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this image is from "man after man" by Dougal Dixon, a truly bizarre science fiction epic that was seared into my brain as a pre-adolescent and permanently shaped my creativity.

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Look, I don't make the rules. There are specific dress codes for using specific fantastical beasts as mounts, and if you're riding a giant snail, that dress code includes a top hat and vest – no exceptions.

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i want what david cronenberg has

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A new story today.

Refugees, of course, are welcome in our nearly perfect City. Entirely perfect, really. Perfect except for one basement that no one talks about.

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A new story today.

Refugees, of course, are welcome in our nearly perfect City. Entirely perfect, really. Perfect except for one basement that no one talks about.

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Podcast Episodes

Here are all our episodes so far, in one convenient place!

Gideon the Ninth

The Unspoken Name

Ninefox Gambit

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

A Memory Called Empire

Harrow the Ninth

Gossamer Axe

Empress of Forever

Green

Divine Endurance

The City In The Middle Of The Night

Unconquerable Sun

A Desolation Called Peace

Fire Logic

The Unbroken

The Space Between Worlds

The Fortunate Fall

Bonus episode: The Steerswoman series (with special guest P. H. Lee)

The Jasmine Throne

She Who Became the Sun

Bearly a Lady

Foundryside

Black Water Sister

The Raven And The Reindeer

The Dyke And The Dybbuk

Shoujo Kakumei Utena (plus Isaac’s Utena Liveblog)

Bonus episode: Homestuck (with special guest P.H. Lee)

Girl Serpent Thorn

Bonus episode: The First Annual Wizzly Awards (with special guest P.H. Lee)

Girls of Paper and Fire

Light from Uncommon Stars

Short Fiction Roundup #1: ( “How to Swallow the Moon,” “Florilegia; or, Some Lies About Flowers,” “The Demon-Sage’s Daughter”)

The Midnight Lie

This Is How You Lose The Time War

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Provenance

The Thousand Eyes

A Master of Djinn

Trouble And Her Friends

Battle of the Linguist Mages

Among Thieves

Catfishing on Catnet

AMATKA

Bonus episode: 2022 Hugo Awards (featuring Leora Spitzer)

Last Exit

Bonus episode: The Sandman (featuring Kiana Stewart)

Fireheart Tiger (Aliette de Bodard) and Tiger Came Down The Mountain (Nghi Vo)

Spear

Uncommon Charm

The Saga of the Renunciates - a Death of the Author Special

Siren Queen

Short Fiction Roundup #2 - Our Souls To The Moon by Tamara Jeree, Onward by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, and A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

The Dawnhounds

Slow River

Revolutionary Girl Utena: Adolescence Apocalypse

Nona the Ninth

The Wicked and the Willing

Bonus episode: The Second Annual Wizzly Awards (feat. P.H. Lee, Kiana Stewart and Leora Spitzer)

The Book Eaters

Tamsyn Muir Short Fiction Roundup (The Magician’s Apprentice, The Deepwater Bride, Lalonde’s Inferno)

Payback’s a Witch

Sappho’s Bar and Grill

Unwieldy Creatures

Tomoe Gozen

BONUS: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Chaos on Catnet

The Outside

Even Though I Knew the End

The Fallen & The Infinite

Short Fiction Roundup #4 - “The Terracotta Bride” by Zen Cho, “Lay My Stomach On Your Scales,” by Wen-yi Lee, and “Margo Lai’s Guide to Dueling Unprepared,” by Alison Tam

The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry

BONUS: The Night-Bird’s Feather

A Restless Truth

High Times in the Low Parliament

Some Desperate Glory

The Breath Of The Sun

BONUS: The Last Unicorn

The Mimicking Of Known Successes

The Babylon Eye

Mortal Follies

We Know the Devil

He Who Drowned The World

The Water Outlaws

STAKES

BONUS: Q & A Episode 1

I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself

BONUS: Translation State

Valhalla

BONUS: Relationship Advice, Hugos

The Valkyrie

BONUS: Travel Light

BONUS AGAIN: The Third Annual Wizzly Awards

The Witch’s Heart

Santa Olivia + Saints Astray

These Burning Stars

The Saint of Bright Doors 

Ex-Wives of Dracula

BONUS: Q & A 3

Planetfall

BONUS: Foreigner (featuring Ann Leckie)

Camp Damascus

Night in the Woods

All Good Children

The Book of Love

Carmilla (Carmen’s Version)

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Someone You Can Build A Nest In

BONUS: Disco Elysium

Those Beyond the Wall

Short Fiction Roundup #5 - Miss Bulletproof Comes Out of Retirement: https://podcastle.org/2022/03/08/podcastle-725-miss-bulletproof-comes-out-of-retirement/ (or https://giganotosaurus.org/2020/08/01/miss-bulletproof-comes-out-of-retirement/) Selkie Stories are for Losers: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/selkie-stories-are-for-losers/ Nuca: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/nuca/

Spirits Abroad (Just The Gay Parts)

BONUS: The Scholomance Trilogy (with Jenna Moran)

Daughter of Mystery

Daughters of Chaos

Daughters of the Coral Dawn

BONUS: Pale Fire (with Kat Weaver)

Ammonite

BONUS: Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System (with Naked Bee)

The Seep (forthcoming)

A Gay Anime By Studio Trigger (forthcoming)

The Scorpion Rules (forthcoming)

Also: the Unofficial but Officially Endorsed Wizards vs Lesbians Drinking Game

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Empathy: I feel you

Sympathy: I feel for you

Lycanthropy: I feel awoo

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from the forward of The Left Hand of Darkness, I believe.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I got to create this piece to accompany "The V*mpire" by P H Lee. It's a short story over on reactor mag. Reactor/TOR have been a dream client for my entire career. So honored to have had the opportunity to work with them! Synopsis 🩸: The vampires aren't even the worst part about being a teenage trans girl on tumblr.

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I have a story out today, tumblr. It's called The V*mpire and I wrote it for us.

Please mind the warnings.

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Empathy: I feel you

Sympathy: I feel for you

Lycanthropy: I feel awoo

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Messy fanart for Asunder by Kerstin Hall, because I am a sap. Might be lightly be spoiler-y?

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Karys and Ferain from Asunder by Kerstin Hall, based on Klimt's The Kiss. First: Original colors, Second: Experiment with gradient mapping.

Post-work coffee and some doodling while watching tv - I'm not sure if this is exactly what I wanted it to look like - I like it but may take another run at it at some point in the future, restarting with the sketch phase. I think I had just a little too much fun making all the little marks, lmao.

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POV: The price of greatness, featuring Winola from Asunder by Kerstin Hall.

aka a shitpost about being an exceptionally interesting pigeon around someone doing science.

I was working on something else that I ended up scrapping, and wanted something fast and fun to boost my mood, lmao.

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This really depends on style and genre. Modern style is to avoid fully omniscient narrators because that's "head-hopping" and thus confusing. But different eras of writing have had different attitudes towards it.

Personally, I think that the anti-omniscient trend is due to the influence of movies and television on media. In movies and television, a voice-over telling you the characters' thoughts is uncomfortably intrusive. And since movies and television are our dominant medium for fiction, writers in other media tend to mimic them.

But prose fiction isn't movies or television. One of the strengths of prose fiction is the degree of internality it can provide for its characters through description of their thoughts and feelings. In movies and television, of course, this is provided by the actors, but prose fiction does not have actors, and without descriptions it can end up coming off as somewhat flat or hard to follow.

(There's a similar thing with the literary writing bias against scene breaks-- scene breaks are dramatic in a visual medium, but incredibly smooth in a written one.)

It may just be my imagination / wishful thinking, but I have noticed that there's been a bit of a resurgence of omniscient narrators in the last few years. That said, MFA programs tend to run ~10 years behind on cultural trends, so you may just need to keep your head down and keep the peace.

people in my MFA really hate writing with omniscient narrators, but I can't come up with a better way to do the thing I'm writing, so I'm trying to collect data on whether this is a real problem or a made up MFA problem. would love if you reblogged this for data reasons!

omniscient narration is when the narrator of a story is a voice from outside of the story who knows what all the characters are thinking and feeling.

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Okay okay I wanna play

Spin the wheel for a Shakespeare character!

Reblog for sample size, etc. Would love to hear what you got + reasoning in the tags!

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New Story today!

Richard Nixon and the Princess of the Crows

In the final hours before a comet strikes the earth, all-but-certain to wipe out humanity, the disgraced ex-president become entangled with a lost princess of birds.