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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 12h

you're so welcome! I have a workshop on this exact thing, maybe I'll get my act together to run it again sometime soon

Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 12h

this pendulum is working out the basic tension in romance novels which has been there since the beginning, which is: how much is this narrative form about working out ideal social relationships, and how much of it is about exploring the sometimes-antisocial world of sexual fantasy and desire

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 12h

this is the exact opposite of the last ~10 years of mainstream big money romance publishing, which has very much been about working out the brass tacks of what a real emotional partnership should look like. as with everything, the pendulum has swung back.

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 12h

If you missed the panel, the TLDR is: bcs it is explicitly taking place in a heightened fantasy world, romantasy offers a permission structure to explore the erotic potential of things that we would NOT want to happen in real life #cancon2025

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 16h

omg @ronansadler.bsky.social over here nailing all the thinky thorny troubling dynamics that have bugged me in romantasy yes please 🔥🔥🔥 #cancon2025

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 12h

aw thank you!

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 1d

Day 2 of #CanCon2025. guys they're letting me talk about my thoughts on the structure of romantasy vs fantasy

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 2d

heyyyy congrats!

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 3d

i have never been more compelled by a pitch in my life

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 4d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 4d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Palestine at Canadian Universities: How institutional complicity in colonial genocide is maintained

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 4d

stories are DEEPLY important but they are insufficient to get us out of the current moment

Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 4d

fictional representation and getting a book deal are not activism

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 6d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 4d

you can basically pick my brain about this at any time i love talking about it

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 4d

nerding out about the editorial process 🤓😍✨💜📝😎

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 5d

i love gay people suffering because of overweening pride or unwavering commitment to ends they should turn away from or thrashing attempts to get back at a system they can't change but must defy

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 5d

I love the past decade or so of queer joy but personally i'm ready to let queer tragedy back in the house

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 8d

my book features a blowjob on page five, which i might have reconsidered if I'd thought about how many introductions I'd have make by strolling into people's inboxes talking about dick.

Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 10d

I am reading He Who Drowned the World and I am sitting in the stands with a foam finger and opera glasses as these queer people commit atrocities

Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 10d

KATABASIS X LOCKED TOMB. A woman goes missing; to save her, her friends will have to harrow hell—and history. Dante’s Inferno meets Orpheus and Eurydice, but Virgil and Dante are catastrophic exes, and Eurydice isn’t sure she wants to be saved.

#DVpit #a #f #tv

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 10d

IWTV x LOCKED TOMB w/ all-trans cast. Cedric’s best friend goes missing out of time, place, and memory. To save her, he’ll have to team up with her girlfriend and a stranger—who turns out to be a lover he betrayed and murdered in a past life.

#DVpit #a #f #tv

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 10d

this rulesssss

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 15d

now that i can drive i have unlocked "singing along to carly rae jepsen on the highway" and i may now become unstoppable

Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 19d

ty, beating the gay stereotypes

Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 19d

I survived and passed the test 🚗✨

Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 20d

today is the day where your protagonist is forced to participate in a high-stakes competition and test of skill in order to be judged worthy to operate their culture's sacred machines (i am taking my driving test)

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Ronan @ronansadler.bsky.social · 20d

today is the day where your protagonist is forced to participate in a high-stakes competition and test of skill in order to be judged worthy to operate their culture's sacred machines (i am taking my driving test)

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