I've been thinking a lot about the characters in the Johannes Cabal series, which I do a lot, and their coded sexuality, which I do a lot anyway ( Read more... )

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Because I'm trying to get back into my writing muse and these are just fun.

[three snarky emotionally crippled wizards fighting radially symmetric monsters across space and time]

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“When you informed me we were meeting on neutral ground,” Loki intoned, surveying their surroundings with sharp sideways glances - somewhere between cautious and disgusted, “I did not expect a place for food and drink.”

Johannes Cabal glanced sideways over his ( Read more... )

( Jonathan L. Howard is the bearer of ill tidings. )


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This essay is a great, short description of Lovecraft's work and how it's actually very genre-crossing instead of just horror. Especially liked the bits on science fiction.

Also has a couple of pretty interesting tidbits about how fantasy, science fiction, and horror all used to be lumped together in one genre.

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Oh, my mom and I were talking about Avengers. Which of course led to a discussion about how talented Tom Hiddleston is. This prompted me to say: "So, mom, are there any roles you would cast him in, say...fictional wizards perhaps?" (keeping in mind she reads everything I do)

After a moment, she nodded. I said, "Who?" I was expecting her to say ' ( Read more... )

Some guy was complaining over slash and bad photoshops on the Cabal tumblr, which inevitably transitioned into a complaint about why there's so much sex in fandom (which was more or less the root of the issue, as far as I'm concerned).

None of these things are things that exist I might add. There are five people in the fandom. We would know.

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