u/aster_dern

▲ 3 r/QueerSFF+1 crossposts

Does anyone know why 'Andromeda' by E.S. McLeod isn't available anywhere?

Just what the title says, I saw the book came out a couple days ago, went to where it's supposed to be able to be purchased and none of the websites either have it or list it as available. I checked Amazon even and the author's page lists no books, not just unavailable. I'm not really sure what's going on- it says it came out the 14th, does anyone know about this?

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u/aster_dern — 4 days ago

Sapphic/Queer retelling of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?

Just wondering if anyone knows about a retelling or re-imagining of this that's more sapphic or queer focused. I feel like it would lend really really well but wasn't able to find any written works that have seemed to try it in my limited researching of the topic. I know on it's own 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is already pretty queer-coded at least and that the BBC adaptation did a little something with it, but I wondered if there were something more modern and maybe more intentional with it- maybe gender bending/gender-queering some of the characters or something? I have been seeing a lot of queer and partially sapphic mythology and fairy/folk-tale retellings pop up lately- at least 8 off the top of my head from just first quarter of this year alone... and with Hippolyta literally being the queen of the Amazons and in other medias is portrayed very queer I feel like this would be something not terribly difficult to do, I'd be very surprised if it hadn't been done already... so I don't know- just wondered if anyone knew of a book or if anyone knew of one in the works?

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u/aster_dern — 5 days ago

I don't know what to say- that shit was so fucking cool, a gorgeous cinematic dude... I love when official creators of media make these artistic short metaphor-y depictions of their story. The music was amazing, the imagery was so interesting and well done, I feel like we got more of a picture of the emotional side of Song and Reed's mission line. It was the perfect finish to the story, such a beautiful way to wrap the story back together at the end and clear up any possible confusion about character's motivations. I hope in future projects by CDPR that they do more of these. I just loved it so much- all this is is an appreciation post- beautiful beautiful work, thank you to everyone who worked on that visualization (as well as the expansion and game at whole).

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u/aster_dern — 19 days ago