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2 years

This thread will be an ongoing collection of my writing, from short fiction to critical essays to experimental fiction, usually from an anarchist/communist perspective, for archiving purposes.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

It also forces people to live in the complicated emotional reality of their own capacity for inflicting abuse.

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@theoceanblooms

1 year

People hate humanising depictions of abusers because it forces them, for just a few minutes, to live in the complicated emotional reality that many people trapped in abuse endure for years and even decades.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@bimbotheory Why does it look like they're afraid to actually touch each other?

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

You realize the 2020 blm protests literally burned zero cities to the ground and conservatives are still saying we burned all the cities to the ground, right

Kerbal Engineering Systems

@KerbalSystems

2 years

Insisting on "civil" protests is because A) It keeps us from sinking to the level of January 6 fascists and B) because it denies the right-wing propaganda machine the ability to demonize activists as violent monsters who just want to burn it all down.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

The prioritization of "getting to the point" of a book is an insufferably juvenile way of engaging with art.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

@VF555XX You forgot to add the swastika

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Begging all my fellow queers to realize hyperfocusing on labels and flags is a built in wedge issue meant to forestall sexual liberation and political coalition building.

Gretchen Felker-Martin

@scumbelievable

2 years

nobody who has ever fucked says any of this shit

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@BAPostmaisdead

11 months

James Somerton is a fantastic example of how queer identitarianism won't fill the hole left by an utter lack of talent, creativity, and effort.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@dharmikgothoes Isn't this called hoefidence?

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

@scumbelievable Keffals is here to be the main character again by...self reporting, I guess.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

I've been saying for awhile now that fandom is a brain poison empowering the most fascistic impulses of the perpetually regressive, but facing the fact that it is a haven for concentrated bigotry and terrorism that results in the literal deaths of the marginalized is sickening.

Gretchen Felker-Martin

@scumbelievable

1 year

Learning that a disabled queer artist lost her health insurance, her home, and finally her life to suicide after colleagues got her fired for the high crime of... drawing INVADER ZIM porn. I'm speechless.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

MCU and superhero portrayals of masculinity are hardly hypersexualization, but rather a fetishization of a very specific body type built for war and the execution of aggression, imperialism, and ultranationalism, not eroticism and sex.

Spooklio Gutierrez 🇦🇺🇻🇪

@JulioInStudio

2 years

I believe there is a certain degree of visible male hypersexualisation in mainstream media, in part thanks to the cinematic superhero genre and the occasional Magic Mike movie. It would need to be way bigger than that to ever catch up to female hypersexualised media, though.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

@KerbalSystems You're not getting it. We could do 1000% peaceful protests for years and the conservatives are going to say we're all antifa supersoldiers burning everything to the ground because they live on a completely different planet than the rest of us do.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Idk bout this thread being subtweeted cuz I haven't seen it, but encouraging writers, especially those styling themselves as literary ones or novelists, to read more novels and literature is not inherently ableist. It's a pretty basic expectation, actually.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

I've just been informed as a member of the Rite Gud discord, I'm part of a "movement" to harass Raytheon and LM employees writing SFF. Which I'm fine with. They're bad and should feel bad.

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@BAPostmaisdead

3 years

"One finds oneself wishing for overt bigotry rather than this repellent soft-shoe routine. Reading a fantasy about the demonization and annihilation of the vulnerable and having to endure the author's ambivalent pangs of conscience is a special kind of draining tedium."

Gretchen Felker-Martin

@scumbelievable

3 years

I'm making my review of Sandra Newman's THE MEN free and open to the public! Read and enjoy, all.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

I love how Leguizamo avoids the Official Cis Ally (TM) talking points by saying "your choices don't impact my life" and saying "you know what, they do impact my life and I love those impacts". Fuck yeah dude.

John Leguizamo

@JohnLeguizamo

2 years

I support my trans brothers and sisters! Luv is luv ! More power to u!

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@BAPostmaisdead

11 months

Queers are perfectly capable of exploiting the labor and art of other queers for their own cynical ends. Capital provides plenty of assimilationist and grifter queers opportunities to do that, and our communities need to be on the lookout for these shitstains.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Unsubscribing is a democratic action, something the Times claims to support. They made their own bed.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Folk horror is about anxieties from the past that persist through modernity, usually through a proletarian lens. Urban legends are direct outgrowths of modernity, almost entirely divorced from locale and cultural history, products of the endless now. Stop trying to squee horror.

John Wiswell

@Wiswell

2 years

Urban legends are just folk horror with indoor plumbing, send tweet

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

She's doing a "modern" retelling of 1984 from Julia's perspective? What fresh hell is this

Granta Books

@GrantaBooks

2 years

‘The book is very much a response to a conversation that has been going on about the shortcomings of feminism, and white feminism and the degree to which women have been complicit in the crimes of men’ @sannewman is interviewed in @ipaper , by Susie Mesure

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@KerbalSystems They don't care about facts, because the facts disprove their political agenda. They only care about their lies and propaganda.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

I will never understand why so many people on booktwitter revolve their entire public personas around books and yet are intrinsically opposed to the medium itself.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

@scumbelievable I do like how these situations are being actively conflated by liberals as if the US' genocidal project isn't mostly complete and most Indigenous people focus on Land Back initiatives now.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@Yodonashi_ Remember how I said he keeps doing apologetics for fascism?

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Fantasy should have more sex in it, especially fetishes and sex magick. There's too many conservative and liberal prudes writing stories where the only time the characters get randy is for monarchs or warfare, and that's dumb reactionary bullshit.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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It was heartwarming to hear you play some MCR riffs again @FrankIero and now I'm that much more stoked to hear Barriers, especially Medicine Square Garden, cuz you've made some damn rad songs over the years, and I wanna find out why this is your favorite!

Loudwire

@Loudwire

5 years

WATCH: @FrankIero + Evan Nestor play favorite My Chemical Romance + solo riffs:

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

If you have major time constraints or ADHD or similar issues that prevent you from reading novels, then maybe being a novelist isn't right for you. The novel form is (usually) too complex to be emulated by TV, podcasts, comics, video games, etc.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Just finished reading The Pervert and jesus fucking christ what a rollercoaster. Would highly recommend. I've heard good things about 920London, so that's next. Beautiful writing and artwork all around.

Remy Boydell

@slimgiltsoul

3 years

📓comics 📓 🌱minicomics🌱 💌stickers 💌 🎥animations 🎥 🤟support 🤟

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@BAPostmaisdead

6 years

I love everything about this...this is an encouragement to see some of your roots, as I'm at the beginning stages of being a halfway-decent musician someday...maybe. Thanks for sharing, @FrankIero

frnkiero: Party (goth) Dad

@FrankIero

6 years

i found an old box of vhs tapes this weekend. lots of crazy memories flooded back. one of the tapes included the first show i ever played. i was a freshman in high school and i met…

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

No, but they are MATERIALLY promotion for corporate entities. It isn't an accident that IP holders engage with and encourage fanworks, shipping culture, ocs, -sonas, etc.

dani 🍉🕊🫰

@CardiganVixen

1 year

Fanfiction and fanworks are NOT inherently PROMOTION for CORPORATE ENTITIES You're making me tap the sign

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Books aren't movies to put on in the background. They have this whole layer to them called prose, which, if it's playing to the strength of the medium, should be very noticeable the entire time you're reading it. Hopefully, so you can consciously recognize how well-written it is.

Wendy 🍒

@cherriesandgin

2 years

@OfficiallyAlly Usually if I don’t notice the writing that means it’s well written. If I notice, it’s not. Good writing is ambient music in a restaurant with great food and wonderful company. It fades into the background most of the time while you focus on the rest of the experience.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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I like how there's this rising influx of people who're trying to pivot the Ana Mardoll discourse into focusing on the doxxing (bad) and distinct possibility said doxxing came from KF (very bad!), wagging fingers at everyone denouncing xer as "joining the transphobic pile on".

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

I've said it before and I'll say it again the EbThen person tweets like someone who lives 24/7 in their suburban bunker and only recently discovered most people don't live like that.

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

This is the account that once made so many threads about how ableist I am that they made a mega-thread of their threads about ableist Jorts

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@KerbalSystems Expecting civility politics to save the day is exactly the kind of reactionary neoliberal unwillingness to engage with real world politics and movements that the right uses to gain more power. Read history, learn dialectics, and realize violence comes in all forms.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Speaking of puriteens, 19 year olds' opinions on sexuality, fetish art, and kink can be safely discarded.

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@BAPostmaisdead

3 years

@drmistercody I'm wondering if he's got enough left in his skull to recognize the term "reactionary"

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

What's worse is these implications that everyone "joining the pile on" is cishet, condones doxxing, and also condones KF, which is an interesting way of flattening the identities and ideologies of (largely) queer and trans folks drawing a line at working for defense contractors.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

This further strays into the territory that Ana Mardoll is somehow representative of The Trans Experience in both a class sense and an ephemeral sense, as though the majority of trans people are faced with a reality of "being forced" to be a legacy hire for lockheed martin.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@scumbelievable I said this in much greater detail and length, making the mistake of taking a YA bozo's essentialism charitably, and it's been nonstop "you're ableist". And my favorite was when a rando demanded I apologize to them, personally, for the tweet they didn't like.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Great example of how leftist language is used to weaponize personal, didactic points of view on art to delegitimize any art challenging that. It's a worthy sentiment, but applied in a reactionary way that ultimately prioritizes squeecore fluff over actual liberatory expression.

𝕞𝕖𝕘𝕙𝕟𝕒 𝕛𝕒𝕪𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕙

@betterthemask

2 years

if you’re from a culture that is deeply capitalistic and white supremacist, you might want to reflect upon how your artistic practice and instincts are shaped by internalised notions of individualism and self-actualisation rather than collective liberation

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

That moment when your brain is locked down with so much reactionary radfem garbage that you trip over a simple joke and dent the soft spot in your skull.

Anna Biller

@missannabiller

1 year

How did the MeToo movement make its way back to sexploitation?? "a movie about empowering women (the hot ones)"🙄

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

jesus christ none of you guys left the middle school clique mentality did you fucking embarrassing behavior for nominal adults

Kat Rosenfield

@katrosenfield

2 years

Just hit the end of this great piece by @rhymeswithbee and fully screamed out loud

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

@scumbelievable @DrWallkick oh jesus he's doing the yiannopoulos "ex-gay homosexualist" grift

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

That Mardoll was too infantile, too sofboi, too much of a smol bean to be expected to make adult decisions about morality, ethics, and political cogency. I'm sure any transmasc reading this will be able to tell you about the very specific kind of transphobia leveraged...

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

I'd argue that most horror films about yuppy suburbanites are about evangelicalism, whether explicitly stated or not.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Imagine being so privileged, disaffected, and brainwashed by the decidedly conservative Christian impetus for persecution complexes that the backlash you get for doing evangelism is "materially worse" than the structural oppression of bigoted institutions.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@scumbelievable I'm not gonna lie, this is one of the greatest breaths of fresh air when it comes to discourse on this hellsite, seeing so many leftists I know and respect bringing it beyond that piece of shit and saying "we must stand against this in all its forms; enough is enough"

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@AquariusDonna @tommy_culkin ...did you literally make a Twitter account to white knight for somerton

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@Bowsnonk @devilsdoorbell_ Apparently saying that even when you're neurodivergent/disabled and understand the point being made is ableist, actually.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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As a man-shaped trans queer, I've long been highly skeptical and critical of those who assert over and over to me that fanfic is a liberatory space while ignoring the enormous majority of yuppie suburbanites treating queerness as a sexual object alone.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

@scumbelievable @MargaretAtwood Why are liberal writers so endlessly embarrassing

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@BAPostmaisdead

3 years

@EristocracyTV @VaushV It's wild to me that there are so many people queer spaces with arbitrary standards of "you must've sucked x number of cocks/pussy to be a REAL bi/pan"...is everyone forgetting about the demi, ace, aro people in this community?

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

It's NOT transphobic to say you shouldn't work for defense contractors if you're a serious leftist. It's NOT transphobic to expect trans/queer people to be actualized moral agents. It's NOT transphobic to refuse to infantilize a trans person who made grievous mistakes and...

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@BAPostmaisdead

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There are a wide variety of writers who're better at certain types of writing than others, and catering one's media consumption toward the type of craft you're honing is paramount if you want to grow and develop a writing style or a plethora of styles.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

ah yes, Victorians, famously limited in their ability to recognize the horrors of their time and human existence in general *stares in Charles Dickens*

Jess Nevins

@jessnevins

1 year

We don’t find them as frightening now because we’ve been exposed to them all our lives. The Victorians, with their limited exposure to the scary stuff from horror stories, did find them frightening. Their horizon of awareness & consciousness was smaller than ours. 12/

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@BAPostmaisdead

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One of the major things cis leftists need to burn into their brains is that leftist spaces aren't inherently egalitarian cuz the society we all live in is far from that, and everyone carries vectors of reactionary impetus with us into these spaces.

Gretchen Felker-Martin

@scumbelievable

1 year

Something I've talked about a little before is that as anti-trans hatred reaches a fever pitch in the US, it becomes easier and easier for subtler transphobia to run rampant in Leftist spaces, for cis Leftists to turn us into symbols or talk over us or brutalize us.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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The fact that a staggering number of the big names in SFF zines are completely beholden to the hollowed-out, mercurial performativist politics of terminally online yuppies and other strains of petit bourgeois certainly has alot to do with this "hard sell" angle.

Mantis Shrimp Diplomacy

@kjy1066

2 years

SFF magazines saying submissions that deal with death or grieving are hard sells (presumably because there's too much of that already) just makes me want to ask - where ARE all these dark and disturbing stories?

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@scumbelievable @evosketches @blgtylr It's very interesting that the same tenderqueers and performative liberals who were calling everyone who thought that thread dumb "ableist", "racist", "queerphobic" turned around and chased a black queer man off twitter when his "lol okay" was framed as "harassment"

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@KerbalSystems Every civil rights movement in this entire country, you absolute clown. The very War for Independence started with riots. Suffragists rioted. Slaves rioted. People suffering under Jim Crow rioted. Get your revisionist clown self outta here.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

Sometimes I think about that trend in sff where a whole bunch of hack writers decided to "fix" Omelas, and I'm still astounded at how even LeGuin's simplest fables are well beyond the cognitive abilities of your average liberal sff writer.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Ah yes me the Twitter rando who has the power to gatekeep reading itself.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

Ah yes, writers, famously known for being exempt from paying rent and feeding their families.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Tor publishing a book by one of the OG nepotism babies of our time with an AI art cover is one of the best encapsulations of all that's wrong with squeecore SFF I've seen yet.

Corey Brickley Illustration. Justice for Palestine

@CoreyBrickley

2 years

Hey @torbooks why tf are you using AI art on your covers

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@devilsdoorbell_ @ZakugaMignon @DixonBrandywine I like how we've cycled back to "SFF should be warm and fuzzy and not make me feel bad"

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Mardoll is a great example of how utterly hollow and self-serving performative neoliberalism is, in art spaces and the world at large. If your politics begin and end at what you say to gain clout on twitter, you're not woke, you're not engaged, you just wanna feed your big head.

Jessica Ritchey (jmritchey.bsky.social)

@Ruby_Stevens

2 years

When you decouple action from feelings, and forget that love is a verb I think you can end up in the place of "I don't read bad sexist authors on my lunchbreaks before getting back to programming predator drones" without batting an eye.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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@dharmikgothoes Do you use wood varnish or boot polish to smooth the wrinkles in your brain?

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Sanderson has done nothing but subtract from the fantasy genre, and more importantly, contributed to the worsening of the world by materially supporting one of the most homophobic and genocidal religious institutions operating in the US.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

If you want to write fiction in ways that emulate TV or movies, you should seriously consider screenwriting. You want to write fiction like comics? Write comics.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

What I do know is that Mardoll built an entire public persona mostly around purity testing every leftist, queer, and trans person on xers radar that didn't conform to xers own nebulous and shifting moralistic parameters based largely on their media consumption...

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@BAPostmaisdead

3 years

@magpiekilljoy I've been calling them the predator class for awhile. It works too.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

It doesn't help that largely the same network of sff and ya writers keep using their institutional power and social media influencers to prop up each other's practically illiterate prose as long as the book itself would be really easy to adapt to Netflix.

emily

@memilies

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we need to talk about how many sff bestsellers and word of mouth favorites have absolutely unreadable prose.

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@BAPostmaisdead

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Some of the kindest, most empathetic people I know and love have and continue to create some of the most overtly grimy and heinous work I've seen. Which is a good thing, cuz it usually means all that gnarly emotional stuff is coming out in art rather than their relationships.

Last Feast of Harlequin

@FeastLast

2 years

In my experience, the people who want ‘clean’ and ‘nice’ things in their entertainment have all been (1) sexually repressed weirdos, (2) cement-chewing psychopaths, (3) upper middle class shielding themselves, and (4) a cult leader.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

I'm gonna be real: women aren't as mysterious as patriarchy and bioessentialist propaganda would have us all believe. A writer who is a man/masc who recognizes the intrinsic humanity of women/fem should have little difficulty writing women.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Mental illness is only acceptable with the liberals if said mental illness is a) convenient or b) something you can make a fandom about.

Mantis Shrimp Diplomacy

@kjy1066

2 years

Something I've noticed in several SFF writing communities is how inclusive they are of mental illness as long as you're already on your best behavior and don't inconvenience anyone

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

LOTR is a singular work. Stop trying to recreate it. Accept Tolkien's influence and do something singular to yourself.

✨Madelyn Knecht | Fiction Editor✨

@MadelynKnecht

1 year

What is your fantasy book hot take? 👀

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

Under capital, the endless taxonimization and hardlining of "identity" is specifically a project OF capital, and is opposed to queer liberation. Sapphic, lesbian, femme...none of that shit actually matters beyond functioning as divisive wedges while the fash plot to kill us all.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

@ParacelsusII @wroughtandwrote @TheMarySue If you're new to a genre I simply care nothing for your generalized critiques of it. Spend some years engaging with it, and then we'll talk.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

I think baby gays need to explore sexuality and gender for about 5 years before they get to speak on the political issues of the queer community. I'm tired of people who realized they were queer yesterday advancing the reactionary baggage they haven't shaken yet.

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2 years

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

I think if I wrote an internationally recognized and distributed book that got an award and my entire fanbase turned out to defend it by saying "yeah we know it sucks ass it's meant to" I'd simply shoot myself to salvage my honor.

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@BAPostmaisdead

3 years

I just finished @scumbelievable enormously ambitious and gut-churning "Manhunt" and felt so inspired I'm gonna write a whole fucking essay about it (something I haven't done since college). My short review? The best apocalypse story I've read in years.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

...to dissuade any criticism, and like dipshits, the same people who're infantilizing Mardoll are the same ones demanding we talk only about the doxxing, conflating it as an issue purely concerning the trans community at large and not this specific circumstance.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

That last phrase is very obviously front-loaded language, a cowardly way to suggest everyone who participates in this discourse that isn't critically or uncritically on Mardoll's side (what a horrendous position) is a transphobe.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

I'm really loving how alotta Twitter feminists think endlessly infantilizing women and giving themselves the authority to make all the hypothetical choices for said women isn't practicing the logic of patriarchy at all.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

By trying to paint Mardoll as solely a victim, by trying to steer the conversation to only xers doxxing (once again, abhorrent), you are in effect doing the aforementioned transphobia by insisting Mardoll isn't culpable or is just some random trans person being bullied on twitter

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

There continues to be arbitrary and fleeting social capital available to those who are willing to engage in the aforementioned behavior cuz we're still dealing with the ongoing fascistic attack on creativity and art from the religious right.

Gretchen Felker-Martin

@scumbelievable

1 year

If you accuse artists of condoning or even DOING awful or uncomfortable things depicted in their art with no proof beyond that depiction and your reaction to it, you are an unsafe and destructive person who has not yet learned to navigate adult society.

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1 year

This wasn't funny the first 100 times edgelord radfems did it, its not funny now. Get better jokes and better politics.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

Normally, I'd highly recommend writers interested in craft and story beyond squeecore bullshit join the vibrant RiteGud community on discord. I regret to inform you all that's no longer the case. We have an ongoing problem in the discord, and his name is Karlo @kjy1066

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

...against them that assumes they're just too "soft", too "infantile", to participate in authentic trans experiences or make complicated decisions for themselves about their transitions, sexuality, or anything else of consequence.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

@neosevgism @devilsdoorbell_ Someday, maybe, the nerds will have more cogent responses than "no you!"

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2 years

...and personal opinions on art while simultaneously being directly involved in the slaughter of peoples in the global south as part of the American imperial war machine. And when challenged on this, Mardoll once again weaponized xer identity and cheap excuses...

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

A Hugo winner for Best Fan Writer publishing for the Guardian should be all the info one needs to know if this dork's opinions are worth taking seriously or not.

Cora Buhlert

@CoraBuhlert

1 year

Lanthimos’s Poor Things fuels speculation of sex scene’s return to cinema Please no. Most actors and many viewers don't particularly like or miss these scenes. Only film critics and some directors seem to want them.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

In case it hasn't been said before, hopepunk as an aesthetic/genre is DEEPLY reactionary.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

The "leftists" constantly purity policing others on this and any other communal space have not killed the cops in their heads, they've armed them with batons and jackboots. They ARE fascists, in deed and effect if not necessarily in beliefs. I'm tired of pretending they're not.

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@BAPostmaisdead

1 year

@scumbelievable Seeing that fight the first time in theaters was breathtaking. A legit sword brawl in one of the most aesthetically pleasing chambers in all Star Wars out of a whole movie that just looks fucking good.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

But Mardoll isn't just any random trans person. Mardoll's experience with transness is a direct result of xers own complicated set of intersectional privileges, like any other person, trans or otherwise, because trans people are HUMAN BEINGS.

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@BAPostmaisdead

2 years

I finally read the Hugo-nominated "Unknown Number" cuz I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and I was thoroughly underwhelmed. I think there are some interesting personal observations and thoughts at work, but none of that is actually communicated.

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