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Read Receipts is a weekly show about speculative fiction, genre, and nerd culture by Reactor Mag. Hosted by Christina Orlando, Senior Books Editor
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Summary: The Reactor Team (Christina Orlando, Leah Schnelbach, Emmet Asher-Perrin, Bailey Simer) discuss the best things they've watched or read this month. Things we talk about: * Lanterns and shows that stick the landing * Superheroes and military propaganda, and ACAB includes Lanterns * Friday Night Lights rewatch when! * Hal Jordan is a notorious bum and a middle-aged slutty mess * Primetime, Robert Pattinson's weird career choices, and on-screen genitalia as jump scares * You Can See Everything * Media monsters & films about tech * Major writer/filmmakers asking if they're part of the problem * Christopher Nolan & Elliot Page * The legacy of Oscar Wilde & Alfred Lord Duglas * Records of reading, Booktok, and how reading defines a life * C-Dramas, Pursuit of Jade, and The Untamed * Hurt/comfort and a male character as damsel in distress * Black Sails is the most perfect show of all time, fight me about it. * How we react when "everyone" is watching a thing * Fifty Shades of Grey is the Young Sheldon of erotica * Christina's feelings about dark academia and shitty rich kids (it's not trauma, it's praxis) * The seasons of dark academia books, The Secret History * Richard Papen, unlikeable main characters, and the purpose of discomfort in fiction * Piranesi, Black Star, and media vibe curation View full show notes and transcript on Reactormag.com V
Alix E. Harrow (The Everlasting), C.L. Clark (The Magic of the Lost Series, Fate's Bane), Tasha Suri (Isle in the Silver Sea) discuss lady knights, sword lesbians, and gender in medieval-inspired fantasy. Things we talk about here include: * Influential childhood favorites and stuff that made us...ya know. * Tragedy as kink, swords as straps, and being horny as writing craft * C.L. Clark actually trains with swords cuz she's a badass * Lady Knights as an answer to the trad wife and tech bro * Crossdressing, butch lesbians, the military, and boob armor * Heroism's relationship with empire and nationalism * Revolution through love, connection, and community building * The power of stories and propaganda * America's obsession with British medievalism and Arthuriana * Horny ambitions, power, and f***ing the empire * "What if the patriarchy really really liked me, specifically?"
Introducing Read Receipts, a weekly show about speculative fiction, genre, and nerd culture by Reactor Mag [https://reactormag.com/]. Hosted by Christina Orlando, Senior Books Editor, and produced by Gaby Iori.
Read Receipts is a weekly show about speculative fiction, genre, and nerd culture by Reactor Mag. Hosted by Christina Orlando, Senior Books Editor
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