Writing About People You Know
Themes: Writing, Writing about people, facilitating abuse, privacy, comfort I’m writing this October 2025 in a very reactive headspace. let’s see if that comes through after whatever light editing I end up doing.(Author’s note. So,I was writing this during my breaks at work, and because of that, this ended...
Someone on twitter posted a deeply painful letter from a person that died at sea fleeing terrible conditions in Africa and claimed it was from someone escaping Sudan. When corrected, and told it was from someone coming out of a different country back in 2015. They doubled down and...
El Fasher has fallen
El Fasher has been taken and is being brutalized by RSF a UAE and western back militia.Folks in the west (even those that don’t dismiss Black and African pain) have been struggling with the genocide in Sudan because it’s so explicitly not a football game of politics. The people...
Time and Trauma (1?)
This is such a “not for everybody” post. But… And maybe this has been said before, but I’m explaining it like I was five less than 24 hours ago. So, scientifically, time is not linear and all moments happen at once.Linear time is how the mind interprets and processes...
Complaining about the HEA in Romance Bullshit Again
I actually don’t think I’ve mentioned it before but I’m going to now.One of the key things that strikes me as making the “HEA is required for a book to be a romance” a deeply unrespectable position, is how their arguments are word for word pulled from how cishet...
The Bible and Media Literacy
I don’t remember the whole concept and if I find it, I’ll bring it back to y ‘all. But the idea is that a lot of people’s understanding of how to engage with and enjoy media stops at bible study. That if you like something, that means you aim...
Science in Fantasy
I have a lot of feelings about so many book oppinions. Let’s talk about this hate for science in fantasy. 1. If you like potions class but not blasters, it’s not a science issue it is a “I want mideaval fantasy” issue. 2. It feels very tunnel visioned and...
Reflect and Progress: Writing Update
So, we’re going to try something. I have been watching an absurd amount of Ismatu Gwendolyn and have felt compelled. As well as this specific day has brought about some of this. So, the reason why I feel compelled is that, on this day in 2017. I finished writing...
How the St. Martin’s Press Boycott Reveals a Core Problem of the Book Community.
The very first thing you need to know is that it was not actually a boycott. Let’s go back to October 7th 2023. After the attack from The Islamic Resistance Movement, aka Hamas, an employee with the press went on an Islamophobic rant online. People were outraged and insisted...
Its Not a Small World If You Look Beyond What’s Put In Front of You
A while ago I saw a group talking about books and realize there was a book they’d read in common and someone said “It really is a small literary world”. And that has haunted me ever since. Because it literally is not. The problem is, imperialism puts certain things...