@readingtheend.bsky.social
she/her. southern geek feminist and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.
It's my very special treat for myself on Sunday after a bunch of family stuff and I am soooo excited
T-minus eight minutes!
can this be a solution
this guy was nice, like, I liked him, he obviously liked me and invited me to do an independent study with him the following semester. it's only looking back that I feel utterly baffled and enraged at how he conducted this seminar.
Site's been down for a couple of days due to a maintenance snafu but it's back up and we're about 50% of the way to the awards funding goal!
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yeah, and some of my arguments were definitely wasted! it was hard to tell the difference, at the time.
would have been cool if the professor hadn't instigated a debate about whether it's women's place to suffer and then just let it rip for an hour, but unfortunately that was not within my power to control.
yeah, me too. I tried to pick my battles. with the spousal abuse thing, it was more that I didn't know who in the room had experience of IPV, but I knew the answer wasn't nobody, and I didn't want the, like, sense of the meeting to be "yes, abused spouses have a responsibility to stay"
they were in love with the frisson of being an asshole
yeah, like, they have one experience where someone tells them they're wrong and an asshole, and their whole brain collapses. absolutely fucking wild.
when I was in college, I was getting into arguments every other day about whether we "still" needed feminism. I argued myself to tears in a Western Civ class about whether women were morally obligated to stay in abusive marriages.
We had, like, five years where it was even possible to have a conversation about why these ideas were toxic, regressive bullshit. Now they are becoming, increasingly, the law of the land. Where's the transgressive part?
specifically: the idea that these ideas are transgressive. these are the opposite of transgressive ideas, these are the exact status quo. They have never been out of fashion.
this is a really interesting/distressing piece
*taps internet microphone*
After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...
We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...
lithub.com/what-was-los...
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I think if I were to send the head of legal at Grammarly a note that said I broke into his house and took his wallet, but in future, he could opt out of me stealing his wallet, that would go great and they would be fine with that 👍🏻
If you have not read How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr I highly recommend it. Incredible how much Americans just don’t get taught about American history
I gathered some thoughts about Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, which everyone who loves literary science fiction, trans people, and artists should read.
🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2026/03/10/n...
I liked SOME THINGS ABOUT IT and I did not like OTHER THINGS ABOUT IT. how about themapples! hahahahaha
I'm with you, Molly! I feel like Rotten Tomatoes has done us all a disservice by pushing the idea that a review can be boiled down to a star rating every single time.
U GET ME
THAT'S RIGHT
Less than a week to go! Could really use some financial support.
full review coming, but this book is fucking good and you should buy it. wall-to-wall messy characters + meaty (lol) worldbuilding. love love love a novella that's as fully realized as this one is.
yeah!!! I just wanted to have my negroni and work on my laptop and chat to strangers and pet some dogs!
YAYYYYYY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! I HOPE INTERVIEW GOES WELL!!! YAYYYYYYY!
some of it was my stuff, I know! but I just wish people would hear a boundary and respect the boundary instead of being like "it would be funny to dramatically do the thing she said makes her really upset"
they weren't gatekeeping, they were saying it in a flirty way, as if me describing my work had been a sexual overture.