Hi all! It’s been forever since I did a cooking column and I’m glad to be doing another one. Quick primer for those who are new to…… Read more “Chaos Queer Cooking: Ploughman’s Pickle/Piccalilli/Chutney”
First Chapter Thoughts: Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Gracia
A while back, I read Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow, and fell utterly in love. Her prose, her characterization, her wry, dark humour, combined with Mayan mythology…… Read more “First Chapter Thoughts: Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Gracia”
Ghosts in Quicksilver: 2.12: Partitions
TWs for this chapter: internalized/inter-system racism, gaslighting, implied past CSA, child abandonment, childhood trauma, emotional abuse I’m not really sure where to start with envisioning an…… Read more “Ghosts in Quicksilver: 2.12: Partitions”
Behind the Curtain: Why Does Romance’s Happy Endings Rule Make Me Panic?
There are a few topics in the writing world that never really fall out of circulation. They’re contentious, sometimes for the most ridiculous reasons, sometimes for very…… Read more “Behind the Curtain: Why Does Romance’s Happy Endings Rule Make Me Panic?”
Ghosts in Quicksilver 2.11: The Road to Hell…
TW: uninvited thought reading, medical racism/ableism, internalized anti-Blackness (mentioned/hinted), violence, internalized sanism/ableism, scattered outdated ways of referring to Dissociative Identity Disorder or plurality (“multiple personalities”, etc.) Quotes…… Read more “Ghosts in Quicksilver 2.11: The Road to Hell…”
