Liza W (she/they)

If you have a transactional relationship to other people's work, it can seep into your work too.

People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.

Worded another way, a hyper-individualistic culture is antisocial. A hyper-repressive culture is antisocial. It is not only individuals who are capable of being antisocial. A group of people, even a large group of people, can be antisocial, together.

Many are weaponizing methodological individualism. It removes the social relations from the equation, thereby circumventing the social sciences.

“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.

i got my first ever story published in a literary magazine and think it would be cool if people wanted to read it!

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My heart’s the same, but my aim has changed

have you ever felt like public health is an overreach? do me a favor and look up tertiary syphilis or, alternately, the concept of "shitting yourself to death", which used to be something that happened with medium regularity

I like to incorporate elements of black party culture into my fiction, and there’s only so much explaining I’m willing to do about that. I enjoy fic outside of my immediate cultural context without authors needing to plead their case, and it seems fair to expect the same openness of mind in return.

they know grievance is a great motivator

D’Angelo has spoken against his sex icon image. He was pushed into that by the label and hated when he was on tour and ladies were treating him like a stripper. I hope in his passing we can celebrate his incredible musicality and dedication to the craft. 🌚

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I want social structures that make sense, and last. Which means I want social structures that don’t require hazing and ring kissing and conditioning and repression to function, which is what most of this world’s social infrastructure requires.

Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.

My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.

Those LLMs are absolutely more real to them than we are

a certain kind of liberal has a cycle of being confidently wrong, coming to the right conclusion way too late, forgetting all the people who told them they were wrong in the first place, never reflecting on it or learning any humility, and then being confidently wrong again to start the cycle anew

And these posts never come with a mea culpa like "I should have listened to the people I brushed off as hysterical"

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Magic, middle earth, cyborgs and cryptids / creatures are fun, but there’s certainly more to speculative fiction than that, past and present.

I lowkey have things to say about people considering dystopia and alternative realities less speculative than other speculative tropes

My cat knows not to mess with the tablecloth, but he did it anyway and tore a big hole in the fabric, which he then stuck his head through. Of course he got stuck and ended up panicking, and twisting the cloth tighter around himself, and the only way out was with my help. Seems like a metaphor.

anything taken by force will not be had with ease

I am feeling a need to be more uncompromising. Too many people have not been told No enough, and despite the clearly negative ramifications of their behavior, they continue it.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

It’s such a task to maintain your sense of self when you’re dealing with people who have actually lost their damn minds

When I first started reading black literature, I was so in love with it that I hadn’t fully considered how many people either don’t know it or don’t truly enjoy it. Sometimes I sense a hint of hostility towards it, or a desire to discipline it — even from people who consider themselves well-read.

Things aren't good. Now is the time to try lots of different things.

The sciences understand ‘culture’ as a constructed environment in which life grows.

Formulas aren’t useful everywhere — gotta be careful about applying formulas in a way that smothers potential. That seems to be one of the great trials of Western culture.

Photograph of John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the Blues. Black and white photograph. He’s wearing a suit and sitting at a table with a mug in front of him and notepad etc on table. Behind him is a chart diagram of the evolution of the Blues, connecting genres over time. Photograph by Clemens Kalischer, 1951.

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

There’s such a profound joylessness in this country, and everything it touches. Lots of ‘fun’, but not very much joy.

Motherfuckers begging to say shit suddenly ain't got shit to say. Sad.

My mom often says (translated from Twi) “we are meant to do some of it, not all of it”