tobiasbuckell.bsky.social
Grenadian-born, Virgin Island raised, Ohio settled, SF/F author. I also teach creative writing as a prof. Views my own. More at http://www.tobiasbuckell.com
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Garth, that’s awesome! Congratulations!!!!
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One of the fun things of late has been that my kids are throwing more and more recommendations for cool media my way.
Like The Amazing Digital Circus or Helluva Boss. Bands. Art. It’s a whole new vector.
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Anyway. Very much recommend.
bookshop.org/a/1552/97812...
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You can still remember *being* them, and you don't cringe at your past self as much as you might bc you see them going through the same things, you know it's part of growing up, and part of you wants to save them from themselves and part knows that's the worst thing you could do.
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(All the moreso if, like the MC and I, you're single and, while accomplished and in possession of a number of significant achievements, not in possession of many 'traditional' markers of adulthood like a marriage, a mortgage, or your *own* children)
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But it's also a lovely look at life on the threshold of middle age, and how working with kids when you *are* that age puts things in a very particular perspective.
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My primary attitude towards the kids under my charge every summer is one of bemused affection, and THE INCANDESCENT hits that tone *very* well. The MC says or thinks so many things that have definitely passed through my brain even if I managed to keep them coming out of my mouth.
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Because I hate media where the teachers just all hate the children or are at best cynical about them. I mean, yes, I have known some teachers who seem to hate kids and I've wondered what the hell they're doing in the profession, but by and large that is not the case.
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Right? At least we aren’t two old bros going on about how new writing is broken 🤣 but continuing to find the whole craft evolving and fascinating
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It was much needed
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Tobias people must stick together lol
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I mean, based on the review I added it to the to-read pile :)
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It's one of the funnier ways to end up 'meeting' each other here, but if we ever run into each other in person the first drink's on me lol
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It was weird to open Bsky and reading that I'd reviewed something I'd never heard of before lol
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That sounds likely as heck, yeah!
There's nothing wrong with the writing, I just want to make sure the actual writer is credited for their hard work :)
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Oof. Tell me about it. I am struggling here
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I have 1/2, but I’d rather have a fraction and not support Naziism than have more followers?
I thought that was an easy moral choice but a lot of people I thought were better keep saying “but I can’t lose my audience” and I am like: wow. Huh. So that means more to you than a soul. Got it. Sad.
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Win!
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Man, I’m so sorry you got caught in that
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I always thought of The Wire as systems fiction and not a detective show as such, dedicated to exploring the complexity of a social system, and each season focused on how a new system operated (structural poverty, education, poor drug laws, political corruption).
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It’s been one of my favorite books to suck in non-SF readers and to recommend since that first week.
I also teach your ending to many of my grad students.
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Wow!
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OMG. Me too!
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Yay!
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I use Obsidian. It’s kinda open source and I can add in plugins that replicate any Scriv functionality and then some (custom chapter metadata that I can do sql like searches on and generate things like a custom ToC by PoV). Very Markdown friendly.
I need to write up a post with screenshots
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Gotta close that barn door after the horse leaves!
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I moved all my work into Markdown during the pandemic