"One of the greatest virtues kids have, and young people have, is disobedience. I actually think disobedience is a virtue. We are now falling into a herd mentality that is so rigorously codified. I think disobedience is essential for the self."

Roy Lichtenstein is proof that often, the only difference between illustration and fine art is that one is in a frame on the wall. And in Lichtenstein’s case, it was usually *someone else’s* art on the wall.

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀

Everyone who buys books and writes books deserves to know about the greed and cowardice of those we're entrusting with our IP and literary traditions

Just had a heart-touching communal experience - myself and three other hollow-eyed commuters standing at a pedestrian crossing, on a completely traffic-free road, mere minutes from home, as a baby was being taught that Green Man Means Go, so by christ no one Go’d til Green

MRM's plan seems to be "acquire all rights as cheaply as possible and then make bank when we sell the options on for media development" which, NO. That cash belongs with the AUTHORS. We had media queries for stories via Uncanny. We. just. forwarded. those. to. the. authors. Ethics aren't hard.

I suspect at least a few of you are reading this going, well, OF COURSE, that's obvious, but....several people at Worldcon did NOT realize that they could buy individual issues and test them out first, or even just grab an issue to read over a lunch break or whatever. So, spreading the word!

Seems like a good time to note that Barnes and Noble sells individual issues of Clarkesworld, Apex, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Uncanny, and other zines, usually for under $5 per issue. Beneath Ceaseless Skies sells some "best ofs" for under $5 as well.

How long must readers wait to receive the print copies they subscribe to? That's how you lose subscribers. In good news, MRM finally started publishing e-editions of their magazines in an easy to read epub file as opposed to a mere PDF. In bad news, it took over a year to do this. 3/

"My vision of English culture is no longer the default version, this requires *effort*, it's very unfair." Welcome to the world the rest of us live in, gwboi.

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

I’ll read it later.

Happy 90th birthday, Brian Blessed Sorry, that should read: HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY, BRIAN BLESSED

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