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Thursday Recs
Ack, I almost forgot!
This week I'm recommending the free online speculative fiction literary magazine, Strange Horizons, and its sibling publication, Samovar.
Strange Horizons is, as I said, a free weekly(!) publication, which nonetheless pays all its contributors professional rates. This includes translators for Samovar, a quarterly SFF magazine from the same publisher, which focuses on, well, translated works (each work is included in both its original language and in English).
Some of you may be aware of the incident a number of years ago, when conservative jackasses tried to take over the Hugo Awards, claiming that sci-fi and fantasy these days were too "woke". When Strange Horizons learned that they had been included on the list of the so-called "Sad Puppy" approved SFF, they immediately set to work on producing an all queer issue. The magazine is truly dedicated to diversity, and their entire back-catalogue is available to consume here. Start with the most recent issue, or the very first issue from September, 2000, or the special Trans and Nonbinary issue—or just click around and see if anything appeals to you! They've got some really fantastic stuff.
(Full disclosure: My sister-in-law worked as an editor for Strange Horizons for a number of years, but I started supporting them before I met her, and I believe she's currently retired from that position as she's got a toddler and an infant taking up a lot of her time and attention.)
Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!
Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
This week I'm recommending the free online speculative fiction literary magazine, Strange Horizons, and its sibling publication, Samovar.
Strange Horizons is, as I said, a free weekly(!) publication, which nonetheless pays all its contributors professional rates. This includes translators for Samovar, a quarterly SFF magazine from the same publisher, which focuses on, well, translated works (each work is included in both its original language and in English).
Some of you may be aware of the incident a number of years ago, when conservative jackasses tried to take over the Hugo Awards, claiming that sci-fi and fantasy these days were too "woke". When Strange Horizons learned that they had been included on the list of the so-called "Sad Puppy" approved SFF, they immediately set to work on producing an all queer issue. The magazine is truly dedicated to diversity, and their entire back-catalogue is available to consume here. Start with the most recent issue, or the very first issue from September, 2000, or the special Trans and Nonbinary issue—or just click around and see if anything appeals to you! They've got some really fantastic stuff.
(Full disclosure: My sister-in-law worked as an editor for Strange Horizons for a number of years, but I started supporting them before I met her, and I believe she's currently retired from that position as she's got a toddler and an infant taking up a lot of her time and attention.)
Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!
Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
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Chapters: 31/31
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Characters, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Wēn Qíng
Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Post-Canon, (mostly), jiang cheng deserves a hug, and he gets one eventually, a whole host of female OCs, we stan a burly woman, transfem character, my kingdom for a competent woman, it's 2020 we write mary sues with no shame, just a wuxia girl in a xianxia world, she cultivates these guns, canon-typical shitty dudes, who get what's coming to them, the sexy adventures of my OC Jiang Pushups, the inherent eroticism of watching a woman stab a boar to death, Wēn Qíng Lives, because fuck canon is why, fighting as flirting, Fighting As Foreplay, jiang cheng has feelings and doesn't like it one bit, yunmeng bros reconciliation, fan dingxiang bringing class consciousness to the jianghu, qin su also lives, demisexual Jiang Cheng, sex disaster jiang cheng, Femdom, switch rights, Eventual Smut, when i say slow burn I mean we're all gonna hate me for it
Summary:
“Are you a cultivator?”
“No,” she says, steadily. “This one doesn’t possess the core for it.” She pauses and raises her eyes to his, so boldly he finds it a little startling. “I believe that I can be of use to the Jiang sect in spite of that, and I have brought a gift to prove it. May I show you?”
Fully intrigued now, Jiang Cheng nods. The girl unslings the bundle from her back, unties a couple of straps, and unrolls it on the floor in a smooth motion.
Jiang Cheng is on his feet before he even consciously realizes it’s happened, and the reaction murmurs out through the hall. There, on a blanket that belongs on the back of a horse, are five Wen cultivator swords, offered to him by a girl who looks like the word “bumpkin” was invented specifically for her. What the fuck.
“Where did you get those?” he asks, instead of asking “What the fuck?” out loud, because that would be unbecoming of his status as sect leader.
The girl meets his eyes again, lifts her chin, and says simply, “I killed the men who carried them.”
Or: Fan Dingxiang cultivates the swole path. Jiang Cheng doesn't know how to handle that.
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