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Fantasy Fiction: The Silver-Haired Heiress Hates Me (But She Keeps Saving My Life) Chapter 5
I’m pretty late today and going to send this off in the email with the Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing so it doesn’t double up on emails right away, so hopefully you've checked it! Sorry for the delay; it got busy, and there was a lot going on with this as well and the edits took longer than I thought. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep up the pace. We’ll see!
The Most Important Gaming Story of the Year That Nobody Is Talking About
On 11 October 2026, the X account @germoses posted a screenshot of player names from Project Reclaimer and described the community as disgusting and racist on the grounds that vote-kicks were failing to remove the users associated with those names. The post received hundreds of replies. The same screenshots subsequently circulated on Reddit. Discussion …
The Fairy Queen Was Never a Book Boyfriend: A Rebuttal Of Romantasy Slop
The Guardian published an essay on October 18 by Sarah Clegg, author of Perilous Enchantment: The True History of Faeries, arguing that modern romantasy is the heir of twelfth-century fairy romance. In Clegg’s telling, the medieval lais were a safe outlet where women explored desire away from a repressive Church, and the critics who mock
Robert Picardo Has Now Blamed Advertising, Paramount’s New Owners, Elon Musk and “the Present Political Moment” for Starfleet Academy’s Failure
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Robert Picardo has a new explanation for why the show was cancelled, and it is the fourth different one he has offered since March. This time he says the series was “killed in the cradle” because “the present political moment in our culture” has made Star Trek’s core values “out of fashion temporarily.” Before that he …
Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Tribe Collects Eight Enderverse Stories in One Hardcover
Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Tribe goes on sale Tuesday, October 20, from Blackstone Publishing. The collection gathers eight stories from the Enderverse, starting with the original “Ender’s Game” short story that Card later expanded into the 1985 novel. Card announced the date on X: “Very pleased that this story collection, Ender’s Tribe, will be availab…
Frank Cho Says Kathleen Kennedy Got Him Banned From Marvel and Killed the Star Wars Sketch Cover Program
Comics artist Frank Cho says he has been banned from working at Marvel Comics for three years because former Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy demanded it, and that Marvel’s Star Wars blank sketch cover program ended because of cartoons he drew on those covers. Cho made the claim on
Street Fighter Wins the Weekend With $31 Million but Trails Mortal Kombat II as Critics Hand It 41 Percent and Fans Give It a B-
Street Fighter won the October 16 to 18 weekend with an estimated $31 million from 3,575 theaters and $51.1 million worldwide, but the Paramount and Legendary video game reboot opened 19 percent below Mortal Kombat II‘s $38.5 million, landed at 41 percent from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and left audiences with a B- CinemaScore. It is the number one movi…
RazörFist’s Ghost of the Badlands 2: The Ghost Dance Heads to Indie Crowdfund
RazörFist has announced Ghost of the Badlands 2: The Ghost Dance, the sequel to his Western comic, and Arkhaven Comics will crowdfund it on Indie Crowdfund. A prelaunch page is live now, and the campaign opens Monday, October 19.
Dune: Part Three Rewrites Dune Messiah Around a Broken Marriage
Dune: Part Three opens December 18 as Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah. The film keeps the novel’s conspiracy and rebuilds the marriage the story depends on. Herbert’s 1969 sequel follows a husband and wife under attack from the powers that surround the throne. Villeneuve has called his version a divorce movie, a premise tha…