surprised we've avoided this one:
the YA twitter/Lockheed Martin drama is really something. you don't expect a crossover between a toxic industry that destroys lives and a defense contractor.— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) August 3, 2022
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
I would like to continue to avoid it tbh
― mh, Thursday, 4 August 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
Was reading about Isabel Fall yesterday..
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 August 2022 08:39 (one year ago) link
That was the clusterfuck that drove me off social media once and for all! SFF writers are as bad as any others when it comes to piling in on things they know nothing about.
― ~insert pun here~ (Matt #2), Thursday, 4 August 2022 09:18 (one year ago) link
I usually tend to observe the madness.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 August 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
The sentence "A nepotism gig at the war crimes factory?" has been pinballing around my head for the past week.
― etc, Friday, 5 August 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
one of the more limping lines from "Tokyo Storm Warning"
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 07:20 (one year ago) link
This is the @TheBookerPrizes shortlist announcement, highlighting the apparent comedic novelty of a book club from Scunthorpe having members who are a steel worker & dinner lady.It's embarrassing, condescending - and exactly how much of the industry sees the working class 🚮 pic.twitter.com/VDVt2W0xwR— Kerry Wilkinson (@kerrywk) September 7, 2022
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
Joyce Carol Oates shouldn't have written Blonde. What could a literary non-hottie know about the exploitation of femme, highly sexualized women - women who look and act like Oates have no compassion or love for women like Marilyn. They're just as bad as men at writing them.— Terese Marie (@TereseMarieM) September 28, 2022
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 September 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
This needs to stew a while before it ascends to the heights of a true clusterfuck. afaics, this is just twitter fooling around and having fun.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 29 September 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
jeez I haven’t read that book or watched the movie but the detachment of writing, projecting your takes and the interpretation of that fiction, definitely come off differently in film and some things I’m seeing make me feel bad
― mh, Thursday, 29 September 2022 02:59 (one year ago) link
Wild how this jumble of words now indicates that the speaker hates a specific group of marginalized people pic.twitter.com/t8JC9TrEFi— Maris Kreizman (@mariskreizman) November 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 28 November 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
rly love how she, like her comrades, has declined multiple generous opportunities to simply shut up about trans people 🤔
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 28 November 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link
that article & excerpt are deeply awful, you will be surprised to hear
― rob, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
Minus: read an extract
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
perhaps "extract" rather than "excerpt" was a warning
― rob, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
Is this the correct thread for this?
TW: suicidean author unalived herself in 2020 "due to the bullying that she'd experienced in the bookish community" and ppl started to buy her books to support her family. last night she posted out of nowhere that she's back😭— ray (@anoldcurse) January 4, 2023
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
what in the actual fuck
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
Paranormal Romance book world, who'd have thunk it.
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
I haven’t made it past the fact that they created a fundraiser anthology to support the family of a victim of bullying that was made up of romance bullying stories. PARANORMAL romance bullying stories.
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
articles spreading across second-tier news sites rapidly in the last hour. no Hell hot enough for this person
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
Holy shit
At the time, a group of authors dedicated this anthology to her, proceeds were given to the family I believe (will confirm). Btw, these are USA Today best selling authors. Susan’s “suicide” was due to bullying pic.twitter.com/vsnprlAVyh— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 4, 2023
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:00 (one year ago) link
really fucked up that Cole was basically bullied herself for causing a suicide that didn't actually happen.
of course, it's hard to prove for sure that this is actually Susan herself, but i'd assume a family member would have stepped in to clarify by now that it wasn't her.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
Andrew, every time I see that tweet I start cackling like a fiend
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:10 (one year ago) link
“I'm normally a lurker here, but thought I should use my break out post to tell you all (at least those who care) that Susan Meachen etc etc”
― omar little, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:17 (one year ago) link
Discovered a new genre
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
It’s basically where the main character is treated like crap and there are paranormal elements in the story - could be the characters are shape shifters, werewolves, etc. mashup of sci fi/horror/fantasy.— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 4, 2023
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
what if a sexy werewolf was also your mean shift manager at mcdonslds— Alex P 👹 jorts.horse/@saddestrobots (@SaddestRobots) January 4, 2023
"There's only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you've got to be kind - Unless! it would sexier not to be kind."
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 23:17 (one year ago) link
what if a sexy werewolf was also your mean shift manager at mcdonslds is killing me.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 5 January 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
However, it’s come to light that the account may have been a burner page that Meachen created in order to maintain a presence in the book community while also remaining dead.
― mh, Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:41 (one year ago) link
like lol...she was on TikTok AND posting videos of herself
She’s been on Tik Tok the whole time. Props to @AccNightmare with this. pic.twitter.com/gu32W5HRc8— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 5, 2023
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 January 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
Author Susan Meachen, back from the dead, with one of the most impressive gaslighting performances you’ll ever read. pic.twitter.com/tHpVd7IFTT— Anaïs is reading (@anaisisreading) January 7, 2023
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:02 (one year ago) link
Does transcending the pages of a book make me a bad Author or a good one?
Much to contemplate and consider
― jmm, Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
I do love the defense of, "Oh, I'm only worth money to you dead, you ghouls?" Good stuff.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
The best literary clusterfucks are the ones where the author tries to author through it
― jmm, Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:05 (one year ago) link
Decided there was more "healing to be had" by yknow not being dead. She's amazing.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
“i told you i would never log off!”
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
Donors who are angry are "cruelly wishing death on me"
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
I'm mostly wishing death on myself after having read all that, tbh.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 8 January 2023 02:09 (one year ago) link
This is my favorite performance by a lit clusterfuck actor. Truly hard to take the side of the victims.
― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Sunday, 8 January 2023 02:22 (one year ago) link
i love when these deluded weirdos fo that “faux press conference” thing with themselves, asking & answering their own questions, it just makes her seem so much more unhinged
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 January 2023 04:02 (one year ago) link
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, January 7, 2023 7:57 PM bookmarkflaglink
really is expert-level trolling.
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 January 2023 06:31 (one year ago) link
has there already been an “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!”- type show with people like this lady, bad art friend, the pathological liar in that NYT article, etc…? feel like I could binge that for sure
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 January 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link
main character island
― mh, Monday, 9 January 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
Would watch
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
Hosted by JT Leroy
― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Monday, 9 January 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
Hosted by JT Leroy― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Monday, January 9, 2023 2:01 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Monday, January 9, 2023 2:01 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
kudos
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 9 January 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
Susan Meachen, a romance writer accused of faking her own death, said her online community had become a danger to her mental health. “It wasn’t good for me, no it wasn’t,” she told @EllenBarryNYT. “I wish I had never met the book industry whatsoever.” https://t.co/xebE0BwwJc— New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) January 18, 2023
― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
still can't believe her TikTok was up the entire time she was 'dead'
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link