Indie author Lucia Damisa blocked me on IG after I pointed out her covers were AI. Considering the message I sent was kind & didn't attack her, I'm assuming she's well aware. I'm disappointed, but if she's okay with using AI for her cover, who knows if she used it to write her book.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

Every single one of them deserves PRISON.

A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.

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First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

Nazis are bad. I think we should make that clear.

It’s wild to think that if just a handful of people inexplicably teleported to the other side of the universe, it’d dramatically improve the lives and safety of billions of people around the world.