#Fiction

The demonisation of the left as a dangerous, violent rabble is so dangerous because it deflects from the objective fact that the overwhelming threat comes from the right.It's not just
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Hey everyone! Planning to thread some #firstlinefrenzy submissions this afternoon. Remember, these are subs from the 1/21 live event, no new submissions accepted today. Any preference on genre today?? Okay,
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I want to take a few minutes to break down @rodsullivan111's latest on @LauraRBelin's Bleeding Heartland. Go read it and come back while I'm hammering this out.https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2020/11/11/ten-things-iowa-democra
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In my research for my story "The Silent Partner," now out in this month's @fandsf (https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/current.htm ), I came across an odd detail of art history: two of the giants of
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So, here's a thread on a them I have spoken about before several times over the years, on other social networking sites as well on as here.It's about scale, community,
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Writing essays is weird. So, I love fiction from people who are being deeply, intimately personal, right? There's just something more compelling to me to read someone who is coming
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For #WITMonth I'm starting a thread of one Latin American female writer per day. A few obvious choices but trying to bring some different names into the mix and hopefully
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Been trying all night and morning to hold back tweeting about how fandom forged the woman I am. I cannot do it. This is how a corporate IP property brought
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1. I teach a class at Wesleyan on how to understand the 2020 presidential election. (Well, not at Wesleyan; everything’s over Zoom for the time being.) Students are naturally curious.
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I'll now share my sex appeal rankings for supernatural creatures.VAMPIRE 9/10-Cool, confident, and into what they’re doing-Sucking on you is extremely important to them!-Can get really dark and still be
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In honor of #JUNETEENTH2020 , I’m creating a thread of Black owned non-profits, businesses, and artists that we can support on this day. I’ll be adding to it throughout the
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Why you should not believe "ex-muslims"A white French guy made a fake account pretending to be an "ex-muslim" girl, where he invented stories about being "abused by Islam"He admitted
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In "The Feeling of Power" (Asimov, 1958), ubiquitous computation causes humanity to forget the fundamentals of math, including how to count. A technician rediscovers it by studying computer schematics, and
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Okay so I want to preface this with I love the shit out of the Expanse. I tried and failed to get through S1 twice--I couldn't stand Holden or Miller--but
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If you only learn one technical term from labor economics, make it "chickenization" - @CLeonardNews's term for the way that the Big Three poultry processors have structured the chicken-farming industry
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A list of recent and forthcoming horror* by queer, trans, and nonbinary authors, from September 2020 through autumn 2021. Please let me know if there are any I'm missing so
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