I was “immediately turn around and try to get someone else to read it too”
I've seen some excellent discussions of why magic doesn't have to be logic-and-science dictated in fantasy novels in general, but this thread takes a useful historical approach to the question that I particularly like.
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Oh gods me too Throwback to that time I asked the customer service rep what the upper limit of ink density was on their different paper types so my illustrations would stop coming out too dark (They didn’t know what I was talking about)
I think we lost something when we started ignoring the difference between "repost" and whatever local term used to exist on different websites -- "reblog", "retweet", "reshare", etc. Because too many people now act like a reshare is the same as save image+new post... when it couldn't furthest from
Despite SFF spaces being a safe haven for war hawks and arms dealers, and writing orgs being gutless on the issue, I'm glad other magazines like Interzone, Augur, FIYAH, Reckoning, Crepuscular, Strange Horizons etc all have the courage to publicly stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine.
I wish you luck in resting!
ugh yeah I keep running into that problem too.... or a straight line parallel to the edge of the page too close to a margin and they think I messed up my bleed 🙃