rivkat: Wonder Woman reading comic (wonder woman reading comic)
( Jul. 28th, 2024 01:08 pm)
Yes, IWTV is great! While waiting for the next season, might you consider Evil? The show follows a hot Catholic priest-in-training, the hot atheist shrink to whom he is desperately attracted, and their hot lapsed Muslim tech guy as they investigate and try to prove/disprove demonic possessions. It is incredibly, delightfully unhinged. Part of it is that the show started on network TV, then moved to streaming in its second season, leading to the absolute best evolution where characters who were reasonably well-behaved start spouting "fuck" at the drop of a hat in S2, including a delightful nearly silent episode that was actually filmed while they still thought they'd be on network, so after filming they replaced the "thought dialogue" onscreen that the actor thought he was filming with a stream of "fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck," to hilarious effect. There's body horror, Catholic guilt, an amazingly toxic mother (Christine Lahti, having the time of her life), four kids who have clearly been instructed to just yammer every time they are on screen together--making them more realistic than 80% of TV kids from the get-go--examination of misogyny and anti-Blackness, critiques of modern internet culture, and the occasional Wallace Shawn. Also, the tech guy is Aasif Mandvi and the hot priest is Mike Colter (Jessica Jones/Luke Cage). And the bad guy is Michael Emerson (Harold Finch), chewing scenery like he only gets paid by how much debris is left when he’s done.

Shorter rec: What if Hannibal and The X-Files had a deeply online baby? My one caveat is that this is a cynical show, which feels a little like watching Cabaret: It's a sick culture and the show is not interested in fixing it, only in displaying it pinned open on a table so we can poke at the nastiest parts.

Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gaysqueer joy/horror )
R. A. Sinn, A Second Chance for Yesterdaytime travel romance )
Joy Demorra, Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites: Fluff and Fangs Editionwerewolf/vampire romance )
Stephen King, You Like It Darker: Storiesbecause they can )
Austin Grossman, Fight Mecynical former supervillains )

Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Oraclehorror and spycraft )
Finally started watching the latest season of SPN.  I think it's hilarious that Dean, as [personal profile] justabi said a long time ago, Tiny spoilers for first two eps of season )
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Zimmermann Telegramblast from the past )Reid Wilson & Lynn Lyons, Anxious Kids, Anxious ParentsAdvice for the distressed )
Dave Grossman with Loren W. Christensen, On CombatPaean to the warrior )

Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural CausesMemento mori )
Giles Milton, Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s DefeatSpy games )

Orly Lobel, You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie’s Dark SideLitigation deathmatch )

Jess P. Shatkin, Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Saferebels with a cause )
rivkat: Dean closeup (dean)
( Apr. 30th, 2013 08:50 pm)
Counteragent’s awesome SPN genderswap fan film, The Other Side, has started!

Other random links:

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens: a Kickstarter for a documentary about the spectrum of gender performance.

Enjoyable language rant.

Russian priest uses internet memes to fight slash.


Austin Grossman, Professor Incognito Apologizes: the flavor of this short story can be captured by this quote:
There have been a hundred moments when I was on the brink of telling you. I tried to say the words out loud. I knew you were a physics major and all, but I didn’t think you’d be into it—power and wrongdoing—it was too strange. And I admit, a part of me worries that if I told you about it, the secret part of me would disappear.
And it’s too complicated now. If I’d just told you at the very start, maybe you could have understood, but now? After the diggings and archenemies and sea planes . . . If I started now I’d have to explain why I came to I speak Mandarin and what happened to my original eyes. It’s gone a little far.
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