Void Thoughts Mag!

The vaunted 'cartoon animals jerking off and being dirtbags' genre of autobio comics (usually published by by Fantagraphics or like Drawn & Quarterly) is such a specific thing in American comics to be bizarre. Captures a minuscule portion of life in NA, and really comics should be about poor and...

What fans? Because it mostly seems to be enjoyed about and written by SFF people who are jumping ship from the trend treadmill that defines modern genre publishing. I think if this conversation was about, say, horror writers trying to change romance, it'd have a much more different tone.

I think, ultimately, the big divide in SFFH spaces is between people who are fandom-oriented, and those who are (for a lack of better, less sensational term) art-oriented, and those two groups just have very different ideas about what art is suppose to be about, which creates friction.

Not the first person to make this distinction, of course, doubt I'll be the last, but it does seem to be something of a breaking point rn. The recurring discourses are mostly metacommentary on this divide including the current one. I think people are speaking different languages when it comes to art

I really hate the 'we must defend bad art because the Hypothetical Standard Woman likes it' argument. Choice feminism is about degrading feminism into a series of consumer choices that are correctly gender and marketed, nothing radical or boundary pushing about it (just like cozy art).

Coziness is fundamentally about escapism, which in turn flattens human life into less complex and less honest forms to tell stories that preserve comfort against all other thing, and that's why a lot of horror people find it repulsive when applying that formula to horror. I'm not a genre utopian...

Reading The West Passage rn by Jared Pechaček, and while a lot of people have pointed towards the Gormenghast books as a kind of anchor point, it actually reminds a lot of Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland as well. Really enjoying my time with it so far.

I don't know if that is intentional of not, or just a byproduct of fabulist tone of the book which is then reflected in both Oz and Alice, but its a kind of mode that is not often utilized in a lot of modern fantasy books (or at least stuff I read), so its be a very interesting change of pace.

Pretend intellectuals cry about how social media isn't the meeting of the minds after throwing a month long tantrum while badmouthing actual intellectuals in a field they are unfamiliar with who disagree with them on their idiotic ideas, and pretend like they aren't the problem.

I think you should probably bare in mind that ideologies that are identical to Zionism in expression and form were the cause of centuries of extermination attempts of the people you think are incapable of understand intergenerational because they aren't Jewish.

I think there is a contradiction here, because the choices of where an adaption differs from the source material is a meaning-making choice (as said as much further on)--but that meaning if bound by the adaptions nature as an adaption, and in relation to the source material. It can't be a...

(as in, literature, nor other art forms, doesn't exist to be adapted into television/film, and the desire for adaption I think is often interrelated to a further desire to simplify and flatten texts to make them more 'consumable'. Maybe this is too cynical, but given the shape of culture right now

I think there is a contradiction here, because the choices of where an adaption differs from the source material is a meaning-making choice (as said as much further on)--but that meaning if bound by the adaptions nature as an adaption, and in relation to the source material. It can't be a...

Furthermore, I think given many film industries perchance for strip mining other areas of creative labour for 'IPs', maybe we should be a little bit more cynical about the role of adaption, and drawing out of meaning of texts for easier, less complex adaptions. I love film, I love many adaptions...

I think there is a contradiction here, because the choices of where an adaption differs from the source material is a meaning-making choice (as said as much further on)--but that meaning if bound by the adaptions nature as an adaption, and in relation to the source material. It can't be a...

He, and subsequentially most academic elites how share similar beliefs on the 'other half', only believes this because he shares a class interest with those who disagree with his values or on his interpretation of facts, and thus mostly safe from reprisal. Most people do not have that luxury.