Ellen Kushner @ellenkushner.bsky.social
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Author Swordspoint etc. Audiobook narrator for Neil Gaiman Presents. Ex-radio star. Loves a good crowd. Not related to rich people.
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We were delighted & surprised!
Huge congratulations to Delia Sherman and
@EllenKushner
for winning the NESFA's Skylark Award for significant contribitions to the sf/fantasy field, presented in Boston this past weekend. So well deserved!
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For my fellow angsty writers. Please tattoo on every available surface.
Martha Graham to Agnes deMille:
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"the sexy lamp test holds ‘if you can replace yr female character with a sexy lamp & the story still basically works, maybe u need another draft.’ If you can replace your ethnic minority character w a teddy bear that says ‘I believe in you!’, that may also need another draft."
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"Well, actually, it’s only mansplaining if it comes from the Mansplain region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling misogyny." -- Chase Henderson (via FB)
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@jlq529
@Imposter_Edits
THANK YOU.
It’s clear he wasn’t stealing a guitar: in the video you can see him grab it as they’re rushing him out!
Also, their level of cold anger and “LEAVE THIS STORE” is not for shoplifting.
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I Don’t Think a Woman is Electable In 2020 Because Last Time Around the Female Nominee Only Got Three Million More Votes Than Her Opponent
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Anyone else grow up hearing a disagreeable person referred to as "a pill"?
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"I’m looking for more shows that don’t end with a big battle. If that’s the hero’s journey, I’m sick of it. Less people with swords. More people with sandwiches." -- Karen Joy Fowler
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A librarian friend writes: “This bill would make it a FELONY for teachers or school librarians to provide books to kids that community members deem inappropriate.
Florida folks, CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. This is some serious bullshit right here.”
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“Diamonds are formed under pressure,
but bread dough rises when you let it rest.
What’s motivating to you may be crippling to others.”
--
@Linaowinmo
(paraphrased)
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Worldbuilding 101
@KatEschner
Every badger in a waistcoat implies a whole infrastructure of badger tailors and store owners.
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The perfect use for Grandma’s old china:
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SF writer and all around mensch Greg Bear is leaving us. His heart surgery created a series of strokes he will not wake up from. Here is his wife’s harsh and gentle public update from yesterday:
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Not mine, but now yours and you are very welcome
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Neil Gaiman & me, WFC 1991
Yes, I am cleaning my office. Like a Ninja!
This one gives me joy.
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@laurenboebert
God, you're an idiot. I can't even. Please shut up and go away. You make me tired.
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"It is easy to hate Nazis. We all hate them. Even Nazis hate Nazis so much that when you call them Nazis, they say they aren't." -- Javier Velasco
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@vandroidhelsing
I call upon the power of all my genius rhyming friends (and any of theirs) to now crank out a series of increasingly rambunctious songs beginning always with:
"I heard there was a...."
a/a/b/b/etc. rhymes only, please
@lizduffyadams
@Signs_of_Life
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"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February." -- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970)
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Lmao Trump said NYC is a ghost town that may never recover. So sad.
Darlings, I live here. Our open restaurants are spilling out into the streets. The second anything opens, we are there. This city never sleeps.
Man is smoking the Hello Kitty Crack Pipe.
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Delia Sherman & Ellen Kushner. Illegally married in 1996; legal in 2004
Too many queer youth say they don’t see elders to give them hope. Please, for
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
, I’m calling lesbians age 40 and over. Reply or quote with a pic/vid to show our youth they have generations past, present, and well into the future🧡🩷🤍❤️💜
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@m_haskell_h
@mdcohen
@jarvis_m
@cmccrudden
@olibasciano
@Scaramucci
Sorry -
@atlantictriangl
already correctly attributed that to Jane Austen, though the general public often thinks it's JSMill.
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Funny how that works
Trump’s concentration camps stopped trending because Trump said something racist.
Jeffrey Epstein stopped trending because Trump said something racist.
Republicans blocking all election security stopped trending because Trump said something racist.
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“We have to trust in the Lord. We need to let the good Lord carry out His plan. This will all work out the way it is supposed to. And then the Lord will come down to Donald Trump and pull his head clean off his shoulders.”'
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“Rachel didn’t just ”exist.” She (r)existed. Her art was fundamental to DC comics, her work on tarot & occultism was so vast & powerful she remains one of the great names. Neil Gaiman & Karen Berger saw her as their peer…. She won awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke award.”
Erika Atayde opens her heart about the death of a Rachel Pollack, a trans icon from the comic book industry.
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Me too. When a New Yorker tells you you do not know what you are tawking about, you stay told!
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Because Food is Real. It grounds us in a created world like nothing else. Fantasy without Food is Phony.
Fantasy novels often include lavish descriptions of food. Our heroes and heroines can be found eating familiar fare like stew and pies, even if they cast spells and ride dragons. But why do fantasy writers write so much about food?
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“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”--
@petersbeagle
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A friend writes: “I don't know, it's kind of like the end of Lord of the Rings, when you know you should be jumping for joy, but your body aches from wearing that armor for four years while getting pummeled by sword wielding orcs and you just can't get up to do the jitterbug.”
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I'm beginning to recognize "do your own research" and "think for yourself" as code for "Ignore the research of carefully-trained doctors, scientists and journalists with ethics."
I just don't get it.
#MAGA
#Trump2020
#Trumptards
#FakeNewsAlert
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The Philosopher King goes to work
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If after 10 minutes with a mask you feel like you’re going to pass out...that's not the mask keeping out air, that's probably a panic attack. Check out ways to handle that, and take good care of yourself and others.
#AntiMaskerProblems
#facemask
#MaskUp
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Yes well we’ve all been there haven’t we?
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Oh, yeah. That's really going to help.
What idiots. Why don't they go volunteer in a fucking soup kitchen, or help old ladies cross the street, or something? Honestly, they give American neo-fascists a bad name!
The poll workers of Detroit are heroes. The counted 170k ballots in 36 hours, while dealing with constant harassment and chants of “Stop the Count” from GOP challengers.
#CountEveryVote
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Your life can change in an instant.
Mine did yesterday, when I found out I had gotten the true vaccine instead of placebo in my AstroZeneca study.
It's . . . extraordinary to go from Schrodinger's Immunity to omg I don't have to fear passing someone on the street!
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Ignore the title; this is a piece about LeGuin and Jemisin, and is well worth reading.
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And now, a question:
Do you look up at the night sky?
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The next time you’re even tempted to use the term “Judeo-Christian heritage”? Don’t.
#jewishtwitter
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Banning abortions will not stop abortions, it will stop safe abortions.
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We all know that’s just an excuse.
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Notes on the United sitch from my smart friend Beth Meacham. As members of the Flying Class, she knows this...
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Actually, any of us flirting with one
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Oh FFS. As I sit here at my kitchen table in New York City drinking tea and thinking of going for a walk in the park, allow me to post you some photos of the dreadful conditions we are enduring here in this terrifying anarchist jurisdiction.
#NYC
DOJ is threatening 3 American cities, all, coincidentally, led by Democrats, with shutting off unspecified federal funding. Barr is treating peaceful protestors like criminals and demonizing entire cities instead of focusing on the conduct of a very few.
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Powerful thread
I have interviewed real Nazis, including the personal aides of Ribbentrop and Goebbels, men who worked at the Reich Chancellery with Hitler, as well as torturers and officers of Argentina’s genocidal dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s.
Thread🔻
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Our backyard legal wedding. August 22, 2004, Somerville, Massachusetts
@deliasherman
#LesbianVisibilityDay
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My dad. Is now on Pinterest.
He is 92.
What can I tell you? He likes pictures of 19th century Paris.
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#BiVisibilityDay
Hi! Can you see me?
Happily married & faithful to the same woman for over 20 years...but she loves hearing about my chequered past. And we both turn our heads at whatever nice walks by.
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I AM SO ANGRY ABOUT THIS. This is desecration both of our land and the Tohono O'odham Nation's burial ground. Let us flood Homeland Security with letters of protest based on Rep. Grijalva's, which they ignored. 1:2
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@angie_rasmussen
So what you're saying is: Even if a Flu and a SARS-CoV-2 love each other very, very much... they still can't make a baby?
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#IfMaryPoppinsWerePresident
she'd be the one in the P.L. Travers books, not this movie version, and she would kick butt, drain swamps, and have us all home in time for tea.
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Those bastards! "The complaints range from being left out of a programme’s credits after handing over weeks of research to cases where entire books have been used as the basis for shows...."
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Backstage with
@neilhimself
&
@amandapalmer
preparing for her big
@NYPL
surprise today:
http://t.co/pUQzGcCvQX
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@RepMTG
Be sure to ask regular people to discuss what to do if you ever need any kind of surgery. And then be sure you do what they say. I’m sure they know better than the so-called experts.
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@joanhaigbooks
@JamestownReads
@MsPollyClark
I’ve had to learn to stop being flippant in public. There’s a part of you that thinks no one’s really listening—or that just wants to make points with the audience. It nearly always comes back to bite you on the butt.
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The thrill of a lifetime: my novel in the new Fantasy exhibit at the British Lipbrary!
We were very keen to show the interplay of ancient and modern in Fantasy culture - here, an early manuscript version of Thomas the Rhymer (scorched in the Ashburnham House fire) sits with
@EllenKushner
's touring script for her award-winning 1990 novel about Thomas the Rhymer.
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It is my birthday. I am in England. I suppose this means that, even though I have just had a large bowl of porridge with an egg in it, I can still have toast and marmalade. But I think I'll take a lavender oil bath in the big tub instead.
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At the last minute, Richard Man & his fancy camera took this portrait of
@deliasherman
& me at
@worldcon2021
Dec. 12, 2021
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@joanhaigbooks
@JamestownReads
@MsPollyClark
That said, though, I’ve also been thanked for kindnesses I don’t remember, either.
Either way, someone’s listening. Writers can be such solitary creatures, we lose sight of that.
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A fantasy novelist who existed before everything could be looked up by anyone on the internet, I'm grieved by the insistence on everything in any book being absolutely 100% accurate or else.
It should be enough that we artists, the wizards, ensorcel the reader into belief 1:
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👇🏼🇺🇸👇🏼
pro tip: my uncle spent three years in a basement, hiding from the Nazis. you can skip Thanksgiving and wear a mask for one winter
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Our writing group came over today. Before we could even sit down, people were standing in the front hall, engaged in conversation that sent laughter down the hall to me where I was prepping lunch in the kitchen….
This is the life I wanted.
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1953. American Ukrainian cafe
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“We need to come up with a better treatment for people afflicted with the illness of sociopathy. Our current approach, which is to put them in charge of all the countries & corporations, doesn't quite seem to be panning out.” —Greg Bossert
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A friend of a friend has a mother who is in dementia hospice in a red state.
'This morning one of the aides, a middle-aged Black woman, was speaking comfortingly to her mother as she leaned over her, saying:
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I weirdly see Trump as being a bit like the Old Gods: the less we believe in him, the weaker he becomes.
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My adult nephew has given me a button to wear
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I went for a professional makeup job at Sephora today for 2-hour video taping for UK documentary on the rise of fantasy literature…because I have my pride! Great fun all ‘round.
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When W H Auden lost Yeats, he made this. Expresses what I'm feeling now for
#UrsulaKLeGuin
. Some solace in reading:
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"When you’re buying books, you’re optimistically thinking you’re buying the time to read them."--Arthur Schopenhauer, b.1788
#WorldBookDay
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The Christmas decorations are up! The stores are full of song (the same ones over and over and…). It’s time to open the season on
#AltHallelujah
!
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Please read this. If it makes no sense to you, please read it again.
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IN ALL OF HISTORY
THE GOOD GUYS WERE NEVER
THE ONES WHO BANNED BOOKS.
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Does anyone else use badger as a verb?
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