«You are a shadow and see shadows.»
—Dante
Never Human, a retelling of Pygmalion where the Passion of the Artist is set against emergent technologies. Where the identity of the individual is denied by the inhumanity of the System. Where a boy sees too deep into the Abyss.
@hperryhorton
Move that decimal over. 32 million.
That guy flew the entire Star Wars film production to Jordan just to shoot against giant green screens.
@RealGDT
This is a classic paradigm shift. The conglomerated animation studios will trundle on for a time, unaware of their obsolescence. A zombie in decay.
@MostlyMonkey
I passed this benchmark a dozen years ago. A whole ice cream cake is a bit much for me, but I‘m good with my forever-alone milk and cookies.
@Selkies_
The lobbyists and Big Agra have that locked down. «Organic» used to mean something, and then they regulated it to benefit Big Agra. Regulations here means usually means things get worse.
@MimiCatBud
@LivvieHarts
Yes. British colloquialisms are replaced with the American ones.
Football becomes soccer.
Boot becomes trunk.
Etc.
Even the title of the first book was changed from Philosopher’s Stone to Sorcerer’s Stone, because philosophy frightens most Americans.
@ChivalryGuild
«Based on Le Morte D’Arthur», but the simplifications were essential: Excalibur becomes the sword in the stone, and Uther is the one that places it there. We get Perceval but not Galahad, and the achievement of the Grail quest is linked to Gaelic myth, in the Union of King and
@CSIRJen
Moreover, the marriage (Yes!) of Lana Luthor and Supergirl would have been the perfect counterpoint to the eternal enmity of Lex Luthor and Superman.
@DavidVStewart
The subscription model in software is an open admission that they’ve got nothing new, no killer feature, next year to sell you on. Word is still word. PS is still PS.
@anacaprana
The problem began with the first rich people on their car phones and cellphones in the 80s and 90s. Telephone calls used to be private, we even had pay phone booths back then, but when phones became a form of conspicuous consumption, the herd followed.
@KILLTOPARTY
I was 47 when I published my debut novel in 2020. I’ve published two more since. I’ll never be a global, chart-topping sensation at this point, but those years would still have passed. Instead of being 51 with three books, I could be 51 with zero, still thinking about it.
@mikeryan
This ignores the bloody dismemberment and scorched corpses in the first film. Lucas became a toy salesman, so he retroactively thinks of them all as kids films.
@bcmerchant
What SF is right now is the cyberpunk setting: walled technocrat palaces and megacorps surrounded by homeless camps and crap in the streets.
@johnsemley3000
I liked his early novels, but he doesn’t rank with the greats of Japan. He’s like Gerber baby food for the international market. Easy to translate and market to the tastemakers.
@Jen_Bernardini
Not one person who told me they would buy my debut novel actually did. Those who did buy it didn’t tell me first.
«Your friends aren’t your audience», is something I heard a few years ago. As writers, we may or may not find readers, but it’s up to the readers to choose us.
@FischerKing64
A big place with a lot of segregated ethnic ghettos where the majority live in their own company. The immensely popular TV show Friends encapsulates American assimilation: the Other is safely offscreen.
@KavalAuthorActs
Almost all of them since I started this account. I can reply to someone else and get a ton of impressions, likes, and, replies, but original posts barely get a dozen impressions, no likes, etc.
@MimiCatBud
@LivvieHarts
Someone gave me the first few books 20 years ago, but when I tried reading the first one, the clash of the translated usage combined with the British voice gave me a headache. I ended up importing a set from the UK just read to them.