kindness is the new status symbol

In Which John C. Wright is Wrong About Everything, Forever, World Without End, Amen: An Open Letter

popelizbet May 08, 2014 21:25

If you haven’t been following the slowly-building SF/F fandom and genre dustup for the past few months, what follows may be of limited use to you, even if you follow the links. Fair warning.

Natalie Luhrs did a really good job of explaining how John C. Wright is Lying About Everything in order to make the bigotry of those he champions appear to ( Read more... )

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even more amazeballs: guest appearance at alexandraerin's Tales of MU

popelizbet Oct 08, 2011 00:03

So, I have a guest story up this evening at my dear friend alexandraerin's serial novel, Tales of MUThe idea for this short - a one-shot look at a first-year law class at AE's magical Magisterius University - came to me a year and a half ago, got mostly written a year ago and promptly forgotten about. I was going through cleaning up my file, found it, did the ( Read more... )

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there is so much that is amazeballs happening, y'all

popelizbet Oct 05, 2011 11:30

So much has been going on and I am halfway through the semester and have NO TIME to do anything, but the amazeballs have reached critical mass and now I must linkspam.

My new poem Panikos is in this quarter's issue of Stone Telling. stonetellingmag is an amazing magazine, one I've wanted to submit to since I started publishing, and I am so excited to publish ( Read more... )

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flotsam

popelizbet Aug 07, 2011 02:05

I already told y'all about my Aptowicz review and the new poem but I have a few more bits of flotsam around LJ I haven't told you about yet:

* "Sea Witch" & sea-themed Rhsyling nominees-and-winners post at seashores
* "Sea Witch" & "The Sea-King's Second Bride" post at mermaid_lagoon
* Apex Magazine Issue 27 & "Wrap Is Poetry" post at spec_poetry (including updated lists of ( Read more... )

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[links] [news] what has the pope been up to?

popelizbet Jun 03, 2011 14:23

Hello Internet of mine! I missed you.

The second year of law school ate my life. I am making no promises about the third. But I promised K. Tempest Bradford (ktempest for her blog feed) that I would give her a links roundup; I know I have some new folks here on LJ since Wiscon; and I have exciting news of all kinds to share.

Today I have an interview ( Read more... )

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sonnets for the weary law student: commence neruda squee

popelizbet Dec 01, 2010 14:23

No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio ( Read more... )

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for no particular reason, poetry.

popelizbet Nov 05, 2010 12:31

No estés lejos de mí un solo día, porque cómo ( Read more... )

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[excitement] Something lovely for your Monday morning...

popelizbet Oct 04, 2010 08:39

So the mighty yuki_onna bought my poem about Frankenstein's second monster that I wrote for her workshop years ago, causing me to EEEE myself half to death.

Today is the day that it is available in Apex Magazine.

I encourage you to buy the issue or subscribe. Subscribing is a particularly good idea because if you do, you'll get the November issue too, ( Read more... )

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Moon Fail, Cat & Apex Win: November Call for Submissions from Arab &/or Muslim Writers

popelizbet Sep 20, 2010 11:44

Many of you may be aware of e-moon60's recent racist, Islamophobic rant in which she indicated the depth of her contempt for Muslims and immigrants, among others, then deleted the over-500 comments taking her to task for her conduct. If not, you may want to avoid reading it while you're eating, to say the least ( Read more... )

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popelizbet Mar 03, 2010 11:51

Your flist probably let you know before I did that we're throwing the con_or_bust auction for the second year in a row. COB is being overseen by the awesome Carl Brandon Society, which exists to "increase racial and ethnic diversity in the production of and audience for speculative fiction." Among other worthy efforts, they administer the Octavia E. Butler ( Read more... )

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