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Putting the hater in creator. Se habla español. Stories in Nature, Uncanny, BCS, The Latinx Archive, more. Host of @PodsideP . He/him
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I don't often get to say this, but:
LFG!!!
(credit to
@GoranGligovic
and
@CorgiHell
for cover art and typography, respectively)
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Saw a writer use "Ghiblicore" as shorthand for "cozy fantasies that have no conflict" and I suspect what people are confusing is Miyazaki's concept of "ma" or empty/negative space used to let the audience ruminate on the conflict along with the character
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So, what I suspect people are calling for isn't a whole book that's just "cozy fantasy" but stories that have these quiet moments, stories that aren't actually a series of hooks dragging you along like an innocent bystander hit by the Plot Train
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Think of the train scene in Spirited Away: a quiet, melancholy moment where Chihiro's in literal movement, but sitting and thinking about what's happened and what comes next
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@MalcmanIsHere
Even Totoro is filled with all sorts of conflict! Their mom is in the hospital, and they don't understand why etc
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People discriminated against because they have dangerous magical abilities is a poor way to explore real world oppression
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@GoranGligovic
*Somehow sitting backwards on a workout bench* CrossFit, fellas? You know who else fit the cross?
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Instead of a Burger King, you would have a BURGER QUEEN! Tempestuous as the drive-thru, and stronger than the foundations of the brand! All shall love me and despair!
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@GoranGligovic
And yet there are no sculptures of gentlemen of the era with their heads turning wolfy or eyes popping out with a loud BOINGGGG
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@eeberquist
You would not believe the frenzied defenses of forensic stuff in a writer's group I was in when I mentioned that all the stuff in cop shows was pseudoscience
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@cinemattograph
I learned after the fact that Obama could've intervened and told his DoJ to lay off (much like he did with the banks) but didn't
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The push towards "cozy SFF" certainly seems to favor writers and readers who think being angry or afraid about climate change, the pandemic, the rise of fascism, etc is a bit gauche
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This is such a tired and tedious "rule" about satire, and honestly is one reason so much fiction seems to trip over itself in its efforts to get its "message" across
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@detachment_red
Re: immigration, I've seen SO MANY state- and city-level Dems go on Fox News to fearmonger about immigrants. 2024 promises to be two campaigns agreeing on insanely xenophobic policies
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Maybe the fact one of the biggest names in SFF is having a temper tantrum over one indie publishing guy's mild criticism should tell you why SFF doesn't have a strong indie publishing scene
But sure, just putting "punk" after everything makes up for that
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@cmclymer
She implied Ilhan Omar wasn't American ... I wonder why?
@bungarsargon
@ReaganBattalion
Co-signed as an American. We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism.
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@ObeseChess
It's wild how uninformed people are about how complex race can be in Latin America, in part because mixing was encouraged as part of Spanish Colonialist project
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SFF fiction reviewers asking if something not plot-specific was "necessary" or "what does it add" seem to misunderstand that fiction is about revealing the world through a perspective that's not their own (often normie) one
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Their arrival was foretold by prophecy
a 12th century stone carving shaped like a dog and a rabbit on the wall of a church in herefordshire, england
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Goran read and liked my bloody fantasy story well enough to increase it's readership AND made some sweet art for it
I mean, look at this beaut!
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Apparently, this is the medieval version of "I would simply save the Omelas kid"
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Folks complaining that classic lit is boring will assure you the Netflix show they're recommending doesn't get good until episode 6 but it's a masterpiece
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@hawaiianrobot
@wheelswordsmith
@nivkbecjer
@yerpalmildsauce
Flexing to increase flow to my internal hemorrhaging while staggering to the hospital is a complete Alpha move
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Ran across some publicity for a Cozy D&D RPG Kickstarter talking about how "found family" has taken over the play style of a bunch of mercenaries hired to do jobs. . . thinking about it for two seconds reveals how grotesque it all is
Imagine cozy Reagan-era death squads
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@MrSpudtastic
@7leaguebootdisk
@class_cannibal
@scott_satzer
@koshersemite
Not to mention being less devastating to the body as, say, chemo treatments
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Death of the Author:
Confusing
People never apply it correctly
Death of the Reader:
Threatening
Maybe they'll leave authors alone, for once
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Contract's signed so I can now say that my story, "Up In the Hills, She Dreams of Her Daughter Deep In the Ground" will soon be in Strange Horizons
I've read and re-read the acceptance because it still doesn't feel real
More details to come!
Acceptance! Can't say too much yet, but what makes this sale especially sweet is that it's one of the best things I've ever written that kept getting rejections, AND this is a dream market
Stay tuned for when and where to read!
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We're at the point where I'm waiting for some SFF writer to say, "why is it always 'body horror' and never 'body comfort'?" and it'll be like reading The King In Yellow for me
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@limitlessjest
Tbf the cybertruck doesn't have a gas pedal either. It's smart enough to know that to avoid accidents the only smart move is not to drive
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@ripcinema
It makes me seethe to see how people are projecting "fandom" backwards in time to cultures that didn't engage with their story about the scary bog monster in that way
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@afrocosmist
His behavior online has really moved the needle from "don't read, but he's mostly ok" to "I'll never read anything of yours out of spite" for me
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SFF writers will say all art's political until you mention Raytheon's Hugos sponsorship and then it becomes a question of whether accepting money's a political act or not
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@detachment_red
And tried to teach us all math afterwards! I saw plenty of people who repeated the "uhhhh $600 + $1400 IS two thousand, just like they promised!"
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I wish more science fiction writers would grapple with how often science itself has historically been used to prop up imperialism
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Feeling some sort of way when astroturfed protests calling for "democracy" in Cuba get round the clock coverage and next door the US colony of Puerto Rico hasn't gotten electricity for months because an unelected financial junta doesn't want union jobs
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Just saw a prominent SFF writer make a call for a "cozy apocalypse" anthology, and I hate to break it to affluent US folks, you're in one already
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Also, if you're approaching a work of fiction as if what you don't like/understand are "errors" the author made, you're mistaking your role as reader for that of an editor
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"Hard magic systems" are boring because it's simply science fictional techno-optimism ported into fantasy
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@QualiaRedux
The most galling thing about the lab leak is simply that it sidesteps exactly how the US healthcare system failed everyone. . . And with the deflection of blame, there's no pressure to improve it
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@marcformarc
So this is just the conservative guy in a car format, down to getting mad halfway through their bit
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NEWS: I am now the new non-fiction editor at
@SeizeThePress_
Send me your pitches about dark speculative fiction, sci-fi, fantasy and horror pop culture to karlo
@seizethepress
.com
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Seeing magazines going solicitation only due to the plague of AI writing makes me - a Latinx author who's not enough of a name to have been solicited in ~10 years I've been at it - feel a certain kind of way
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Black Phillip asking Thomasin if she'd like to live deliciously implies he knows the location of Flavortown
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The thing that gets me about the KPS defenders is that by the author's own admission, the book was churned out last minute to fulfill a contractual obligation, and was not supposed to be Serious or Important
No one else can point this out, tho!
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Omelas child, now an adult at a job interview, struggling to explain the gap in their resume
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Once again: the "walking away" part of Those Who Walk Away From Omelas is NOT a metaphor for privilege, or for ignoring atrocity - if anything, it's the Omelasans who ignore the atrocity in their very midst because it would endanger their convenience
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One of the unequivocally best things about The Last Jedi was the idea that Rey was a wild talent, unconnected to either of the two "bloodlines"
Of course that had to be walked back by Disney so fans could keep making these arguments until the heat death of the universe
Open for a good debate - why is Rey a Skywalker? What qualifies her to carry the same name as Shmee, Luke, Leia, and Anakin? If it's about her mentor's last name, then Anakin could be a Kenobi by that logic. Or Palpatine would be a Plagueis/Damask.
Discuss. Keep it respectful.
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@TheeFantomas
I was always thrilled to see Watterson try out other styles and tones based on the type of comedy bit
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The insistence that all non-reading media is of equal value in honing your craft as an author just demonstrates to me how flattening everything into "content" has affected peoples' minds
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I really think that horoscope/mystic Twitter should be contained somehow
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But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas
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So there seems to be a direct line from "Anti-imperialism except if I have to give up my comfort" and people advocating for "cozy" versions of horror and apocalypse
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Science Fiction: science and scientists must be logical, rational actors who have all the answers
Scientists irl:
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@GoranGligovic
If your "activism" doesn't have room for compassion or sympathy then you just made judging people your hobby
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I cannot overstate how annoying it is to read SFF short stories that should've been an non-fiction essay
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US: Guess we'll have to accept all these deaths due to COVID--!
Vietnam: You could just--
US: OH WELL, GUESS WE'LL JUST HAVE TO ACCEPT PEOPLE WILL DIE
📍HOLY MOTHER OF CONQUERING A HOSPITAL OUTBREAK—Vietnam quashed a big 🏥
#COVID19
outbreak. Besides tracing 50,000+ people who were 1st, 2nd, 3rd degree contacts, they also quarantined & gave **FREE ROOM 🛌 & BOARD 🍲 to 27,893** F1 & F1 close contacts during quarantine! Wowzers!
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SFF magazines saying submissions that deal with death or grieving are hard sells (presumably because there's too much of that already) just makes me want to ask - where ARE all these dark and disturbing stories?
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Personally, I can't forget how quite a few well-known authors (including some queer ones) also tried to claim that Fall's bio including her birth year (1988) was a Nazi dogwhistle
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Acceptance! Can't say too much yet, but what makes this sale especially sweet is that it's one of the best things I've ever written that kept getting rejections, AND this is a dream market
Stay tuned for when and where to read!
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"Science Fiction's about promoting change, but horror is about being afraid of change"
I don't know man, given the changes we've seen in our lifetimes maybe that's a facile criticism
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Something I've found funny in the last few years is how many SFF people blocked or (I assume) muted me for having such radical positions as "maybe SFF shouldn't accept sponsorships from weapons manufacturers"
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The absolutely funniest thing about this article are the QTs insisting this interview's slander
I can assure you it is NOT slander
Meet Brandon Sanderson. Brandon published two books in the time it took our writer to finish this story. Brandon's fantasy writing made him $55 million last year. Brandon doesn't think he's a very good writer.
📷: Michael Friberg |
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As we once again get another thread about "buy MY books, school boards!" disguised as "the classics are icky" I want to remind everyone that Virginia wanted to ban Beloved by Toni Morrison from school curriculums
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I've tried not to engage with the cozy horror thing because I've been having a blast writing something that might be a novelette, might be a scrawny novella. . . but I can't take the insistence that cozy horror is somehow being gatekept out of publishing seriously at all
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SFF authors, listening to Le Guin saying, "we live in capitalism, it's power seems inescapable - but then so did the divine right of kings": SLAY QUEEN
SFF authors when hearing AI art should be banned: ah, well, you see. . . It's a useful tool so who knows if it's good or bad
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Recent SFF doesn't seem to want to deal with how central to our lives work can be
So, on this May Day prove me wrong: what's a short story, novella or novel that has work as an integral part of the plot or a persistent character obstacle?
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@Big_Chillin_Tho
@SlashThread
@funkpwer
@theschwasound
@Chinchillazllla
I mean, one of the funniest things he said last year was that on good days, *maybe* his wife likes him
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Sure, the party committed the El Mozote Massacre but Commander Killinger made sure Lieutenant Anders got his favorite breakfast beforehand: fluffy pancakes with strawberry jam
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@Millerheighife
The statistics on shooters having documented violent incidents with women is staggering. Banning guns from domestic abusers would hobble the police and military (which would be a good thing)
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Realized I'm often at odds with genre readers w/ what's cliché - I believe that most stories have already been told, so that clever ideas, while welcome, aren't the end-all and be-all for me
Style, good prose & execution all have a bit more weight than "new" concepts
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Trying to avoid adding to an ongoing ratio, but there's a tweet asking what the point of making cynical, hopeless art right now and I think that art that hustles us past very real feelings of despair trying to cheer us up comes across as insincere, condescending and irrelevant
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Dennis Leary's whole routine is O L D
How old. . . ?
In this sumerian tablet from approximately 2600 BC, the author notes how modern coffees are often watered down and combined with various creams and spices. It then goes on to describe that coffee was typically served unadorned and tasted "like coffee" in the writer's youth
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@gullfire_
So sad that she inspired so much Garfield content without ever seeing a dime from it
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Whedon's awful legacy of putting the emphasis in "strong female characters" on literally *strong* can't be overstated, since it's affected the expectations of many readers who only want surface-level girlboss power fantasies with little (if any) interiority
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...and you say, "Hail Hydra"
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Why reissue Glenn Cook's The Black Company with a cover that's so much more boring than the original?
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What to do about an uncaring god (HBO edition)
His Dark Materials: let's kill god
Watchmen: let's make god a cop
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Look, I know everyone's upset, but let's be real. That Target was no saint
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