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Really sorry to hear this! We just finished a BUFFY rewatch maybe two weeks ago and Dawn is really one of the best things about the later seasons, not just formally -- as an interesting narrative trick -- but as a character and foil for Buffy. Severely overlooked in the last season, too.

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

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Yikes. Straight up Lebensraum ideology repurposed for Zionism, drawing on a Joseph Schechtman to argue that relocating Palestinians is a moral good:

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"The point of this chaotic blitz is to demoralize their opponents,” says author Cory Doctorow, about Elon Musk’s shakeup of the federal government.

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Increasingly convinced I need to be more annoying and get a record player.

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Coming later this year from @leverpress.bsky.social! First book in our film|minutes series: leverpress.org/filmminutes

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At long last, I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Case and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, will be published on November 11, 2025 and is available for pre-order wherever books are sold! www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

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Re-upping this because I'm really interested, especially in work on these questions among late-19th/early-20th century authors.

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Great discussion that has me excited all the more for when I get to The Silmarillion later this year. I have put it off, ashamedly, for far too long.

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What should I read to think through the question of whether an author, now dead and who never explicitly said "I am XYZ," was queer? I'm thinking: good literary-historical work that wrestles with these questions, the ethics of such claims, etc.

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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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. the chariot . . Very inspired by @gorangligovic.bsky.social emerald green mercenaries #artsky #illustration #tarot

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Found this science fiction novel by the founder of the new age religion Eckankar, which is intended to explain the history of the 970 previous Masters of ECK from whom he inherited the spiritual quest of his religion. The religion is still around.

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I am in Raleigh today, just up the road from what is today St Augustine's University, where Anna Julia Cooper studied and later taught Classics

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If you were intrigued (but perhaps daunted) by our episode on MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES with @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social, check out this fantastic analysis of another Eddison text!

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Excited to share the second essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. This one on E.R. Eddison's THE WORM OUROBOROS (1922), a challenging, rewarding novel written in beautiful, archaic prose imitating early modern English poetry/plays. It's a playground for literary critics and fantasy scholars!

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And here it is!

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Nixon is a great comparison but for a different reason than intended: it actually took two years, during which time Nixon was reelected, for Watergate to shift not just public but, more importantly, congressional opinion enough for Nixon to feel he should resign.

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That's actually just a run of the mill Batman storyline.

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The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

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This is great! But libraries, and all the more so academic libraries, can't have it both ways. We can't agree to use AI in libraries, support incorporation in research, and have library publishers partnering with AI, then get worried about AI-generated books. The former leads to the latter!

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Great point! But not a Dante quote. Doesn't even really make sense as a Dante quote, given Dante's geography of hell.

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My favorite part of my essay on E.R. Eddison's THE WORM OUROBOROS (coming very soon!) is where I spend 2500 words arguing why the portal/dream frame using Lessingham to guide us into Demonland not only makes sense, and is artfully done, but offers us an early theory of fantasy reading.

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I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.

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Another problem with AI: The more students use AI, the less they trust themselves to do the work and do it well. Which is ironic, because AI shits out trash. It's terrible for the academic self-confidence of developing minds, which is often low to begin with.

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Something I wish educators would grapple with more is the environmental cost of genAI/AI. Even beyond LLMs, at the high school level, there really isn't anything our students are doing that is so important they need to burn down the rainforest and drain the local water supply for.

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Did Katherine Kurtz ever respond to Le Guin's (rather funny) bashing of her prose style, referencing one of the first two Deryni novels, in "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie"?

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I'd be much more interested in the discussion here among fantasists regarding heroes and villains and anti-heroes if the genre wasn't 85% nobody-likes-me-I'm-so-smart-and-strange-and-special-heroes vs The Dark Lord, with a side trip to make out with a guy named Wolf.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment: “If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”

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Some may claim racism has no place in science fiction, but sadly SF has a long history of enabling fascist worldbuilding That's why you need to read @jordanscarroll.bsky.social's "Speculative Whiteness," a first-rate takedown of racist subtext in sci-fi Blog: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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jokes on me, after years spent wondering why the political press seem never to have heard of Reconstruction or the red scare etc, some guy at Politico just learned about the New Deal from a reader tip & wikipedia and put it in a newsletter

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I'm nearing completion on my next entry in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy reread series, this one on Eddison's fascinating and strange The Worm Ouroboros (1922). In the meantime, check out my inaugural essay in the series: seanguynes.com/2025/01/19/b...

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“When the president starts talking like a mad emperor, that's the story, not how many House seats his delusions might hypothetically affect.”

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Some day I'll send those 30+ draft emails I have, which are really notes-to-self about who to hassle about publishing their brilliant ideas with @leverpress.bsky.social. But go ahead and pre-empt my email and reach out to me before I reach out to you!

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I'm thinking about how this also works with scientific concepts like "herd immunity." Ecofascists are happy to "read against the grain" of these terms in order to legitimize their violent actions no matter their actual meaning.

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I'm finding Rick Perlstein's incredible three-volume history of the American right, from Nixon to Reagan, to be a really good frame for the contemporary state of things. These books are massive door-stoppers and an incredible, almost ethnographic recreation of c. 1964-1980. Absolutely necessary!

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A great recent critical concept is @jordanscarroll.bsky.social's "hermeneutics of obtuseness," which he applies specifically to the way right-wingers read sf texts in favor of their views when those texts are clearly resistant to those views. A sort of reverse "reading against the grain."

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Any really masculine dude bro film is perfect for this if you keep the male lead: Gladiator, Troy, Conan, Rambo, etc.

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The JD Vance team flagged my TikToks for impersonation and had my account banned for making fun of him in a doughnut shop.

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