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Did you know that I #write #ScienceFantasy inspired by #HeavyMetal? Think androids, catgirls, and demons from outer space.
I have a #ShortStory called "Thirteen Cuts" that you can read for free: https://matthewgraybosch.com/stories/thirteen-cuts.html
I also have a couple of novels available on Amazon:
WITHOUT BLOODSHED
https://matthewgraybosch.com/novels/without-bloodshed.html
SILENT CLARION
https://matthewgraybosch.com/novels/silent-clarion.html
I'm currently working on a new novel that reboots my Starbreaker saga. It's called NEVER THE HEROES.
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#amreading FINDING BABA YAGA by #JaneYolen. Subsequent posts will be unlisted and CWed as necessary.
@starbreaker In a word: Scabs. People are so brainwashed that unions are bad that they mostly reject them out of hand, which makes organizing impossible.
Even if an artists union did form, we'd need a critical mass of independent artists to join it and for people to NOT be scabs and take non-union jobs, which won't happen until it's accepted knowledge that unions are a force for good and that life is better in a union.
♲ @dickmandrake@elekk.xyz: The Girl Scouts of Western Washington were offered $100,000 on the condition that the donation "will not be used to support transgender girls".
They sent the money back, held a fundraising campaign, and raised $300,000. #ForEVERYGirl
www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-g…
Why is it only the screenwriters who have an effective #union? Shouldn't all writers have a union? Shouldn't all artists, musicians, etc. be part of union?
The Girl Scouts of Western Washington were offered $100,000 on the condition that the donation "will not be used to support transgender girls".
They sent the money back, held a fundraising campaign, and raised $300,000. #ForEVERYGirl
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-girl-scouts-transgender-20150703-story.html
We must revive Gopherspace | box.matto.nl
Not just for sdf-ers anymore?
@starbreaker I don't see what I'm wondering as much related to existentialism, sorry - I'm not thinking about the meaning of the events, but how those events are structured as a narrative.
And while the two could overlap - the narrative helps inform the meaning - that's not how I'm thinking of it; I'm thinking more in literary scope.
(But, because I'm down for the conversation, hold up while I write a second response to this.)
@starbreaker I think that the individual struggle being one of existentialism is pretty novel - most individual struggles in the past seem (in history and literature) to have been more a struggle to secure the prosperity to allow oneself to explore/discover existentialism.
So in that way I think I'd view history as a quest for our species to get to that same point - to where we have the luxury to just /think/ for a moment. Which weirdly goes to what @clacke and I were talkin about.
"Wait! I know you. I know your true name. Your witchcraft holds no pow--"
"Maybe not, but you will still your tongue lest I rip it out and let my cats fight over it."
"You would murder a guest? Now we see you true colors."
"Cram it, Kim. You're content to sit there in silence sipping my wine while Wheatley deadnames my partner in her own home? Is this how you honor your hosts?"
"But you're villains!"
"And what the hell are you?"
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Well, looks like the mass-market edition of STEELFLOWER is up at Amazon.
Man, this is satisfying. https://amzn.to/2EdOKLK
Wrote a bit about the design philosophy of sourcehut here, if anyone is interested:
#scifi & #fantasy #author. #writing a new novel: "Never the Heroes". Uses #OpenBSD & #FOSS. #heavymetal #atheist #libsoc #nonbinary #demisexual #nobot