E.M. White, load-bearing grad student
@eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
Pen name. Writes dark and challenging fiction; would write more if life weren't so dark and challenging.
Also a magpie for fine stories and essays, particular about coffee and tea, and a year-round summer camp counselor for two cats.
Also a magpie for fine stories and essays, particular about coffee and tea, and a year-round summer camp counselor for two cats.
Life is a NIGHTMARE (even if thst fly probably had the best caffeine high ever for a few seconds)
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Life is a NIGHTMARE (even if thst fly probably had the best caffeine high ever for a few seconds)
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Well, I ran a series of guest posts the other year where I invited various trans, genderqueer, & nonbinary folks to review various gender-bending tales from the pulps. Of those, you might consider:
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David H. Keller’s “The Feminine Metamorphosis” (1929): A Two-Dimensional Gender War by Ro Salarian
It’s funny how cis people see the trans experience as a horror story, a tale of body-horror sci-fi right alongside Frankenstein. Not much has changed in nigh on a century since Dr. David H. Keller …
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October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Well, I ran a series of guest posts the other year where I invited various trans, genderqueer, & nonbinary folks to review various gender-bending tales from the pulps. Of those, you might consider:
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Should've cited the more authoritative Prime Meridian Webster
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Should've cited the more authoritative Prime Meridian Webster
I meant that as a compliment, of course
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I meant that as a compliment, of course
Oh no, I just find the particular combination of elements here to be quite funny
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Oh no, I just find the particular combination of elements here to be quite funny
Yes, but also: why does the post read exactly like one of those shitpost bots that always follows the same template
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Yes, but also: why does the post read exactly like one of those shitpost bots that always follows the same template
Mine sleep through Zoom calls, too. Evidently, listening to the humans talk is boring unless we're talking to *them*
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Mine sleep through Zoom calls, too. Evidently, listening to the humans talk is boring unless we're talking to *them*
This is very much the sort of practice that workers unionize over in other industries! The publisher's eagerness to become the villain in this case, seemingly betting that enough writers will put up with their exploitative nonsense, is pretty incredible.
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is very much the sort of practice that workers unionize over in other industries! The publisher's eagerness to become the villain in this case, seemingly betting that enough writers will put up with their exploitative nonsense, is pretty incredible.
A Woman of the Sword by Anna Smith Spark.
Lidae is a veteran raising two boys with her husband, who's great with kids. Husband dies from a fever (no modern medicine), war breaks out again, and she's torn between the thing she's best at (killing) and the thing she feels the worst at (mothering).
Lidae is a veteran raising two boys with her husband, who's great with kids. Husband dies from a fever (no modern medicine), war breaks out again, and she's torn between the thing she's best at (killing) and the thing she feels the worst at (mothering).
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A Woman of the Sword by Anna Smith Spark.
Lidae is a veteran raising two boys with her husband, who's great with kids. Husband dies from a fever (no modern medicine), war breaks out again, and she's torn between the thing she's best at (killing) and the thing she feels the worst at (mothering).
Lidae is a veteran raising two boys with her husband, who's great with kids. Husband dies from a fever (no modern medicine), war breaks out again, and she's torn between the thing she's best at (killing) and the thing she feels the worst at (mothering).
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4) There is absolutely zero requirement that your sword & sorcery story be set in a quasi-medieval European milieu with no people of color.
The world is a big place. There's room for wizards and warriors in every culture in every period.
The world is a big place. There's room for wizards and warriors in every culture in every period.
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
4) There is absolutely zero requirement that your sword & sorcery story be set in a quasi-medieval European milieu with no people of color.
The world is a big place. There's room for wizards and warriors in every culture in every period.
The world is a big place. There's room for wizards and warriors in every culture in every period.
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2) Sword & sorcery is always political and philosophical.
Read the original Kull and Conan stories by Robert E. Howard. Even in an age undreamed of, Conan was full ACAB.
Read the original Kull and Conan stories by Robert E. Howard. Even in an age undreamed of, Conan was full ACAB.
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
2) Sword & sorcery is always political and philosophical.
Read the original Kull and Conan stories by Robert E. Howard. Even in an age undreamed of, Conan was full ACAB.
Read the original Kull and Conan stories by Robert E. Howard. Even in an age undreamed of, Conan was full ACAB.
How much do you wanna bet that the guy believes the Nazis were proper Christians
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
How much do you wanna bet that the guy believes the Nazis were proper Christians