Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children: No Solicitations. No Visitors. No Quests. Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into…
Summary From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community face in America, the price of keeping secrets and finding the courage to burn it all down. Welcome…
There’s a really neat literary concept I’ve been thinking about frequently, and I’d like to share it with you as a means to discuss Roshani Chokshi’s novel, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride. When I read or consume media,…
Hello and welcome to the final installment of my four-part Pride-month series: Speculative Fiction and (My) Pride, where I’ve been discussing how I’ve understood and related to Pride through the lens of diverse and inclusive media. The bulk of this…
Hello and welcome to part three of my four-part Pride-month series: Speculative Fiction and (My) Pride! In part one, Imagining Diverse Futures, I introduced the world of Star Trek and the narrative spaces it created for diversity and inclusivity through…
Hello and welcome to part two of my four-part Pride-month series: Speculative Fiction and (My) Pride! Last week I introduced the role of Star Trek as an influential piece of speculative fiction. Today’s discussion, “Bodies and Souls,” will examine two…
Hello and welcome to part one of my four-part Pride-month series: Speculative Fiction and (My) Pride! Across this four-part series, I will be guiding you through an introspective examination of speculative fiction’s impact on how I experience and understand Pride…
While I have a lot of frustrations concerning streaming services, one net positive gain from competing channels (Netflix vs. Max vs. Paramount+, etc.) is the wealth of creative story-telling attempts. Each platform seems to have dipped its toes into the…
Summary In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees live three robots: the fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family,…
I keep lots of statistics on my reading, not because I think there is an inherent value in reading a lot or reading specific titles, but more so that I immensely enjoy data and pattern-seeking—it’s infinitely fascinating to me to…