Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

i should qualify that i am talking about fiction here; the critical theorists have made several notable literary contributions to English nonfiction in the past decades ;P

there is postwar literature in the English language which i feel has value, but it’s all genre fiction and i think the value is largely something other than its mastery of the literary art

i was explaining that my writing style is heavily influenced by the Edwardian period because that was the latest stuff one could find on Project Gutenberg when i was in high school, and bea was like “you couldn’t have just pirated something newer??” lol

there’s something charming about dropping a line of dialogue like “Perfectly normal, non-traumatized thing to say” in the midst of some faux‐Edwardian pre‐modernist prose

honestly my favourite thing about my writing style being kinda oldfashioned is when it combines with very contemporary phrasings or tropes

obviously not a novel with that timeline lol

fr i’m not doing NaNo but i do have a story i would like to get a first and maybe second draft of done this month

you can’t observe NaNoWriMo if you don’t observe November

this man on NPR is being like “to save democracy we need to get better at propaganda”

i am actually a very good ruby dev for not being a very good ruby dev

doing good work at work today 😤

politics is a dialectic between differences and i for one embrace those differences shifting from what they were in 1992

« A study using cross-national data found that Americans have become so tied to party identity that race and class polarize us less than politics. » is this person nostalgic for racism

bea once called my writing “tiresome and pretentious” lol

one problem with reading a lot of old shit is i have no idea whether a contemporary reader will tolerate « So thinking, I gather myself for departure, and pen a quick note for Link on his return. »

suicide squad
the suicide squad
the suicide squads
the suicide squads’

• it’s got science going too far
• it’s got body horror
• it’s got strange and powerful creatures beyond human comprehension
• it’s got an invisible yet deadly and pervasive illness
• it’s got people being constant fuckups as they attempt to enact their petty politics in a world they do not control or understand
• it’s got an incredibly hot yet morally ambiguous lesbian

every time i try to read gothic fiction i am just like “why isn’t this Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”