#hex life

THE BIGGEST ZOIDS MODEL KIT EVER MADE (to date)

Getting this far took 3 days and he STILL isn't done. That cutting mat is 18 inches, btw, for the sake of scale.

MODEL FINISHED!! It's the size of and weighs as much as a cat. I adore him with all my heart.

And here Gojulas is displayed on the Zoids' shelf! He doesn't fit inside but that's fine. He and Cherno Alpha can hang out on top and I might try to pose them into FIGHT positions at some point.

Hex Life - Ed. Christopher Golden & Rachel Autumn Deering

Read: Oct 2022

This is a collection of short stories about witches. "Wicked new tales of witchery" as it says on the cover. It's maybe also part of the title? I can never tell to be honest. Overall I really enjoyed this book. Not every story was a winner. Especially stories taking place in already established fictional worlds. A few of the authors have long running series that they wrote in for this, and largely I didn't like those stories. I'll just give y'all the run down real quick:

An Invitation to a Burning - Kat Howard: great start for the book

Widows' Walk - Angela Slatter: this needs to be a movie honestly

Black Magic Momma: An Otherworld Story - Kelley Armstrong: meh

The Night Nurse - Sarah Langan: superbly creepy bad witch story, a mother goes through it

The Memories of Trees - Mary SanGiovanni: this one was great! Calling powers and people finding out

Home: a Morganville Vampires Story - Rachel Caine: did not like

The Deer Wife - Jennifer McMahon: amazing!! Gay!! Also needs to be a movie

The Dancer - Kristine Dearborn: okay, didn't read as "witch"

Bless Your Heart - Hillary Monahan: great! A mother's retribution in all its witchy glory

The Debt - Ania Ahlborn: creepy have to pay the price story

Toil & Trouble: A Dark-Hunter Hellchaser Story - Sherrilyn Kenyon & Madaug Kenyon: ehh this one I didn't like that much

Last Stop on Route Nine - Tananarive Due: this one was good, nasty backwoods witch and curses

Where Relics Go to Dream and Die - Rachel Autumn Deering: this one was weird but interesting

This Skin - Amber Benson: this one was wild

Haint Me Too - Chesya Burke: this one was delicious, plantation absolutely haunted by the slaves that died there and black witches fucking up them white people

The Nekrolog - Helen Marshall: this was weird and wild, you will never guess where this one is going

Gold Among the Black - Alma Katsu: liked this one

How to Become a Witch-Queen - Theodora Goss: Snow White grows up and says fuck it!

oh and here’s HEX Life

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