There are so many amazing panels I want to see at PAX this year. I thought it might be fun to post all the panels I'm going to, especially because I want to write a little bit about them as I go!
Panel Wrap-up – Queerness in Japanese Pop Culture: Authentic or a Fantasy Image?
On Sunday Sept 30th I participated in my first ever panel at Oz Comic Con. During the panel, a fee friends and I discussed the question "Queerness in Japanese Pop Culture: Authentic or a Fantasy Image?" Up until this point, queerness is never something I've discussed in front of a crowd of people and I …
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The Songs That Saved My Life
With the previous review talking about how music is capable of saving your life, I thought it best to talk about the music that saved mine. I am not shy about the fact that I discovered the band Blue October from looking at the playlist for Twilight …
We Sold Our Souls
After Kris' ex-bandmate Terry sold out to become The Blind King she's been working in a dead-end job in a dead-end town. But then The Blind King comes back for one last tour, and this time Kris might just be able to bring him down, but first she has to get the band back together. In another dead-end town, Melanie clings onto the hope that The Blind King has given her, and his new show has given her the kick she needs to finally get out of the place. Part road-trip, part zombie movie, all metal. tw: sexual assault, suicide, forced drug-taking, medical horror, dismemberment
Girl Mans Up
Pen is sick of trying to live up to everyone's expectations. No she doesn't want to be a boy, but she's not entirely sure she wants to be a girl if that means wearing skirts and just being what everyone wants her to be.
Fist of the Spider Woman
A collection of short stories based around horror and queer desire.
The Song of Achilles
It's the story of the Iliad, and the youth of Achilles, if it was told as a romance from the perspective of Patroclus
Good Manners
A woman raises the werewolf son of her former lover.
(Don’t) Touch
I am a tactile person. I like to touch and to be touched. I like firm hugs and holding hands. I am a firm advocate of non-romantic physical intimacy. I like having my head patted. I find touch comforting and soothing. Sometimes. Other times my skin will crawl from a friendly hug, and a casual …
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
Area X has been cut off from the world. It's existence only known to a few, it is hopelessly researched by the Southern Reach - an organisation that soon proves just as unknowable and strange as Area X itself.
