Literary Clusterfucks 2013

that analogy works more accurately applied to the opposite parties in the new dynamic

xp lol im sorry youre sorry if you feel that way

I’m sorry you had to see that

having spoken to my wife and sponsors, i can now see the error of my ways and i promise to do better

Every apology is self-interested therefore true altruism is to not apologize at all.

yes

Speaking of YA fiction:

http://epicstream.com/news/JakeVyper/Magic-The-Gathering-Fans-Are-Not-Pleased-With-The-New-War-of-The-Spark-Forsaken-Novel

by that reasoning, true altruism is killing yourself quietly in the grave you thoughtfully dug for yourself ahead of time.

How dare this written-for-hire sequel to a sequel to a sequel of a novelisation of a card game be badly written?

This is what gamer gate was about I guess

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/very-online-sarah-dessen-social-media-controversy

'“Many authors consider their writing to be political and use social media to discuss their views and opinions,” cultural critic and digital strategist Ella Dawson says.'

lol pwned by a digital strategist

The author is just asking to be put to death again.

another case of "people don't really need to have this explained to them, do they?" vs. "so many people are super fucking stupid."

https://www.themarysue.com/romance-writers-author-courtney-milan-rwa-ruling/

Sometimes I like to think about how Nathaniel Hawthorne lived next door to Louisa May Alcott and was a petty whiny little bitch about her success until the end

— rachel syme (@rachsyme) January 2, 2020

i hate twitter

ya done goofed nathaniel my boy

Now wait a second...

nobody loves the scarlet letter my guy! You done goofed

— rachel syme (@rachsyme) January 2, 2020

Young Incel Brown

its about time someone was brave enough to take him down a few pegs. i'm sick of the army of all these House of the Seven Gables fanboys clogging up my TL all day every day

Finally, a voice of sanity on the RWA clusterfuck

enjoy new no sex tingler NOT POUNDED BY ROMANCE WRANGLERS OF AMERICA BECAUSE THEIR NEW LEADERSHIP IS FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE ENDLESS COSMIC VOID out now https://t.co/rT0bh3B6K6 pic.twitter.com/EPDAQX9Agn

— Chuck Tingle (@ChuckTingle) January 3, 2020

waht is going on here

https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Romance-publishing-industry-in-chaos-top-awards-14958581.php

I think I'm would-be-woke-American-genre-fiction-debacle'd out.

"This is akin to putting a neo-Nazi in charge of a UN human rights committee," she wrote

lmao astonishing

it's true that neo-Nazis spend most of their time calling out other people's racism

good thing they never put horrible human rights abusers in charge of UN human rights committees amirite

do we start a new thread when we hit 2,014 clusterfucks?

feels like we're close

I appreciate that the story about a genre fiction scandal is being reported by an organ whose name sounds like a genre fiction scandal

omg wins

lmao

Good on Nora Roberts though.

No longer a member of Romance Writers of America, the best-selling writer said that she became disillusioned in 2005, when top leaders drafted a statement defining romance as between a man and a woman

bigotry is not funny, but the use of 'romance' throughout that article as if the RWA is legislating romance itself is kind of lol

better than the SFWA, which defines Science as "a thing girls don't like."

? SFWA is currently headed by a woman and I'm had women among its founding members (Kate Wilhelm at the very least, iirc)

which is not to claim that SF wasn't a deeply sexist genre for decades but still

I'm

is joke aiui

Nora Roberts's statement isn't totally accurate, but it was definitely a bad move from RWA.
https://allaboutromance.com/defining-romance-does-rwa-finally-have-it-right/

lol wins

2005 was a fiery time for the RWA. It seems as if someone at RWA got tired of telling people that romance fiction isn’t just “smut for women” and tried making romance more respectable.

i read a lot of romance as an adolescent BECAUSE i discovered that it was smut for women. discovered in the MOST PERTINENT POSSIBLE WAY

2020 off with a bang in the SFF field:

http://file770.com/clarkesworld-removes-isabel-falls-story/

Literacy was a mistake.

That being said, 'I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter' is a well-known alt-right catchphrase. If the story isn't intent on deconstructing that association, I'd say it's fair to file it under 'transphobic'.

well good thing they removed the story so we can't see whether it was or not

In the above image, a commenter reports that Fall is a trans woman who has requested that her story be withdrawn, wants her payment donated to charity, was trying to subvert anti-trans rhetoric, and is withdrawing all future work. A later comment says that she's not doing well.

— whistling in the dark (@M_L_Clark) January 14, 2020

I read it, am very certain it was intent on deconstructing that association.

I have no idea why people write anything other than transparently unequivocal first-person sentences they'd abide by in a court of law.

You can read it archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200115052857/http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fall_01_20/

Writing where the genres identify as 'communities', such as YA, sci fi, romance, are always the ones that go apeshit.

The conclusion: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fall_01_20/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/books/american-dirt-jeanine-cummins-book-tour.html