This Week's Monstrosity: Justice for Barbie. Justice for Babel.
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I’m sharing quarterlyish peeks at my works in progress and readerly rambles about what I’m reading and loving.
Update
As author Brad Meltzer put it, Ken getting an Oscar nomination but not Barbie (or her director) is literally the plot of the movie.
The Oscars of sci-fi and fantasy writing (the Hugo awards) are also having issues. After the 2023 WorldCon was hosted in China, it has come out that several leading contenders were disqualified from winning in their categories without explanation.
An essay against self-criticism for artists and all of us. Why are we so harsh to ourselves?
Who is etiquette for? A quirky Vox story that put me in worldbuilding mode considering how a world’s values show up in their social expectations.
If you were fascinated and confused by the odd assassin in the newest season of Fargo, you might like this interview with writer/director Thomas Bezucha.