Will Shetterly's Blog, page 98
August 27, 2015
August 26, 2015
An open letter to George R. R. Martin about the Hugos and fandom's SJWs
Dear George, I generally share your sentiments atHugo Aftermath - Not A Blog, but I envy your ability to write this: There were no SJWs, then or now. There were only the Puppies... and the rest of us, who weren'tPuppies,and did not like having their choices imposed on us. Would that were so. The first evidence that there are SJWs in fandom: Best Fan Writer went to Laura Mixon for writing
August 20, 2015
Mouseland #1
Yes, inspired byMouseland:
Liavek 2 is now available!
Details here:Now available!Liavek2! Or if you want to go straight to a place to buy: Liavek2 - Amazon.comLiavek2 | Barnes & NobleLiavek2 –Smashwords
August 19, 2015
Dear internet, can anyone get in touch with Charles R. Saunders?
We're hoping to republish his Liavek story, "Ishu's Gift", in the fourth Liavek ebook, but we haven't been able to reach him with the online contacts we have or at the online sites we've found. So I'm making a public post in the hope he or a friend will notice. If we don't hear from him in time for #4, we'll just leave his story out and hope to include it in a later volume—fortunately, it can fit
For people who cite the Black Book of Communism or believe "communism killed more people than capitalism"
I am so naive I once believed facts would matter online, that the internet would be the graveyard of bad ideas instead of the place where they live forever. Have a relevant quote: "Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal." —Anatole France Today, a friend on Facebook shared: “Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the
August 18, 2015
Is Betty Boop black or white? Yes and no. (another interracial romance post)
Just got this comment onInterracial romance in comic books: Betty Boop is black, I think she and Freddie beat everyone here. Which is an excellent excuse for a post. Your required basic knowledge fromBetty Boop: Betty Boop made her first appearance on August 9, 1930, in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes; the sixth installment in Fleischer's Talkartoon series. Although Clara Bow is often given as
August 17, 2015
Equality doesn't mean justice — fixed!
This was shared and its shortcomings noted atEquality and Justice and why the difference matters | The Dream Café: Here's a fix: ETA: An even better version of this would put everyone in the stands, of course. But there are different kinds of socialism—the one thing they have in common is the desire to tear down the walls that keep the poorest people outside of the game.
An apology, and an announcement of a change
I don't mind repeating myself, but I try to include something new when I do. I failed to do that in my previous post, and I'm sorry. I won't delete the post, but I'm going to take a break from blogging about the things I've been addressing lately. Either there will be a break before my next post, or my next post will be unlike my previous ones. (If my next post is, as I hope, an announcement
Who is the white Michael Brown, the white Sandra Bland, the white Freddie Gray?
Just saw Sarah Zhang'sPolice Training Is Seriously Lacking in Actual Science | WIRED. It begins, MICHAEL BROWN WAS, at best, stopped by police for stealing cigarillos. Sandra Bland for failing to signal a lane change. Freddie Gray for carrying a switchblade. I completely agree with the article's broader topic, but it assumes police killings are primarily a problem for black folks. I just
