Today is THE DAY! The Long Shalom is OUT! If you would buy it, leave a review, spread the word? It'd mean a whole lot. This book was a TON of fun to write and I'd love to share that joy with the world! I need YOUR help to make Jewish horror a success!
@bacardiintheusa
@douglaschu_
It's honestly as old as invading armies. A popular Korean tale is of a woman who killed herself and took an enemy general with her after seducing him. Seducing the enemy for plans or assassination is a tale as old as time.
How DARE you,
@benji_smith
I demand you take my book off your site immediately. I do not consent to this, and never did. And I know my publisher never would
Remember kids. If you're gonna default in a defamation case make sure you're not such a loathsome piece of shit that a jury and judge want to see you suffer
@politicalawake
My dear, the Yakuza do not conduct themselves with 'dignity and honor.' The Yakuza are, in fact, brutal, backstabbing criminals who force women into sexual slavery and a great deal of media is produced to deconstruct the 'honorable mobster' myth
We can be against Israel's actions without this "Jews are fake, everything about them is fake, they have no real culture or history" stuff I keep seeing.
fun fact: hebrew is a language that was extinct for 2000 years but was revived when the fake state was made, originally the hebrew language only had 7000 words and now it has 33,000 words- 26,000 words were taken from the arabic language
@boneysoups
@sarahradz_
She just tried to get a foreign power to slaughter her own people to hold on to power as an oppressive monarch, what's the big D?
Learning Rachel Dolezal got a job as a teacher under the name Nkechi Diallo and was fired for having an OnlyFans is a string of words I did not expect to ever write in that very specific order.
@lizzylemondrop
Kevin Conroy was a good fucking man and a damn icon. Anyone who throws homophobia on his memory isn't fit to call themselves human. Batman was created by a Jewish man (Bill Finger ftw) and his most iconic performance was a gay man. Nobody can erase that
@siegnant
@razibkhan
They're also fucking magic! Like, Valyrian blood is explicitly not bound to all the same rules.
People do not have to try to "well ackshually" the fantasy series!
Shitty AI art is about the level of creativity I expect from these idiots, all while presupposing a "healing potion" is a fix for everything.
They're foolish and incurious. And they know they're losing
Sarah drink the fucking health potion and walk. I am tired of you being a liability just because you think it would be "ableist" to cure yourself.
Steve nearly got stabbed to death last week because you couldn't get up the stairs in time.
Some people have very strange beliefs that Judaism is something that belongs to everyone to draw from at will and Jews holding to their traditions and practices is oppressing them in some manner. This isn't even related to Zionism, it's just anger that Jews like Mt. Sinai
A reminder: Mount Sinai is located in Egypt and a Greek Orthodox monastery bearing my name is located at its foot.
Zionist attempts to turn multifaith, multiethnic, and historically layered spaces located in Palestine and Egypt into 'purely' Jewish loci is colonial erasure.
@Johnny2Cellos
Oh my god. Aang wasn't perfect. He felt pressured to make Tenzin the last Airbender successor and gave him special attention. But he clearly loved them all! That was the point!
@benji_smith
Gonna be clear. As most people have said? Take the books down you didn’t get permission for. Keep the words “class action lawsuit” in your head as you decide to do so
@evanewashington
@Kalindlara
Sure, he ends the film promising to...*checks notes*
Share Wakanda's resources and technology with the world, but sure, one youth center in Oakland that he explicitly said would only be a start in honor of his cousin and uncle.
Gotta get those twitter likes, tho.
I love how my community is simultaneously “stealing from authors to feed AI is wrong” while equally enraged at “this SOB doesn’t understand what passive voice means”
Hey authors, have we considered the words “class action lawsuit” if this continues with stealing our works for prose scraping AI sites we never consented to being uploaded to?
Well, if I'm gonna go viral...hi, everyone! Please support human creatives! Most of us do this because we love it! Would love if you read my books Hungers As Old As This Land and the Long Shalom, but also check out everyone in these threads, because they're amazing!
The Nazis did not, in fact, intend a social hierarchy with Jews on the bottom.
They wanted the Jews dead. They wanted them permanently erased from the earth.
@ZachRoseWriter
@newcmcaplan
@GordsUK
Rich and poor Jews died….to empower the rich Germans and suppress the poor Germans. The holocaust was absolutely about class. The extermination of Jews was a step towards a means towards an end. A social hierarchy with Jews at the bottom, same with America and natives/black ppl
@latkedelrey
@Etanarachel
I'm not a fan of either the original post or the community note. It's a result of a lot of people speaking over Jewish people and disregarding their identities.
It fascinates me when people throw away good things because bigotry is so fundamental to them. Gina Carano would've probably had her own show by now. Pedro Pascal was literally telling her to please knock it off but no, being cruel to trans people was SO important to her
@agraybee
They're going to claim it's AI, or it's actually not an Israeli baby.
There is no proof to satisfy the deniers at this point. NONE. They know what they're doing
Remember that it’s easy to get mad at one site. But AI is a bigger problem. We need to organize and fight it all throughout. Push for publishers and studios to prohibit it in contracts.
Remember when South Park did immense damage to the climate movement with their "manbearpig" stuff, only to quietly apologize what, 15 years later when it turned out Gore was incontrovertibly right?
"But Cartman is the BAD GUY" just feels like a cheat when they use him to sneak in all the worst things they want to say while still being nihilistic both sider assholes who disdain anyone who dares to give a fuck about a cause
So, for years and years, I've dreamed of being a published author.
Today, that dream is realized. HUNGERS AS OLD AS THIS LAND, My Jewish LGBT horror western is official OUT in the world today!!!!!
We are not going after Grete Thunberg for using a common tool for autistic people to communicate emotion as a way to insinuate she's antisemitic. Nope, not happening
It has come to my knowledge that the stuffed animal shown in my earlier post can be interpreted as a symbol for antisemitism, which I was completely unaware of. The toy in the picture is a tool often used by autistic people as a way to communicate feelings.
We are of course…
Copyright law sure has its issues but overall I’m mostly okay with a concept of “I wrote this, it’s mine and you need to compensate me fairly if you want to monetize it.”
I can't believe I need to say this, but someone claiming "Pickles are a very Jewish food" is not like divesting gentiles of their holy rights to have a pickle.
@Viggie_Smalls93
@ianaarez
There’s a great solution to not liking sex scenes: don’t watch them or movies with them. Don’t make it into a moral crusade as to how they shouldn’t exist
Literally one of the most documented events in human history. Liberations were filmed. Camps were photographed, camps remain standing with mass graves uncovered and forensic analysis done. Straight up admissions from Nazis.
Deniers aren't serious. Shun them.
There is no amount of data that will convince a Holocaust denier that the Holocaust happened. We have quite literally tons and tons of documentation. Hundreds of thousands of victim testimonies. Documentation on everything—like orders for the poison gas to shipping manifests for
The town of Whittier, Alaska, is known for having nearly the entire population living in a single apartment building.
The building is called Begich Towers, a 14-story apartment complex that houses about 90% of the town's residents (total: 272). This has earned Whittier the…
@lefttwick
@AntifaCatraa
They're gonna be shocked when they learn how popular schnitzel is across the Middle East. Also, Egypt's national dish is Koshari, which....
Yeah, guess where it came from!?
There is no shortcut to learning to write. You read, you can take classes and read *how* to write, but at the end of the day, you learn by doing. By crafting stories yourself, and practicing. It takes time, and sometimes you fail. But you keep going. and you get better
"But Cartman is the BAD GUY" just feels like a cheat when they use him to sneak in all the worst things they want to say while still being nihilistic both sider assholes who disdain anyone who dares to give a fuck about a cause
south park’s “satire” is always just a worse version of this simpsons joke. “what if BOTH sides sucked a little bit??” except they spend the entire episode’s runtime beating a dead horse instead of just doing a quick cutaway gag
@VestStreak
@FoldabotZ
@StormLord96
@AyeKay513
@GlossingerOwen
If Keith Richards was in a car accident and could not utilize his hands to play guitar anymore? He would be disabled.
Also, bad example. Because my hands' muscle problems were literally classified as a disability by my school
What makes the Cenobites scary is that they will hurt you, torture you, and do unspeakably horrific things.
And there is no malice to them at all. They're doing it because they think you want it and they're helping you with what you actively sought them out to experience
@The_sigma_fem
@nikicaga
NGL, I'm suspicious of this.
Six months for a lawsuit that results in a payment that ends in bankruptcy? That's not a realistic timeframe. You're telling me they had a discovery period, preliminary motions, a full trial, damages and appeals in 6 months? Yeah no
The contract is hereby SIGNED. My dark SciFi story, "The Holocaust Protocol" shall be appearing in my ultimate dream publication, Apex Magazine!!
My boundless thanks to
@LesleyConner
for believing in this story!
@opinonhaver
No, my dude. It's "doing things involves a process and AI isn't part of that process because it removes a key human element," why is this so difficult?
There's this bizarre obsession with "Good Nazis" and I'm not really sure why it's a thing. It permeates fiction, and so many spaces have folks ready to leap out and defend them. It may as well be a genre unto itself in romancelandia
@BoooTheBlackCat
@wampumpeag
Oh, sweetie. No. That just means the government couldn't prove him guilty. 'Murderer' in this context is a statement of opinion.
Defamation puts the burden on the plaintiff. Always.
How DARE you,
@benji_smith
I demand you take my book off your site immediately. I do not consent to this, and never did. And I know my publisher never would
My friends, the contract is signed, so I can go ahead and share...
My Cyberpunk Golem story, "Savior In Steel" has been accepted for publication by
@dark_matter_mag
!!!!
One of my favorite publications for the incredible work they do! I couldn't be more thrilled!
Contract is signed, so I'm thrilled to announce...my Jewish gothic folk horror, The Unquiet Grave, described (by me) as The Vigil meets Carmilla meets Crimson Peak has been picked up by
@BrigidsGate
!
My huge thanks to Steve and Heather, and can't wait for you to see this!
I love how so many countries have a signature style for horror.
America: The dark rot in what should be a safe place. Slowly spreading to consume us.
Australia: The terror of the untamed wilderness vs. man
Britain: What is people aren't *actually* nice?
I get this sometimes from people like Bill. It’s why I’m not stopping. And neither should all you jewish writers.
Because the Bills of the world want us to. And we’re better than they are
If a someone argues that "The Zionists are lying about the Holocaust and have manipulated the death tolls to justify support for Israel," then they are indistinguishable from Ernst Zundel and David Duke. Regardless if they claim to be on the Left
Yeah Jews sometimes change their names from European ones that were forced on them, that has absolutely no fucking bearing on what israel does can we absolutely stop this nonsense?
Just found out Israelis change their last name to sound more indigenous. Benjamin Netanyahu real name is Nathan Mileikowsky and Gal Gadots last name is Greenstein 😂😂
The hate this take is getting is absolutely BIZARRE to me. IT's literally what's in the text!
"Explorers of the furthest reaches. Demons to some, angels to others." they have no concept of human morality
Saying the Cenobites aren't evil isn't controversial.
Their morals are so alien they can't apply to human standards. They are really, really horrific entities who worship pain.
It's not "moral relativism." It's the point of the movie Hellraiser.
@SamtheNightOwl
@byte4554
@JoshuaPotash
The way some people talk about comic book and fiction makes me genuinely worried for how they see the world. Like they legit expect Black Panther to show up at their door to give them vibranium
@Forever_noir_
@GordsUK
I am begging you to realize how this sounds to the vast majority of the population and to most Jews. i assure you this is one of the few ways to invoke a Jewish peoplehood that transcends class barriers.
I return from Stokercon to some incredible news: My story, "The Rabbi and the Robot's Bar-Mitzvah" has been accepted by the incredible and legendary
@fandsf
.
My huge thanks to
@blackpotmojo
for believing in this story and my thanks to all of you as well!
With HUGE thanks to Off Limits Press for this opportunity...
My Jewish detective pulp horror novella the Long Shalom is officially announced! In the vein of Chandler and Hammett, with inspirations such as P. Djeli Clark and Barker, A terrifying mystery in the Roaring 20s...
You know...some announcements are just too good to wait. I'm so excited that we'll be publishing THE LONG SHALOM by
@ZachRoseWriter
. Our new pulp lineup is shaping up to be amazing!
Imagine fetishizing Sparta whose most famous battle in history (Leuctra) was a resounding, crushing defeat that finished them as a regional power, who managed to make almost every other city state despise them and who ended losing all relevance
I'm sorry, but generative AI being plagiarism was well known since 2022 and made major headlines. That was when Late Night with the Devil began filming. "We didn't care until we realized we were in danger" that I keep seeing is really not great when writers/artists sounded alarms
LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL was completed and had its world premiere exactly one year ago this month. Meaning the production of the film was, of course, months earlier, well *before* the SAG and WGA strikes and before the (rightful) stigma against using AI in media.
Apparently people want to guilt Jews over celebrating Purim because the story says the Jews, um, wiped out an enemy army who were planning to kill them first.
Don't *quite* think this is an immoral holiday, honestly.
@MaxKennerly
There are real things to critique Grant on, IE: that he was a flagrant antisemite who used state power to that end. Crushing the slaveholders' treason was NOT a flaw
Contract is signed, so I can talk a VERY special acceptance. My story "The Festival of Lights" has been accepted for
@DarklitPress
's anthology "Reader Beware," a tribute to RL Stine. A story of a neurodivergent Jewish boy, the new kid in town...
Kristen Stewart had her life severely damaged by spotlight franchise stuff and has built a reputation on being a sterling indie drama actress and is one of the best of the generation. I'm glad she's taking projects she loves
Kristen Stewart 'Will Likely Never Do a Marvel Movie' Because 'It Sounds Like a F---ing Nightmare': It's 'Algorithmic' and 'You Can’t Feel Personal at All About It'