many people are saying this

Narset saw the TV glow@narset.bsky.social · last wk.

this is what Nolan would adapt next if he wasn't a coward

The Spear Cuts Through Water got quite a bit of recognition, but I want to be able to talk about it with random people on the street.

Marty Cahill@mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 3w ago

What's a book you love with all your goddamn heart that you believe did NOT get the love and attention it's due? I'll go first, and it's abso-LUT-ely THE CITY IN GLASS by Nghi Vo. There are moments from that book that live in my blood and wake me from the dark.

@mayadeane.bsky.social After having read the E-book years ago I've been looking for a physical copy of Wrath Goddess Sing. I finally found a copy. Fresh from the shelves of a Salvation Army. This book is easily one of the best books I've ever read and I'm so glad to now also own a physical copy.

reason 8 trillion Wrath Goddess Sing whipped & more people should read it

Periodic reminder that Wrath Goddess Sing is freaking amazing and you need to read it. Or get the audiobook, which is doubly amazing thanks to the tremendously talented narrator @katrafiy.bsky.social.

Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)@mayadeane.bsky.social · last mo.

Odyssey discourse notwithstanding, I sadly remain the only soul courageous enough to put trans Achilles into the world.* * except various ancient Greek painters, Frans Francken the Younger, Pietro Paolini, Nicolas Poussin, Angelica Kauffmann, Philibert Vigier, and sundry Girl With Sword enthusiasts

Odyssey discourse notwithstanding, I sadly remain the only soul courageous enough to put trans Achilles into the world.* * except various ancient Greek painters, Frans Francken the Younger, Pietro Paolini, Nicolas Poussin, Angelica Kauffmann, Philibert Vigier, and sundry Girl With Sword enthusiasts

The masses appeared to me in a dream and demanded my take on Rocky Horror. Upon waking, I had three pressing questions which I refer to the Internet: 1. Are the masses trying to lure me into discourse? 2. Is this a trap? 3. Do corsets provide effective lower back support?

I quite like co-writing. in fact I'm the Zhuge Liang of collaborative writing. or the Diomedes. (or the jelly.) (or the macaroni.) (help me pick my metaphor.)

⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen@eileen.actor · 2mo ago

We just wrapped 5 days shooting my new short “Cyleen”. It stars myself, was co-written by @mayadeane.bsky.social (Wrath Goddess Sing), has a trans director and DP, and features a bunch of my actor friends from #TheChairCompany and classes around the city! Will have much more to share soon!

We just wrapped 5 days shooting my new short “Cyleen”. It stars myself, was co-written by @mayadeane.bsky.social (Wrath Goddess Sing), has a trans director and DP, and features a bunch of my actor friends from #TheChairCompany and classes around the city! Will have much more to share soon!

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the people clamor for my wisdom on large language models. what do I think the discourse overlooks? Large language models are maps of how language is used. Setting aside the chatbot interfaces, it's useful to ask, "What are maps good for? What can't they do well? What choices do they take away?"

you can't make Blazing Saddles today because it has in fact been made and people would say "this is the script for Blazing Saddles, wtf." This is also my theory of reception. The Odyssey is right there; read it! You won't regret it! BUT: people have been remixing the Odyssey since it was written.

CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED BOOK wrath goddess sing absolutely ruled

Magdaloween! 🏳️‍⚧️@magsvisaggio.com · 3mo ago

if you likes the odyssey, do read wrath goddess sing for the real skinny on achilles

the multitudes keep asking me about the Amarna period. look, I won't pretend the Amarna period has the most dramatic chariot warfare. but it probably has the most interesting chariot warfare.

That said while we are Odyssey posting: once again I rec Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane which fucking ruled and did not get the positive attention it deserved.

if you likes the odyssey, do read wrath goddess sing for the real skinny on achilles

next Odyssey retelling needs Helen dosing everyone with happy-while-you-talk-trauma drugs from Egypt, then ensuing guided talk therapy. Honestly would have fit well into the Nolan movie--if Nolan had let Helen be weirder, her marriage a strange postapocalyptic partnership to stem the bleeding.

You all may not have heard since I talk about it so rarely, but I wrote a novel. It's very good. Of course I would say that, but if I hadn't written it, I would still be obliged by hater's code to admit that that that uppity-ass quirk chungus bitch actually wrote a great novel.

Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen — Debut trans romantasy — LittlePuss Press

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the multitudes demand my verdict on Nolan's Odyssey! Good: the ships, sets, weapons, & Agamemnon. And an Actual Take on Odysseus as an arch-violator of xenia who merited the Bronze Age Collapse. Bad: the armor, the lack of Helen drug trips, how woman and goddess was nerfed. 15 minutes too short.

Not sure about director, but I know I only want the Iliad on film (again) if it’s actually Wrath Goddess Sing.

edeath@edithcharles.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chris Nolan has just made The Odyssey, but what other classical works should be made into films, and who should direct them? Greta Gerwig’s Antigone The Coen Brothers’ Metamorphoses Alfonso Cuarón’s Iliad

the multitudes demand my verdict on Nolan's Odyssey! Good: the ships, sets, weapons, & Agamemnon. And an Actual Take on Odysseus as an arch-violator of xenia who merited the Bronze Age Collapse. Bad: the armor, the lack of Helen drug trips, how woman and goddess was nerfed. 15 minutes too short.

There are versions where Achilles just hangs out on Phthia in hiding as and/or just totally being a woman for a decade! (if Canonically Trans Achilles sounds like your jam, @mayadeane.bsky.social 's Wrath Goddess, Sing is right there and ALSO it rules)

Catherynne M. Valente@catvalente.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It cracks me up how mad people are about Eliot Page existing in a story that pretty famously contains Tiresias the Transition Enthusiast, an mpreg headburster, and a chick who hatched out of a swan’s egg. Yes hi I am Homer my gender is “lol” (Yes I said chick she’s a swan & so’s her sister. HONK.)

Finished "Wrath Goddess Sing" by Maya Deane, and PLEASE READ THIS. Transfemme Achilles retelling with gorgeous prose. It pulled on every emotion I have in just the way I like it. www.harpercollins.com/products/wra...

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FYI to the world: The cover art for the new edition of Plague Birds is not AI generated. Two people messaged me asking, so I want to be clear the art is purely human created. Marcela Bolívar created the art for this cover and didn't use any AI at all. 1/

Jason Sanford@jasonsanford.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition will be released on June 30. Preorder from @apexmag.bsky.social and get 30% off! Called "a stand-out work within the landscape of contemporary science fiction," Plague Birds was a Nebula & Philip K. Dick Award finalist. 1/ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

Picked up a few books I'm really excited to get to! I got so much great stuff to read now 😊

Or Wrath Goddess Sing which oscillates between "I am going to go for complete historical accuracy" and "HELEN OF TROY WAS A WITCH HERE IS A SCENE WHERE THREE CHARACTERS FUCK AND TURN INTO GREEK GODS DURING INTERCOURSE WHILE GENDERBENDING!!"

I heartily endorse this exact June purchase.

Crystal DeForest@aircrystal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Picked up a few books I'm really excited to get to! I got so much great stuff to read now 😊

i adore this book, i recommend it. extravagantly generous, wide-awake, beautiful, ugly. "holy fuck" and "oh god, no" both things i said aloud while reading.

LittlePuss Press@littlepuss.net · 4mo ago

That's it people, let's get serious 😤 We've got two timelines to sync up and it will NOT be easy In fact it may involve lots of QUIPPING and ROMANCE and DATED CULTURAL REFERENCES and even HEARTBREAKING MEDITATIONS ON THE FUNDAMENTAL TENUOUSNESS OF TRANS LOVE Ahem, I mean, uh, happy #Pride!