This essay is a result of some thoughts that occurred during one of the weekly FeministSF chats on Twitter, when we were discussing exceptionality of female characters in urban fantasy novels—that is, their tendency to be the only woman in the book. This essay is meant to summarize some ...
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盡流can be interpreted either as the flow had completely stopped or that its flow is carefree with no sign of stopping! I remembered I had learnt 倦蝶 (tired butterflies) from a Chinese writer in an “italki” essay, which I now will use it to the fullest. Whoever that unknown writer ...
It’s not that I don’t want to write a goblin novel with all my heart (featuring large worldbuilding chunks that I already possess, left on the cutting room floor of When Tinker Met Bell), it’s that I just don’t have the time right now to pen an 80,000-word novel just for ...
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For 1,500 years, the Church has preached that attending Mass is an obligation – if not fulfilled, then that basket you’re in makes it all the way to the River Styx. Now, public Mass is not available – not even private Mass in a person’s home. Once again (not the first time,...
on our shoulders. We cared too much. Our eyes were always leaky. She worried that the brutality of the world would break us. It didn’t. We have always navigated cruelty by doubling down on love. Grief is another word, of course, for love. We don’t mourn those we never cared for...
coolest guy in the world when I took my iPod to the gym. It’s funny because I’m not an early adopter and I’ve never really been into gadgets. But I got my first iPod about a year after they came out, and I can’t think of anything I ever bought that made me feel so good...
Janet knows how to do that. She had “a strategic coming out,” inMarie Clairemagazine, where she told her own story, her “unbelievable adventure.” Personal so that “no one felt I was speaking for them,” Janet explains, and she drinks her coffee and looks at me. She’s a trans...
. My job was every day once the sun came up to use the toilet and keep space in it tight. An awful task that had me retching every day. The joys of high altitude climbing. We had like Alaska to bring all off the hill easier on the Tibet side where yaks will take it down from...