#shadow-man — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #shadow-man, aggregated by home.social.
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In the office today (because not having Aircon was horrible for a Scotsman like me in over 30°C heat!)
Met up with an ex-colleague who I'd noticed last time I was here had some #RedHat caps on the window to their office so I've managed to secure a replacement for the old #shadowman logo one that I lost a few years ago (the one on the right - the black one has the new logo) 😁 -
In the office today (because not having Aircon was horrible for a Scotsman like me in over 30°C heat!)
Met up with an ex-colleague who I'd noticed last time I was here had some #RedHat caps on the window to their office so I've managed to secure a replacement for the old #shadowman logo one that I lost a few years ago (the one on the right - the black one has the new logo) 😁 -
In the office today (because not having Aircon was horrible for a Scotsman like me in over 30°C heat!)
Met up with an ex-colleague who I'd noticed last time I was here had some #RedHat caps on the window to their office so I've managed to secure a replacement for the old #shadowman logo one that I lost a few years ago (the one on the right - the black one has the new logo) 😁 -
In the office today (because not having Aircon was horrible for a Scotsman like me in over 30°C heat!)
Met up with an ex-colleague who I'd noticed last time I was here had some #RedHat caps on the window to their office so I've managed to secure a replacement for the old #shadowman logo one that I lost a few years ago (the one on the right - the black one has the new logo) 😁 -
In the office today (because not having Aircon was horrible for a Scotsman like me in over 30°C heat!)
Met up with an ex-colleague who I'd noticed last time I was here had some #RedHat caps on the window to their office so I've managed to secure a replacement for the old #shadowman logo one that I lost a few years ago (the one on the right - the black one has the new logo) 😁 -
#Summary for May 2026 https://no-pe.netlify.app/2026-05-summary/
– Shadow Man: Remastered and it’s main hero (spoiler: it’s the world);
– Doom: The Dark Ages is an FPS: first-person spell-slinging;
– it’s satisfying to dig snow in Roggy Ates Now;
– Keeper is not bad, just not for me.#ShadowManRemastered #ShadowMan #DoomTheDarkAges #FroggyHatesSnow #Keeper #VideoGames
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#Summary for May 2026 https://no-pe.netlify.app/2026-05-summary/
– Shadow Man: Remastered and it’s main hero (spoiler: it’s the world);
– Doom: The Dark Ages is an FPS: first-person spell-slinging;
– it’s satisfying to dig snow in Roggy Ates Now;
– Keeper is not bad, just not for me.#ShadowManRemastered #ShadowMan #DoomTheDarkAges #FroggyHatesSnow #Keeper #VideoGames
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#ShadowMan ignores both of those. The path to progress can be anything, and almost all *seven* paths from every room are critical in one way or another.
Thematically, it’s appropriate and I like it as a challenge to overcome. In fact, I’ve considered finding every item (I still haven’t used a guide yet). However, it wouldn’t fly these days, and for good reason.
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#ShadowMan ignores both of those. The path to progress can be anything, and almost all *seven* paths from every room are critical in one way or another.
Thematically, it’s appropriate and I like it as a challenge to overcome. In fact, I’ve considered finding every item (I still haven’t used a guide yet). However, it wouldn’t fly these days, and for good reason.
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I decided not to look up anything unless I have to. I already knew some things by osmosis, but I only found out who made the game and about one confusing item.
I would categorize #ShadowMan as problematic. The character is created by white writers. The game itself was created by (mostly?) white people. Even one of the characters of color is voiced by a white actor. Not great. How well does it represent the culture it heavily borrows from? Not my lane to speculate, I would need to research it.
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I decided not to look up anything unless I have to. I already knew some things by osmosis, but I only found out who made the game and about one confusing item.
I would categorize #ShadowMan as problematic. The character is created by white writers. The game itself was created by (mostly?) white people. Even one of the characters of color is voiced by a white actor. Not great. How well does it represent the culture it heavily borrows from? Not my lane to speculate, I would need to research it.
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The 1999 game #ShadowMan predicted that there would be five #DarkSouls games.
(To explain – not a spoiler – that’s your main quest: to collect five Dark Souls, capital-D, capital-S. And there are five Dark Souls games if you include the remaster of the first and the Scholar of the First Sin.)
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The 1999 game #ShadowMan predicted that there would be five #DarkSouls games.
(To explain – not a spoiler – that’s your main quest: to collect five Dark Souls, capital-D, capital-S. And there are five Dark Souls games if you include the remaster of the first and the Scholar of the First Sin.)
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Post-Rock Collective Shadowman Unveils Dark Debut Single “Flowers”
Photo by Danielle PerryShadowman is a new collaborative project featuring John J Presley, Ben Hillier, and Danielle Perry, focused on creating freely with mutual inspirations. Their debut single, “Flowers,” is a tapestry of sonics, featuring crunching guitars, motorik drum machines, and a death march brass section (with Pete Wareham on sax). Presley wrote the lyrics after observing a friend’s breakup followed quickly by the ex-partner’s new relationship. The track is a pure experiment blending 80s delay, synth, and post-rock build-ups.
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Post-Rock Collective Shadowman Unveils Dark Debut Single “Flowers”
Photo by Danielle PerryShadowman is a new collaborative project featuring John J Presley, Ben Hillier, and Danielle Perry, focused on creating freely with mutual inspirations. Their debut single, “Flowers,” is a tapestry of sonics, featuring crunching guitars, motorik drum machines, and a death march brass section (with Pete Wareham on sax). Presley wrote the lyrics after observing a friend’s breakup followed quickly by the ex-partner’s new relationship. The track is a pure experiment blending 80s delay, synth, and post-rock build-ups.
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Post-Rock Collective Shadowman Unveils Dark Debut Single “Flowers”
Photo by Danielle PerryShadowman is a new collaborative project featuring John J Presley, Ben Hillier, and Danielle Perry, focused on creating freely with mutual inspirations. Their debut single, “Flowers,” is a tapestry of sonics, featuring crunching guitars, motorik drum machines, and a death march brass section (with Pete Wareham on sax). Presley wrote the lyrics after observing a friend’s breakup followed quickly by the ex-partner’s new relationship. The track is a pure experiment blending 80s delay, synth, and post-rock build-ups.
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Post-Rock Collective Shadowman Unveils Dark Debut Single “Flowers”
Photo by Danielle PerryShadowman is a new collaborative project featuring John J Presley, Ben Hillier, and Danielle Perry, focused on creating freely with mutual inspirations. Their debut single, “Flowers,” is a tapestry of sonics, featuring crunching guitars, motorik drum machines, and a death march brass section (with Pete Wareham on sax). Presley wrote the lyrics after observing a friend’s breakup followed quickly by the ex-partner’s new relationship. The track is a pure experiment blending 80s delay, synth, and post-rock build-ups.
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A Masterclass in Exploration & Atmosphere | Shadow Man + The Comics
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A Masterclass in Exploration & Atmosphere | Shadow Man + The Comics
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A Masterclass in Exploration & Atmosphere | Shadow Man + The Comics
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A Masterclass in Exploration & Atmosphere | Shadow Man + The Comics
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As was said (and using the opportunity of Bandcamp Friday), I bought "Shadow Man Remastered" soundtrack. There are two versions: one with less tracks and more composed and the other one are tracks as used in a game, sometimes short. I decided to go with the first one.
https://timhaywood.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-man-remastered-official-soundtrack
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As was said (and using the opportunity of Bandcamp Friday), I bought "Shadow Man Remastered" soundtrack. There are two versions: one with less tracks and more composed and the other one are tracks as used in a game, sometimes short. I decided to go with the first one.
https://timhaywood.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-man-remastered-official-soundtrack
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As was said (and using the opportunity of Bandcamp Friday), I bought "Shadow Man Remastered" soundtrack. There are two versions: one with less tracks and more composed and the other one are tracks as used in a game, sometimes short. I decided to go with the first one.
https://timhaywood.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-man-remastered-official-soundtrack
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As was said (and using the opportunity of Bandcamp Friday), I bought "Shadow Man Remastered" soundtrack. There are two versions: one with less tracks and more composed and the other one are tracks as used in a game, sometimes short. I decided to go with the first one.
https://timhaywood.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-man-remastered-official-soundtrack
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As was said (and using the opportunity of Bandcamp Friday), I bought "Shadow Man Remastered" soundtrack. There are two versions: one with less tracks and more composed and the other one are tracks as used in a game, sometimes short. I decided to go with the first one.
https://timhaywood.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-man-remastered-official-soundtrack
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The #shädowmän (#hugthesun) X #papavperpetua (ghost) crossover nobody asked for.
Ah, the light!
#KätToon #shadowman #PapaV #TheBandGhost #GhostTheBand #ghost
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The #shädowmän (#hugthesun) X #papavperpetua (ghost) crossover nobody asked for.
Ah, the light!
#KätToon #shadowman #PapaV #TheBandGhost #GhostTheBand #ghost
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The #shädowmän (#hugthesun) X #papavperpetua (ghost) crossover nobody asked for.
Ah, the light!
#KätToon #shadowman #PapaV #TheBandGhost #GhostTheBand #ghost
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[RETRO V.G. ADS] (US) Shadow Man (1999) (PS1)
#advertising #ShadowMan #PS1 #videogame #retrogaming #adstv #ads #cm #games #gaming #Acclaim #US #1999
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[RETRO V.G. ADS] (US) Shadow Man (1999) (PS1)
#advertising #ShadowMan #PS1 #videogame #retrogaming #adstv #ads #cm #games #gaming #Acclaim #US #1999
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Ah yes, "Shadow Man Remastered." I have been wanting to play the game since it was released, but it didn't happen at the time. Then, quite recently, I learned about Nightdive's remaster, and I had it on my list ever since. Over a quarter of the century after its release, I finally get to bit my teeth in it.
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Ah yes, "Shadow Man Remastered." I have been wanting to play the game since it was released, but it didn't happen at the time. Then, quite recently, I learned about Nightdive's remaster, and I had it on my list ever since. Over a quarter of the century after its release, I finally get to bit my teeth in it.
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Ah yes, "Shadow Man Remastered." I have been wanting to play the game since it was released, but it didn't happen at the time. Then, quite recently, I learned about Nightdive's remaster, and I had it on my list ever since. Over a quarter of the century after its release, I finally get to bit my teeth in it.
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Ah yes, "Shadow Man Remastered." I have been wanting to play the game since it was released, but it didn't happen at the time. Then, quite recently, I learned about Nightdive's remaster, and I had it on my list ever since. Over a quarter of the century after its release, I finally get to bit my teeth in it.
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Ah yes, "Shadow Man Remastered." I have been wanting to play the game since it was released, but it didn't happen at the time. Then, quite recently, I learned about Nightdive's remaster, and I had it on my list ever since. Over a quarter of the century after its release, I finally get to bit my teeth in it.
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#abendrunde mit dem Napfbefüller
#shadowman on Tour
Habt nen tollen Abend#django #MastodonDogs #hunderunde #lebenmithund #lovemydog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #Mastodonrudel #hunde #Leonberger #hund #dog #outdoor #freidog #FotoFreitag #olddogs #älterehunde #großehunde #bigdogs
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#abendrunde mit dem Napfbefüller
#shadowman on Tour
Habt nen tollen Abend#django #MastodonDogs #hunderunde #lebenmithund #lovemydog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #Mastodonrudel #hunde #Leonberger #hund #dog #outdoor #freidog #FotoFreitag #olddogs #älterehunde #großehunde #bigdogs
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#abendrunde mit dem Napfbefüller
#shadowman on Tour
Habt nen tollen Abend#django #MastodonDogs #hunderunde #lebenmithund #lovemydog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #Mastodonrudel #hunde #Leonberger #hund #dog #outdoor #freidog #FotoFreitag #olddogs #älterehunde #großehunde #bigdogs
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#abendrunde mit dem Napfbefüller
#shadowman on Tour
Habt nen tollen Abend#django #MastodonDogs #hunderunde #lebenmithund #lovemydog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #Mastodonrudel #hunde #Leonberger #hund #dog #outdoor #freidog #FotoFreitag #olddogs #älterehunde #großehunde #bigdogs
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#Truro #Cathedral this morning #Cornwall #Kernow #Bluesky has #ShadowMan vibes about it!
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#Truro #Cathedral this morning #Cornwall #Kernow #Bluesky has #ShadowMan vibes about it!
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#Truro #Cathedral this morning #Cornwall #Kernow #Bluesky has #ShadowMan vibes about it!
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#Truro #Cathedral this morning #Cornwall #Kernow #Bluesky has #ShadowMan vibes about it!
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#Truro #Cathedral this morning #Cornwall #Kernow #Bluesky has #ShadowMan vibes about it!
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Just caught up with the latest episode of Uncanny, Case 3: Shadow Man. Absolutely spine chilling. At first, I thought, "Classic sleep paralysis demon," but then—oh no, no… it gets much worse. If you missed it, catch up on iPlayer. It was a doozy. #Uncanny #ShadowMan
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Just caught up with the latest episode of Uncanny, Case 3: Shadow Man. Absolutely spine chilling. At first, I thought, "Classic sleep paralysis demon," but then—oh no, no… it gets much worse. If you missed it, catch up on iPlayer. It was a doozy. #Uncanny #ShadowMan
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Just caught up with the latest episode of Uncanny, Case 3: Shadow Man. Absolutely spine chilling. At first, I thought, "Classic sleep paralysis demon," but then—oh no, no… it gets much worse. If you missed it, catch up on iPlayer. It was a doozy. #Uncanny #ShadowMan
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Works roundup, 11/26 (Moon Knight/Marvel, Shadow Man, webcomics)
Leif & Thorn
Age gap (art | Leif/Thorn ish | worksafe)
Pillowed Leif (art | Leif | NSFW-ish)
Protect trans lives (wallpaper | Dex, Del, Ivy, Imri | worksafe)
Pets of Ceannis (art | dogs, cats | worksafe)
Seeing Wings Redux (art | Kale/Thorn/Leif | worksafe)Moon Knight
Moon Scepter (art | Marc | worksafe)
Duat daemons (art | Marc/Steven, daemons | worksafe)Moon Knight/other Marvel
Deadpool Saves The Cover Of Knight Universe!, chapters 7-9 (fic | Marc/Steven/Jake, Wade, Logan, Badr, Layla, others | M)
Deadpool Saves! – Shuri + Layla (comic | Wade, Steven/Layla, Shuri, Aneka, Badr | PG)
Ravonna the Conquerer (art | Ravonna | worksafe)Shadow Man
Offworld Coda (or: the post-canon hookup they deserved) (fic | Tatian/Warreven | T)General/Miscellaneous
Painted Trans Flag Wallpaper (what it says, worksafe)This Week in But I’m A Cat Person:
Hammering away at the last few tweaks to the new layout, and sending feature requests to the Toocheke plugin creator! Also, some comics.
This Week in Leif & Thorn:
Afterglow for our lovely couple. (Awkwardness as Magical Thorn tries not to picture it.)
#art #Comics #daemons #Deadpool #fic #Marvel #MoonKnight #ShadowMan #webcomics
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Spielt diese Gruselspiele mit Nintendo Switch Online + Erweiterungspaket
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On Geek Grotto today I pay tribute to Greg Hildebrandt, talk Luce & Friends, Shadowman and Turok2 on Switch, upcoming Marvel TV & focus on Slayback in #ObscureCharacterCorner!
2pm Saturdays on SHMUFM: DAB & 99.8FM in Aberdeen or online at shmu.org.uk
#Radio #Scifi #Comics #VideoGames #TV #Marvel #GregHildebrandt #Luce #LuceAndFriends #Shadowman #Turok2 #Slayback #Deadpool -
The Leif & Thorn Volume 7 campaign is almost funded! As in “we are literally $20 under the main goal.”
So, hey, tell your friends. Got a stretch goal to shoot for, and a week left to go.
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As part of the “30 Days of Leif & Thorn” project, I started making semi-regular posts on Instagram for the first time since the end of 2021…and just got a “We suspect automatic activity on your account” warning.I quit posting there in the first place because the site felt actively hostile to small-audience artists! They sure are making an effort not to win me back, huh?
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Just finished Shadow Man (Goodreads link, though their summary is very weird), the 1995 novel by Melissa Scott.
I have no idea how or when this got on my reading list? But I’m glad it did!
It’s about a spacefaring future where the unobtanium that lets humans survive FTL travel also racheted up the amount of intersex births, to the point where there are now 5 roughly-equally-distributed sexes. Most populations have adjusted, the main interplanetary language has five sets of pronouns (no overlap with the neopronouns that are popular IRL these days), but weird backwater planet Hara is trying to stick to “there are only two genders, dammit, mems are just men, fems are just women, and herms can pick either side, but they’ve gotta pick one.”
We flip between the POVs of two protagonists: Warreven, a local Hara lawyer who specializes in representing the queer + intersex community, and Tatian, an offworlder who works for a pharmaceutical company. (Their main motivation to work with the weird backwater planet is, it’s where The Good Drugs grow.)
Warreven’s a herm, legally identifies as a man, has some ambivalence about it but is very sure about not being a woman. Tatian is a cis man, has always considered himself exclusively into women + fems, and spends a good chunk of the book low-key realizing “help, ze’s hot.”
The negative GoodReads reviews keep saying things like “nothing happened in this book,” and…that’s kinda fair? A lot of it is just…meandering around with these two characters, getting immersed in the world. You know the genre of Youtuber who lives in a weird place or has an exotic job, and vlogs about their day-to-day life? Long stretches of this book are just the sci-fi version of that.
And then the political unrest heats up, there are increasingly-violent protests in the streets, Warreven is briefly put in the hospital, and we get some quality hurt-comfort with Tatian. Sadly, they don’t kiss (they really should’ve kissed), but we get scenes like “Warreven is too injured to have a full range of motion, so Tatian helps them bathe and tenderly washes their hair.” The good stuff.
The gender worldbuilding is fascinating, for its weird gaps as much as its progressive ideals. Intersex Harans are fighting for their rights in a strikingly modern way — Warreven has a fellow herm co-worker who insists on being recognized and addressed with the matching pronouns, Tatian pulls strings to get them treated in an offworld-run hospital out of fear the local doctors will try to “fix” them. But even offworld, gender stereotypes are still a thing! Three new mainstream sexes just means interplanetary society came up with three new sets of stereotypes!
And even though Harans have ways to indicate their legal gender (conventions of clothing, jewelry, etc), Tatian keeps trying to clock everyone’s biological sex. Okay, so he’s not wrong to think “it’s oppressive and wrong that all Harans are pressured to present as male or female, whether they identify that way or not.” But also — dude, don’t you have trans people in the interplanetary space future? If someone is presenting as male, maybe it’s not cool to over-analyze their breast size?
Sigh. We can maybe cut him a little slack, because he does it most noticeably with Warreven, and he’s having a mild sexuality crisis over being hot for Warreven.
It’s a shame there’s no sequel. (There’s also no fic — there’s an AO3 tag for it, I’m guessing the book got nominated for Yuletide at some point, but it hasn’t been canonized because nobody wrote any fills.) A lot of points got set up during the “meandering around daily life” chapters that were never followed through on, and I’d like to see where they went. Wouldn’t mind spending more time with these characters in general.
And, you know, it’s never a bad time for more tender hair-washing.
https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/three-things-make-a-post-backerkit-instagram-shadow-man/
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The Leif & Thorn Volume 7 campaign is almost funded! As in “we are literally $20 under the main goal.”
So, hey, tell your friends. Got a stretch goal to shoot for, and a week left to go.
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As part of the “30 Days of Leif & Thorn” project, I started making semi-regular posts on Instagram for the first time since the end of 2021…and just got a “We suspect automatic activity on your account” warning.I quit posting there in the first place because the site felt actively hostile to small-audience artists! They sure are making an effort not to win me back, huh?
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Just finished Shadow Man (Goodreads link, though their summary is very weird), the 1995 novel by Melissa Scott.
I have no idea how or when this got on my reading list? But I’m glad it did!
It’s about a spacefaring future where the unobtanium that lets humans survive FTL travel also racheted up the amount of intersex births, to the point where there are now 5 roughly-equally-distributed sexes. Most populations have adjusted, the main interplanetary language has five sets of pronouns (no overlap with the neopronouns that are popular IRL these days), but weird backwater planet Hara is trying to stick to “there are only two genders, dammit, mems are just men, fems are just women, and herms can pick either side, but they’ve gotta pick one.”
We flip between the POVs of two protagonists: Warreven, a local Hara lawyer who specializes in representing the queer + intersex community, and Tatian, an offworlder who works for a pharmaceutical company. (Their main motivation to work with the weird backwater planet is, it’s where The Good Drugs grow.)
Warreven’s a herm, legally identifies as a man, has some ambivalence about it but is very sure about not being a woman. Tatian is a cis man, has always considered himself exclusively into women + fems, and spends a good chunk of the book low-key realizing “help, ze’s hot.”
The negative GoodReads reviews keep saying things like “nothing happened in this book,” and…that’s kinda fair? A lot of it is just…meandering around with these two characters, getting immersed in the world. You know the genre of Youtuber who lives in a weird place or has an exotic job, and vlogs about their day-to-day life? Long stretches of this book are just the sci-fi version of that.
And then the political unrest heats up, there are increasingly-violent protests in the streets, Warreven is briefly put in the hospital, and we get some quality hurt-comfort with Tatian. Sadly, they don’t kiss (they really should’ve kissed), but we get scenes like “Warreven is too injured to have a full range of motion, so Tatian helps them bathe and tenderly washes their hair.” The good stuff.
The gender worldbuilding is fascinating, for its weird gaps as much as its progressive ideals. Intersex Harans are fighting for their rights in a strikingly modern way — Warreven has a fellow herm co-worker who insists on being recognized and addressed with the matching pronouns, Tatian pulls strings to get them treated in an offworld-run hospital out of fear the local doctors will try to “fix” them. But even offworld, gender stereotypes are still a thing! Three new mainstream sexes just means interplanetary society came up with three new sets of stereotypes!
And even though Harans have ways to indicate their legal gender (conventions of clothing, jewelry, etc), Tatian keeps trying to clock everyone’s biological sex. Okay, so he’s not wrong to think “it’s oppressive and wrong that all Harans are pressured to present as male or female, whether they identify that way or not.” But also — dude, don’t you have trans people in the interplanetary space future? If someone is presenting as male, maybe it’s not cool to over-analyze their breast size?
Sigh. We can maybe cut him a little slack, because he does it most noticeably with Warreven, and he’s having a mild sexuality crisis over being hot for Warreven.
It’s a shame there’s no sequel. (There’s also no fic — there’s an AO3 tag for it, I’m guessing the book got nominated for Yuletide at some point, but it hasn’t been canonized because nobody wrote any fills.) A lot of points got set up during the “meandering around daily life” chapters that were never followed through on, and I’d like to see where they went. Wouldn’t mind spending more time with these characters in general.
And, you know, it’s never a bad time for more tender hair-washing.
https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/three-things-make-a-post-backerkit-instagram-shadow-man/
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The Leif & Thorn Volume 7 campaign is almost funded! As in “we are literally $20 under the main goal.”
So, hey, tell your friends. Got a stretch goal to shoot for, and a week left to go.
—
As part of the “30 Days of Leif & Thorn” project, I started making semi-regular posts on Instagram for the first time since the end of 2021…and just got a “We suspect automatic activity on your account” warning.I quit posting there in the first place because the site felt actively hostile to small-audience artists! They sure are making an effort not to win me back, huh?
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Just finished Shadow Man (Goodreads link, though their summary is very weird), the 1995 novel by Melissa Scott.
I have no idea how or when this got on my reading list? But I’m glad it did!
It’s about a spacefaring future where the unobtanium that lets humans survive FTL travel also racheted up the amount of intersex births, to the point where there are now 5 roughly-equally-distributed sexes. Most populations have adjusted, the main interplanetary language has five sets of pronouns (no overlap with the neopronouns that are popular IRL these days), but weird backwater planet Hara is trying to stick to “there are only two genders, dammit, mems are just men, fems are just women, and herms can pick either side, but they’ve gotta pick one.”
We flip between the POVs of two protagonists: Warreven, a local Hara lawyer who specializes in representing the queer + intersex community, and Tatian, an offworlder who works for a pharmaceutical company. (Their main motivation to work with the weird backwater planet is, it’s where The Good Drugs grow.)
Warreven’s a herm, legally identifies as a man, has some ambivalence about it but is very sure about not being a woman. Tatian is a cis man, has always considered himself exclusively into women + fems, and spends a good chunk of the book low-key realizing “help, ze’s hot.”
The negative GoodReads reviews keep saying things like “nothing happened in this book,” and…that’s kinda fair? A lot of it is just…meandering around with these two characters, getting immersed in the world. You know the genre of Youtuber who lives in a weird place or has an exotic job, and vlogs about their day-to-day life? Long stretches of this book are just the sci-fi version of that.
And then the political unrest heats up, there are increasingly-violent protests in the streets, Warreven is briefly put in the hospital, and we get some quality hurt-comfort with Tatian. Sadly, they don’t kiss (they really should’ve kissed), but we get scenes like “Warreven is too injured to have a full range of motion, so Tatian helps them bathe and tenderly washes their hair.” The good stuff.
The gender worldbuilding is fascinating, for its weird gaps as much as its progressive ideals. Intersex Harans are fighting for their rights in a strikingly modern way — Warreven has a fellow herm co-worker who insists on being recognized and addressed with the matching pronouns, Tatian pulls strings to get them treated in an offworld-run hospital out of fear the local doctors will try to “fix” them. But even offworld, gender stereotypes are still a thing! Three new mainstream sexes just means interplanetary society came up with three new sets of stereotypes!
And even though Harans have ways to indicate their legal gender (conventions of clothing, jewelry, etc), Tatian keeps trying to clock everyone’s biological sex. Okay, so he’s not wrong to think “it’s oppressive and wrong that all Harans are pressured to present as male or female, whether they identify that way or not.” But also — dude, don’t you have trans people in the interplanetary space future? If someone is presenting as male, maybe it’s not cool to over-analyze their breast size?
Sigh. We can maybe cut him a little slack, because he does it most noticeably with Warreven, and he’s having a mild sexuality crisis over being hot for Warreven.
It’s a shame there’s no sequel. (There’s also no fic — there’s an AO3 tag for it, I’m guessing the book got nominated for Yuletide at some point, but it hasn’t been canonized because nobody wrote any fills.) A lot of points got set up during the “meandering around daily life” chapters that were never followed through on, and I’d like to see where they went. Wouldn’t mind spending more time with these characters in general.
And, you know, it’s never a bad time for more tender hair-washing.
https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/three-things-make-a-post-backerkit-instagram-shadow-man/
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ICYMI: #Turok 2, #ShadowMan Unexpectedly Added To NSO https://popgeeks.com/turok-2-shadow-man-unexpectedly-added-to-nso/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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ICYMI: #Turok 2, #ShadowMan Unexpectedly Added To NSO https://popgeeks.com/turok-2-shadow-man-unexpectedly-added-to-nso/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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ICYMI: #Turok 2, #ShadowMan Unexpectedly Added To NSO https://popgeeks.com/turok-2-shadow-man-unexpectedly-added-to-nso/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Si tienes #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack ya puedes disfrutar de #ShadowMan & #Turok 2: Seeds of Evil sin gastar más :3. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2024/10/29/shadow-man-turok-2-seeds-of-evil-nintendo-switch-online/
