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About people who complain they cannot write such and such a book and this is a symptom of cancel culture given free rein: what I will simply say is that

RE the last thread (yes, it's been a while, busy otherwise!)I spent a lot of time thinking I wasn't legitimate to write Vietnamese culture into SFF--I'm diaspora and mixed-race and

I do want to say a few things, which is that this particular Hugo nomination at this point in time means a lot to me. (1/?) I drafted the first

I'm still super upset at #TheWatch trailer, a thread I've said many times that Terry Pratchett was foundational for me 1/? I discovered him when the Discworld video games came

Look, I'm annoyed, so: a thread of things that have happened to me. They're disjointed, and they're just off the top of my head. They're not intended to be exhaustive:

Ok, so here's a thread about how I use words in worldbuilding. (1/?) Words are super important, and their connotations are going to vary across languages and cultures, and across