Genevieve Williams - Shakespeare Adjacent out now
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SFF writer, hardingfele player, tracker, librarian. Longer writings and book reviews at welltemperedwriter.wordpress.com. masto: welltemperedwriter@wandering.shop, insta: datamuse. SFWA, Codexian. Shakespeare Adjacent anthology out now!
It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and We’re Not Fine: @rimrunner.bsky.social reviews Temi Oh's NOT WITH A BANG (@sagapressbooks.bsky.social)
It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and We’re Not Fine: Review of Temi Oh’s Not with a Bang
Genevieve Williams Under Review:Not with a Bang. Temi Oh. Saga Press, July 2026. For a story about the end of the world, Temi Oh’s Not with a Bang stays closely focused on a single family: the Mint…
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Loving this thread; it's been just long enough since I read the poem that I've forgotten quite a few details. As a theme, this would have made for a more entertaining movie, by my lights.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · last wk.At this point in the narrative, the message of the poem doesn't seem to me to be "the gods are watching: don't commit atrocities." It seems to be more like "the gods are watching: don't be a fucking jackass." Two very different things, ha ha!
I think the proper way to do The Odyssey is as a TV series where you keep everything in. Drop episodes once a week like the broadcast network days so that people can argue about characterization inconsistencies and plot holes.
Who are they to say What the truth is anyway? 'Cause the ones who tell the lies Are the solemnest to swear And the ones who load the dice Always say the toss is fair And the ones who deal the cards Are the ones who take the tricks With their hands over their hearts While we play the game they fix
I have been rereading Pride and Prejudice to follow along with the amazing @trungles.com thread and my favorite thing about the Elizabeth/Darcy romance is that it’s not a case of “I can fix him” but more “if he’s worth it, he’ll fix himself”
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2w ago'i can fix him' no my love you can't. no one ever has
When I don't know what to make for food, I sauté some garlic and find something to put it on.
Though I don’t think it’s currently running as an interactive class, the online course HeroesX helped me understand what Aliette is talking about here—not just through Homer but other stories, myths, and poems. The course content is freely available online: continuum.fas.harvard.edu/heroesx/
HeroesX - Classical Continuum
About HeroesX HeroesX, also known as The Ancient Greek Hero, is an intergenerational, open-access course (though we prefer to call it a learning project) created by Professor Gregory Nagy and first la...
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Aliette de Bodard@aliettedebodard.com · 2w agoI studied the history of heroism sometime in my (misspent) youth. The Iliad and odyssey were directed at a very specific warrior class who ruled in Greece back then. Much of what they do was acceptable at the time--but their ideas of heroic are those of a basically alien culture (1/?)
of the dodgy odyssey takes, 'odysseus is meant to be a stoic badass unaffected by war' probably winds me up the most. in the text the king of the phaeacians correctly guesses odysseus is a veteran of the trojan war because he keeps bursting into tears whenever anyone mentions it
Excedrin, take me away…
1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone
In the hour of our greatest need, Jimothy appeared
Meant to share this...uh, last month, but anyway I have an essay in the June issue of Wayfarer Magazine with an awesome photo from Noah Buscher so here you go: www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/seeds-plan...
Seeds Planted in Tower Time
by Genevieve Williams
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Yesteryear, Ramtha, Unholy Anorexia, Dementia, Czarina
I’m in a neighborhood book club, and we recently read Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear. I had decidedly mixed feelings about it, though truth be told I’m not sure whether it’s because, as a nerd who …
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In gratitude: a 2007 Toyota Prius
I believe our things have a part in shaping us. I also believe that we shape those things in ways that might well be called their spirits. Our use of things makes them individual exemplars of…
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So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
We didn't have any collections, but we did have a WaPo subscription which ran Doonesbury (in the editorial section, if memory serves). There was a lot I didn't get, but it did set me up to recognize Ramtha's School of Enlightenment when I randomly drove past it about 15 years later. IOW: fair cop.
Lizzie O'Leary@lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 4w agoFurthering my theory that this entire website is for people who owned Doonesbury collections as children and understood about a third of it.
I'm just the top two squares pinging back and forth
Brandon T. Snider@brandontsnider.bsky.social · last mo.Back on my bullsh
We too have definitely done many crimes, and she will let us know as soon as she decides what they are
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Persepolis, Patagonia, apprentices and pickpockets, real magic
It’s been very sad to read about the death of Marjane Satrapi this week, at the age of only 56. She was a remarkable writer and thinker, and for me her most famous work, Persepolis, has some person…
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if you are a trans reader of mine and you struggle to explain to cis family and friends why you hurt so much lately I wrote this so you can send it to them. I feel like we know this pain intimately but I want everyone to understand it, because we are going to need help if it’s ever going to stop.
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3mo agoToday @victoriascott.bsky.social writes about Juniper Blessing, a University of Washington student who was murdered last week, and worries about the potential loss of a better future for young trans people she had always hoped was coming. www.welcometohellworld.com/this-pain-ha...
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Deciding to See, Hollow Men, Bezos’s Private Retreat, What Stories Owe Us, Writer Q&As
My neighborhood book club is reading Deciding to See: The View from Nathan’s Bus. Seattle readers, especially those who ride the bus regularly, are familiar with Nathan Vass, who’s been driving for…
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Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, drums, vocals, panflute
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo agowhat are the Six Genders? wrong answers only
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Every day I’m trundling, sayeth the porcupine
One of the tricky but rewarding things about tracking is gait analysis. This is the skill of determining how an animal was moving based on tracks left behind. It can be tricky, in part because most…
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Let us also not ignore the warning from the girl in the corner
Anton@anton.beauty · 3mo agoa ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”
Death Cleaning, Nations and Nature in Fantasy, Radio Garden, Flu Vaccines and History Buffs: welltemperedwriter.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/d...
Death Cleaning, Nations and Nature in Fantasy, Radio Garden, Flu Vaccines and History Buffs
I’m about a quarter of the way into Margareta Magnusson’s The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, which I recall getting a fair amount of attention back when it was published in 2018. It’s less i…
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