N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin Twitter profile

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N. K. Jemisin

3 years

Sssssso, folks have been asking me for updates on the Broken Earth tv/film adaptation for a while, and I haven't been able to say anything... because a lot's been happening. But at last, I can share:

N.K. Jemisin Book Series ‘The Broken Earth’ Lands At Sony’s TriStar In 7-Figure Deal; Author To...

Sony's TriStar Lands N.K. Jemisin Book Series 'The Broken Earth' In 7-Figure Deal; Author To Adapt

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N. K. Jemisin

@nkjemisin

3 years

So fascinating, how certain folks suddenly care about "historical accuracy" in fiction when the Black people show up.

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So this is an historic turnout? Imagine what the numbers and demographics would look like *without* all the voter suppression. Imagine what the last 20 years would've looked like *without* the EC or gerrymandering amplifying the white rural vote and suppressing everybody else.

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Said to my therapist this morning that I can't plan anything, bc the next few weeks are a singularity of possibilities that I can't see past. She gave me permission to play video games all day -- "practice radical self-care," basically. Anybody else needs to hear this, you too.

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OK. Now that the dust is clearing on the election, there's a thing us liberals, leftists, not-centrists, whateverthefuck we call ourselves, are going to have to work on: our storytelling. (Thread.)

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After years of struggle I finally paid off my student loans with my first novel advance. Still struggled after, but I could at least sleep thru the night w/o stress nightmares. Why the hell wouldn't those of us who got that kind of break want others to feel the same relief?

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Jupiter is so beautiful & terrifying. A world of endless storm. And I can never get over the awareness that there's a rocky planet somewhere under all those clouds. Somewhere in there, there's a surface to stand on, and look up at this wild sky.

Black Hole

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A closeup of Jupiter’s clouds from the Juno Spacecraft

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Pssssssst!

Deadline Hollywood

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N.K. Jemisin’s ‘The Inheritance Trilogy’ To Be Developed As TV Series By Searchlight TV & Westbrook Studios

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N. K. Jemisin

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While I'm here, might as well mention I got the news that THE FIFTH SEASON has passed half a million copies sold (515,500). When I started out as a writer, I prayed my 1st novel would hit 10k, even 15. Mind perpetually blown. Every day I'm grateful to my readers. Thanks, y'all.

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When you're trying your best not to say "uppity."

chris evans

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NEW: Peggy Noonan says in the WSJ Vice President Harris needs to make herself appear more “chastened” and “humbled”

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N. K. Jemisin

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Ergh. Got my first covid vax on Friday, and it knocked me the hell out -- slept 12 hours that night, was like a zombie all day yesterday. Immune system said SIDDOWN AND LET ME LEARN THIS, THERE MIGHT BE A TEST

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@nkjemisin

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No. Fuck them.

ian bremmer

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Now is the time for every Biden supporter to reach out to one person who voted for Trump. Empathize with them. Tell them you know how they feel (you do, from 2016). Come up with one issue you can agree on.

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::rubs face:: This did not start with Oklahoma City. Jan 6 was not "our Kristallnacht." Folks really need to remember that the US has ALWAYS been fascist when it comes to race. There's a reason the folks in DC brought a noose as their symbol of threat, not a guillotine.

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Please also note: "The author will adapt the books herself." 😅

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N. K. Jemisin

@nkjemisin

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So can we start officially calling ourselves a fascist nation now? I mean, we've been there for a while now, but I'm just wondering if we can discard the pretense yet given that the majority of the country just lost bodily autonomy and the right to privacy.

SCOTUSblog

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THE SUPREME COURT HAS OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE, ELIMINATING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORTION.

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Fuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuu

The Independent

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Now Trump has lost the election, Biden should pardon him — for the good of us all

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Got the lovely news that THE CITY WE BECAME has gone back for another reprinting, totaling 100,000 copies in print so far. My little plague year book that could!

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If protesting racism makes you feel tense, the problem is that you are ok with racism.

The Guardian

@guardian

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Black Lives Matter has increased racial tension, 55% say in UK poll

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Because Black people are killed *disproportionately,* revealing a racial bias in how how police treat us, and therefore we must protest to protect ourselves. But it's not a bad question; why don't white ppl protest how often white ppl are killed by the cops? They should.

Matt Walsh

@MattWalshBlog

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Since the beginning of 2020, over 500 white people have been killed by the cops compared to fewer than 300 black people. Yet there hasn’t been a single protest against the white killings. The protesters choose only the black victims to be outraged about. Ask yourself why.

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LOL, well, here's the big news I mentioned (to a few of you) was coming!

Variety

@Variety

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Walden Media Acquires N.K. Jemisin’s ‘The City We Became’ Novel for Series Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)

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Biking down the street a little while ago. Random dude holds up a fist and shouts "FUCK DONALD TRUMP!" Everybody else on the street (incl me): ::fist in the air:: "FUCK DONALD TRUMP!" Ah, New Yorkers bonding.

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Last night I dreamt that Prince gave me an iridescent purple dragon for a pet, about the size of a really big dog. It curled up with my cats and did tricks when I sang "Raspberry Beret". Anyway. How y'all doin'?

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I've read novels set in historical periods that featured no women, children, or elderly; none of the reviews noted this. Watched shows set in big American cities -- MY city -- that turned it into young cishet Whitelandia. Not remotely accurate! Never a peep from Team Accuracy.

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N. K. Jemisin

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Great, but anti-CRT people aren't actually upset about CRT. What they want is no Black educators, no Black books - hell, no Black kids. No honesty about the Holocaust or Indigenous genocide. What they really are is pro-white-supremacy, period full stop, and we need to say that.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid

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. @rweingarten perfectly explains Critical Race Theory in 53 short seconds. Save this in your back pocket to share at will.

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They voted to cage children, sterilize women, and otherwise control our bodies. They voted for open white supremacy/fascism. They voted to hate, disenfranchise, and attack people like me. There's nothing in them I want to empathize with.

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(As a reminder, both sides are *not* equally bad, and Trump's base is actually wealthy white people. About half the working class is BIPoC and they are disproportionately disabled, queer, immigrant -- groups the right hates. "It's about the white working class" framing is a lie.)

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Normalize NOT ascribing blanket "hero" status to an entire profession, which makes the public complicit in covering for bad actors and upholding systemic problems, and diminishes the accomplishments of ACTUAL heroes.

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@nkjemisin

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The extremely wealthy people who own Madison Square Garden haven't paid property taxes in almost 40 years.

NBC New York

@NBCNewYork

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Under a new proposed bill, New York City residents would be required to pay a $3 surcharge on packages they ordered online, with the exception for medicine and food.

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N. K. Jemisin

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Finally turned in the first draft of the unnamed sequel to THE CITY WE BECAME. Yay! I am so tired. 😅 I have a million emails and such to respond to, but it's gonna take a while.

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You cannot reason with folks who've chosen to do something against their interest, because their interest isn't what *you* think it is. They probably know America is better off unified and equal... but ooh, it feels so good to hurt others. Some folks just got raised wrong.

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@nkjemisin

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::sigh:: A man was tortured to death in full public view on video, and we're all on tenterhooks wondering *if* his killer will see a crumb of belated, inadequate "justice." Let me get off this hellsite before I say some shit that will get me kicked off this hellsite.

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So apparently, last night NYPD lost their shit about ::checks notes:: a public park being open to its normal time. They sent in the brute squad to attack people. My question is, which millionaire are they trying to appease? Or is it NYU?

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It's not that the right is better at storytelling. It's that their stories are simpler, more viscerally satisfying. "A Black woman stole your job!" "They want your guns!" Easy, reductive us vs them, you in danger girl level stuff. Even when it's not true, it provokes a reaction.

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I think I'm just gonna start blocking people who argue about how "defund police" should be called something else. This argument is the same tactic misogynists use re feminism and racists re BLM, derailing conversations on substance into pedantic nonsense about the name.

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Put some fucking Republicans in jail. (Prob the biggest reason I can't commit to prison abolition; I want these mfs to die in prison.) Put ICE officers in jail if they raped or abused immigrants. Put bad cops in jail. When we lack stories to tell, actions speak loudest.

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Every science fiction author or reader: SERIOUSLY?!

NPR

@NPR

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For the first time, U.S. and Chinese scientists have created embryos that are part human, part monkey, in an effort to find new ways to produce organs for transplants. But some ethicists worry about how such research could go wrong.

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I've written novels featuring amorphous continent-wrecking gods, talking statues, ninja priests killing people under the watchful eye of a gas giant -- but it's so very telling that the biggest pushback I get is over my characters' race... or mine.

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Gay marriage is next. Interracial marriage is next. So many other rights that are fundamental to our ability to function as a nation are in danger now. Our enemies are laughing as we gut ourselves. But sure, the real threat is "wokeness" and CRT and Drag Queen Story Hour.

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What these folks aaaaaktually want is inaccuracy, of a very specific type. The same inaccuracy they've been fed their whole lives: that white people are the be-all and end-all of every time period, ever. Other kinds of people might be spoken of, but never seen.

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But "eat your veggies" is always going to be a harder sell than "have another snack." (Vegetarians sit down, I'm making a point. :P) So the problem isn't that the left doesn't understand the right. It's that we learned to like (or at least eat) veggies too, and they... didn't.

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It's always hard to make myself care about British royal nonsense, but I feel compelled to note that a lot of folks think it's "bullying" whenever a Black woman just... speaks. Even when we're trying to be polite, they start crying. It's a whole thing.

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So I'm not concerned about them, personally. Folks like that might fix themselves, but *you're* not gonna do it. What concerns me is *leftists* falling for snack-style stories. Way too many of y'all buy into the right's "both sides" nonsense, or "white working class" rhetoric.

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And the way to do it is NOT with messages of conciliation toward fascists, or unity with bigots. Not by handwaving consequences because trials and equality are too hard. The way to do it is to SHOW people (don't tell!) that who they vote for matters. That justice is possible.

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These people want children to die, plain and simple. Conform, or die. And while transphobia is obviously at the heart of this, best believe they will use it to kill cis kids too.

Lawrence Hurley

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A North Carolina bill would "compel state employees to immediately notify parents in writing if their child displays “gender nonconformity” or expresses a desire to be treated in a way that is incompatible with the gender they were assigned at birth"

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Trans women are women, and this guy sure sounds like a sexual predator.

Bilerico Project / LGBTQ Nation

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House Republican introduces anti-trans legislation that could lead to genital exams for school girls

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But since you're not creating affordable housing, improving the shelters, or funding more mental health care, a lot *more* people are going to die now, from freezing to death or from the cops. And how the hell is beating ppl over a candy wrapper going to prevent subway shoves?

Gothamist

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Mayor Adams announced that homeless people riding the subways will now be forced to leave the train at the end of the line and police will ramp up enforcement against spitting, laying down and littering on subways. "The system was not made to be housing."

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Leftist points *can* be distilled into simple visceral stories, sure. "Eat the rich." "Defund police." But they don't hit as hard bc they're shorthand for complex topics. Like kale chips -- superficially snacky, actually good for you, offputting to ppl who prefer potato chips.

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4 years of Muslim bans, "shithole countries," "build the wall" scams, Black & Brown children in cages, a quarter-million COVID dead disproportionately BIPoC, a crusade against truthful American history, and some folks STILL playing the "what racism?" game.

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The great non-voting masses of America have fallen prey not only to voter suppression, but also the stories told by GOP/billionaire think tanks: voting is meaningless, both sides are bad, doesn't matter who's in charge, life will always suck. This is a narrative we must counter.

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We all want life to be better. But we have a chance right now to achieve the positive peace which is the presence of justice, to paraphrase MLK, and not just negative peace which is the absence of conflict. Elevate the powerless, not the powerful. Focus on justice, not "unity."

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A lot of left analysis I'm seeing rt now disregards this. "We need to understand why these people love salt." Bitch, no, everybody loves salt, some of us just moderate. "We need to sell snacks, too!" That's an uphill climb -- and it elides the fact that snacks are *bad for you.*

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We're about to see an epic collapse in both the number of teachers & the number of medical professionals, after all this. Our society has made it clear that it does not give two damns about either beyond how it can use them, literally to death. "Professionalism!" Unbelievable.

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These stories are like snacks. They satisfy a (forbidden?) craving. They have good mouth-feel. They make you want more. Thing is, try to *live* on snacks and you'll die of malnutrition. The left's story is a meal. Some crave-able comfort food, but also stuff that's good for you.

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Also? Ppl who choose to live on snacks aren't doing so for any rational reason. It's literally killing them. They're doing it anyway because it satisfies some other impulse: in-group approval, a sense of power over a complex and changing world. Snacks are soothing that way.

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...Which is spurred by racist hypersexualization of Asian women. Why do we expect violent bigots to be honest or even knowledgeable about the source of their own evil? They shouldn't have to cite specifics of Critical Race Theory for us to call a spade a spade.

@hayesbrown.bsky.social

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New: Cherokee Co. Sherrif’s Department out with a statement. They say they interviewed the alleged shooter in Atlanta last night and he said it wasn’t about race…it was about his blaming women at these parlors for his addiction to sex.

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Well, slap me over with a flounder. I am apparently Influential, according to @TIME and @staceyabrams ! I'm honored. This is wild.

N.K. Jemisin: The 100 Most Influential People of 2021

Find out why N.K. Jemisin is on this year’s list

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And a big, important story we need to be telling right now is just how terrifying the vote is, to fascists. Fortunately they've helped tell that story themselves, by repeatedly attacking people's ability to vote. It's clearly important. Leftists need to double down on that.

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I'm not crying nope not at all

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Just announced: THE CITY WE BECAME is a finalist for the Best Novel Hugo! Congrats to @tazmuir , @MaryRobinette , @RoanhorseBex , @marthawells1 , & Susanna Clarke, my fellows in the category! It's always fantastic when so many ppl whose work I personally love get noms too.

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Well that's going in the book.

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So, know your audience. Stop trying to sell wholesome meals to ppl who've chosen to live on chips -- hell, half the reason they're doing that is to spite you. Focus on folks who claim to want good food but are eating a lot of crap. Remind them that salt is not a food group.

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Nice! THE CITY WE BECAME is a Nebula finalist. Congratulations to my fellow finalists! Looks like a *fantastic* list this year. 🎆🥳🎉 #Nebulas2021

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I 100% want to see him dragged out. I would make popcorn. I would *pay* to see it.

The Boston Globe

@BostonGlobe

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Even a nation hooked on drama does not want to see a US president dragged out the front door of the White House on Jan. 20, so we asked experts in the art of persuasion how they go about dislodging the reluctant.

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Somehow we have to get these folks to swallow "it's the racism, stupid" pills without choking on them and vomiting back Trumpian talking points. I have no solution for this, btw. I'm trying to tell good stories, but mine are kind of long and chewy. Not very snackable.

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Reminder: "law and order" is fascism, not democracy. Laws can be immoral. The cops here are participating in voter intimidation. The "order" they want is disenfranchisement, not justice. Democracy gets loud. Democracy is ready to throw hands when human rights are on the line.

Beams

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Yesterday, a pro Trump caravan, escorted by Fort Worth police, tried to intimidate voters by driving through a polling station in a predominantly Black neighborhood. But the community wasn’t having it.

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We see it again and again -- reductive class analysis that ignores the impact of race and other intersections. White pundits who empathize with racists but find BIPoC equality terrifying ("cancel culture!!!1!"). Black male hip hop stars who throw their own people under the bus.

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The year I graduated from my Alabama high school, something similar happened; the val was a Black girl who spent freshman year at a (harder) private school. White parents complained til her gpa was unweighted, and a white girl with lower grades got co-val. There's a pattern here.

The New York Times

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Two Black students were named valedictorian and salutatorian for West Point High School. But after the parents of two white students claimed a grade calculation error, the Mississippi school added their children as co-valedictorian and co-salutatorian.

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Spoiler alert: THE FIFTH SEASON is at #1 . Holy crap! Nice way to start off my weekend. :D

Lucienne Diver 🏳️‍🌈☮️🟦

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This is a fantastic list from @Esquire of The 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time (though I think we could all go on forever with our favs!!). I don't want to spoil it, so I won't tell you where you'll find @nkjemisin , but check out these great reads!

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Belated add, since some are tossing around lefty snack stories now: again, those are a hard sell bc nuance reduces poorly & capitalism indocs the opposite. But my suggestion: "You're better off if your neighbor is, too." Doesn't rhyme, not very snacky. But that's the gist.

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And here is where the failure of storytelling kicks in. Why do leftists -- people who ostensibly believe in a balanced diet -- continually fall for this malnourished bullshit logic? Same reason right-wingers do: bc on some level these leftists prefer snacks to good nutrition.

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Simple solution: teach it year-round. Main reason BHM exists is because Black history has been downplayed and excised entirely from American history. Stop teaching *whitewashed* history, and the racist families will either homeschool or stfu.

The Hill

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Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum

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Petition to replace every Woody Allen movie with this guy's Tik Toks.

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And more importantly, focus on those who already know the complex stories, but don't trust the storytellers. The BIPoC who don't vote completely get that it's the racism -- but they don't think leftist politicians do. Because the best-known leftist politicians *don't* get it.

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This just keeps getting worse. SFWA notified members today that Disney is reprinting works (sold to other companies Disney bought) without notifying or paying them! Authors, if you've done a tie-in novel, there's a good chance Disney is stealing from you. #DisneyMustPay

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association

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#DisneyMustPay by notifying creators when their media tie-in work is reprinted, and paying them owed royalties. Go the Distance, Disney – honor your obligations to the creators whose work you valued enough to make part of your brand.

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I hate the word "insurrection." It legitimizes these people's beliefs and validates their underdog feelings. But this is just a group of fundamentalists who've pledged themselves to an idol, trying to drag the whole world backward. It was a terrorist attack. They are terrorists.

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But a lot of it is that many leftists have chosen false simplicity over the complex, often bitter flavors of truth. "Whiteness is the core of America's problems? That can't be true*. I'd rather believe [salty snack #1 ]." *It can be. But it's more complex than "white ppl bad."

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So why isn't knowingly spreading disinfo about public health during a pub health emergency being treated as treason, or depraved indifference, or something people go to jail for? I honestly don't get this. How is it different from falsely shouting fire in a packed theater?

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Then those who grow up in these artificially-curated places of whiteness decide there were *never* any Black people there. Just happened that way. Black people didn't exist yet. A bigger fantasy than anything I've ever written - but hoo boy, challenge that? They pop like corn.

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That's the danger of class reductionists & white liberal pundits who sound straight out of MLK's Letter From A Birmingham Jail -- more devoted to "order" than justice, constantly cautioning BIPoC to put their needs off for the greater good. Nobody likes a story with a bad ending.

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FITTY 🎂

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Some of this is human nature. We often draw causal connections that don't have much to do with logic (e.g. superstition). Some of it is culture. Capitalism is a doctrine of selfishness, after all, and most of us have been indoctrinated with it from childhood.

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They read this in books, see it in films and TV shows, and then try to impose it on real life. We don't do official sundown towns anymore but there are still plenty of de facto ones, where local cops stalk Black residents and local economies prey on them, 'til they leave.

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Should we still be something resembling intact as a country after the election, every community in this country is gonna need to find a way to deal with the dangerously uncontrollable, militarized and mobbed-up, law-breaking worm parasitizing its guts.

Lexis-Olivier Ray

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A group of LAPD officers just broke my camera mic, tackled me to the ground and beat me with their batons, after I identified myself as a journalist multiple times. @LATACO

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End of day, this is probably a question for marketing/PR people to answer, since their specialty is very short stories. But it's important to target those stories at the right audience. Not everybody likes everything, after all. My books aren't super-popular in the Western aisle.

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This is the tone argument. "We would've helped her, but her request wasn't polite or deferential enough!" How dare she be angry about being left untreated in pain. My God. It's just so blatant: the white doctors & staff deserve compassion but not the patient who died.

The Root

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Indiana University Health Responds to Black Doctor's Video of COVID Treatment: Nursing Team 'May Have Been Intimidated'

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This country calls people heroes in order to use them. We don't compensate them right or listen to what they actually need. We just chew them up and spit them out and then look for another hero with more flavor.

Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

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Omicron is formidable, but this is 2022, not 2020. We have the tools to stay healthy and the New York grit of our health care workers like the team at @NYCHealthSystem -Woodhull in Brooklyn. We’ll get through this because of these frontline heroes.

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ICYMI, over the weekend THE CITY WE BECAME won Best Novel in the BSFAs!

Locus Magazine

@locusmag

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2020 BSFA Winners

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Went down the block to see if a neighbor needed help digging out. This dude, who's 80 if he's a day, laughed and said he was on his third yard & fourth car. "This is my exercise! You young people can't take this from me. I live for this!" OK, then, lol! 😆

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Requests like this are a form of normalization -- a way of suggesting that "both sides" are equally bad, which minimizes the sheer unbelievable awfulness of Trump voters. I will not participate in that. Nope. Fuck 'em all and fuck anyone who suggests this.

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There's nothing "crazy" about it. Whoever came up with Q literally just scraped together every bigot's fever dream from the last century, rubbed the serial numbers off, and superglued it together with Trumpism. This is it, folks: THE worst fanfic. We've found it, God help us all.

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They will reveal their utter ignorance of history, reveal their egotistical desperation, show their ENTIRE ass to the ENTIRE internet, in order to cling to this fantasy. I cannot imagine being that fragile. I would pity them, if they didn't do so much real-world harm.

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Wait, is this for real?

Vaush 🇵🇸

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Oh my fucking god it’s real. The Trump team booked the wrong “four seasons” and now it all ends in a landscaping firm parking lot. Unbelievable. It should be illegal to be this happy

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STOP👏🏾TALKING👏🏾TO👏🏾BUSINESS👏🏾PEOPLE👏🏾ABOUT👏🏾THE👏🏾PANDEMIC. Their opinions don't matter right now! Saving lives should come first! This classist fetish for elevating the opinions of clueless rich people is literally killing us! I know it's a slow news period but damn.

Businessweek

@BW

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New York City’s Midtown is missing its office workers. Landlords really, really want them back

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I've always said that the one thing I won't do with my fantasy is get people wrong. Anything else is up for grabs: laws of physics, cosmology, whatever... but I keep the people realistic. Every so often I see readers insisting that I don't write real fantasy, bc of this.

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It's really turning out that the single biggest thing we can do to stop white male terrorists is listen to the women in their lives (or listen to their history of domestic violence if the women have gotten away). But I guess we're not gonna do that.

Matt Ford

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The Nashville bomber's girlfriend told police that he was building a bomb last year. They didn't interview him, but they did give her a psych evaluation.

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