Honey Bees & Manners: Chapter One

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White supremacist trying to form a straight-pride parade accidentally lets truth slip at city council meeting

A Slasher Dating Simulator

Winter Soldier Concepts & Arm Designs in The Art of Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War

art by Josh Nizzi (panels 6-8), Legacy Effects (panel 1) , Rodney Fuentebella (panels 3-5, 9)

GETTING KRUNK

TOUCH MY JUNK

Here are some recs for casual/feel-good f/f representation! All links are to my reviews.

Good Enough to Eat - super cute lesbian vampire rom-com

Promises, Promises - parody of LotR/D&D starring three lesbians on a quest for magical stuff

Everything Leads to You - Hollywood f/f YA about a young set designer who falls for a girl she meets under mysterious circumstances

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - ensemble-cast “crew of a spaceship” story. Mostly just random adventures, includes a f/f couple who survive the book.

Roller Girl - contemporary f/f romance about trans woman who joins a roller derby team

Not fluffy, but the angst is SFF-stress rather than “living under homophobia/biphobia” stress:

Ascension - queer disabled ladies fighting Big Pharma in space–you wanted space bi’s, come get your space bi’s (actually, if you want more space bi’s also check out the anthology Fierce Family.)

Chameleon Moon - review is of an earlier edition and I hear the new one has even more great representation. Trans woman superhero with two female partners living in a dystopian city that’s on lockdown from the government after everyone develops mutant powers in response to a wonderdrug.

Not Your Sidekick - in the future, what happens when your parents are superheroes but you never developed powers? You intern for the baddie, of course! MC is bi and ends up in a f/f relationship, and the sequel will star her trans bestie.

Gay Pride and Prejudice by Kate Christie - What it says on the tin. Elizabeth Bennett is a lesbian and the haughty Caroline Bingley is the last woman she could ever be prevailed upon to love.

Escape from B-Movie Hell by M.T. McGuire - Silly British sci-fi with a lesbian protagonist

Heart Trouble by Jae - A doctor gets shocked by a defibrillator while saving a woman’s life in the ER. Now they have a soul bond!

Finding Ms Write by Jae & Jove Belle - Collection of short stories about women who love women and also love books.

The Wind City by Summer Wigmore - Urban fantasy drawing on Maori mythology. Protagonist describes herself as “at least 60% gay” and falls in love with a monster girl.

Sword of the Guardian by Merry Shannon - Bi princess and lesbian bodyguard fall in love.

Beauty & Cruelty by Meredith Katz about the evil with falling in love with sleeping beauty (lesbian)

High & Mighty by S.S. Skye - a princess stuck in a tower who is decidely Not Amused about it (lesbian)

Humanity for Beginners by Faith Mudge - Two friends and a halfway house for lesbian werewolves (lesbian)

Hunting a Lady by Cari Z. and Caitlin Ricci - a woman who needs money goes to rescue a kidnapped lady for the reward (lesbian)

Lies & Reverie by Camilla Quinn - A shopkeeper’s daughter who loves to day dream, and the beautiful woman who runs the town (lesbian)

Love Rampage by Alex Powell - a girl in love with her best friend, and the unicorn who helps her (lesbian, trans)

Modern Serpents Talk Things Through by Jamie Brindle - a modern dragon who falls in love with the human who invades her cave (lesbian)

Prom and Other Hazards by Jamie Sullivan - super cute story about a girl, her best friend, and the prom (lesbian, bisexual)

Slaying Dragons by Sasha L. Miller - a frustrated mage, some dragons, and the lovely new partner she’s stuck with (lesbian)

The Broken Forest by Megan Derr - a Huntress, and the beautiful witch she meets dealing with a troublesome forest (lesbian, bisexual, trans)

The Mercenary by Annabelle Kitch - a peasant girl, the princess she loves, a quest to win her princess’s hand in marriage (lesbian)

The Persephone Star by Jamie Sullivan- a proper lady working in the post office, a notorious criminal set on revenge, and a bit of kidnapping (lesbian)

The Secret of Mermaid Cove by Megan Derr - an improper lady, an unwanted engagement, and an island full of secrets

Witch, Cat, and Cobb by J.K. Pendragon - a princess fleeing an arranged marriage, a witch, and a cat (lesbian, trans)

Zombies in the East End by Roxanne Dent - steampunk, zombies, and two tough ladies

California Skies by Kalya Bashe - bandits in the wild west, a hunt for jewels, stubborn people (bisexual, genderqueer)

BODY

SOMETHING

*inhale* THAT I CAN’T EXPLAIN ᴵᴹ ᴳᴼᴺᴺᴬ ˢᵀᴬᴿᵀ ᶠᴿᴼᴹ ᵀᴴᴱ ᵀᴼᴾ

Agent Miles (ahuhuhuh)

Agent

MULDER

I AM STANDING HERE IN

The rain

AND

2. The mud

LOOKING AT TWO COFFINS THAT WE—AGENT MULDER I AM STANDING OUT HERE IN

The rain

AND

The mud

AND

The rain

ᵃⁿᵈ…ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵒʳᶜᵉ ˢᵘᵐᵐᵒⁿᵉᵈ ᵗᵉʳᵉˢᵃ… ⁿᵉᵇᵇᶦⁿ’ˢ ᵇᵒᵈʸ (nemmin’s body) ⁿᵉᵐᵐᶦⁿ’ˢ ᵇᵒᵈʸ

AND THE FORCE SUMMONED TERESA NEMMIN’S BODY………………INTO THE WOODS TONIGHT

⁽ⁿᵒ, ᵍᵒ ᵃᵍᵃᶦⁿ, ᵍᵒ ᵃᵍᵃᶦⁿ⁾

AND TERESA NEMMIN’S AND THE PUH-

AND THE FORCE…..IT

Summoned

TERESA NEMMINS,,,,

INTO,,,,,

the woods tonight

A lot has been said about Rob Zombie’s second Halloween movie, released ten years ago, and how different if not outright contradicting it was to the Michael Myers mythos, and througout the years many have wondered… Why? Why is the movie… like that? Is it just random?

I don’t think it’s random. For all that can be said about Rob Zombie, I admire how he manages to make exactly the movies he wants to make (even if they are not the movies everyone wants to see), how he gets the best performances out of the actors (even if what they are given isn’t to everyone’s tastes) and how he manages to put his thoughts and experiences into the final product for us to see through film filters (even if not everybody can relate to them).

Case in point:

Hobo Michael Myers. Unmasked Michael Myers. Bearded Mychael Myers. Eating-from-garbage-can Michael Myers. Angry Micheal Myers.

What could Rob Zombie have possibly been thinking when he made this decision?

The answer is “how mental patients were being neglected back in the 80s”.

Skip to 1:25 in this interview he gave at Comic-con back in the day:

“I remember hearing back in the 80s during the Reagan years when they were closing out mental hospitals, just dumping the patients onto the streets. So you see these crazy people lying by garbage cans, they could be complete psychotics and I thought, well, it’s kind of interesting that Michael Myers is sort of like living out there in the world, that’s why he’s like this kinda big bearded guy. Yeah I mean you never see him, he could be this  kind of like mountain man living off and then Halloween comes and so the light bulb goes off in his brain, you know.”

Rob Zombie’s Michael Myers is not the boogeyman from the original, he’s not mysteryous. Instead this Michael Myers is a victim. First he was a victim of an abusive father, then he was put in a mental hospital and became the victim of a shitty system. A shitty system that Dr. Loomis is part of.

Listening to this interview made me re-think Rob Zombie’s version of Dr. Loomis, a heroic character in the original film and follow-ups but a major asshole in this movie. Many have found his jump from the nice guy from the remake to the douche in this sequel to be jarring, but maybe it wasn’t? You know when he says to that audience that kid-Michael has “the eyes of a psychopath” even though he didn’t seem that hopeless? Maybe that wasn’t the movie being clumsy and “not getting it”. Maybe this Loomis was already being exploitative and sensationalist. Maybe he was using a traumatized kid to sell his work from the begining. And maybe in this movie, the sequel, rather than doing a 180º like we though… he simply became bad at hiding his true colors.

Remember in the director’s cut of the sequel how at the end Michael takes off his mask, looks at Loomis in the eyes, and screams “Die!” before killing him? Angry all the way through? Maybe it wasn’t random. Maybe it’s this Michael getting his revenge on the second man that ruined his life after his father. Maybe it really was the end of this Michael’s story arc.

Many people have considered the Rob Zombie Halloween films as missing the point of the original, but to be fair, haven’t all the sequels until last year (regardless of quality) also miss the point by making Michael Myers eternally obsessed with his sister, wich was a last minute retcon of the first sequel? He stopped being the boogeyman because he had a clear motivation and a connection to his victims, he even was reduced to the slave of a cult at one point. In my opinion we didn’t get a “real” Halloween sequel until the 2018 movie wich ditched the sister angle and even made fun of it (again, not saying the movies are bad because of it).

But now that we got that movie, I find myself wanting to be more open minded about what Rob Zombie and this duology aimed to do, as I wait patiently for both Rob Zombie’s and Michael Myers’ respective next movies.

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brahms from the boy needs help making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and also his arms are just cloth

A compilation of playlists I’ve made for the salshers. Updated regularly!

Vincent Sinclair

Bo Sinclair

Lester Sinclair

Michael Myers

Harry Warden

Jason Voorhees

Brahms Heelshire

The Collector

Ghostface

Freddy Krueger

Pennywise

Billy Lenz

Leatherface

Chromeskull

I’ve done some Twitter threads on this topic, so thought it might be nice to do a Tumblr post too. One of my pet peeves is when people act like adult fantasy (or sci-fi for that matter) is just a straight white dude thing and that diversity only exists in young adult fantasy. That’s such a disservice to all the authors of marginalized identities currently writing adult fantasy!

Authors and books below the cut, including links to Goodreads. I’m not providing trigger warnings (if I make the post too long Tumblr starts freaking out about it), but you can use the search function on Goodreads reviews to find more specifics. 

EDIT: TERFS CAN FUCK OFF!!! I would think you absolute vile pieces of human garbage would be able to recognize when a post is trans inclusive but apparently I have to publicly tell you to get off my fucking post. I hope all of you die in a ditch.