Saad Z Hossain, Djinn City: ( Djinns as jerks )

Just finished watching Julie and the Phantoms on Netflix, a show that has no business being as good as it ended up being. Julie is a teen who lost her mom, and also lost the ability to play the music that she used to make with her mom. When she accidentally brings three ghosts-three members of a boy band that was on the verge of breaking out when ( Read more... )

The New Voices of Science Fiction, ed. Hannu Rajaniemi & Jacob Weisman: ( yay new voices )

Vid for me! Murdering Stravinsky, Farscape, lithiumdoll: YouTube, AO3

Look, ever since I realized that “dressing up as fascists” was perfect for this fandom, I’ve wanted this vid, and LithiumDoll does it great justice. The internal motion and even internal lighting changes are perfect for the disorientation and cruelty of the song. And there’s so ( Read more... )

Aimee Kaufman, ( Gemina )

The Best of Subterranean, ( Read more... )

( The Witch Who Came In from the Cold )

1. Lucifer is very satisfying to me right now. Maze and Chloe as roommates is exactly the fanservice I desired.

2. I love gothy covers of Sarah McLachlan’s Possession, but it occurs to me that they are a bit mansplainy. She did, after all, know that she was writing about a stalker.

3. Words cannot really describe how much I want a Farscape vid to ( Read more... )

( Holly Black, Seanan McGuire, Zen Cho: magic! )

( Daniel Handler )