Remember that someone will always be critical of your work, so make it so you don’t think it’s garbage and anyone who thinks otherwise else can go to Hell.

For the record, I’m not opposed to AI writing and art because it’s *bad*. There’s a lot of bad writing and art I’m perfectly happy to say just isn’t for me. I’m opposed to AI writing and art because what it does to get to bad is *also* bad.

Most British publications are so transphobic that they probably find young women supporting trans rights scarier than literal Nazis.

Silk is Catholic without knowing it, like a Graham Greene protagonist.

That’s a lot of words to tell everyone they’re an idiot. Maybe an em dash would’ve helped them.

I have more descriptive language I cannot use on this platform.

I think Chelle in Home Fires is a really cool female lead, and the utter ineptitude of Skip as protagonist reinforces that. It’s not great that my best example is a late period book and she’s more scar tissue than person. But still…

I’m assuming April Fools, otherwise this is going to be a long thread.

Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists. Here’s Why. YouTube video by Philosophy Tube

“Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
Fremde, étranger, stranger”

Justices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors

“It’s just politics! We are friends!”

JFC, all SFF literature & media is political. It always has been and always will be. So ridiculous that this point has to be made again & again. Success or failure might be connected to how the politics were expressed, but it’s never audiences hate political art. Because it’s always political!

Gothic Fantasy | Successful Submissions | Wars in the Stars We’re excited to announce the authors featured in our new anthology: Wars in the Stars Short Stories!

My story “The Wreck” will be in Flame Tree Press’s Wars in the Stars Short Stories anthology in August.

The story takes place in the same setting as Stars Beyond Comprehension but fifty to seventy five years after the sixth book in the series.

So there’s another big bland beige Dune film coming. A reminder that David Lynch made Dune in 1984 and it’s a (flawed) masterpiece. With Space Pugs.

Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon

Newsprint vs nice matt paper

Read this in the melody of the old Batman theme.

Whenever I mention Discord to my students, their immediate reaction is shady/illegal stuff going on in servers. So, not having one is probably for the best.

That cover is me at Kroger when standing rib roast is on sale.

My brain told me this was the album cover of Ye.

Image of the character Dean Learner from Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place. A caption says “An eagle eyed reader can see the tropes. A pedant can see the tropes. But if you’re looking at the tropes, you’re missing the story. If you read a SciFi story and point out the tropes, you’re a freak!”

I may have modified this quote a touch.

Amazon claims to have copies. After next payday, I’ll learn if it exists or if it’ll be like in If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler and every page is blank or the same page or some other creepy nonsense.

No joke, I just learned Strange Travelers exists. I thought I owned every Gene Wolfe short story collection, including Best Of, and I regularly go to WolfeWiki and the subreddit. Somehow I missed it. It just appeared in my perception today.

My wife said this is like a Gene Wolfe story.

Christopher Lee as Count Dooku saying “What if I told you that the Republican was now under the control of a dark lord of the Sith?”

Wife: Let’s keep the politics to a minimum, it’s Christmas.

Me: sure.

Also me five minutes into dinner:

No One:

Me at 6am: How do I tie a Windsor tie knot?

There is nothing anyone can tell me to make me believe the American Games thing is real and not a Poe’s Law parody of Trump AI video. No. Not allowed. Bad reality. Go in the corner and think about what you’ve done.

To be clear, I mean of these court decisions. It’s all “Check predetermined outcome, shred Constitution to get there.”

There’s no non-cynical reading of this.

A screenshot from a Texas Tribune article about the Supreme Court not hearing a book banning case from Texas. The highlighted text states, “The Monday move by the high court lets stand the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that says the First Amendment doesn’t acknowledge a right to receive information.”

No “right to receive information”? Then what is the point? What is any of this? What are we doing here?

“You can write Common Sense, Mr. Payne, but no one is allowed to read it.”

What???????

Screenshot of IMDB trivia: For the episode featuring Nicol Williamson, which was filmed in England, Perkins sent a package of drugs to his hotel, prior to arrival. Unfortunately for him, there was another Anthony Perkins already staying at the hotel and the package was delivered to him instead. The police were called and, upon his arrival, Perkins was arrested and deported.

Excuse me… what?

They’re all “based on” Patricia Highsmith stories. To what extent is a crapshoot. The first one is a difficult to follow psychosexual murder plot. One of them is all about an English family solving a murder in comically English ways. What a grand old time, we found a man’s hand!

Screenshot of two episode descriptions of the show Chillers on Amazon Prime. Episodes 10 and 11.

If you’re not watching football and are tired of MST3K and need something to watch on Thanksgiving, check out this bizarre anthology show Chillers hosted by Anthony Perkins. It’s… full of choices…

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