Zachary Gillan

Writing my stupid little bullshit while a death cult sets the world on fire

Building on some of the stuff I blathered with Casella last year: bsky.app/profile/meal...

It’s what I’m working on right now; if I can actually get any words done instead of just staring at my screen in despair it should be in ARB in April, or… about

Writing my stupid little bullshit while a death cult sets the world on fire

Blanquitos Fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez.

Helluva day to remind you it's the last day for Nebula nominations. If you're still choosing, please consider my short, "Blanquitos" in the short story category

Sam J. Miller: "...when weighed against U.S. imperialism, are eldritch abominations really so scary?"

www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/

🙏

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won't Share Published: March 26, 2003

Time is a flat circle

there really is something immensely clarifying about realizing that "death cult" is not an ironic or jokey term

I’m losing track of my own essays but I think it was this one that says we need to distinguish between weird fiction as a mode and the weird as an affect

Yes. Yes you do

Which is to say I agree with sj

I’m losing track of my own essays but I think it was this one that says we need to distinguish between weird fiction as a mode and the weird as an affect

Namwali Serpell’s On Morrison, which has a big picture of Toni Morrison smirking at the camera

Yes… ha ha ha… yes!!

Yeah, it’s been a favorite of mine too and it hits way too close to home

I really like that last idea. Weird fiction can often point at things profound yet ridiculous simultaneously, the clash of perspectives irreducible to one another, so having one's tongue in one's cheek is a good way to get closer to whatever a truth might be than if it’s placed elsewhere.

The Prestige but it's just me and @megapolisomancy.bsky.social throwing terms like "accepted premise," "answering unasked questions," "structured ambiguity," and "unsettlement" at each other during increasingly bewildered con panels. Steve Aylett stands in for Nikola Tesla.

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Weirding the Periphery: How Imperialism Infiltrated Our Imagination Through Fantasy So much of foundational fantasy is about the (often imperial) core versus outside territories.

Were the very premises of traditional fantasy narratives priming our brains to accept imperialism this whole time?

www.typebarmagazine.com/weirding-the...

It’s very revealing.

If you get to it first let me know how it is

Tapping the sign in solidarity

Terroir landscape vs noir poison metaphor Hauntology the way each book rewrites/reconfigures the ones before

When you set a piece down for a week and then come back to it and find that where you thought you had written paragraphs there are just sentence fragments

God, yes, I hate that one

It’s a line so good he left it behind just to haunt all of us

I'd also totally forgotten I mentioned noir in the essay last month and then jotted this down last week and now we're talking noir today. Time is a flat circle, which is a weirded way of saying my memory is Swiss cheese

Terroir landscape vs noir poison metaphor Hauntology the way each book rewrites/reconfigures the ones before

When you set a piece down for a week and then come back to it and find that where you thought you had written paragraphs there are just sentence fragments

True, true

Opened this book (bought used) up and a 2013 earnings statement from New Wave Coffee fell out. Michael Lopez of Chicago, if you're out there, thanks for the noir.