it’s really, really dangerous when otherwise well-meaning people assume that things are already pretty much as bad as they can get
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I remember it! But that's because I was enough of a weirdo that I stuck with it, and eventually wound up meeting my future wife at a swing dance in 2012.
With the closure of its last coal-fired power station today, the UK—home of the Industrial Revolution—is now powered by 20% Gas, 20% Nuclear, 45% Renewables, and 15% Seething Insular Resentment At The Self-Inflicted Character Of Its Much-Diminished Place In The World
Fantastic overview and critique of Hezbollah from a Palestinian-Lebanese scholar, in case you're wanting background on the current clusterfuck
Plus an extra one and a list of resources. The text is free.
"You don't have to be a good person today, just a writer" is fantastic advice to get past writers block. I'm gonna get it in tacky woodblock letters on my way wall like it's my "eat pray love"
Actually, on that note, does anyone know of presses that are interested in novellas? I know Neon Hemlock is occasionally, and there's Tordotcom--any others?
And given how difficult it is for me to write long-form work, I'm thinking I may just stick to short stories and novellas (since those seem to be getting easier to publish as freestanding books) for the time being. Really focus on my sweet spot, y'know?
One of the reasons I get so demoralized as a trans woman writer is that my novels don't involve enough transfeminine suffering to appeal to tradpub, but isn't light and fluffy enough to be successful amongst other trans women if I self-publish.
Thread of ways to help people who are on the ground (OTG) in Asheville. The storm has left nightmares behind and folks need urgent help.
