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K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “Your Idol”

| October 1, 2025

If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]

Review of A Fae in Finance by Juliet Brooks

| September 24, 2025

I learned about Juliet Brooks’ book, A Fae in Finance (Orbit Works, 2025), while I was at Seattle’s Worldcon in August, when I chatted with another attendee who was a friend of the author. When said friend explained it as “human trapped in the realm of the fae but still has to work her day job,” […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “Free”

| September 17, 2025

If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]

Review of The Oblivion Bride by Caitlin Starling

| September 10, 2025

Caitlin Starling’s The Oblivion Bride (Neon Hemlock, 2025) is a gorgeous science-fantasy novella with some Gothic and surreal elements worked into an incredible world. Lorelei is one of a very small number of members of her family who hasn’t been killed by the family curse, which no one has been able to figure out. In order […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “Takedown”

| August 27, 2025

If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]

Review of The Map of Lost Places

| August 20, 2025

The Map of Lost Places, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas and Lesley Conner (Apex Book Company, 2024), is a wonderful anthology filled with the dark and strange recesses of our world and the stories that happen there. This anthology contains twenty-two stories, and it was difficult to narrow down those stories to just the ones […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “Golden”

| August 6, 2025

Back to posting about “K-Pop Demon Hunters” songs! If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are […]

Review of The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc

| July 30, 2025

The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc (Neon Hemlock Press, 2024) is a sci-fi novella featuring duplicated consciousnesses and a cheese heist with wonderful character development and worldbuilding bundled within its pages. Millions Wayland has focused all of her attention on making cheese, after an incident when some of her duplicated consciousnesses rebelled against […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “Soda Pop”

| July 16, 2025

If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “How It’s Done”

| July 9, 2025

Time for a new Wednesday feature! If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop […]