Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@Lady i’m not talking about quality i’m talking about function

you use narrative texts differently from short descriptions

@Lady their likelihood of survival does not turn them into substantial pieces of literature

they are more akin to reference texts useful for interpreting mythological fragments which survive from other texts than narrative works

@Lady ok then fight for a future where the anime is cited

@Lady first step is making pokedex entries significantly longer and more narrative

@craigmaloney@octodon.social and astonishing array of “things which really shouldn’t be trusted to cheap gaming controllers” are trusted to cheap gaming controllers:

@AspiringLuddite i am not on medievalist so feel free to ignore! but one thing i personally have been considering re: silence via suspend is that silences do nothing to protect *outgoing* data from my instance. facebook’s notoriety for its avid collection and misuse of user data makes keeping them from my data a much higher concern than keeping my instance from seeing theirs

@varve firing legal would definitely give me some hope things were moving in the right direction but i just dont see how that could happen without a perfectly unified board (which we can’t get unless the members not up for this election resign AND we manage a pretty serious majority over the ‘actually everything is fine’ contingent in the voting itself—considering how large the backlash for the campaign was in some spaces, i’d rather save my energy for fights that don’t at least require i cough up money to loose them)

@varve well—i don’t know how much you were following the follout of the campaign—one of the things we recently found out is that the board seems to have little to no control over the legal committee (who were the ones who unilaterally kicked a volunteer out of the org and then accused her of committing felonies over a grudge) so i am not sure how much an election will help, which is part of my issue with the strategy (the other part being the more obvious ‘i am not giving them money when they are causing this much harm’)

@varve yeah thats how i feel as well—I was pretty surprised to home home to discovering that #EndOTWRacism was taking the opposite approach

Just wrote a short post on why I'm not paying membership dues/voting in the upcoming #OTWElections and some projects I plan to support instead: https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/27051.html

@soph_sol my dad and i have similar taste in sff so i often gift him stuff i read and loved or have been meaning to read—the january before last he texted me “so did you intentionally gift me three books with lesbian main characters or is this what sff is like now?” and i was thrilled to report it was the latter

@quartzen

3 body problem by Liu Cixin— 2008/2015
On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden 2016-2017
Technically the entirety of Discworld is within that date range (1983-2015) but if we’re going for essential I’d probably pick out Small Gods or the Death novels (starting with Mort)
Sam Starbuck’s Six Harvests in Lea, Texas just squeaks in with a publication date of March 2020