#Fiction

Natasha Dyer

nrlcadyer

There they are! @DianaEvansOP discusses why she bookends #OrdinaryPeople with the election of #BarackObama and death of #MichaelJackson and says she wanted all people to see themselves in the characters

Dr Sam Hirst

RomGothSam

Took me about 5 minutes to stop rolling my eyes but I'm back now.This does rather seem to lean into elitist attitudes which are all too common with (self-defined) 'literary'

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StarKirby

i know she's talkin about a specific fandom but this attitude is in ALL fandoms. Ya'll need to stop treating fictional like its your very being. also human beings also

Dr. Johnathan Flowers wants to see academia fall.

shengokai

I’ve been reading a lot of fiction that deals with the “wages of immortality.” You know, the whole existential malaise and weltsmerz (sp) that comes with living forever. Most fiction

bailey

eleyeasbouchard

One thing that's wild to me about the ~romanticizing abuse~ argument is how little it resembles my experience of abuse. My father watched movies and shows where a character was

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blackchitin

Longform twitter thread about the prevailing furry discourse! CW for mentions of pedophilia, bestiality and rape. Also, this really doesn't only concern furries, but it seems loudest within furry circles

Diary of Anthy Himemiya

mikudiary2

I find it so interesting how the only thing people take away from the slenderman stabbings is "FICTION AFFECTED REALITY!" (even though they don't advocate to ban slenderman/creepy-pastas) & not:1)

animal

ao3animal

Do people (and by people I mean men) who shit on girls/women for liking “bad boy” narratives ever stop to actually read those stories? 99% of them are about a

Matthew Sweet

DrMatthewSweet

Odd little cultural fossil here on the placard of this Victorian conspiracy theorist. The Australian not the c.19th kind, though this is a story about the 1870s.https://twitter.com/cameronwilson/status/1259358902048575488 It goes back

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DiscoursePalace

Really annoyed at the renewed war against kink and the response focusing on "it helps trauma survivors cope"Because only upholding this as an excuse not only alienate ppl who didnt

Royal Society of Literature

RSLiterature

We are looking forward to hearing your questions for @neilhimself and @YetideBadaki - it will be an excellent workshop! For today's #Take5, we give you...5 PROJECTS FROM NEIL GAIMAN &

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Matarael

Black Mirror is what they call “hard science fiction” (called that for lack of better term), which is when a sci-fi story stands on a strong (and accurate) scientific concept/speculation

Black Hole Comics and Entertainment

BHCEnt

Comics are nothing without artists. And with 4 Days until A COLD, DARK UNIVERSE is on Kickstarter we want to do a thread to highlight the artists contributing to our

Ctrl.Alt.SciFi

ctrl_alt_scifi

This "lesser of two evils" idea invites a thread about the importance of realistic psychology in science fiction characterisation, and how badly-drawn real-life villains tend to be (in fictional terms).Put

ErsatzCulture

ErsatzCulture

Just doing some analysis of SF&F books published in 2020, and a thought/question occurs:Last year, the stranglehold (for want of a better word) http://tor.com had over novellas was broken, with

Delilah S. Dawson

DelilahSDawson

Listening to one of my favorite podcasts, in which experts and outliers give advice. My main complaint? "I only read classics/literature/real fiction." Look, y'all know Dickens was pulp and Willy