I became aware of Led Zeppelin fanfic in the late 1990s when the web exploded with archive sites. To say I was surprised would be an understatement. I’d known of Star Trek fanfic for years, and Buffy, X-files, and Xena fanfic sites were all over the place. But Zep fanfic was a new thing, especially …
A foursome of Jimbert* portraits courtesy of Midjourney. After almost a year, I broke down and got a subscription for myself. The prompt: young jimmy page and young robert plant, sleeping, 1970, recording studio, muted colors, tan, blue, gray, cinematic lighting, pen and ink, intricate line drawings, by Yoshitaka Amano, Ruan Jia, Kentaro Miura, Artgerm, …
Art created in AI. Arthur Rackham-like, no?
Trouble at the track. Can they ever be extricated?
Say the name Sauron and most people will think of this armored character from The Lord of the Rings movies, or a giant burning eye. But in the books Tolkien never spoke of Sauron’s Third Age physical form except in abstracts, saying only that he was “not fair” which could mean anything. So, inspired by …
The very first story I had published professionally (which means, by my definition, I got paid for, and I could hold the book in my hot little hands) was about a woman who turns, or is turned into, an espresso machine, and all the various sensations she experiences as coffee and creamer emerge from her …
This lovely cover for Vol. 12 of the graphic novel series Djinn is by Spanish illustrator Ana Miralles, who also serves as the series’ artist. Djinn is an adult-oriented (read: lots of sex) action-adventure-intrigue story about harem life in the Ottoman Empire.
Why is explorer lady wearing high-heeled pumps in the jungle?
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