• Default Pronouns and the Imperial Radch

    So, this is largely inspired by a) a review I saw on Goodreads for Ancillary Justice. b) My tendency to use “she” as a default pronoun because the *majority of fan fiction writers are women/identify as women. (I also tend to use “she” as the default pronoun due to a vaguely remembered essay years ago…

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    • Book Review: Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys

      In Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys takes the Cthulhu Mythos and deconstructs it with the concept: “Carting people off to prison camps, even if they’re fish people is kind of racist actually!” (The Shadow over Innsmouth is about a guy who starts an investigation concerning the town of Innsmouth and discovers that the townsfolk are not…

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      • The Case of the Missing Pretty Much Everything

        So I was planning on reposting some of my meta posts from the old WordPress blog. I did not bother archiving the old blog before nuking it because I thought I had everything saved on either Google Docs or on one of my hard drives. (Spoiler: I did not have everything saved.) Now, first I…

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        • Your Short List of Women SF Writers

          This is in part related to this post on Tumblr. I am not referring to this as a list of “feminist” SF writers, as some of the writers I’m listing make Certain Assumptions About Gender Roles and/or are not actually feminist. However, these women SF writers write stories that are clearly not the kind of…

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          • Update: Plans for the Blog and the Webnovel

            I am on a slight hiatus on Lord of the Black Mountain because it turns out that chapter nine is actually chapter ten, and I need to stick in some scenes to develop a story arc. In order to do this, I have been writing notes and working on character creation because I need to…

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