i think every time you buy a book, there needs to be a little line that states how much of the total price went to the author.
Once again, it's really OK to call racist people racist and to call evil people evil.We came up with the words for a reason.
I don’t know dude. If James Baldwin was able to write all his work while his friends were being assassinated by the FBI, and while he was living in terror as a gay Black man … then maybe you can write without using A.I.
You can write about your traumatic health scare, but you don’t get to pretend you have a year to live.
Realism: accurately reproduces the real-world cadence, occasionally including the awkward and sacrificing beauty in favour of that accuracy
Verisimilitude: accurately reproduces how the dialogue feels, sacrificing realism when it clashes with what sounds more vivid.
Scored myself a signed Scalzi at DIA!
I don't hear out Zionists for the same reason I don't hear out flat earthers, creationists, forced birthers, or anti-vaxxers, and for the same reason I don't hear out Klansmen, Nazis, transphobes, anti-Black racists, eugenicists, or xenophobes.
This is from 1975.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
I’ve had all of these happen, and they’re hilarious and delightful in their own way.
It’s so weird that not so long ago, like, less than 20 years, the progressive feminist position was gender de-segregation in sport and other male dominated spaces. Then the terfs came along and convinced the mainstream that the most progressive feminist position is that women are weak and feeble.
Writing good romance is proof of mastering the craft.
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
Idk, man. If you’re okay with fascists getting a cut of your revenue stream, then you sound like a sponsor of fascism.
Like, fine, if you need that revenue stream to live, I understand why migrating to a non-Nazi site would be disruptive (still gonna block you). But be honest; don’t pretend it’s about reaching your audience. Audiences can move. You just don’t want the inconvenience.
Gotta love those claiming to be against fascism continuing to post on Substack even after learning it platforms Nazis. “But it’s where my people are!”
Translation: “But my revenue stream!”
anti-trans Dems ate shit last night
Watching the English dub of The Cat Returns with my son and, despite the stacked cast of voice actors, the one that made me go “hold up, is that—?” was René Auberjonois.
I tried the audiobook and the narrator put me off, so I’ve been waiting waiting waiting for the ebook on Libby. I’ve liked the small bit I’ve been able to preview.
Spotted on the same car:
“Stomp my flag, I’ll stomp your ass.”
“Live free or die.”
We’ve got different concepts of freedom, bud.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
“Well, Iran’s regime is corrupt and—“
DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF.
there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true
never look at your phone when you get up to take a leak. someone might have started an idiot war
Unsurprisingly, r/fantasy is throwing around the word “legend” and not mentioning anything else.
The only thing I ever read by Dan Simmons was Hyperion; even that, his most influential work, had a lot of shit worthy of a side-eye.
Ah, Dan Simmons. Huge mixed feelings - he both wrote a book I eagerly pressed upon everyone I knew because it was so thrilling and well-written (The Terror) and a later book I actively warned people away from because it was so hideously reactionary (Flashback).
ai companies be like "please pay us to make your quality of life worse"
Writing advice: flashbacks are bad
Me: what if I put a flashback inside this flashback
