{"id":43780,"date":"2026-05-07T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43780"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:58:47","slug":"whats-up-on-the-supernatural-underground-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/05\/07\/whats-up-on-the-supernatural-underground-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Up on the Supernatural Underground…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…besides my May 2 post on Heroines<\/a> that is, and the awesome troika of Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones), Adjunct Tavore (Malazan), and Commander Asantir of House Night (Wall of Night), which I alerted you to on Monday<\/a>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Plenty more, of course, including not one but two great posts from Kim Falconer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The first is the latest in her Writers As Seers<\/strong> post series in which she examines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein<\/em> and its relevance in our AI age. You can read the post here:<\/p>\n

Mary Shelley on the Ethics of Creation<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Sidekicks par excellence, LoTR style<\/p><\/div>\n

The second is one of Kim’s backlist posts and takes a deep dive into the importance of sidekicks in the Fantasy genre, which makes it a great post for both readers and writers. You can read it here:<\/p>\n

Supernatural Sidekickin’<\/a><\/h3>\n
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‘The land of the mountain & the flood’– & a town dwarfed by the natural environment<\/p><\/div>\n

And of course I took a hiatus form heroines on April 1 (I know, how can that be, when heroines are so my jam?!) but posted some inspiring pics from “Inside Middle Earth” instead. Some you may have seen here before but I still think they are worth a look:<\/p>\n

From Great High Mountains to a Shining Sea<\/a><\/h3>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…besides my May 2 post on Heroines that is, and the awesome troika of Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones), Adjunct Tavore (Malazan), and Commander Asantir of House Night (Wall of Night), which I alerted you to on Monday. \ud83d\ude00           Plenty more, of course, including not one but two great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43785,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43780\/revisions\/43785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}