#neil cochrane

[transbookoftheday]

💚 Trans Aro Books To Read For Aromantic Visibility Day 💚

("Godly Heathens" isn't out yet, but you can preorder it or request an ARC on NetGalley.)

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane

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A loose retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” that centers queer and trans characters

Trans sailor Darragh Thorn has made a comfortable life for himself among people who love and accept him. Ten years after his exile from home, though, his sister asks him to reconcile with their ailing father. Determined to resolve his feelings rather than just survive them, Darragh sets off on a quest to find the one person who can heal a half-dead man: the mysterious enchanter who once gave him the magic he needed to become his true self. But so far as anyone knows, no one but Darragh has seen the enchanter for a century, and the fairy tales that survive about em give more cause for fear than hope. In lush and evocative prose, and populated with magical trees and a wise fox, The Story of the Hundred Promises is a big-hearted fantasy suffused with queer optimism.

Mod opinion: I have seen the cover float around a few times on my dash, but I've never actually read the description. It sounds interesting though.

[snkrfnd]

So I've missed reading books. My local bookshop has a scifi/fantasy book club. I've decided to give it a shot. The next meeting is December 20th, and the book is The Story of the Hundred Promises by @itsneilcochrane

I picked it up today so that I can be ready for my first meeting.

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[lacomandante]

Some of the cast and crew from Sharpe's Eagle, December 1992. If you're cold they're cold!!

[thebutcher-5]

Wolf Hunter

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo deciso di catapultarci nel mondo della fantascienza e in particolar modo un film sci-fi incentrato sui paradossi temporali davvero interessante ossia Predestination. La storia è incentrata su un agente spazio-temporale il cui compito è catturare un noto terrorista chiamato Frizzle Bomber che nel passato, nel 1975, fece un…

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🖤🩶🤍💜 Happy Ace Week, Bookish Bats!

❓ What was the last book you read that featured asexual characters? If it's been a while, here are a few to consider adding to your TBR!

🖤 Aces Wild - Amanda Dewitt 🩶 Loveless - Alice Oseman 🤍 That Kind of Guy - Stephanie Archer 💜 We Awaken - Calista Lynne 🖤 The Kindred - Alechia Dow 🩶 Scavenge the Stars - Tara Sim 🤍 Fire Becomes Her - Rosiee Thor 💜 A Snake Falls to the Earth - Darcie Little Badger 🖤 Forward March - Skye Quinlan 🩶 The Romantic Agenda - Claire Kann 🤍 The Reckless Kind - Carly Heath 💜 Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman

🖤 The Charm Offensive - Alison Cochrun 🩶 Meet Cute Diary - Emery Lee 🤍 Cupid Calling - Viano Oniomoh 💜 The Bruising of Qilwa - Naseem Jamnia 🖤 The Loudest Silence - Sydney Langford 🩶 Kiss Her Once for Me - Alison Cochrun 🤍 So Let Them Burn - Kamilah Cole 💜 Dear Wendy - Ann Zhao 🖤 Exes & Foes - Amanda Woody 🩶 The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray - Christine Calella 🤍 Firebreak - Nicole Kornher-Stace 💜 Never Been Kissed - Timothy Janovsky

🖤 Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle 🩶 Baker Thief - Claudie Arseneault 🤍 The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester - Maya MacGregor 💜 The Story of the Hundred Promises - Neil Cochrane 🖤 Adrift Starlight - Mindi Briar 🩶 Help Wanted - J. Emery 🤍 If You Still Recognize Me - Cynthia So 💜 Bad At Love - Gabriela Martins 🖤 The End Crowns All - Bea Fitzgerald 🩶 The Winter Knight - Jes Battis 🤍 The Meister of Decimen City - Brenna Raney 💜 It Sounds Like This - Anna Meriano

🖤 Fallen Thorns - Harvey Oliver Baxter 🩶 Don't Let the Forest In - C.G. Drews 🤍 Just Lizzie - Karen Wilfrid 💜 The Siren the Song and the Spy - Maggie Tokuda-Hall 🖤 Wren Martin Ruins It All - Amanda Dewitt 🩶 She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan 🤍 Poisoned Primrose - Dahlia Donovan 💜 How You Get the Girl - Anita Kelly 🖤 Lord of the Empty Isles by Jules Arbeaux 🩶 Moth to a Flame - Finn Longman 🤍 Little Thieves - Margaret Owen 💜 Someone You Can Build a Nest In - John Wiswell

[rosieethor]

Aromantic Books Let's Go!

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath

Black Wings Beating by Alex London

This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson

The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor

Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer

This Golden Flame by Emily Victoria

Immoral Code by Lillian Clark

Tarnished are the Stars by Rosiee Thor

The Last 8 by Laura Pohl

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie

Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Take Me To Your Nerdy Leader by Hailey Gonzales

Being Ace edited by Madeline Dyer

Queerly Loving edited by G Benson and Astrid Ohletz

Common Bonds edited by Claudie Arseneault, C T Callahan, and RoAnna Sylver

Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria

Godly Heathens by H. E. Edgmon

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

The Butterfly Assassin by Finn Longman

At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp

Switchback by Danika Stone

Tell Me How It Ends by Quinton Li

Awakenings by Claudie Arsenault

Stake Sauce by RoAnna Sylver

The Ice Princess's Fair Illusion by Dove Cooper

The Threads That Bind by Cedar McCloud

Not Your backup by C. B. lee

Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter

Natural Outlaws and Fractured Sovereignty by S. M. Pearce

Wander the Night by Sydney Cobb

Stones Stay Silent by Danny Ride

The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane

Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver

The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows

Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace

Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

Syncopation by Anna Zabo

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

The Loudest Silence by Sydney Langford

Lord of the Empty Isles by Jules Arbeaux

Our Deadly Designs by Kalyn Josephson

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

[raisinchallah]

zefram cochrane has been so thoroughly normal duded down by the progression of the star trek franchise its hard to remember its like he was introduced as like what if u met neil armstrong or one of the wright brothers centuries after their supposed deaths not dead at all theyre trapped in like an insane gothic romance with a sentient cloud and u have to teach the cloud and neil armstrong how to love again idk nobody would come up with this shit did anyone speculate that amelia earharts disappearance was actually because she was trapped on an island with a coconut crab that electrocuted people who tried to interfere with their love like again nobody contemplates this is how a famous disappearance would end up and like this is an insane piece of lore but now hes just like representation of theoretical middle america slash literally gene roddenberry and we are all supposed to forget about the cloud shit well i didnt why has everyone else

[malcolm-reeds-pineapple]

Threshold: live vicariously through me

Neelix, be loathed or beloved cook depending who you ask solves an engineering problem that two engineers and cocky flyboy with daddy issues can’t fix

Successful simulation

Great idea! Give the cocky flyboy pilot an ego boost that he very much doesn’t need by calling saying he’ll be a pioneer like Neil Armstrong or Zephram Cochrane! I don’t foresee that being an issue

It is an issue in the next scene

Cocky flyboy pilot argues with captain about going on the live test. L+Daddy issues+ratio. This scene exists for the sole purpose of telling us Tom has daddy issues and a superiority complex as if we couldn’t already tell

Cocky flyboy exceeds warp 10 on the shuttle they’ve named Cochrane as yet another ego boost to a man who does not need one

Warp ten: achieved. Flyboy: off the long range sensors. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Whoopsies he and the shuttle have materialised on the ship

Sick bay time

My man fucking ascended and existed everywhere and nowhere for a lil bit in an extremely Daniel Jackson From Stargate turn of events

Wow this is a normal episode of voyager so far……. A little goofy, maybe but not terrible

Just kidding he’s having an allergic reaction to water and can no longer breathe oxygen

He’s over sharing about losing his virginity and then randomly screams pepperoni and then demands pizza

Also wants kess to kiss him cuz he thinks he’s gonna die but she can’t breathe the nitrogen air and he dies kissless

KESS KISSES HIS FOREHEAD AFTER HE DIES????????!!?!????!?!!!?

Sike! Once again Inspired by beloved archaeologist, Daniel Jackson, he has come back to life and scared the hologram doctor but he’s losing hair and has another heart

A lower decker is a spy! Subplot that I forgot about

30 seconds of total footage about that so far

Back to Tom Paris Lizard Arc

He’s gross now and he’s snarkier than usual and Is Not Taking This Well and is having a Meltdown™️

Damn he tried to attack the captain and then bounced off the force field like a fly off a windshield

HOLY FUCK HE COUGHED UP HIS OWN TONGUE LMAO

His DNA is just constantly changing on a second by second basis

He’s Enlightened and he MUST leave this ship because “the future is in the past”

They’re gonna shove him in the warp core to fix him (kinda)

THE LIZARD MAN HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT BITCH!!!!!

He has kidnapped his own captain and is going on a joyride in the shuttle (hehe they’re headed to warp 10 again!!!)

Chakotay is ON THE JOB

The doctor cracked the code: Tom is evolving at rapid speed, proving that salamander is the APEX HUMAN FORM

They’ve located Paris and the captain. They are full salamanders on a jungle planet

awwww cute little baby salamanders!!

and Chakotay LEFT THEM TO FUCKING DIE

Paris and the captain are human again and are now awkwardly talking about their babies

Emotional scene to talk about daddy issues and inadequacies blah blah blah

The end

Final thoughts: I ❤️ salamanders!!!! Also what the fuck!!!!

[gargoylespodcast]

It’s our 50th episode! Recorded on Friday, July 5th, 2024 at 2:00 pm CST. Live from CONvergence 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota from the Hyatt Regency in the Nicollet Ballroom, Jennifer and Greg welcome back to the show series creator, Greg Weisman; Thom Adcox (the voice of Lexington); Brigitte Bako (the voice of Angela); and we welcome to the show for the first time, Zehra Fazal – the inspiration and voice of Shari!

We talk about Zehra going from fan to pro and how she influenced the creation of Shari in the SLG and Dynamite comic books. We also discuss Thom Adcox’s influence on how gargoyles sound, Brigitte Bako and her time in the industry as an actress, a writer, a producer, and a series creator all her own (and her hilarious Breaking Bad story!). Greg Weisman discusses working with all of these people, striving for representation on Gargoyles and his other shows. All of this and more!

Jennifer and Greg also celebrate fifty episodes and what doing this podcast has meant to them.

Special thanks to Tanya Brody, Anthony Karna, and the rest of the staff of CONvergence for making this possible – especially Connie! And special thanks to Zach Joiner and the rest of Spideydude for building the site that made this possible: Joshua Lapin-Bertone, Donovan Morgan Grant, Gerard Delatour II, Jason Hendricks, Brandon DiPerno, Adam Schingle, Ashley Renee, Brian Cochran, Chris Denmead, Javi Trujillo, Josh Pchajek, Kelly McDaniel, Neil Bogenrieder, and Paul Hermann. And thank you to Frances M. Cabanellas for our graphics!

And thank you to all of the listeners and fans that have supported us on this journey! We’re far from done!

Available on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Audible, Spotify, and your podcatcher of choice! And join us on Patreon at SpideyDudeNetwork for the Exclusive Video Edition! Though the video edition of this episode is free!

Follow us on Twitter at: @FromEyrie Visit Jennifer L. Anderson’s online stores at: Angel Wings and Demon Tails Visit Greg Weisman at: Ask Greg Check out CONvergence at: CONvergence-Con Follow CONvergence on Twitter at: @CONvergenceCon Visit Zehra Fazal on her personal website: zehrafazal.com Follow Brigitte Bako on Instagram Check out Thom Adcox on his personal website Everything you ever wanted to know about Gargoyles at: GargWiki

[jungleindierock]

Time Machine - 2024 - No. 3

The third Time Machine playlist of 2024. 40 tracks again, as it makes the playlist not too long or too short, perfect number of tunes. The whole playlist only lasts 2 hours 30 minutes. Tracks from the 50's to 2023, of mixed genres!!

Enjoy it and share it, you might find some old bands/artists you like and want to explore their back catalogues!!

You can find previous Time Machines and more here on the Spotify

Tracklist

1- Bob Marley And The Wailers - Three Little Birds 2- Buffalo Springfield - For What it's Worth 3- Pixies - Debaser 4- Sam & Dave - Soul Man 5- Half Japanese - One Million Kisses 6- Dandy Livingstone - Rudy, A Message To You 7- Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot 8- The Charlatans - The only One I Know 9- Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day 10- Steel Pulse- Ku Klux Klan 11- The Libertines - Up The Bracket 12- Mercury Rev - Goddess On a hiway 13- Fun boy Three - The Tunnel Of Love 14- Ian Brown . F.E.A.R. 15- Television - Marquee Moon 16- Pulp - Babies 17- The kinks - Waterloo Sunset 18- Blur - There's No Other Way 19- Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro 20- Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man 21- Orange Juice - Rip It Up 22- The Bluetones - Slight Return 23- The Gun Club - Sex Beat 24- Neil Young - Heart OF Gold 25- Gloria Jones - Tainted Love 26- Magazine - Boredom 27- The Zombies - She's Not There 28- Kraftwerk . Autobahn 29- Max Romeo, Lee Perry - Chase The Devil / Disco Devil (With The Full Experiance) 30- Eddie Cochran - C'mon Everybody 31- Arcade Fire -No Cars Go 32- Catatonia - Mulder & Scully 33- Wet Leg - Oh No 34- The linda Lindas - Growing Up 35- Tony Clarke - Landslide 36- Daniel Johnston - Poor You 37- David sylvian - A Fire In The forest 38- Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling 39- Kevin Ayers - Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes 40- The Beta Band - Dry The Rain

[transbookoftheday]

The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane

A loose retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” that centers queer and trans characters

Trans sailor Darragh Thorn has made a comfortable life for himself among people who love and accept him. Ten years after his exile from home, though, his sister asks him to reconcile with their ailing father. Determined to resolve his feelings rather than just survive them, Darragh sets off on a quest to find the one person who can heal a half-dead man: the mysterious enchanter who once gave him the magic he needed to become his true self. But so far as anyone knows, no one but Darragh has seen the enchanter for a century, and the fairy tales that survive about em give more cause for fear than hope. In lush and evocative prose, and populated with magical trees and a wise fox, The Story of the Hundred Promises is a big-hearted fantasy suffused with queer optimism.

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1 3 25 38 for book ask

a book that is close to your heart: The Forever King by Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy. This came out forever ago (1992) and cemented little Jen's love of mythological retellings. It's a modern-day Arthurian reincarnation tale with diversions into the past, and this passage from the end just pops into my head every so often and I sigh.

For a moment the field was utterly silent. Not a whisper of breeze, not the chirping of a single insect. It was the silence of time turning backward. And then, ringing across the rolling hills came Arthur's command, rough with tears and pain and loss:

"To arms! Your king calls you to arms!"

There's a reason my first NaNoWriMo attempt was Arthuriana, and when my bridesmaids walked down the aisle for my wedding, they held books instead of flowers, and this book was one of them.

a stand-alone that you wish was part of a series: Stardust by Neil Gaiman. I'm not sure how it could be, but I wanted more from the moment a star fell to earth and said "fuck" in the tiniest font.

Gonna cheat with the last two, because a book by your favourite author AND your favourite series happen to be the same. Honestly I could have answered all these questions with books by Carol Berg. Close to my heart/series? The Rai-Kirah books. Standalone I wish had more? Song of the Beast. Books by my favorite author I wish everyone would read? The Lighthouse Duet books (Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone--incidentally another book carried by a bridesmaid in my wedding) and the Bridge of D'Arnath quartet.

thanks for the ask!

Incredibly well-loved and well-read 30 year old book cover under the cut.

[aro-who-reads]

Aro book review: The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane

Supposedly a Beauty and the Beast retelling, but more of a generally fairytale inspired fantasy story with strong Beauty and the Beast references. This includes short stories inserted between chapters, which isn't normally something I'm into but it worked here.

The book is full of queer characters, and has strong trans and aro themes throughout. There are multiple aro characters, including an aroallo side character. In general I really enjoyed how sex-positive it was.

While overall I appreciated the discussion around the meaning of love and different types of love, I wasn't sold on the romantic relationship the main character gets into at the end of the book. But if you don't mind that it's a solid read!

[scotianostra]

On 13th October 1862 tragedy struck when two trains collided at Winchburgh to the west of Edinburgh.

This is thought to have been the first head on collision between two trains in the country, it was certainly the first one with loss of life as 17 people died.

It caused horror and dismay at the time, but today has been almost forgotten. The crash occurred a mile and a half northwest of Winchburgh. The site of the accident was just west of Craigton House in a 30-feet-deep cutting.

Usually there would not have been a problem as there were two tracks there, but one was being repaired at the time. The cutting is on a curve, and by the time the two drivers saw each other, they were barely 300 yards apart.

The subsequent investigation of the wreckage showed that both drivers had reversed their engines and applied the brakes. The driver of the train from Glasgow, Archibald Neil, leapt from his engine and survived though badly injured. The other driver was killed.

The dead included James Hosie, manager of the Oakley Iron Works, who had just recently married. He was the founder of the Bathgate Foundry in 1857. Ironically, much of his foundry work was iron castings for railways; as he had lived, so he died by railways.

Dozens of the injured were taken by cart or train to Linlithgow, and accommodated in the Star and Garter and Red Lion inns. The Falkirk Herald reported that an injured woman gave birth prematurely in the Star and Garter, but the incident seems to have been a false alarm. Others were taken into private houses – four in the home of Alex Miller, a saddler, and another two in the home of Mr John Robertson. Twelve died in the crash, another four in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and a Mr Bolton died on arrival at Linlithgow Station.

The dead were listed as:

Robert Morton, engine-driver on the train from Edinburgh Andrew Cochrane, fireman on the train from Edinburgh John Cunningham, fireman on the train from Glasgow Mrs Honeyman, wife of the railway guard on the train from Glasgow E.S. Bolton, a Birmingham commercial traveller Mr Cowie, a railway clerk at Stirling James Hosie, manager of the Oakley Ironworks, Dunfermline Mrs Gill, a Yorkshire lady in her seventies Mr Hardy, an attendant at the Morningside Asylum Mr C.M. Haxton, a Kirkintilloch printer Alexander Hedderwick, a Falkirk solicitor William McFarlane, a Leith shoemaker Michael McQuade, a Dunblane railway porter Emily Smith, daughter of an Edinburgh joiner Elizabeth Stevenson, a servant girl Robert White, a Falkirk fish-dealer John Wightman, the Earl of Lauderdale’s estate manager.

The casualties were fewer than they might have been because both trains were going slowly – the east-bound train at 20mph and the west-bound train at a mere 8mph.

You can find more on the accident on West Lothian Museums and History page here https://www.facebook.com/.../winchburgh.../629594440561678/

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

It Came From The Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (anthology)

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

The Empress of Salt and Fortune/When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain/Into the Riverlands/Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo (series of short stories)

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoë Playdon

README.txt by Chelsea Manning

Armed in Her Fashion/The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield (armed in her fashion was published in 2018 and rereleased this year w/ edits under the new title)

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane

also have u considered a 'partially' option? there's some books i haven't finished fr one reason or another and it's hard to decide whether to say i liked it or not when i haven't finished it. thank u :)

Hi, thank you so much for all these submissions, they were added to the list.

I‘ve added a No but I‘d like to option, which I think could work for that as well? Would that work for you?