Escape Velocity

A curated Collection of Fantasy and Science Fiction Media

Some of My Favourite Media:

Essentially anything written by Robin Hobb
Bioware’s Mass Effect and Dragon Age Videogame Series
Critical Role
Dimension 20
Sylvain Neuvel's The Themis Files book series
Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim
2K Games’s Bioshock video game series
The X-Files
Critical Role
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LOTTE

Hi! I’m Lotte, and I’m a ~creative~. I spend most of my free time making stuff, be it drawing, sewing, making music or even games. I’m the one who manages the website, so if you have complaints about the functionality of the site, I’m the one you want to harass.

My standard for media honestly isn’t very high. The most important thing to me is whether something is fun. I don’t believe liking things that are “grimdark” makes you edgy and cool. We get it, life sucks sometimes. Why would you want it to also suck in the worlds you escape to for fun? 

 

One thing I struggle with as a reviewer is negativity. I don’t like to be negative about things that other people love. At the same time, that is what I am sometimes called to do on the site, and I don’t want to refrain from giving my opinion just because others might disagree with it. I also know that negative reviews are often the most fun to write, and the most fun to read. I’d like to stress that even when I think something is hot garbage, my opinion shouldn’t matter to you if you love that thing. If you really like Cloud Atlas I definitely don’t think you have poor taste – it just differs from mine.

Pet PeeveS

Strawman feminism where the bad guy is so cartoonishly sexist that you can easily frame your boring protagonist as a woke girlboss

 

People who know nothing about corsets, writing about characters wearing corsets (literally do not get me started on this)

 

Movies that start with a block of text as if I’m gonna read that shit

 

Ugly costumes. Why.

 

Games without horses or dogs. WHY.

 

Thing that has dragon in the title but no dragon in the content. This should be illegal.

Recent Contributions

We are an opinionated group of friends reviewing all sorts of fantasy and science fiction media.

Review: Willow – Lucasfilm

Wednesday Addams is sent to her mother’s old boarding school after almost killing a kid at her former high school. Reluctant at first, Wednesday soon starts to feel at home as she tries to solve a monstrous murder mystery. The real challenge she faces is dealing with her preppy, colour-loving roommate.

Review: Hospital – Han Song

Yang Wei is whisked to a hospital when drinking a glass of water gives him a terrible stomach ache. The moment he crosses the hospital’s threshold, he is dragged ever deeper in the Clinical-Academic-Industrial-Complex of the Age of Medicine.

Review: Pacific Rim – Guillermo del Toro

Review of the movie Pacific Rim.
For several years now, giant monsters (Kaiju) have been coming up from the ocean and attacking coastal cities. Humanity built big old robots (Jaegers) to fight the Kaiju. This is humanity’s last stand.

Review: Wednesday – Netflix

Wednesday Addams is sent to her mother’s old boarding school after almost killing a kid at her former high school. Reluctant at first, Wednesday soon starts to feel at home as she tries to solve a monstrous murder mystery. The real challenge she faces is dealing with her preppy, colour-loving roommate.