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I love this topic.

I have a love for both, but although one must watch a lot of Xena to get the experience of Xena, if you watch just the opening credits of Cleopatra 2525 a few times, it counts as having watched the whole show.

IT'S COMING! They're coming. The monkeys! At halloweeeeeeeen

Always happy to consult if you run against something particularly intractable.

really important that we find ways to neuter the supreme court and unwind the trump admin's cruel practices, least of which so i can annoyingly say "all their efforts were for kavanaught"

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I didn't come to horror writing through horror reading or horror movies. I got here through oral tradition: ghost stories at sleepover parties. It's still obvious in the structure: entertaining and giggly and set in specific familiar surroundings. And then suddenly...
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obviously what he's making happen is horrible, but listening to him describe it is like listening to Dark Helmet from Spaceballs

A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

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I mean, any time you have arranged marriages with requirements to produce an heir, it is not a celebration of bodily autonomy), and that absolutely comes down harder on women, even though I don't get the impression Aravis's brothers are free to make a love match either.

Per the text, Aravis's gender expression is not any more a problem than her super femme friend's, and per the text, Rabadash's domineering abuser stuff toward Susan is very much a him thing and weirds everyone else out.

I've never read Calormen as sexist. Classist, yeah. It's very clear the hiearchy is strict and you are not even supposed to care about classes lower than you. Like, that's the thing Aravis has to grapple with (and Bree does too).

Further investigation reveals wikipedia is only flagging as porn on MY computer even though the software is supposed to impose all rules universally

so it's impugning my PERSONAL HONOR with an implication about how I individually use wikipedia

I should be allowed to duel the software in meatspace

I have never once looked at tool and thought "let's make this faster, more random, and unaccountable" (unless it was a random number generator). Russian roulette-ass business model.

Welp, my work firewall has started blocking wikipedia as a website after placing it in the category "porn, general." Thanks, AI. You're really nailing it.

So like I’m not uhhhhh a tactical guy I’m not a military knower but does one usually put everyone important in your military in one spot. Does one usually advertise that they’re going to put everyone important in your entire military in one spot before doing that

I love that. Can you link me to a story you're proud of that does that, which I could read online?

I think the literary prevalence of "surprising" reversals has primed how we anticipate reality. The number of conversations I overhear: "remember how x unlikely thing turned out to be TRUE" about stuff that didn't ever turn out to be true. We're just used to that ending, so we write it in.

One of the things I appreciate about Columbo (and Poker Face) is they sidestep the narrative trap of "it's the person you least suspect!" We know who the person is and how they did it. That's out of the way. There's not a "but actually!!!1" twist.

Presumably the big one belonged to The Man. Wonder what happened to that guy.

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I run into a lot of early pushback from people who are sure they know someone like that, and are sure that he'll play ball like that other someone did, because look how much it's to his advantage. He doesn't, though. I get a lot of apologies later.

Long way of saying I think you're dead on.

As though I could talk the sun into emitting a different color, or know what it feels like to be the sun.

I do have a theory of mind, but I don't trust it. I do trust my predictions, which are externally verifiable and protect me. Trying to understand is less important.

I spend a lot of time in close proximity to someone with pretty extreme (diagnosed) NPD, and I'm good at predicting what he'll do, which people mistake for (1) understanding how he thinks (2) ability to persuade him to do otherwise.

One of these days, a graph with a manipulatively scaled/zoomed axis is going to give me a stroke. This was the prophecy whispered over me at my birth.

I feel this way about word police too. There's an underlying reality. I care about that reality, not mumbo jumbo hypnosis words on top of it. I don't buy a car based on what color it is.

Literally the only comparison I can make is that I want to throw my staff down like Moses, like "yeah I can do snakes too." My snake eats your snake. Stop trying to derail me with a snake.

By Moses I mean Charlton Heston. It makes me feel the rage of Charlton Heston.

It's probably not healthy for my heart how much lightning-behind-my-eyes rage I feel the second someone starts trying to sound scary and authoritative with numbers, without thinking about the underlying reality the numbers are describing. Like they think they can do wizardry on me.

No, it's a 147% difference, because 25 is 147% of 17! I can be bullshitty with numbers too.

I'll say again: one in four men. one in five women.

If I said "about one in four men and about one in five women reports being lonely on a regular basis" is that a men problem? Or is that about the same?