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Sketchiness: Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo in indian ink with a little white gouache. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: art, drawing, frida, frida_kahlo, painting, photo, photograph, sketch, sketchiness

Work in progress: Ectoplasm

Acrylic on acrylic paper Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: acrylic, art, ectoplasm, painting, photo, photograph

100 Diverse Speculative Authors

100 Diverse Speculative Authors “So here are a hundred speculative fiction authors with some work in English. They are diverse in various ways including (but not limited to) sex, gender, class, sexuality, race, religion, country of origin, disability and neurotypicality.” … Continue reading →

Child Soldiers

There’s an interesting article in this month’s British Journal of Psychiatry. Written by Brandon Kohrt, it challenges what we think we know about child soldiers and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in this group. PTSD rates in this group are high … Continue reading →

Reading: Fashion Beast

Reading Fashion Beast by Alan Moore and Malcolm McLaren.     Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: alan_moore, graphic_novels, malcolm_mclaren, reading

So, #DiversityinSFF just broke Twitter (Or Some Thoughts on Diversity in Speculative Fiction)

Some unfocused thoughts: -By Speculative Fiction (SF) I mean Science Fiction and Fantasy, both in their widest possible definitions. -By Other I mean LBGT, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, gender (meaning female in this context) and so on. - There … Continue reading →

Ramayana: “Rava…

Ramayana: “Ravana appeared like a blazing comet. His dark body shone with a brilliant aura. From his ten heads his reddish eyes darted about, scouring the mountains below.” There is nothing as psychedelic as the Ramayana, not even ’1001 Arabian … Continue reading →

Escapology in Genre Fiction

One day I’ll write a longer post about this topic, but for now, read this article by the talented Rochita Loenen-Ruiz over at Strange Horizons: Movements: On Escapist Literature and Being Dangerous I was on the Racefail panel over at … Continue reading →

Sketchiness: “Ohh, portrait. Okay, but you have to give me a boob job and make me skinny.”

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: art, draw, drawing, ink, portrait, sketch

Short Book Review: The Vorrh by B.Catling

  This is the best book I’ve read this year. It is simply exquisite. It’s difficult to compare this to any other work and to call it fantasy is to do it a disservice. It is a grotesque and beautiful … Continue reading →