User almost_a_human wants to add you to their contact list. Accept? Ignore. User almost_a_human wants to add you to their contact list. Accept? *sigh* Well, it’s been popping up every day for a month now, I guess I’ll give this person a shot. Maybe it’s someone I know. Or at Read more
Warning: this is an ANGRY POST. “You’re so lucky you had an awful, abuse-filled, poverty-stricken childhood! It’s not fair! I don’t have all that RICH MATERIAL.” said Aspiring Author To Be Unnamed. I didn’t murder him. What a saint I am. See, the thing is: I had the ability to Read more
I’m a big sports fan, and a big home-town fan. A backer. This isn’t surprising because sports fandom is, in a way, hometown fandom. It’s not that there aren’t people who support teams from places other than their own town (weirdos) but I would guess a majority of sports fans Read more
When I was young, my mother told me a lie. It was a big lie and she told it with remarkable consistency. She told me she was Jewish. “And since all that matters for Jews is what your mother is, that means you are Jewish, too,” she’d say. There was Read more
So, I wrote this story with a black, inner-city protagonist. I based her on a friend of mine and like that friend she is compassionate and witty and willing to do anything for the people under her care. In an early scene in the story, she describes a boy “as Read more
“This is well-written,” the rejection letter read, “but time travel isn’t science fiction. I suggest you send it to a fantasy magazine like Beneath Ceaseless Skies.” A newbie writer, I had never gotten such a direct referral to another magazine before. Surely it meant this editor knew more than I Read more
There was a scandal in the Steven Universe Fandom a year or two ago. A young fan artist posted a picture on her Tumblr of Rose Quartz. She’d drawn Rose skinny, although on the show she is quite chubby. The fandom was full of people overjoyed at Rose being fat, Read more