I’m a busy man. Got two caution signs to remind me to slow down sometimes. Got a vibrating megaphone. Clocks. Radiation. Four goats. Got half a tank of simple columnar epithelial tissue. 60% through my day. Half a tank of gas. And it’s only 10:50.
The narrative that misogynistic men will one day be punished (???) with daughters that will show them the error of their sexist ways is literally placing men’s emotional burden onto a girl that’s not even born yet. From day one girls are conditioned to carry the weight of men’s sexism.
plus, misogynistic men are not “improved” by having daughters. they’re not going to see the errors of their ways. all that’s going to happen is their number of nearby female targets for misogynistic abuse is going to increase. at the expense of the daughters, of course.
Just finished a session with some first time D&D players and this is the description sheet for a player’s human bard who casts spells by giving informational speeches
Do you write fanfic yourself these days? And if so, do you have it posted online under a name you're willing to share? (I used to assume published authors would never openly publish as ficcers, but Naomi Novik doesn't conceal her identity as astolat, so I figured I'd ask.)
I still write and post fanfic, and I still read and comment on fanfic, but I do it under a (paper-thin, admittedly) pseudonym, because readers of my professional work were finding my fanfic and reviewing it as if it were also professional work.
A book I have written, submitted to a publisher, had professionally edited, and released for money is one thing. Review it as harshly as you like (although please don’t tag me): you paid for it, you get to decide whether you got your money’s-worth. Fanfic is different. Fanfic is love and joy and generosity and engagement, and having people critique every little line as if they’d somehow paid me to entertain them was killing my joy. So I don’t connect my real name to my fanfic anymore, not because I’m ashamed, but because I need to be allowed to keep my joy.