Emery Robin

to which the obvious reply is, you are missing the point of the genre, but a genre is made of thoughts, not the absence of thoughts. if the definition of the genre is "don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to", that's not a genre, that's a political stance

in a specifically political way, i mean, like this is low-hanging fruit but "we are sweet and run a coffeeshop and there are no problems" are there no negative consequences to being a member of the petit bourgeoisie

i like some cozy genre stuff but as a Cozy Mystery enthusiast specifically i'm often like. ok this is sort of like describing your fantasy/mystery/scifi/etc as "apolitical", in that, is it really Cozy or is it just Unexamined

cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island

Lou Dawg: Wine barrel wrestling, chariot racing, mummy massage station, spin the Nile Dial, human pyramid, goblet pyramid, guess who's in the necropolis, the Sultry Sphinx open bar, do the Tut Tut (whatever that is) My brother: Gold. Also it's sci-fi version of Cleopatra so futuristic stuff is in bounds Lou Dawg: Oh shii so many possibilities

the best research I did for this book was making my brother text his college roommates for party planning ideas for Space Cleopatra. (I unfortunately did not use any of Lou Dawg's)

The Sea Eternal "Wherever Emery Robin goes from here, I'm going to follow." —Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom one of the most original voices in sc...

did you know: my new book about Antony and Cleopatra IN SPACE comes out on Tuesday. I would describe it as influenced secondarily by Shakespeare and firstly by the most egregiously low-budget Doctor Who episodes of the 2000s. it has an incredible cover www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/emery...

zaslav's asleep at the fuckin' wheel, watch TRUE STORIES for free while you can

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhTS...

Automobile magnate Henry Ford not only firmly believed in the virtues of the melting pot—he literally, and bizarrely, built one. In the 1920s, Ford required his immigrant workers to attend lengthy “Americanization” courses. The graduation ceremony from this program culminated in a pageant in which workers clad in outlandish versions of their “native” costumes descended into a giant pot—a twenty-foot-tall crucible made of wood, canvas, and papier-mâché—and emerged on the other side wearing modern business suits, waving tiny American flags, and singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

in terms of "facts about ford people are likely to know, in descending order" i feel like it generally goes car guy -> antisemite -> the reason americans all learn square dancing at school but there's SO much more. he wanted to ban milk. he tried to start a milkless colony in brazil

finally catching up on severance and oh my god to anyone who likes this show i am absolutely begging you to read a biography of henry ford. the extent to which the eagan cult is truth in television

thanks very much!! i LOVE it, i've really lucked out on covers with this series

i love that the way they're pitching me is "one of the most original voices in science fiction" like. you know when the people running the, and i cannot emphasize this enough, sff scene look at you and go "yeah, weird. weird guy"

Excerpt: THE SEA ETERNAL by Emery Robin From one of the most original voices in science fiction comes the spectacular sequel to the epic, interstellar love story that began in The Stars Undying (US | UK). Read the first chapter from…

btw the first chapter of my new BOOK is up on hachette's website rn. it has a Cleopatra party and a spaceship chase and an alarming gay sex scene www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...

Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. I’ve survived the influenza pandemic, I’m feeling good about life, and I’ve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract

nothing at work that I get as much unfiltered pleasure from as receiving an email that begins "nice to e-meet you"

on the other hand, I hated A Farewell to Arms because my copy of the book smelled bad. important to remember that sometimes there is nothing a teacher can do

sincerely loved Catcher in the Rye and I wish it was taught better because it was such a mindblowing experience of "wait, you can DO that (give a first-person narrator preoccupations that convey character without stating it outright)???" like it is perfect for 15 yos! but not for those other reasons

too long to list all of them, the only one I remember sincerely disliking was Pope's "Rape of the Lock", which gave me the best paper I wrote in all of secondary school, you learn so much from going "I kNOW this is misogynist but I need you to BELIEVE me so I need to articulate WHY"

a corner of a map hand-drawn in a lined notebook, showing a coastline, some mountains, and labeled cities. the handwriting is messy, the ink is smudged, multiple names are crossed out and re-written, and the coastline has been re-drawn in pen several times so it's difficult to tell where it's actually meant to be

when I was a kid I took such pleasure in starting all my projects by getting a piece of printer paper and drawing a beautiful map with ice caps on the mountains and different handwriting for city names and country names and every inch of the country borders meticulously considered and now

this one is secondary-world but it literally doesn't matter. i am on that advanced search function. i am sorting by time period. i am hunting down the sources in the bibliography

i'm at a point in my writing life where i'm like. i know myself, and i know what i like. and i am simply never going to do another project that does not involve getting to utilize green's dictionary of slang on a daily basis

time for my New Year's Day tradition: baked potato stuffed with garlicky broccoli, asparagus tossed with sage porcini and rosemary and roasted within an inch of its life, hot apple cider, and crying my eyes out over HOLIDAY (1938)

this is not a rec for what your next movie should be, my rec for what your next movie should be is LE COMTE DE MONTE CRISTO (2024), but if you have the time I do recommend both as a double feature on Counts

the best part of NOSFERATU that people are not going to have access to is that i went to an open-caption screening and in that one shot with Thomas and Orlok in Orlok's castle the subtitle was "slow, rhythmic slurping"

If you don't want to open the door to a federal bathroom bill and a federal ban on trans people, take the time to go to

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

and then CALL (with a phone) your elected officials. Tell them, 'I expect you to vote against any proposed anti-trans bathroom bill.'

been thinking a lot lately about the perniciousness of sentimentalism in queer history—idk whether because it's the enemy of honesty (it certainly is!) or because it's the enemy of that electricity/that deliberate, ritualized magic I've seen in recent great queer stories

if you're in the area and have the chance, strongly recommend seeing The Civilians' Sex Variants of 1941. idk that this is a "I think the show is great" rec so much as an "I want other people to talk about the show with me" rec, but it is amazingly rich, unsentimental, and heartfelt

I will get more active here either when they roll out locked accounts or when this place becomes the primary hub for sports memes. that said you all have caught me at exactly the right time (my first week on HRT)

getting an influx of followers and not sure why (I mean, I Know Why, but not sure why me specifically) but hello! I hope you all like obscure puns

I think for many young people, some writer occupies a "feminist a little older than me who represents an adult conversation/culture I want to participate in" role in yr intellectual consciousness, and what happened to you did have a big impact on my politics, & I do still talk & think about it often