What a delightfully relevant passage for today (From Gianni Rodari's "The Grammar of Fantasy")

more materialist analysis in fantasy fiction please and thank you

’Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois.’ Trotsky, ‘What is National Socialism?’ www.marxists.org/archive/trot...

something especially disappointing about poets getting into Chat GPT not to get too Chesterton-y about it, but one of the purest expressions of the human soul and you're gonna use Chat GPT for it???

recently discovered both my girlfriend and best friend didn't like The Last Unicorn man is born alone and dies alone

i'm currently deadline-free but i feel like i should still cut back on my obligations i love editing, translating, doing criticism and writing, but i can't be doing all four while having to work for a living

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

"touch lichen" to indicate that someone needs to seek out symbiotic mutualism in order to break down and transform the dead rigidity of their surroundings

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

What we're living through is the result of 100 years of treating conservatism like it was anything better than fascism biding its time.

So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless they’re being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless they’re overextended.

Thread on the political economy of short stories. I’ve always been drawn to art (basement hardcore shows, small run story collections, academy-oriented jazz,etc) with seriously-limited commercial appeal, but I do think those margins are where the most interesting work tends to live.

Weird fiction CEO Zach Gillan has told analysts that people without weird fiction may one day be at a "significant liminal disadvantage" compared to those who do use the texts:

Prefacing every statement with, "I'm not trying to be a hater here," and then proceeding to hate every bitch in a 5-mile radius

We need to understand the libidinal composition of anglofascism. It's a carnival, it's pints and packet on a Saturday. It's the feeling the cruelty might finally be worth it, because you get your share, laundered through the images of owned lib, sad migrant, and the cheeky, horny, deporter in chief.

@typebarmagazine.bsky.social would it be possible to add issue 6 to the archive in the menu so that it's accessible now that issue 7 is on the main page?

You have the seasonal discourse of mfs crying about how and why ppl won't read this Corporate IP crap monthly, but listen. Maybe it's simply not worth reading--because all the creatives worth their salt go elsewhere to make their meaningful art. This is an insular pit for the same ol' white boys.

I think it’s time to re-up an old principle that’s never been more relevant: Don’t criticize trans people. It’s not, obviously, that trans people are always right. But we are already a target. We are being driven out of the public sphere. Don’t help. Find something else to be mad about.

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Trans women face an inordinate and sickening amount of harassment and abuse online—almost all of it totally unpunished—but if we ever dare stop being model citizens for a moment or step out of line we are immediately torched for it.

They’ll ask you to mourn the deaths they mourn, and no others. They’ll ask you to cherish the lives they cherish, and no others.

there's a poem i really should reconstruct

given society's habit of throwing trans women under a train with the slightest excuse, i think it's important to give them some leeway just a general observation

This is what genre is

controversial take for an author at this moment but I think libgen and free access to information is good actually; I think people taking advantage of this for profit are the bad guys, but broad access to books around the world that aren’t published in all countries ….good actually

To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior. These are inextricably linked.

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

it’s important to keep faith in culture alive and you can’t do that by pointing at things that are stupid and vacuous. at some point you have to model the kind of attention and discipline you think has been lost or destroyed

sorry I can’t do your tarot reading right now. the fool and the emperor are in each other’s arms. and the empress is in the corner fujoing out. next week, mmkay?

incredible work. become uncarryable.

me: right time for bed me 5 minutes later: how about Monopoly - Psychogeography Edition, where the value of the properties corresponds to how potent the attached memories are

the hormones must be working bc i just got harrassed first thing in the morning. feels kinda surreal tbh

I love my fellow artists and writers but I do feel like sometimes we get lost in the power of story because it’s important to us and easier than the tangibility of action, pressure, protest, divestment, declining, standing up, and risking connections that might have been advantageous

There's an unexamined and indeed outright suppressed premise in the "important to my childhood" argument (and nostalgia in general) whereby one is stuck in a perpetual childhood, never progressing beyond the person you were when you were eight. This should be horrifying.

The amazing thing about being a joyless lefty scold is I’m doing it all in pursuit of joy 💅

<pointed look towards Polish SFF>

Graveyard Queen Made in honor of my trip to Scotland, and all the beautiful graveyards I visited

this is why I pay for photoshop

every good editor, like every good writer, is a person with inexplicable but carefully-honed preferences and idiosyncratic ideas about what literature *is* and is *for*. taking a rejection personally misses the point

Imagine if you're Sisyphus, laboring, pushing that boulder, and then Kate Bush runs past you and up the hill with a graceful ease, her sheer billowy white dress trailing behind her before she disappears into the golden orb of the setting sun at the peak

Hate to keep banging on about this, but the right is a libidinal assemblage - it's a bunch of elements that people can use to have fun, like a hobby, and if we stop those elements from being fun then they'll stop. It's actually that simple.

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

spent yesterday thinking about my tentative "church pedophile vampires" story maybe i _will_ write something with plot and characters soon

need people to stop making technology inspired by Star Trek (smooth, sleek, no buttons, all screen, voice activation, extremely minimal, wireless) and start making technology inspired by Star Wars (clunky buttons, indicator lights on everything, ugly, indestructible, fat cables that emit steam)

what if i wrote something with plot and characters, just for a change