I re-watched Guillermo del Toro’s gothic ghost story Crimson Peak, and was smitten by the amazing wardrobe, just as I was the first time. I found a nice and spoilery discussion of the costumes of the two female leads, Mia Wasikowska and Jessica Chastain. Kate Hawley is the costumer. (She has since done the costumes for Rings of Power.) In 2015 when Crimson Peak came out, Variety did a profile of her.
Atlas Obscura offers another photography contest. This one is Spooky Snaps—looking for the places that make the back of your neck crawl.
Gastro Obscura, Atlas’s sister site, offers up some unusual autumn treats.
NASA’s Psyche mission embraces a lot of firsts, as the spacecraft employs the electric Hall engine to shape its journey around the sun to explore a heavy-metal asteroid that shares its name.
The Mayyas are a dance troupe, but File 770 still reviewed them, and provided some links to their routines. They are extraordinary in a number of ways. Click on the first link and watch the dance, just because you deserve some astounding beauty in your life.
Apparently Monarch brings back mega-monsters. Are nostalgic mega-monsters the new superhero tropes?
Tor rounds up the October releases, those which are out and which are coming out soon.
The Little Red Wolf looks like a fascinating graphic novel.
Remember last summer? Barbienheimer? Well, Honest Trailers provided one for the box-office-smashing doll movie.
I can only hope and pray that no one outside of Tor.com is really using the term “romantasy”, and that it was one of those Bright Ideas that the owner’s nephew talked them into while he was summer interning in their marketing department. Over half of what’s published in the genre now seems to be romance in fantasy or science fiction clothing, so we hardly need a special cutesy term for that.
They actually did a poll on social media: “What does ‘romantasy’ mean to you? I had the same reaction you did, and I really hope this one doesn’t catch on.