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Charles Payseur
@ClowderofTwo
https://t.co/8nZchc0jif Locus and Ignyte Award winning editor and 7x Hugo finalist. Bisexual all day. https://t.co/JEb0TCRHHv…
Jun 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Sometimes people have trauma responses and they might seem like overreactions but actually it's just that person knowing exactly how things are going to play out a year in the future from spending five minutes with someone else. Me (after said five minutes): Well that went all right.
Husband: *squints eyes*
Me: Oh shit.
Jun 4, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
started watching Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated and what have they done? They really took *the* episodic mystery cartoon and are trying to inject a mythology and backstory? I'm...not yet convinced. Part of this is...is this supposed to be the 60s? Or modern? ...both? Also, Shaggy. Dude was a Hippy. I actually liked in What's New how they made him a vegetarian. Now...he's...maybe a stoner? But also not really.
Jun 3, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
This got more attention than I was expecting. I do want to say that I respect the hell out of the work editors put in to be considerate, knowledgeable, and decisive. It's a very difficult job, and many do it so well. The thread is not meant as an admonishment to editors. Rather, it springs from a frustration with the conversation about the roles editors and writers play in publication, and how that can reinforce some toxic sentiments.
Nov 27, 2018 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
It's so hard to push back against the narrative of constant improvement. I know I've internalized the idea that things should always get better. That careers and lives progress upwards and onwards or are otherwise failures. Which is just absolute horseshit. But it's the structure that I was taught to expect. Life progresses, from school to bigger school to work to promotions to retirement. At every step wealth was supposed to improve, along with acclaim and prestige.
Nov 19, 2018 • 13 tweets • 9 min read
All right, so I want to run down some of my favorite short SFF stories of the year, as prelude to my recommended reading list, which I'm busily working on. I'm capping myself at 10 today (the final list will have 75) “The Emotionless, In Love” by @jasonsanford (pub @BCSmagazine) (28000 word novella). Beautifully haunting, exploring damage and healing, and omglob the action sequences are intense! beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-em…
Jul 8, 2018 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
So, Writing Workshops. Everyone remember how Neil Gaiman said everyone should do Clarion and SFF exploded for a few months? Not weeks, but M O N T H S. It went through all the stages of Discourse. Twitter threads, subtweets, counter subtweets, blog posts, counter blog posts, nonfiction pieces in sff pubs, counter nonfiction pieces in sff pubs. It was...wow. Kinda amazing, but also like wow, shit.