And with advice on writing- don’t leave your writing as it starts, think about how cool it could be. Don’t leave it at the magikarp stage. Do not fear the edit, embrace the edit.

“Lady knights are the answer to the tradwife. If we’re going to dress up and act like these histories that never happened are things that we’re going to get again, we might as well do the one where we get a sword”

More incredible reasons to read this book. “I need you to understand that in my head she’s unreasonably large. I wanted to give her all the tropes of a historical romance male love interest.”

It’s important to Alix that we understand that Una is so big and so hot and so sad.

Oh importantly “Sabriel counts because she has a sword”

And then talking about how, to memify it, your fave is problematic — the dawning realization that the reality of knights historically was more akin to “private security for landowners” than “the coolest girl in the kingdom AND she has a sword”

Elon knows people like him are not just a minority but a reviled one by most people in most countries so he is buying the illusion of popularity just like he purchased the false veneer of business genius, he's even using the same method

I can only imagine how that team is feeling today, after experiencing this disappointing moment at the Hugo Ceremony, and now not even being included in the apology. Please make this right. All of the Hugo finalists deserve to be celebrated and uplifted by the Worldcon. 2/2

Toooooooooootaly unnoticeable 😅

GREAT panel

I think Martha wells is most likely to get somewhere in the 4.5 range if murderbot gets one- hasn’t she stated that she will be rejecting any nominations for murderbot to let others get their flowers?

I considered not going in today, but the thing my work did was “trip to volunteer at free books to prisoners program all day”