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Everyday I wake up and say “communism will win”, so I know what cope looks like

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Calling things ‘slop’ is a genuinely stupid impulse and you should not use it to describe things made with human hands in a flippant way! It shows you are intellectually unserious!

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The four-color commanders from C16 are probably the greatest example of how to express narrative and story through mechanics. MaRo’s remark about defining them through what color they aren’t is genius

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Two podcast hosts follow me. Maybe I can say something stupid on mic if I post hard enough

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One thing to know about me is that I’m a nasty little pervert but I’m smart enough not to broadcast that on the TL (that being said, if I get to weird, tell me, I wanna keep this PG-13)

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Speaking as a pacifist, anti-war, communist, Marxist, etc: I think there is a stark difference between understanding the revolutionary potential of proletarian violence, supporting its usage, and committing it. One can abhor taking a life and also know that it might be necessary.

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The Power Girl ongoing is fun as hell, and the costuming and character design is top notch Horny But Make It Empowering

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I just want to write Daredevil and I’m willing to write incredible life-changing fiction to do it, dammit

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Welcome to my twisted mind, research and comps for a few books I’m working on

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We’re reading

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I think about this image a lot. I wonder if it’s up a just a taunt now

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Polishing my query letter as a form of self care

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Any good critique of Omelas would require the writer to concede the point. Accept the truth of it, understand their role in it, and realize what true liberation would demand of them

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Sent off five queries. Now, we wait

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#queerwriters checkin: -plotting, outlining, drafting a new romance novel with two sex workers as the MC’s -not much else! It was all dedicated to getting the big ideas and plot beats sketched out

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I’m writing a romance novel with two sex workers as the leads, along with an older, very rich woman as a complicating factor/potential love interest for the FMC

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Fahrenheit 451, as a teenager. The ending chilled me to the core. Watchmen, age 17. Another legendary ending. More recently? Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, which I finally understood, after years stalled readings A Perfect Spy. Le Carré’s masterpiece.

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i'm asking #booksky in good faith, because i am writing my own romance novel(s), and my research is filling up my TBR how do you read multiple of these stories, over and over? the contours and narrative demands of the genre mean a certain...Standard Issue Structure. does it get, idk, old?

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Reading China Miéville’s October rn, and the one thing sticking out to me is how extraordinarily contingent everything was. None of this was set in stone. Russia could have fallen back into the hands of the Tsar, had things one just a little different. Lenin was by no means a sure bet. Crazy stuff!

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If you see this, post your Lock Screen Photo I took a couple weeks ago. Few tweaks to exposure and saturation. This replaced my dog

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I got into writing for one reason. And that reason, why I am pushing myself beyond my creative limits, making things that I feel are true and necessary, that I think push boundaries and really have something to say? I want to write Daredevil, Starman, and a Star Wars novel, maybe two or three

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bastards, every one of them

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i found my tweet folder from the late 10's who wants to reminisce about some Trump I era leftpod discourse

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Honestly not sure how someone can feel the gun pressed against the back of our collective heads, and say this. Like, you stand at the precipice of the abyss with us! What truly matters to you, that you allow this to be your hill to die on?

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Again, I ask: if you react like this, what will you do when more radical action is required? Moral cowards and pearl clutching water brains.

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I am neutral on piracy. I think it happens. I think it’s part of making things online. I know most people, even inveterate pirates, purchase media.

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If you can reason your way out of supporting even the most milquetoast expression of taking power and making change, how will you react when more radical action is not simply necessary, but required?

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“What about audiobooks?” You ask. I have hearing loss (but I will concede the point, narrowly, because it is comedy per se, but I think its a priori need to be a book mostly nullifies that line of argument)

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Everyone wants to argue with Alan Moore Everyone wants to argue with Ursula K Le Guin But the works they argue against are, more or less, definitive statements that brook no argument No one wants to argue the core premise, they want to change the frame of the debate so they seem smart

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Me and my Nebula Award-Winning short story, “Those Who Get Out And VOTE”

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What if romantasy but it was a secondary world 1917, and there was Sanderson magic What if, indeed

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Me to my dog: and what right have we to call ourselves “masters” of anything, to assume we have the right to inscribe our names on eternity, when the merest shift in the elements can bring us to our knees? Me to my wife later that evening: it’s a pussy out kinda night, babe

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Goals this week: ⭕️take a break from drafting ⭕️continue outlining and fleshing out one romance novel ⭕️go deep on preproduction for another ⭕️finish China Miéville’s October, move on to A Specter, Haunting #writingcommunity #queerwriters

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Voracious close reader by habit. Every input is a chance to learn something new. And I try to consider each text on its own merits, with the same level of intellectual rigor. A romance novel deserves as much engagement as Watchmen. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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✅finished another first draft in my sci-fi series ✅wrote a craft essay ✅started preproduction work on a new romance novel about two sex workers ✅plotted out the next installment in my sci-fi series #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters #queerwriters

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Finished up the first draft of another book. Amazing!

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It’s a very versatile design

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If I wrote a monograph length guide to how I write sex/erotica, with a focus on integrating kink and fetish, would you read it? It’d be free, of course.

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