#Letter from the Editor

[archiesonicworkbook]

by the by-- what's ya'lls fave archie character, and why?

[crumplebottomsinteriorsmagazine]

A warm welcome from Editor-in-Chief, Samatha Rossi...

Welcome to Crumplebottom's Interiors Magazine, the next big thing to happen to the interior and building community since, well that one forum shut down and simblr started to be a thing.

Today, I just wanted to tell you a little about my plan for this "magazine."

First many thanks to our sponsor @orangeresearcher that has kindly let us use his space for our operations.

Back to the plans,

We of course want to show off the beauty that the simblr community and the many architects and interior designers. We are open to any style of housing and rooms, though we have a soft spot for contemporary design. You are welcome to submit your projects on our submission page. We are a small team, so please be patient as we set up your post.

Joining our team as critic-at-large, Francis DeWolf will cover criticism and interviews with homeowners, both large and small, and their creative teams.

Additionally, the social team is excited to launch challenges and design competitions.

Since we are working with a shoestrings budget, we all have day jobs and thus are very busy with our own deadlines, but who knows what the future will entail.

-Samantha Rossi, EIC

[ufohio]

Premise & Setting

Welcome to Earth, OH — Circa 2157

Forget everything you know about society. This is the United States of America in 2157. 

You’ve landed in Earth… Ohio—a small, remarkable city sticking out like a sore thumb between tall, glittering Columbus and the silver shores of fair Cleveland...

Here “on Earth,” we pride ourselves on our rich agriculture, our stunning vistas—and our tip-top experimental flight and rocket programs. 

Earth, Ohio, has been consistently named American Astronauts’ City of Choice over Wapokoneta and Dayton, and our beautiful camping grounds and wonderful, active skies attract visitors from all over the state. Pay no attention to the mysterious restricted area in the north of town, the site of a 2147 ecological disaster that left the grounds dangerous and closed to all but the very enigmatic… And never you mind the eerie lights in the night sky that glide without rocket fire and soar without wings—that twinkle in the distance like all different suns and stars... 

Spend time instead relaxing at our new mall! Visit our museum and explore our local history of dazzling pulp fiction. Rent a rocket for a weekend trip to Mars. 

Or, help us welcome our sweet and strange new neighbors who’ve relocated here from the Sunshine State. They’re downright otherworldly, so let’s all give them a warm Earth “hello!”

Hello! Our upcoming science fiction title will be an adventurous, awe-inspiring collection of strange and astonishing tales—or at least we hope it will be! The setting’s many hooks and scenarios have been written to honor iconic pulp fiction staples and provide a truly fantastical but also resonating environment where writers can explore, narrate, and reappreciate daily life on our thrilling wonder planet, Earth. 

On our science fiction site, writers and characters will be encouraged to explore a truly magical life in a truly magical place. We’re interested in character-driven stories, adventures, and mysteries that engage with themes of family, home, hope, fear, and belonging as well as the most marvelous parts of the average day-to-day in the new fifties: hovercars, super microwaves, jet pack injuries, retirement rockets, and more.

And of course, the city of Earth will not just be populated by mankind and its many wonders—it will also be home to many different beings from many different worlds, journeys, and futures of their very own. Beings made and loved by you, the writers! And we can’t wait to meet them.

Here, we fundamentally believe that there’s no such thing as a normal, non-marvelous life. Have your character investigate the strange quarantine zone in the center of town that evicted a whole neighborhood ten years ago. Or let them be a part of the buzzing, flight-filled skies. They can visit the many different sights and sounds of the touristy Solar System—or they can discover that life or love wasn’t what they thought it was—that it was something so much more beautiful and strange … and perhaps gooier than they expected. These and many other subplots will be available to you at our upcoming title—plus, all of your own ideas, too! 

In the small, sparkling city of Earth, Ohio, where The Golden Age of Science Fiction is revered and preserved, we don’t think it will be very long at all before the people of Earth find themselves resembling their favorite fantasies and mysteries. And that’s exactly what we’re going for. 

We appreciate you coming along for the ride! 

P.S. Oh! And yes, we will be ragging on Florida a lot. A lot a lot. So much.

[there-goes-trouble]

It's the way the Democrats are laboring under the delusion that immigration is an issue for all Latines in the USA.

Like we knew that political leadership secretly all thought of us as "illegals". But, sooo many of us were born here, live here, work here, regardless how much english we know--so YEAH some of us vote just like you, Whities. Because we're ladder-climbing like you. Some of us pass for white & love it. Some of us don't pass at all and consider those "other" latines to be "the bad ones" (we know that to leadership we're ALL the bad ones). Political leadership can lose elections that way.

They never expected us to in-fight with other Latines. They expected us to all be cool with each other and have some kind of pan-latine "vote blue" edict we all follow. That our common tie would be coming to this country for a better life and how HARD immigrating can be--but it wasn't.

It also completely ignores the anti blackness and anti-immigration sentiment a lot of Latines harbor, and the entire news industry keeps insisting that bc Latines have more in common with ppl who are racial minorities that we would all vote together. Black folks have been TELLING news media how little solidarity there has been, but listening to Black folks about racism isnt the media's thing, so "every non-white votes the same"!

And all of this for the SMALLER SEGMENT OF LATINES THAT VOTED red?? When the majority of Latines voted Harris?

I honestly think that the Democrats are looking anywhere but in the mirror for the problem.

[wttnblog]

Letter From the Editor: Expanding Our Writing Team

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a letter from the editor! I almost don’t know where to start. Since I last wrote to you at the end of January, six amazing months have gone by. There’s been so many changes in my life, in the world, and in Write Through the Night personally! I’m excited to catch you up on everything that’s been going on as well as to introduce you to a few new faces you may…

[megankoumori]

THIS. This is the blunt, no BS kind of call out the media should employ when it's time to cancel.

[herpoetryshelf]

Letter from the Editor

Hey there fellow poetry lover! I’m Debbie Pierre, a nostalgic, whimsical, and pop culture-based poet. If you’re reading this between 2022 and 2024, you’re able to follow my creative writing MFA student journey in real time at William Paterson University.

During high school, I did not think much of creative writing as a profession, so my poems were just quick scribbles on the page for a grade. Fortunately, that all changed during my junior year at Bloomfield College. Even though I took Intro to Creative Writing as an elective, it soon became a turning point for me. My creative writing professor always stressed how poetry acts as a representation of the writer. 

He was right.

These poems were less like grades and more like me in a stanza. I would spend hours revising: looking for the perfect descriptions, phrases, metaphors, and similes. It was a personal mission for me to describe someone or something without explicitly saying its name — an equivalent no one else has thought of. 

In 2022, I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and was class recipient of the Joyce Carol Oates Award in Creative Writing.

As of now, I’ve sat on the rough pavement while eating street food at the Dodge Poetry Festival, watched a man get down on one knee in front of his girlfriend at the Nuyorican Poets Café, and stuttered through my first in-person performance at the Montclair Public Library. And, I hope to have and share many more of my poetic learning experiences in this blog.

Now leave your shoes at the door and follow me to my poetry shelf. We have to study the past to become the future!

[archiesonicworkbook]

ARCHIE SONCI MENTUONE

ARCHIE SONIC MENYIOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(also............. i may be a baby fawn in the middle of a field regarding archie sonic stuff but would yr archie sonic server be open for someone just getting into it v slowly)

[crumplebottomsinteriorsmagazine]

I'm excited to announce...

I am excited to announce our first interview feature will be published tomorrow and very pleased it will be Etienne Toussiant, who designed and crafted the Etienne Bench and Love...seat. He is known to be media shy, so it is truly a win for our young publication.

[meavz]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Page 54

Editors social @thicktrap on Instagram

[evidenceof]

"Before a guy is hit I know he's going to be wounded. I know where he's going to be wounded." - Dick Winters on why watching Band of Brothers was "very tough."

wanted to find these clippings because in 'biggest brother' dick commends the piece as, “the best article about me i have ever seen. you [the reporter] did a helluva job. and the picture was terrific.” the author of both the book and the article says he and his photographer became dick's favorites.

when read alongside articles of winters written around the same time frame, the biggest difference is that this feels a lot more intimate on the account of the interview being done in his own home, in his office and contains more of his voice outside of ambrose's book. dick created copies of this article and photos that he would send back to people who wrote him fanmail in the 2000s.

Source: Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, October 12, 2001.

[there-goes-trouble]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

If you are writing me from a holy land under siege, my awareness, love of news, & desire for direct action isn't necessarily shared by my followers.

I must manage your expectations of my reach;

This blog doesn't have a large following.

Worse? We don't have what I would call a particularly....engaged audience.

Most of them have my news tag blocked if that tells you a bit who we're dealing with.

I'm not saying it to shame anyone--that's just my group of people here, and people fleeing a zone should know it and build it into their plans. Who ELSE are they?

My audience is afraid of spending money bc their concept of "money trouble" is vastly different to yours. They are daunted by your situation, of course--but daunted moreso by their own. Somehow.

Their fear of becoming 'worse off' prevents their helping you in a more tangible way.

It is not right, I'm not excusing it. I have to be honest about how much my blog will be able to help; it may not be much.

It may just be you & me, my ocassional 10 dollars, and my thousand angry letters to my government.

[wttnblog]

The August Wrap

[threecirclesofvaryingsizes]

I'm going to the drawfee liveshow in LA this week should I bring a book to read during the show so they can all collectively think "wow... she's different"

[karinyosa]

one action that i haven't seen a ton of people discuss online is writing a letter to the editor (not one specific editor, that's just what they're called). i'm thinking of palestine, but a lot of this can apply to other things. jvp has a letter to the editor guide here if u think you'd find that helpful. it's specific to jvp members from what i remember, so take what applies. individual papers will sometimes have their own sets of guidelines as well so be mindful of those. letters are generally more likely to make it to print when it comes to local papers, but you can also write letters to like. the nyt or wapo. you're just more likely to not get a response. as tools for social change, letters' purpose is to sway public opinion and pressure via institutions of media. i focus on local papers because, like with bds campaigns targeting college campuses, this stuff is going to start on a smaller scale first, but can and does build over time. think of one berkeley branch voting to divest very soon after another did first. this is like that to me.

i recommend seeing what other articles individual papers have about palestine just to get a feel for what might be most impactful for you to write about, or what still needs to be said. for local papers, you might want to tie it to your community in some way (and that might even be a requirement to get in the paper), so you can talk about, for example, how much money comes out of your specific area for israel, using uscpr's funding map. you can talk about protests in your area. if there are arab, palestinian, and/or muslim communities in your area, you talk about them. if there are medical facilities or lots of families in your area, you can talk about them. if there's a big tech presence in your area, you can relate it to that. education, youth, food, policing, etc. there's something. there are probably multiple lines of connection between your local community and palestine. you can also just respond to a published article or lte.

if you are writing a letter to the editor, it will be considered an opinion piece, so you can include opinions or things that may be seen as more subjective. check out other letters to the editor to get a sense for the type of tone/content/etc they are looking for. don't be afraid to break or bend those rules, but it's helpful to be aware of the general vibe of the paper, what's likely to get published, and what needs to be said.

what do you want your community to be talking about? what needs to be brought to their attention? what misconceptions need to be corrected? what issues do you want to put on the table? what do you want to add to the conversation? what's missing? what should be done about it?

if you can't make it to in-person actions, this can all be done online. and if you consider yourself good with words, this may be an area in which you're uniquely effective.

ps: citing other articles or sources is always helpful and is a way to platform other articles/books/texts that u think should be shared, although i don't think that's usually a requirement for ltes. if u can't think of one, ask around.

[cowboymaterials]

When Settler Becomes Native by Solomon JB Brager