#Fiction

sarah is a corpse simp

barnettdidit

when will ppl stop assuming stuff and just talk to the shippers instead??? literally no dramione i know enjoys this dynamic, so theyre just wildly throwing out hurtful assumptions that

Rivqa Rafael

enoughsnark

I'm at the #GenreCon2019 keynote address, ready to hear @KateForsyth be fabulous as always. Mute if you want, I'll only judge you a bit. Kate is talking about her life,

Yonah (they/el)

remembrancermx

As a rape victim, I’ve now been informed I favor abuse over love for liking fictional couples.https://twitter.com/ysgawen/status/1252670246198050817 See this is why I get upset about fandom policing. Ultimately, you’re saying

Matthew Turner

MjTurner_

Even the billboards are empty Naked billboard Naked billboard Sky blue naked billboard Naked advert Naked Billboard 'We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind—mass merchandising, advertising,

Cyd Harrell

cydharrell

I'm going to offer a thread of non-escapist science-fiction recommendations, many of them by writers of color. these are books that for one reason or another help me think about

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Hmm. Can any long-arc extended universe type stuff be traced to the 1920s? Especially in genre fiction? Considering a hypothesis that it was a slump decade for EUs. There’s a

John Holbo

jholbo1

Yep. That's the argument. And the counterargument from @billscher. Let's game it out. R's want to maintain the fiction that their 6-3 partisan lock is just for extra safe 'balls

Petersfield Bookshop

The_PBS

So here's the game:reply here with a fiction book, that rocked your world, a book you still carry with you inside......and then look at the thread and reply to someone

clarz but underground 🙈🚀

clarz

i was having a convo abt the "some fic writers are here for the Wrong Reasons" discourse i see a lot among army, so here's some vague thoughts, bc what's

mia, staying indoors

BlueRoseSonata

A thread of books I have bought almost solely for their covers and bindings, with pictures.1) Death And The Afterlife, Clifford A. Pickover.Sterling Publishing. Cover by Spencer Charles, int. design

Sarah Phillimore

SVPhillimore

The recent @TheBARPod episode, although very disappointing in its dismissive attitude towards women’s safety, did at least provoke some thought about legal fiction and its purpose. Both hosts invoked adoption

Alex Zelasi

AZelasi

CW: prejudice against scars / disfigurement.I'm tired of how scars (especially facial scars) are represented in fiction.It seems like, if a character has (a lot of) visible scarring, they have

cheshire⁷ | jimim

cheshire_bts

something i notice a lot in fiction (not just fanfic) is that occasionally the author doesn’t know how to handle describing the pov character, which is one of the easiest

C.C. Finlay

ccfinlay

I use the phrase "narrative momentum" in a lot of rejections for submissions to F&SF. As in "for me this needed more narrative momentum" or "the narrative lost momentum for

April Dunford

aprildunford

I've been thinking a lot about positioning and how it relates to storytelling and messaging. Folks often confuse the two but they are NOT the same. Starting with storytelling without

whats a chicago

ghostchibi

I realized there's a lot of young dgs fans who ship Ryuu with Barok and Holmes and as easy as it is for me to say "what the fuck" and