This Week's Monstrosity: Strange Women Lying in Ponds Distributing Swords
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I’m sharing quarterlyish peeks at my works in progress and readerly rambles about what I’m reading and loving.
Update
We celebrated Trans Visibility Day this week, so here’s a list of incredible reads by trans authors to enjoy. (I would also add City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders, Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin, and Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White.
If you’re into strange women lying in ponds distributing swords, here’s a list of SFF novels with Arthurian inspo.
If you were hooked by the defiant jazz of Severance, Reactor has more iconic dance scenes from SFF history.
Apropos of nothing, the Gilded Age wasn’t wealth, it was corruption.
How to Fight Fascism
This week, I’m digging into this Vox explainer: How do I resist Trump and Musk without ruining my life?
Got ideas and recs? Send them over.
Reading
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Mood
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