Fanfiction has given millions of readers escapist fun as characters from their favorite shows get re-imagined by amateur writers in infinite ways. Sites such as Archive of Our Own and Fanfiction.net, to name the two biggest, get millions of [...]
Lesbians over fifty in real life are as commonplace as Cate Blanchett crushes and Miranda Priestly’s steaming-hot lattes. But within the pages of our books, where are the older women? I’m not talking about older, secondary characters—the quirky neighbor, [...]
Ever want a chill to run up your bones? Study a good villain. Not someone who mustache twirls or cackles, or monologues about why they have to kill the country/planet/universe (spoiler: because they’re evil, bwahaha). Nor someone weak as [...]
Languages can be a minefield. It’s hard enough mastering one, let alone telling stories in a different tongue. Obviously translators don’t always get it right and there are so many things that can go wrong with foreign languages…or right, [...]
We live in an age of constant flux, and our relationship with technology is rapidly changing. Machines are no longer separate entities, that we switch off and on, but a crucial part of our daily lives. There’s this eccentric Australian [...]
This week marks the end of Once Upon A Time, a show which sparked a love-hate relationship for many viewers, especially among its legion of lesbian fans. Former OUAT fanfiction writer and Swan Queen lover Lee Winter gives her [...]
February is Ylva’s month of romance and few books are sweeter than Hazel Yeats’s delightful first novel, Bunny Finds a Friend. It’s about a driven American children’s author finding romance with a laid-back Dutch woman in Amsterdam, and was [...]
Well, we’ve all been there. Romantic night, popcorn in hand, hot date snuggled up to you on your sofa. You’ve just hit Netflix or the DVD store for some hot new queer cinematic masterpiece you’ve heard is adored by [...]
On January 9, champagne popping, cheers, and wobbly cries of “I do” will sound across Australia as same-sex marriages are finally allowed to be performed. But amid the joy and rush to the altar, there’s another side to the [...]
E-books are one of the most satisfying presents to receive and they’re so easy to give…if you know how. The festive season is whizzing toward its fir-treed, bauble-lit, ho-ho-ho-tastic climax so you may be thinking: “What do I give [...]