Links: Roaches, Scifi, & More

Workspace with computer, journal, books, coffee, and glasses.It’s time for Wednesday Links, where we show you some interesting things we’ve found on the internet lately. Some are funny. Some are weird. But we still hope you’re able to find a nice break in your day!

If you’re looking to buy your loved one (or yourself) a unique gift this Valentine’s Day, why not name a cockroach at the Bronx Zoo! You even get a special certificate! Other packages include roach socks, a cute enamel pin, and roach-shaped chocolate. I think it’s pretty cool, despite my general aversion to bugs.

Activist Charles Preston keeps a Google Drive full of Black history resources. It costs him $2 a year in upkeep, but it’s free for you! There are videos, pdfs, and entire folders dedicated to specific people and topics.

 

Have you heard of Humble Bundle? It’s a great site that offers book, comic, and video game packages in a “pay what you want” model. What I really love is that you can decided how much of what you pay goes to the artists, site, charities, etc. Currently, Humble Bundle has a bundle of sex-positive comics and Chuck Tingle books!

Strange Horizons is a weekly magazine that focuses on speculative fiction, featuring art, poetry, essays, interviews, and more. The January 29th issue includes scifi and fantasy from the trans and nonbinary communities. And as a bonus, it seems to be completely free!

And, if you’re looking for romances with disabled characters, I’ve discovered a blog that I would highly recommend: Sense & Disability!

So, this is going to be a blog about disabled characters in romance novels.  Reviews, analyzing tropes, recommendations, and general snark.  I’ll probably expand to other books, too, but there are enough things I want to write about romance to keep me busy for a while.

Please check it out!

Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!

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  1. Callalily says:

    Thank you for linking to Sense and Disability! I hope people find it helpful!

  2. Amanda says:

    @Callalily: I’m finding it to be great! Thank you for starting it!

  3. EC Spurlock says:

    Also on The Mary Sue today, they list their 10 favorite romance novel podcasts, with a big shout-out to SBTB!! https://www.themarysue.com/10-best-podcasts-romance-readers/

  4. Louise says:

    In the interest of giving credit where credit is due: The Mary Sue itself notes that the article is reproduced with permission from A Love So True.

  5. Heather M says:

    Love Strange Horizons. They’re one of the best spec fic magazines out there, as far as I’m concerned, and they have years of free archives. But right now they’re also running a fund drive with a pretty awesome prize drawing for PayPal and Patreon donors [I’m not affiliated with them in any way, except they published a story I wrote a few years ago and I love the work they put out. Here’s the link to the prize drawing http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/azimuth/2018-prize-draw/ ]

  6. Laurel says:

    Thanks for the link to the Black History month resources – I needed a place to start doing some research for a book, and this looks like a good starting point.

  7. Pamala says:

    @EC Spurlock, the Nichelle Nichols DRUNK HISTORY episode was awesome, lol. And I love Humble Bundles. My boys are comic aficionados so we patronize them often. Thanks for the heads up on this latest offering.

  8. Tracy A says:

    I’m excited about both the Google Drive and the Sense & Disability site. I’ve added the latter to my RSS reader. Thanks!

  9. C.F. says:

    @ Callalilly: Your blog is wonderful and such a needed resource ! Thank you @ Amanda for this link!

  10. Callalily says:

    @C.F. and Tracy A: Thank you!

  11. vasha says:

    Coincidentally at the same time as Strange Horizons, Capricious Magazine has an issue devoted to gender-diverse pronouns (i.e. in every story some character or characters use pronouns other than he or she). I’m currently reading it and enjoying the hell out of it & will have much more to say come “What Are You Reading?”

  12. EC Spurlock says:

    The Atlantic features one writer’s push toward achieving gender and racial parity in the news stories he writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-in-my-stories/552404/ although I can’t help thinking It shouldn’t have to take that much effort.

  13. Jimthered says:

    While the DRUNK HISTORY segment was very good, it did leave out two things. Nichols was considering leaving STAR TREK for two other reasons: She’d had an unhappy affair with Gene Roddenberry, and she learned that CBS had been withholding the fan mail she was getting. The more you nerd!

  14. Maria Vale says:

    The Wolf Conservation Center is offering a chance to sponsor mating wolves as part of their Species Survival Plans. Just in case ‘cockroaches’ don’t sing Valentine’s Day.

    https://nywolf.org/support-us/get-wildly-romantic-for-valentine-s-day

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