Purple background, white text, which says So, one of my beefs with our Standard Issue Hero's Journey is its vision of individual triumph that paints over the fact that in real life, myth, and fiction, Hero=work is often - maybe usually - collaborative. Real Heroes run in packs, y'all. "Must a Hero Journey?" -- Donna Glee Williams

In this wonderful new essay, Donna Glee Williams looks at how the Hero's Journey failed her, forcing a rethink about the whole way it's conceptualised for fiction and in real life... because "real heroes run in packs."

Read it here: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey

March 16, 2025 Yesterday, President Donald Trump reached back to 1798 for authority to expel five people he claims are members of a Venezuelan gang.

March 16, 2025

Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

Broadway Revival: Frankos, Laura: 9781732523920: Amazon.com: Books Broadway Revival [Frankos, Laura] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Broadway Revival

My wife does this stuff, too. BROADWAY REVIVAL, by Laura Frankos, sends a time traveler from 2079 back to 1934 to save George Gershwin from brain cancer...and changes the Great White Way forever. It's Broadway musical theatre alt hist!
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Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-Fourth Week Is this the end of the world? No, this is only the end of the world as we knew it. If this were the end of the world, it would not matter what you do next. But this is not the end of the world. * I…

Is this
the end of the world?
No, this is only
the end of the world
as we knew it.
If this were
the end of the world,
it would not matter
what you do next.
But this is not
the end of the world.

*

The 244th week of plague poems…

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I'm still wrapping my head around the November disappointment. I had not wanted to spend my golden years fighting Fascism. I've got other work to do! But, "c'est la vie." I came of age protesting the war in Vietnam. I marched in 2017. I'll march, again, in 2025. Talk to me about organizing.

And some of us know you on FB and read your post, there.

That's not gonna happen. It's just another strike against her.

What’s interesting about this WSJ survey is the size of the margins. By 56-16 forecasters say inflation would be higher under Trump; for interest rates it’s 59-16 www.wsj.com/economy/econ...

When a uterus is more heavily regulated than a gun, that’s when you know it’s a war on women.

The first draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers.

How our drinking water could come from thin air From solar panels that produce water to 'self-filling' coffee machines and water coolers, technology companies are putting a new spin on a centuries-old technique.

In warm climates, even relatively dry air can hold a lot of water - and a recently developed solar-powered hydropanel can extract it. One panel costs ~$2,000, should last at least 15 years, and can provide 4-5 L of drinking water per day. #ShareGoodNewsToo t.co/TPhGJZiV1j

Just as the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, one price of free speech is eternal humility, recognizing that none of us is immune to becoming a tool of censorship if we fail to recognize how its manipulative tactics shape and distort our thoughts and actions.

I quit the bird as a protest and joined bsky to add salt into the wound--one little pinprick, but one does what one can. Already, I have a better user experience than I would have had with X.

Discon III Sponsorship Apology Discon III chair Mary Robinette Kowal has posted an apology regarding the controversial sponsorship of the Hugo Awards red carpet event by Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a division of weapons man…

If anyone from the last Worldcon, especially anyone involved in the sad mess that was the Hugos, wants to know what an actual apology looks like, here’s a proper one from a few years ago. You could do worse than take it as a model.

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40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl Forever An oral history of Apple’s groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as TV’s biggest commercial showcase.

Forty years ago, Apple helped establish the Super Bowl as TV’s biggest commercial showcase with an ad introducing the new Macintosh computer. The makers of the famous “1984” spot looked back on how the commercial came together.