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I really like the work of Ursula Vernon, who is an American author and artist - mostly fantasy, but she will also tell you a great deal about swamp ecology if you let her, or if she manages to get between you and the door.
I got acquainted with her work years ago on deviantart, then I followed her on livejournal, then I started reading her webcomic "Digger" - then I showed a few pages to my mother and SHE became a fan, and now between us we have nine of her books in physical form, half a dozen more on Kindle, the six individual volumes of "Digger", and the "Digger" omnibus.
I hope she comes to Australia some day.

I love Ursula Vernon! I haven't kept up with her stuff so much in the past half-decade or so, but I should peek in again.

NAYRT but you definitely should as she’s published several books for adults since then.

I love Ursula Vernon! I also got interested in her works through the same pipeline. XD I have a few of her Gearworld prints around my room, a Digger omnibus, and several books. When I'm feeling down I listen to Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap. XD

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I love her books and check her twitter most days. I found her art when she was still posting on Elfwood.

Anything by N.K. Jemisin. The Earthsea books. Any of Bujold's fantasy books (for some reason her fantasy works for me in a way her scifi doesn't). Howl's Moving Castle.

The Mirror Empire books (awesome worldbuilding). The first 6 books of the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey (I haven't read much past those 6, but the first 6 are fun with a great villain, plus the hero in the second set of 3 is gay).

Children of Blood and Bone. City of Brass. Throne of Glass. Godspeaker trilogy (evil religions are a trope I'm drawn to, plus an awesome female villain who is pretty sympathetic).

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Jane Austen, cause sass. To be honest though, I think most of my books are female authors? Even the mystery ones (ie not just the romance ones).

That said, I buy books based on recommendations or just the blurbs, I've never really looked at the author unless it's in a "Hey I have a book by this author and I love it" sort of way.

Dear ♥ Jane ♥

A lot of fics.

The youtubers – Lindsay Ellis, Antonella Inserra, Jenny Nicholson, Natalie Wynn. So much of film and ideology analysis is some dude explaining the world to me, it's nice to have female voices in there. In particular, Lindsay makes sure I never feel shame to like vaguely girly stuff (as in, un-manly stuff like Disney movies), Nella is unapologetically enthusiastic about random things, Jenny makes salty and informative videos on aspects of male nerd-dominated fandoms that maaaaybe weren't made for them (Star Wars dolls, My Little Pony), and Natalie gives me a glimpse of a world I'm not part of but want to be informed about.

IA!

Oh I love Lindsay Ellis, she's really smart and insightful. I loved her recent video on the character of "the Persian" from The Phantom of the Opera.

I haven't watched the others, but I love Lindsay and Jenny!

It's not fannish, but for other female-created YouTube content, I also recommended Ask a Mortician (Caitlyn has also done collabs with The Financial Diet, Brain Scoop, and others).

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Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold. Historically based romantic fantasy that's perfectly executed, every character is great, all the emotional beats are spot on, all the fantastic concepts are well done, just a deeply lovable book.

Collected short stories of James Tiptree. I don't think there's another writer in existence like James Tiptree (aka Alice Sheldon aka Racoons Sheldon). Her stories are these weird little jewels imbued with a really deep profound awareness of and obsession with human mortality and the desire for death and sexual obsession and the weirdness of human gender and to put as much as she did in her short stories blows me away. Absolute genius writer.

Point Break directed by Kathryn Bigelow. For my money the best action movie of all time. An incredibly stupid premise that completely leans into its stupidity, that centers the whole movie on the emotional relationship between Swayze and Reeves in a way that makes it work anyway. And gorgeously directed.

Birds of Prey directed by Cathy Yang. Just a shockingly fun, well-made movie. What I love most about it is the 70s vibe of it all and I think Yang did an amazing job to carry that off without letting it become pastiche while also making a really good action movie.

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Collins. Huge influence on me as a kid, really great evocative use of myth, great characters, really well done moral complexity and emotional maturity, and just soaking in atmosphere.

Semper Femina by Laura Marling. I love every Laura Marling album but this is her most recent one and I think it bespeaks a real maturity for her as a singer-songwriter. Sprawling and conversational and using melody and allusive, fragmentary lyrics to create a really effective overall texture more than telling any single particular story for me. It took a while for me to come around on it but I love it.

Heh, I think autocorrect got you there, but yessss re:Susan Cooper. The Dark is Rising is so great.

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I get very wary of reading Star Trek books in general, but I absolutely love the ones written by Una McCormack. My favourite so far is a DS9 book 'The Never-Ending Sacrifice' because I feel like she did an amazing job with world-building and writing the characters of the story in her own way.

Also I have an eternal soft spot for Jacqueline Wilson's books. I only read her books outside of school as a kid up until my mid-teens, and even then I find myself re-reading some of those books from time to time - like The Illustrated Mum and Lizzie Zipmouth. Even though I had a witch phase as a kid I was the one kid in my class that refused to read Harry Potter because the main character wasn't a girl and I didn't think any girl characters in the HP would be interesting in the same way as Wilson's characters (although I did end up getting into HP when I was older, around the time Goblet of Fire was published so I didn't miss out lol).

I like the singing of Florence and the Machine, Kendra Morris, Lorde, and Adele.

I loved the writing of Amy Tan and Jane Yolen.

I love the videos of Jenny Nicholson. She is so funny and relaxing.

Jenny Tha God

I love Florence ❤❤❤❤❤❤

omg YES Florence <3

I like Amy Tan's books too.

Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke was my favourite book for many years as a kid.

Harry Potter was a big part of my teenage years.

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones is still a favourite, and I kinda like how in most of Jones' books, the main character is unlikeable. idk why, it's just amusing to me.

Who would I be without Naoko Takeuchi? Sailor Moon is such a classic of the magical girl genre, not to mention shojo as a whole. Female friendships, courage, sacrifice, trauma, loyalty, bonds that withstand the weight of millennia - what didn't it have? ❤

Similarly, Hiromu Arakawa. Fullmetal Alchemist is a fantastic series and I love it to bits. Family, war, the laws of nature, life in a military dictatorship, disability and chronic pain, forgiveness and redemption - and the bit where the whole mess was kicked off by a creature created from the blood of a slave, and that wanted to be free.
(also Silver Spoon is pretty great, jsyk)

I used to follow D.Gray-man by Katsura Hoshino very closely, but I lost track of it a few years ago. I'm still very fond of the characters and the art.

There's a mix of men and women writers, but one of my favorite shows right now is All Rise. There's only one straight white male in the main cast, the rest are women/POC/LGBT+, and it's awesome.

I agree.

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