it to serve constant forward action. Give me a trope with absolute sincerity that sets a MOOD and gets me in the zone. I have a huge reverent soft spot for an opening that feels like beginning the ancient and intrinsically familiar ritual of storytelling, a ritual that spans the world and predates written text, endlessly iterating and evolving. Are you sitting comfortably? Let’s begin.

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this image is from "man after man" by Dougal Dixon, a truly bizarre science fiction epic that was seared into my brain as a pre-adolescent and permanently shaped my creativity.

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Look, I don't make the rules. There are specific dress codes for using specific fantastical beasts as mounts, and if you're riding a giant snail, that dress code includes a top hat and vest – no exceptions.

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i want what david cronenberg has

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A new story today.

Refugees, of course, are welcome in our nearly perfect City. Entirely perfect, really. Perfect except for one basement that no one talks about.

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A new story today.

Refugees, of course, are welcome in our nearly perfect City. Entirely perfect, really. Perfect except for one basement that no one talks about.

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Podcast Episodes

Here are all our episodes so far, in one convenient place!

Gideon the Ninth

The Unspoken Name

Ninefox Gambit

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

A Memory Called Empire

Harrow the Ninth

Gossamer Axe

Empress of Forever

Green

Divine Endurance

The City In The Middle Of The Night

Unconquerable Sun

A Desolation Called Peace

Fire Logic

The Unbroken

The Space Between Worlds

The Fortunate Fall

Bonus episode: The Steerswoman series (with special guest P. H. Lee)

The Jasmine Throne

She Who Became the Sun

Bearly a Lady

Foundryside

Black Water Sister

The Raven And The Reindeer

The Dyke And The Dybbuk

Shoujo Kakumei Utena (plus Isaac’s Utena Liveblog)

Bonus episode: Homestuck (with special guest P.H. Lee)

Girl Serpent Thorn

Bonus episode: The First Annual Wizzly Awards (with special guest P.H. Lee)

Girls of Paper and Fire

Light from Uncommon Stars

Short Fiction Roundup #1: ( “How to Swallow the Moon,” “Florilegia; or, Some Lies About Flowers,” “The Demon-Sage’s Daughter”)

The Midnight Lie

This Is How You Lose The Time War

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Provenance

The Thousand Eyes

A Master of Djinn

Trouble And Her Friends

Battle of the Linguist Mages

Among Thieves

Catfishing on Catnet

AMATKA

Bonus episode: 2022 Hugo Awards (featuring Leora Spitzer)

Last Exit

Bonus episode: The Sandman (featuring Kiana Stewart)

Fireheart Tiger (Aliette de Bodard) and Tiger Came Down The Mountain (Nghi Vo)

Spear

Uncommon Charm

The Saga of the Renunciates - a Death of the Author Special

Siren Queen

Short Fiction Roundup #2 - Our Souls To The Moon by Tamara Jeree, Onward by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, and A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

The Dawnhounds

Slow River

Revolutionary Girl Utena: Adolescence Apocalypse

Nona the Ninth

The Wicked and the Willing

Bonus episode: The Second Annual Wizzly Awards (feat. P.H. Lee, Kiana Stewart and Leora Spitzer)

The Book Eaters

Tamsyn Muir Short Fiction Roundup (The Magician’s Apprentice, The Deepwater Bride, Lalonde’s Inferno)

Payback’s a Witch

Sappho’s Bar and Grill

Unwieldy Creatures

Tomoe Gozen

BONUS: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Chaos on Catnet

The Outside

Even Though I Knew the End

The Fallen & The Infinite

Short Fiction Roundup #4 - “The Terracotta Bride” by Zen Cho, “Lay My Stomach On Your Scales,” by Wen-yi Lee, and “Margo Lai’s Guide to Dueling Unprepared,” by Alison Tam

The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry

BONUS: The Night-Bird’s Feather

A Restless Truth

High Times in the Low Parliament

Some Desperate Glory

The Breath Of The Sun

BONUS: The Last Unicorn

The Mimicking Of Known Successes

The Babylon Eye

Mortal Follies

We Know the Devil

He Who Drowned The World

The Water Outlaws

STAKES

BONUS: Q & A Episode 1

I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself

BONUS: Translation State

Valhalla

BONUS: Relationship Advice, Hugos

The Valkyrie

BONUS: Travel Light

BONUS AGAIN: The Third Annual Wizzly Awards

The Witch’s Heart

Santa Olivia + Saints Astray

These Burning Stars

The Saint of Bright Doors 

Ex-Wives of Dracula

BONUS: Q & A 3

Planetfall

BONUS: Foreigner (featuring Ann Leckie)

Camp Damascus

Night in the Woods

All Good Children

The Book of Love

Carmilla (Carmen’s Version)

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Someone You Can Build A Nest In

BONUS: Disco Elysium

Those Beyond the Wall

Short Fiction Roundup #5 - Miss Bulletproof Comes Out of Retirement: https://podcastle.org/2022/03/08/podcastle-725-miss-bulletproof-comes-out-of-retirement/ (or https://giganotosaurus.org/2020/08/01/miss-bulletproof-comes-out-of-retirement/) Selkie Stories are for Losers: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/selkie-stories-are-for-losers/ Nuca: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/nuca/

Spirits Abroad (Just The Gay Parts)

BONUS: The Scholomance Trilogy (with Jenna Moran)

Daughter of Mystery

Daughters of Chaos

Daughters of the Coral Dawn

BONUS: Pale Fire (with Kat Weaver)

Ammonite

BONUS: Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System (with Naked Bee)

The Seep (forthcoming)

A Gay Anime By Studio Trigger (forthcoming)

The Scorpion Rules (forthcoming)

Also: the Unofficial but Officially Endorsed Wizards vs Lesbians Drinking Game

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Empathy: I feel you

Sympathy: I feel for you

Lycanthropy: I feel awoo

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from the forward of The Left Hand of Darkness, I believe.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I got to create this piece to accompany "The V*mpire" by P H Lee. It's a short story over on reactor mag. Reactor/TOR have been a dream client for my entire career. So honored to have had the opportunity to work with them! Synopsis 🩸: The vampires aren't even the worst part about being a teenage trans girl on tumblr.

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I have a story out today, tumblr. It's called The V*mpire and I wrote it for us.

Please mind the warnings.

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Empathy: I feel you

Sympathy: I feel for you

Lycanthropy: I feel awoo