Go forth and continue being amazing, Sarah! I know it's wild to launch a book now, but this is NEEDED.

Heh. I have some theories about how and why the "I need a recipe/instructions on magic & how to worldbuild" thing happened and persists. But I'm thinking in the age of LLMs we gotta avoid all those rails as much as we can, or we just get more beige slop.

Oh man. Yeah a student recently asked me a about magic systems and the Sanderson approach. I found myself saying, isn't the fun of magic that it's magic? Isn't there joy in not knowing? I dislike the hard rules stance as much as the "no adverbs" thing. There's no strict recipe for a book.

Well, I will cross my fingers for you anyway. May you at the very least have a lovely evening, a delicious canapé, and some excellent drinks.

I really loved this one. It was such a perfect read for chaotic times. (I am a big KW fan)
Just recognizing the inherent humor of a PT Cruiser and the Chevy HHR. He gets the humor/tender balance exactly right.

The approach felt like it leaned VERY heavily on "horrendous fathers create sons who become horrendous fathers" and the cycle beaks only when creating an inhuman creature. Obviously I'm biased because the work is basically every theme I'm obsessed with.

I tend to view GDT as a fellow appreciator of the beautiful grotesque, so the ugly bit doesn't register for me. I found the makeup a really beautiful design? Though I did give a giggle at a some profile shots where it's clear the creature is bountiful both fore and aft. 😆

It's infuriating when governments rely on the people practicing altruism, mutual aid, charity, and direct care, so that there's still a citizenry to extract money from.

I can't properly critique it because the themes are ones I'm obviously obsessed with. I also love Guillermo del Toro's style and point of view to the point where I'm no fair judge.
I really enjoyed it.

Heh. Then my approval rating is already higher than his.

We're absolutely not built for that shit, but neither are they.

Man, I dunno. I'm never gonna win a race. I'm not the kind of writer who wins the National Book Award. Doing the damn thing and knowing *I* did it is everything.

Yeah, that was what I was getting at. Old literary twitter essentially WAS the New Yorker audience.

I mean, the person I knew who had encountered him isn't, and the other is no longer with us. Sigh.
But also almost nothing that got enormous traction on literary twitter ever broke through to the commercial public. See that whole Delia Owens thing.

all. the. time.

Rosalind Franklin fans everywhere having big feelings 😈