@thepauldano I started having full on visual hallucinations in class in 10th grade and it was at that point I finally decided I needed to drop a few classes lmao. Please.....learn from 15 year old me's bad choices......
ICYMI, in which I write bluntly about climate fiction. I avoided this topic for a long time because it felt like a certain etiquette forbade it, but at the end of the day, it also felt like certain histories and points had been forgotten or elided, so...
https://t.co/k5z0oP9r5S
in multiple minds about recent cli-fi trends...on the one hand its def more useful to be thinking about alternative futures where we develop new ways of relating to the earth, rather than than reiterating climate doom. but "climate optimism" always rings sort of hollow for me
@sqiouyilu@ReckoningMag I'm especially interested in potential future earths, but i'm flexible about what exactly that means. can't resist some magic in my sci fi... i hadn't heard of Reckoning though, i'll have to check them out!
Especially when that shakes out to mean "knows less than the story's intended audience"->"knows roughly as much as the story's intended audience." this isn't a condemnation of hopepunk/solarpunk/optimistic clifi in general. just an open-ended wondering about what else it could be
@marie_croke My family always wants happy endings which I just. Very rarely do, haha. The ones who are also writers are even worse, because they end up just line editing the piece too.
How am I supposed to be normal in front of a class of students today when my mind is still on 24/7 succession lockdown. Hello??? You kids seen this shit???
@kbwagers I loveeee Sarah Gailey's work, and I wish I saw them recommended more often! Trying to spread the word by teaching their stories in my writing classes