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heading down to see iron maiden, apparently there's gonna be nearly 30,000 people there, wish me luck

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my creative writing prof also HATES fantasy. as in if she asks for an example of symbolism in a book, and you give something from a fantasy novel, she’ll ask for an example from a “non-commercial book” instead.

I dunno man, people can have preferences, but the second you discount the artistic merit of sci fi and fantasy I stop taking your opinion seriously. and there’s such a big culture in Canada of only valuing literary fiction, to the point where one of our biggest authors, Margaret Atwood, refused for a while to classify her books as sci fi or fantasy. she said they were “speculative fiction”, which is entirely separate and very highbrow (sarcasm).

and I could go on about how Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin wrote books every bit as intellectual (and honestly, even more so) than their literary counterparts, but I am also an enjoyer of schlock!! I think there’s artistic merit in animorphs, and in isekais where a japanese schoolgirl reincarnates into a magical spider who has to level up like it’s a video game! it’s like with everything, you can’t draw a clean line that separates ‘art’ from ‘non-art’ or even ‘lesser art’, and pretending you can do so just makes you look ignorant and goofy. in my opinion.

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"How could anyone question the literary merit of science fiction when it's been the main genre for social commentary for the past century?"

I hate to tell you this, but the bourgeois gatekeepers of "serious" fiction, whether they know it or not, dismiss the genre precisely because it offers social commentary.

In a lengthy piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education, writing professor Eric Bennett makes a case that the Iowa program, arguably the most influential force in modern American literature, was profoundly shaped by a CIA-backed effort to promote a brand of literature that trumpeted American individualism and materialism over airy socialistic ideals. Read: More Hemingway, less Dos Passos. 

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Guess who got to do a Star Trek Lower Decks cover? This guy! It comes out in September. Dream come true/career highlight.

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Was just informed that "any sufficiently deep enthusiasm is indistinguishable from academic rigor" and hoo boy we are really in a crisis of anti-intellectualism.

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New cop: omg, I get a nemesis??? That's my "move to a new town without knowing anyone" problem solved!

concept: detective/serial killer nemesis relationship novel where the detective dies unrelatedly after like chapter 2 (heart attack, hit by a rampaging elk, etc.) and the cop assigned to the case has to deal with the serial killer trying to speedrun getting a new nemesis.

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when ur reading fanfic and one character was cooking and the other comes up to them and they start making out and everyones like starting to take their shirts off and the author STILL hasnt mentioned anyone turning off the stove

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Iceheart - Jun.2025

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doodles

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have not drawn the gals in so long

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trek ocs

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#this honestly sounds amazing#i'll have to check this out

There's a bonus incentive for TTOU people: you get to cut apart Javelins. Not that kind of Javelin, ofc, but.

Been resolving a bunch of stressful issues for a few days (sorry to anyone I disappeared on--will be back soonish), and man, did I luck into a very good stress relief game as I go. That is: Hardspace: Shipbreaker. You basically play a spaceship salvager, working off corporate debt. Technically, there's a storyline, but honestly? Not what's important in this case for me.

You just go and break stuff and throw it into the incinerator. Very satisfying.

Very chill southern US soundtrack.

The 15-minute shifts are fucking genius in my case. Do a stressful piece of work, fire up a shift, chill to music, do next stressful piece of work.

Probably my favorite track:

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Been resolving a bunch of stressful issues for a few days (sorry to anyone I disappeared on--will be back soonish), and man, did I luck into a very good stress relief game as I go. That is: Hardspace: Shipbreaker. You basically play a spaceship salvager, working off corporate debt. Technically, there's a storyline, but honestly? Not what's important in this case for me.

You just go and break stuff and throw it into the incinerator. Very satisfying.

Very chill southern US soundtrack.

The 15-minute shifts are fucking genius in my case. Do a stressful piece of work, fire up a shift, chill to music, do next stressful piece of work.

Probably my favorite track:

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