I absolutely adored this fantasy novel, about an orc girl who has mostly convinced herself she's ok being sacrificed to the cold, ancient god of the death cult who raised her, but is understandably quick to jump at the chance to escape and become the minion of a morally ambiguous wizard who says she has more to offer the world.
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I made this for my little brother after he mentioned pondering watching The Dragon Prince. It is thus aimed at his kinda mainstream tastes but thought I might as well post it here too.

It was weird writing a rec for She-ra for someone for whom "It's full of queer women" is not worth mentioning one way or the other haha.
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A Good Day To Be A Dog is a very cute m/f Korean romantic comedy webtoon about a woman who is cursed to turn into a dog every day at midnight if she kisses someone...and the dog-phobic guy she accidentally kisses while drunk ( Read more... )

A lot of western fantasy has worldbuilding involving a balance between two fundamental forces: usually Light and Dark but sometimes Order and Chaos. This often very explicitly draws on Chinese ideas about Yin and Yang, where in theory both are necessary and neither is all good or all bad ( Read more... )

Note: the very last thing I review has a rape trigger but I put a big warning ahead of it, and don't go into detail.
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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation/The Founder of Diabolism is a Chinese supernatural m/m wuxia novel (with animated and comic adaptions) The translation is about halfway through and I loved it and waiting for the remaining SIXTY CHAPTERS is going to KILL ME.

It's a VERY slow burn romance between Lan Wangji, a serious minded jedi cultivator/ ( Read more... )

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So I am up to date on all 56 episodes of the Adventure Zone and I love it and I want MORE why do I have to WAIT?? I have a few standalone episodes I haven't listened to yet but right now I want the end to this arc not something else ( Read more... )

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A nice well behaved middle class 11 year old girl in 1920s England wakes up Wrong. Something's off about her memories. She's always hungry. Her sister keeps screaming that she's fake. Her parents start to wonder what's happened to their Nice Little Girl ( Read more... )