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award season! please consider for your ballots, “Stellar Evolutions in Pop Idol Artistry," my speculative love letter to the kpop panopticon—eligible in the short story category at 6640 words & available in the July 2024 issue of Clarkesworld! clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu…
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Started reading my copy of Taiwan Travelogue because the recent discussion piqued my curiosity, and this is literally the last paragraph of the in-universe “translator” introduction. I, uh, think the author knows, guys!
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If you’re interested in Taiwan or books, here are author Yang Shuang-zi and translator Lin King’s speeches tonight upon winning the International Booker Prize tor Taiwan Travelogue
this reaction is killing me because yes this is correct this is literally precisely what the novel is about and (spoiler? i suppose) the thematic conclusion is inarguably that no relationship can survive under the all encompassing burden of colonialism lol
I am headed to worldcon tomorrow! no programming this year I will just be floating around the con and saying hi to people, so if you will be there & want to hang out, give me a shout!
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it's totally cool if people don't like the specific het pairings that have become published novels but i find that aspect less concerning than the fact that just 13 of the top 100 pairings of all time on ao3 are m/f but all the successful published novels that were fics are m/f
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We’re live! From #LoveIntheBigCity to #StrayKids and #BTS livestreams—Issue 002 dives into K-drama revenge, Cold War snacks, fan activism, murder rom-coms, diaspora, and more. Read now at mentmagazine.com/issue002
one that highlights that substance can be conducive to revolutionary change, can be the spark, can be the fuel—there is still a dichotomy happening here i think where rhydo is not *only* a drug and therefore we can have that nuance
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but what bix takes has no sublimated purpose, no alternative meaning, and so even though you have a possible metaphor of her use reflecting the necessary self-repression and discipline of revolution, when luthen encounters her use, he dismisses it wholly. he does not approve.
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not to be too myself, but i am thinking about the drug/substance use in andor & the compare and contrast case you can make re: the unnamed stuff (if there's some star wars name for it pls let me know LOL) that bix is shown using versus saw gerrera's monologue on rhydo
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i always think the depiction of substances that have potential alignment with substances of abuse in SFF is interesting because so often when depicted somewhat positively (or at least in a nuanced way) the substance has some property to it that justifies its use & existence
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