Lin Codega
@lincodega.com
author, journalist, game writer | co-founder @rascal.news | lin@rascal.news/DM for signal—preorder PASHA THE STORM—writers room assistant IWTV S3—🏳️⚧️ they/them—a bit of a killjoy—there's a hugo here somewhere
BTW, we'll be publishing other book excerpts in the coming months, and we're interested in getting more on the calendar, too. If you've written a book you think might be a good fit for us, get in touch: info@fansplaining.com. We want to help share more smart fandom & culture writing with the world!
Today we're thrilled to publish our first book excerpt! An essay on gender, performance, and Bachelor fandom from critic and novelist @ilanaslightly.bsky.social, the co-editor of "Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor":
The Bachelor and the Fantasy of Performance
In Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor, Ilana Masad imagines competing on the show as her straightest, most impossible self.
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In an attempt to read for pleasure I've got my hot little paws on @tkingfisher.com's Astarion novel and WHEW BOY remember we've got vampire horror on our hands and yes I will absolutely be writing a review for Rascal. (it's very good, i've put my kindle in another room to get work done)
Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of ’em.
I'm genuinely really excited for this pitch. It is going to be such a collaborative effort to make a star wars that is familiar but intensely weird and different. Our first episode will be myself, @follypersist.bsky.social, @lincodega.com , and @wearealexandra.bsky.social !
Moonshot Podcast Network@moonshotpods.bsky.social · 2d agoThis month, we begin a labor of love: We're rewriting Star Wars. Every trilogy. As an exquisite corpse. Each movie has its own writing team, who get to keep, cut, or add whatever they want. Their choices become the next team's foundations. Welcome to the first ever REWRITE RELAY on moonshot.mov!
I've got a new story up on Rascal. It's one of those stories that is a real gift. It's just so charming and fun. Don't worry about what it is about. Just read it! You will not regret it! www.rascal.news/larping-cthu...
Larping Cthulhu-style
How the HP Lovecraft Historical Society dressed up, solved mysteries, and lost their minds having fun
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a little bit of personal lore: my culture writing career began with a cranky blog about spider-man. for Fansplaining, I imagine the end of that career, with another blog about spider-man fansplaining.com/what-spider-...
What Spider-Man Can’t Save
In which our hero contemplates a career writing about superheroes and pop culture—and imagines an ending.
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As long as you identify yourself directly and personally with the cultural objects you like you will find critique intolerable, regardless of the quality of the critique or the object
god i really want to restart my newsletter but substack isn't really an ethical option anymore. maybe a plain ghost site? a beehiv? monetizing my newsletter isn't a goal, so i'd like to keep it as low cost as possible
S4 confirmed : ))) let's go girls
Lin Codega@lincodega.com · 2w agoTVL in Hall H at SDCC... we love to see it
This piece is about my character, but it's also about the changes that happen at a table when violence against children is always a possibility. It's about seeing a gun as another member of your family, and what happens when you internalize that your best quality is your aim.
Rascal News@rascal.news · 2w agoPlaying a fifteen year old boy named Godammit made my twenty-session campaign of Apocalypse World smaller, angrier, fiercer, and forced me to be more honest about the place of violence in our game. At the end of the campaign, Godammit looked at a weapon and called it brother.
and... now... it's looking like this book might be.... sci fi?????
Lin Codega@lincodega.com · 2w agoi'm outlining my next novel and... what's this... he/him pronouns?? for MY main character???
i'm outlining my next novel and... what's this... he/him pronouns?? for MY main character???
I'm going through pitches for @fansplaining.bsky.social and we're getting a lot of pitches for sports fandom that are... questionable, but none as questionable as the pitch that i am desperate to see: an analysis of Sports RPF and the Omegaverse using Erling Haaland/Jude Bellingham as a case study
some digital archeologist in the future is going to wonder why so many pieces of 21st century fiction had characters named Reader.
unequipped to emotionally deal with the end of a 20-session Apox World campaign tomorrow. : ))))) everyone light a candle tonight for Godammit.
Okay, Pasha the Storm is fucking fantastic. I'm about to start chapter 8 and I'm loving it so far. @lincodega.com is knocking it out of the park
Extremely telling to me that the first pull to publish fics from The Pitt are both mohabbot fics and not fics from either of the way more popular gay ships...
The Uncanny Magazine Year 13 Kickstarter also features solicited essayists Banana Chan, Carlos Cisco, Lin Codega, Yoon Ha Lee, and Erin Roberts! buff.ly/Gab1zWu
International Nonbinary Peoples Day is aimed at raising awareness around the issues faced by non-binary people around the world. Here are middle grade, YA and adult novels featuring nonbinary characters. Book lists in ALT text. #nonbinarypeoplesday #nonbinaryday #nonbinarybooks #lgbtqbooks #booksky
I feel like I've read dozens of this blog... but I'm looking for blogs or articles that boil down to "yeah, going to cons can suck, but as a game designer, it's invaluable to be at conventions, and to have your game at conventions -- even if it's at a third-party vendor." Can anyone help me out?
i've got PLANS i've got OUTLINES i've got thoughts on how to make all these boys and girls and those possessing genders otherwise unspecified EVEN WORSE
Larisa LaBrant@larisa-labrant.bsky.social · 4w ago@lincodega.com OMG when do we get book two?!! #amreading #booksky
The muffling of critical voices compromises consumer choice. A dollar a word would help critics make a living wage. nwu.org/join Illustration by @colleentie.bsky.social
As a longtime fanfiction reader (and occasional fic writer), I am deeply concerned about the way AI is impacting fandom spaces. @fansplaining.bsky.social was the perfect place to explore this anxious curiosity in the context of the booming Heated Rivalry fandom.
Elizabeth Minkel@elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 4w agoI've been looking at AI in fic spaces since these tools were released to the public, and it's not surprising that HR—huge numbers of new readers & writers in fandom, a promise of Manacled-like deals in the air—was where this melted down. @kaytiburt.bsky.social does a fantastic job reporting this:
i am just so grateful i live in the world at the same time as people who are making omegaverse world cup tiktoks and calling it cleated rivalry i just think i am v blessed
