As a reminder, in 2020, more than 60 people accused Warren Ellis of grooming and sexual impropriety, coming together to create the website somanyofus.com. In its most recent update, in 2023, the site posted: "To the best of our knowledge, Warren Ellis took none of the steps we hoped he would."

With fantasy especially, stereotypes and problematic tropes can pop up. @mollyrookwood.bsky.social has a great article about on antisemitism in fiction and fantasy, for instance: www.rookwoodediting.com/post/antisem... #StetChat #fictionediting

Antisemitism in Fantasy and Fairy Tales

I recently had the privilege of giving a presentation on antisemitism in fiction and fantasy, a topic I care about deeply. Antisemitism is ingrained in our stories and storytelling in ways we often do...

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#StetChat@stetchat.com · 5h ago

Q4: What are some common mistakes that authors make with worldbuilding? For example: problematic elements, cultural appropriation, clichés, anachronisms, infodumping. #StetChat

this is my Official Stance as a Mental Health Professional: days like today are why you have to stick around, like every day you choose to live you get to outlive these disgusting bastards, congratulations, you won and they lost!!!!

The American people want a leader who has stayed up all night folding and stapling zines

I'm really, really, really tired of public health officials going out of their way to tell us that the dead had "underlying conditions" — a phrase so vague as to be useless in actually informing risk assessment. It's just ableism...

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 22h ago

Why? "Underlying conditions" offers relief to a reader the coverage presumes is healthy. It works especially well because it is so vague. Without knowing the conditions these two lost souls had, readers can supply whatever medical history would make their deaths feel safely remote. 🧵

NEW STORY DAY “Not Like Other Girls” is now out in ebook and @reactorsff.bsky.social A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot. Art: A.W. Sommers Design: Jess Kiley Editor: Ann VanderMeer reactormag.com/not-like-oth...

Not Like Other Girls - Reactor

A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.

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Barry Smith's drawing of Bran Mak Morn looks like Miles Davis in the 1970s after some trad-jazz diehard has told him that this new funk direction is utter garbage.

I imagine that is the case. Like the time I when I was working at WB and we had a meeting at DC before the first Batman Day and I asked why they choose Sept 19 and if it had anything to do with Batman lore and they said it was because it falls between Labor Day and Halloween 🫠

Chris is like jazz@cokes.bsky.social · 9h ago

Surely the Sex Purge date in the movie is August 7th because Universal gave it an August 7, 2026 release date before filming was complete, right? It's just naked corporate synergy?

Greenfinger You Only Hop Twice A View to a Swamp Octopiggy

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 10h ago

Finally

The prep isn't as bad as it used to be -- pills, not the drink -- and you'll have one, uh, busy evening and then you go in and get the greatest nap of your life and then eat a glorious meal. Get yourself checked out.

Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com · yesterday

Well, I am of colonoscopy age now and I got my first-ever one yesterday. The prep wasn't fun but not as awful as I'd imagined. My appt was at 6am on Monday, I was home just after 7am. There's no recovery except catching up on the sleep you missed. So, if you need a nudge to get yours, this is it!

Ketamine gives that man some truly funny thoughts

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 13h ago

SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

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@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

LRT: it is wildly under-discussed and underreported how fucking high the fascists are on drugs at literally all times authoritarianism pretends to be puritanical but these people are so tweaked they can’t think straight

Hey, Romancelandia, I have an unexpected gap in my calendar…so if you've been thinking about reaching out to me re: editing your manuscript, please do! I'm a gentle, supportive collaborator, and a goddamn delight to work with, if I do say so myself. More info about me here: JuliaEdits.com

Teach a man to fish and he’ll get drunk on a boat for one day. Feed a man to a fish and you’ll have a cool story for the rest of your life

Also, speaking with a (slight) imitation of the accent of the person you're speaking to is often indicative of a multilingual speaker. It's actually good practice.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

people can be swayed into liking Republican politicians but they keep proving they do not want Republican policies

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 20h ago

Big tax results out of Missouri tonight: Voters statewide rejected by an huge margin a GOP ballot measure to phase out the income tax. They also renewed a sales tax to keep state parks free. And Kansas City approved a package of $1.7 billion of bonds for infrastracture.

100% Calvin's dad in Calvin & Hobbes would do this:

Sen@dresdencodak.com · 12h ago

8: Until I was about nine, I thought Captain America was based on a true story. My father liked to bullshit and insisted that there was a *real* Captain America in WW2, but everything in the comics when he came back in the 60s was fiction.

She has such a sweet sleepy smile that I haven’t been able to bring myself to dislodge her 😭 I gotta go to work but I’m not a monster…

this result and margin held in the near-final Wayne update this morning, progressive trans activist Joanna Whaley officially (and easily) banishes the Liberati dynasty Downriver

Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 21h ago

near-final result with 19/21 precincts is 56-34 Whaley. the current incumbent is Frank Liberati's brother Tullio and Frank himself used to hold this seat

Episode 54: Three Cups of Tea One man's mission to build schools, fight terrorism and promote peace, one private jet reimbursement at a time.

Three Cups of Tea - If Books Could Kill

In 1993, a desperate man stumbled into a remote village in the foothills of the Karakoram mountains. After the residents nursed him back to health, he placed his hands on the village elder's shoulders...

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I was in a friend’s rental car and in place of a rear-view mirror there was a mirror-sized digital video feed of the back of the car. They replaced one of the most reliable & intuitive safety features in a car with a digital surrogate that could glitch at any moment. KEEP ANALOG SAFTEY FEATURES

Babe, my donut shop owners are Cambodian. They’re a whole family and they’re watching action movies while I’m eating maple bars. The oldest daughter is explaining to me that the movies are a trilogy I’ve never heard of with an old Gerard Butler. This is the California I dreamed of living in.

I'm at that age that my favorite cover songs are super slow atmospheric versions like you just huffed a rag full of ether and that song happenes to be on the radio, it should take you awhile to figure out what song it is

TVs. I don't know if any single consumer product has improved as rapidly (while going down in cost) as the TV.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 24h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

boss makes a dollar, i make a dime. everyone contributes here at the mint

Reminder to everyone living with smoky air right now: DRINK MORE WATER. You're inhaling particulate even if you can't see it, your body needs to flush that crud out, and it needs water to do so. You're probably gonna produce more mucus and that's annoying, but it's helping clean out the crud.

Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats

When I think of Homer, I think of the Homer statue at the University of Virginia—and the fact that for over 25 years, Ted Lendon has been making students (including me, once) learn how to march in a phalanx on the lawn. ⚔️