okay i am legit dying here at "i don't know nothin bout birthin no taters"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 March 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
as soon as I thought of them as black, the book came to life in the most incredible and inexplicable way. It began to write itself. I don’t know why this is,
I THINK I MIGHT KNOW WHY THIS IS
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 March 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link
this is almost as bad as M Night creating a rapper character named Mid Size Sedan in Old
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 March 2022 17:27 (two years ago) link
no this is much worse
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 7 March 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
actually you are correct
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 March 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
I don’t know why this is, since the book isn’t about race – or it’s only very occasionally, tangentially, about race. It just suddenly felt like a real world I had discovered, rather than an imaginary world I was inventing. Everything fell into place.
what the fuck
― a (waterface), Monday, 7 March 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
Ugh.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
Please forgive me but now I can't get this out my head:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBi_CyJe604
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
that interview is somehow worse than her invented language
― a (waterface), Monday, 7 March 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
and how did you sustain that for an entire novel?
the question that needed to be asked.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Monday, 7 March 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
every sentence a red flag― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, March 7, 2022 9:10 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinkI think you mean "erry senny a flag rouge", Brad― castanuts (DJP), Monday, March 7, 2022 9:12 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, March 7, 2022 9:10 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I think you mean "erry senny a flag rouge", Brad
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, March 7, 2022 9:12 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
fucking lost it at this, thanking u DJP
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 7 March 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
I didn't know anything about all this when I first formed my opinion, was just relying on the plot summary and the irondreamclad reputation of ILB0r mookieproof.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
I guess it wasn’t even a summary not that it would have mattered.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
i feel like a version of “seeking one’s own counsel for a bad idea” exists in every one of these types of clusterfucks“i asked myself if it was a good idea & i said yes”
I was very aware that this was a controversial thing to do, as a white person. I thought about it a lot, and questioned my position, and etc But after a while, I couldn’t really help writing the book that way because it worked. Also, the characters very quickly became real people to me, who demanded to be written about as they were.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
i did not ask any POC bc then i would not be able to do my good idea
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
What could go wrong?
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
It's funny that this isn't even the book this clusterfuck is about
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
lol thats true i forgot abt that
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:42 (two years ago) link
Isn’t her new book effectively the plot of Y: The Last Man?
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
yah it's also kinda like The Leftovers
― a (waterface), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
should call this book Why The Last Man?
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
Or John Wylie's The Disappearance
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
Or Frank Herbert's The White Plague
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 7 March 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
Or, uh, Herland
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 7 March 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
Y oh Y Are All the Wangs Gone?
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 7 March 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
-Pete Seeger
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 March 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
Or Lauren Beukes' Afterland (which is only 2 years old) where 4 billion males die off in a plague
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 7 March 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
Or...jesus
https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780385696630-us.jpg
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 7 March 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, March 7, 2022 2:02 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol
― horseshoe, Monday, 7 March 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
over here singing "when will we ever learn?" to myself
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 7 March 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
apparently her *next* book is a retelling of 1984 from julia’s pov
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 March 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
High concept writing
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 7 March 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/ARcuWefq7y— Sandra Newman (@sannewman) January 30, 2018
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 7 March 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
^ I'm curious, why do you post these?
― jmm, Monday, 7 March 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link
yeah seems pointless
― rob, Monday, 7 March 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
Not sure. Can't think of anything to say but for some reason want to respond. Thought it was local ascii for "speechless." I couldn't think of anythingg to top anything on that thread. Almost said "I stopped at the twentieth one."
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link
(to be clear, "pointless" was just a bad pun)
I scrolled until I got to 100 and gave up
― rob, Monday, 7 March 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
Also wanted to ask mookie whether that1984 thing was a joke or not. If it isn't true it might as well be.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
Ha, I figured the "pointless" thing was a joke but wasn't sure how to respond to that either. Was hoping somebody would follow up with a further punctuation gag.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
Ah, gotcha, thanks for the explanation.
― jmm, Monday, 7 March 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/07/feminist-retelling-of-nineteen-eighty-four-approved-by-orwells-estatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TN-kDEKxF0
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
This author is like Amanda Palmer and Pomplamoose [insert yr other ILX faves here] rolled into one.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
But perhaps this is an injustice to her sui generis originality or lack thereof.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
I thought about it a lot, and questioned my position, and etc But after a while
and etc
― Heez, Monday, 7 March 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
getting some sort of initial success as a writer must be very much like cocaine
― imago, Monday, 7 March 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
I still can't believe the Pomplamoose guy is the CEO of Patreon
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 7 March 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
ugh, things i didn't know i didn't want to know
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 7 March 2022 22:33 (two years ago) link
of course he is
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 March 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
like least surprising thing ever