@Ash The SFWA has been plagued by behavior and attitudes of the sort which makes the sad/rabid puppy thing in the Hugos a very unsurprising offshoot of the same part of the fiction community.
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"And then the wheels ground to a screeching halt, because, ladies and gentlemen, if you are telling yourself in your head that someone is Not That Bad, even though they belittle you and promise they’ll change and then do it again and then promise no, really, they’ll change, and you start tallying up the things that they’ve done that are good to try and get over the bit where they’re doing something bad that embarrasses you in public—no. Just no." hooo boy.
This was written 13 years earlier, about the author of the third article she references:
> If we don't unleash our imaginations to tell our own sf and fantasy stories, people like Mike Resnick will tell them for us. And if we don't like the way he's telling them, it's up to us to tell them our way. - "Why Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction" Charles Saunders
(Resnick has an anthology in the fourth tier of the SFWA Humble Bundle.)
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Finished All the Birds in the Sky today. I didn't really enjoy it
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It felt unecessarily complex and philosophical and I don't think it needed that.
I think it's a good thing that questions here have an amount of minimum required effort. It might lead to fewer questions, but I think it's useful for question-askers as well, in more than one way.
For example, I was about to ask a [song-lyrics] question about a lyric that completely confused me. Before asking, though I searched the web for the lyrics, and every version I found consistently used a different word than I had heard. Lit.SE has one fewer question, perhaps, but I now understand a lyric that confused me for years.
...and it's slightly ironic, because over the past few days (while studying for finals!!1!!!) I considered asking a few questions, but didn't because I just can't invest the time right now. Then I remembered that I could ask a pretty simple question about a lyric that made literally no sense to me, even after letting it stew on the back burner for a few days.
...so it is that I will not post the question I was going to ask because it required very little effort to post, because it was defeated by that very little effort.
@Shokhet (I didn't always think this way. I previously thought that the bar for asking might be a touch too high, but I am no longer certain of that.)
In An Inspector Calls by J.B Priestly does Eric Birling actually rape Eva Smith? Does "force" indicate rape, and did he "force" himself into the apartment or onto her?
If he did rape her - why does she stay with him?
I'm not sure if he raped her or simply forced his way into the apartment, and...
My seventh avatar is once again a puppet of the 12th Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi. I feel that I need to commemorate his character, since Peter has announced that he's leaving the show at the end of this season, along with Steven Moffat and Michelle Gomez.
My sixth avatar is Desire of th...
The real reasons for Marvel Comics' woes https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/05/the-real-reasons-for-marvel-comics-woes/527127/?utm_source=atlfb
It's about outdated business practices and an effective distribution monopoly creating an unsustainable boom-and-bust strategy that can't follow contemporary market spaces.
DC would get more slack from me if they set up a decent way of digitally distributing their not so popular comics, like the Vertigo imprint, or the books about their books, like The Sandman Companion.
There's effectively a middleman monopoly on distribution, which keeps comics in dedicated specialty stores and out of both newsstands and digital distribution.
Image is good - I read Ravine, Death Vigil, and Sunstone. What did you read?
I know Boom! did an adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but I didn't have the chance to read it yet. They also did a prequel to it called Dust to Dust.
Paper Girls is a favourite. Saga's good but not really my thing--same for The Manhattan Projects. East of West is interesting, though it's one of those "the more you read the author the more you know everything else he's written" things. I'm also keeping my eye on Injection, but it feels artificially slow and drawn out for the issue format.
In Boom!, I absolutely adore Lumberjanes. There's just nothing like it. Goldie Vance is awesome too.
And while Boom! does some good adaptations, nobody does adaptations like IDW.
Their Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover Assimilation² was most excellent.
And their Friendship is Magic comics are consistently good, though the spinoffs don't really have the same punch as the main line.
And of course there's all kinds of independent comics out there, like Skin Horse and The Pack.
With all that awesomeness running around, the Big Two just don't make much of a splash for me. The last time I was really interested in a Marvel series was a Star Wars franchise comic, and DC hasn't caught my eye since they yanked Kamala Khan around by forcing her own line to be a never-ending cameo parade (and before that, pre-52 Blue Beetle).
Astro City was awesome when it was under Image and Homage, but under DC's Vertigo it went kinda meh.
I do like DC's current television series, and most of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That's where the new, interesting, creative Big Two storytelling is happening these days.
I didn't like DC's Lucifer TV series. And I didn't like Flash and Arrow, though I enjoyed some 5 episodes of Constantine (but didn't watch the rest yet)
Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow are actually fun, bright-colored soap operas about people whose personal dilemmas get writ large across the stars because of their powers and responsibilities. Legion had style out the wazoo and was a ton of fun to watch even as it disappeared up its own metaphor.
Arrow suffers from being the groundbreaker and adhering too much to the Christopher Nolan aesthetic. Its wildly un-self-conscious writing didn't help. Flash has flashes of brilliance and is, at the very least, having a LOT of fun being a silly bright soap romp. It's never better than when crossing over with Supergirl.
Lucifer clearly got executived to death by turning into Yet Another Police Procedural (I think the only time adding "police procedural" to an existing concept has worked in recent memory was iZombie, and that's arguable).
...Hmm. I guess iZOMBIE is another relatively recent (7 years ago) DC Vertigo comic I'd say is pretty decent.
The TV series is only very VERY loosely based on the comic, and both are better for the lack of comparison.
Constantine was good for what it was, but... it wasn't Constantine and suffered from trying to be while under the executive constraints of the network. It wound up more like Gritty Dresden Files.
An actual Constantine TV show would need to be on a network like HBO or Starz in order to work and thrive.
...I'm just glad nobody seems to be trying to make a Transmetropolitan TV series.
I'd like to see Yohancé get picked up for a series or film some day. Maybe if the Black Panther film is successful, studios will look at Yohancé.
I first encountered Lumberjanes when a friend live-tweeted reading the first issue with a kitten, to see which would be more adorable. The kitten lost.
In An Inspector Calls by J.B Priestly does Eric Birling actually rape Eva Smith? Does "force" indicate rape, and did he "force" himself into the apartment or onto her?
If he did rape her - why does she stay with him?
I'm not sure if he raped her or simply forced his way into the apartment, and...
My seventh avatar is once again a puppet of the 12th Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi. I feel that I need to commemorate his character, since Peter has announced that he's leaving the show at the end of this season, along with Steven Moffat and Michelle Gomez.
My sixth avatar is Desire of th...
