Will Shetterly's Blog, page 6
November 1, 2022
October 29, 2022
The Triumphant Return of the Red Marvel
“I’m sorry,” the woman said, as the Red Marvel expected and feared she would. “The shelter is full.”
October 28, 2022
Comrade Morlock or Will Shetterly?
If I could only give one piece of advice to anyone who goes online, it would be to use a pseudonym. For most of my life, I thought using…
October 27, 2022
The Buffy Lessons: What writers should learn from a great, flawed show
The following thoughts are from blog posts. I’ve trimmed them, but I haven’t tried to make this a proper essay, so some parts end without…
The Ones Who Stay and Fight in Omelas
The ones who walk away from Omelas will tell you of the glorious city built on the suffering of a child who lives in hunger and darkness…
The People Who Owned the Bible
It was time for another Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension to keep Disney’s star property out of the public domain. Somebody’s nephew had a…
June 24, 2022
June 22, 2022
Why Race Reductionists Love a White Woman’s Idea that Racism is Power Plus Prejudice and Ignore…
This was Malcolm X’s definition of racism:
June 21, 2022
Why Nazis are not Socialists #8: Conservatives Put Hitler in Power
To answer people with a superficial understanding of history and politics who insist Nazis are socialists, I wrote Seven reasons why Nazis…
June 17, 2022
A Black Guy Shouts At Me, and It Brightens My Day
I wrote Things I Didn’t Say to a Black Racist Bicyclist after an unusual meeting with a stranger.
