Robin S. Blackwood

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Writing About the Past to Talk About the Present. Jessica Lucci, Robin S. Blackwood, E.H. Lupton, Gideon Marcus, Thomas Wrightson. Rainbow Space Magic. October 4–5. RainbowSpaceMagic.org. Logo: A fountain pen draws a circle around the rainbow-colored letters RSM, ending in a little flying dragon and a ringed planet. Background: A starry sky with a rainbow.

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I think it would be better to retweet the correction that it's the 7th of September.
(Not meant to sound snarky, just letting you know.)

Please, please, do not give into the "post [X] or horrible things will happen" posts and spread them about. Random people on Bluesky do not have the power to give you bad luck, it's a stupid gimmick for attention.
Next time I see someone I follow spreading these, even a friend, I'll unfollow.

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Then you get the accidental favourite where suddenly a character you named "Rat" is becoming important but you associate him with the name too much to change it...

Thank you!

I know people have been avoiding it because of the Incident even though I've also seen people here saying not to do that because it just makes things worse for creators. I'm still happy to buy on there if you have a link to your book there.

Is there a non-Amazon way to get it?

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. More than just a midnight movie, RHPS became a crucial gathering place for queers, punks, theater kids, and so many others looking for their place...and each other. Irreverent? Yes. Wild? Always. Nonetheless: Don't dream it, be it.

I enjoyed quite a bit of Clarke and Asimov as a teenager--but only after getting into science fiction via Doctor Who, and also I read them of my own accord and not because I was told "you must read this, it's a classic". And some other "classics of the genre" were very offputting to me even so.

And some of them are better read when someone is old enough to understand the ways in which they're a product of their time (or in some cases, *more* prejudiced than most people of their time).

I think that's true, but I don't think that all of these writers are necessarily the best books to give to a child as the first science fiction books they read--even though I enjoyed some Verne and Asimov in my childhood myself (but it was after getting into science fiction via Doctor Who).

Reading the zine about mad scientists and monsters that I bought a few weeks ago at Pride, and there's a poem called "I'm just a Modern Prometheus, of course I've had it in the ear before" and I had to put the zine down for a moment to just be in awe of the mind that came up with that combination.

I can agree with not dissing the Crypt Keeper on principle but I'm now very curious what this was in response to.

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We just hit the stretch goal with a mere 17 minutes to go!!!!

A huge thank you to the folks on here, and everywhere else, who helped. :D

Now is probably not the moment for me to announce another stretch goal, right? 🤣

Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Cozy Academia Anthology A collection of 22 delightfully queer, charmingly cozy stories that put a fluffy LGBTQIA+ spin on the dark academia genre.

Last hour to back Scholarly Pursuits and we're $298 away from that second stretch goal that would triple author pay!
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Meeting the stretch goal would also mean backers (who aren't ebook-only) get bat stickers!

I am not going to rank them, but, in no particular order, Ann Leckie, Terry Pratchett, Ursula Le Guin, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, T.Kingfisher.

$402 from the stretch goal as of when I'm typing this!

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Unfortunately what you say about a one-size-fits-all-system being economically necessary might well be true. But while you might be right about the worst issues, I think there's other bad treatment of children that's socially *encouraged* so supervision won't solve it, though that varies culturally.

I don't know. I know the kind of education I'm picturing is possible, and works, but not how it could be made to work at scale for everyone and not relying on parents' money/education levels/being decent people who want their children to learn.

And/or there were factors in their life outside of school that made the kids give up on learning--such as being told they weren't going to amount to anything from early on as too many kids who don't fit certain moulds are.

And I'd bet that when they were 3 or 4 those kids had the same "what's this, what's that? I want to learn! I'm going to ask 100 questions in a row!" instinct as any other kid but the school failed to translate that natural enthusiasm into learning new things into enthusiasm for their lessons.

And I think that's down to the way schools teach and also what an artificial environment it is, being inside in the same building expected to sit still at a desk and listen in silence for such huge chunks of the day. There are better ways to learn that kids will actually find fun.

I don't think "compelling children to lock in" is the answer. Young children before school age show pretty clear signs that curiosity and wanting to learn is a natural instinct in children (like it is in most young creatures) but after a few years in school for all too many that instinct is gone.