- Dealing with a pesky vampire infestation? Quirk has a handy chart of the different creatures of the night, and how to defeat them.
- “I wanted to go as Daenerys or the Bride—but, apparently, badass costumes are not for fat girls.” [Salon]
- So there’s going to be another Star Trek show, and the Mary Sue has a list of demands for the series that I heartily cosign.
- On Zodiac Starforce, magical girls, and queerness. [The Mary Sue]
- Jezebel has a very intriguing list of horror movie recommendations for all moods.
- “Why are old women often the face of evil in fairytales and folklore?” [NPR Books]
- I am dying over Gwendoline Christie as a Star Wars villain, and she is apparently also very excited about it. [Polygon]
- Also from Polygon, there’s a mobile game in which you collect cats.
- Autostraddle’s Hidden Gems of Queer Lit series just reviewed Octavia Butler’s Fledgling, and you should know more about that.
- Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass is 20 years old this year, and Slate had a wonderful conversation with the author all about loneliness, myth, YA literature, and daemons.
- Vice’s Motherboard has a feminist science fiction reading list for you, and it’s a pretty good starting off point that begins with The Female Man and dives off into a rich and fascinating world.
- To cap things off, this video proves that a feminist Bond girl is something we could all use.