short-stories
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Today’s warnings: Weird old timey racism (no slurs, just stupidity), wild classism, transphobia weirdly enough. I’ve decided to just tag all these at the beginning because, as I’ll touch on a bit more later, yeah, none of these so far have been without some shitty elements. The thirties: Tada! Sometimes I’m reading spec-fic of the…
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Warning: Today’s story uses the r-slur in what was at the time an approximately medical context, but not really, we all know what it means. As an aside, since I started this extremely sporadic series of reflections on early sci-fi by women, the direction chosen in part because I do try to stay in my…
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Warning: This story seethes with racism! It’s frankly fairly weird racism by modern standards, a burst of minstrel pseudo-dialect from a person described as “Sam, the milk-chocolate elevator boy” apropos of nothing, plus a heavy dose of orientalism at the end, but damn is it hot garbage. The first story in this series, for all…
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I’ve found myself missing longform blogging from the weird old days of the internet. I hate my own recorded voice and don’t really bother to look like anything other than a tired gremlin on the regular, so despite the hours I spend cheerfully consuming weird informative junk on Youtube (I am too old to have…
