{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Oh FFS, you hear what just happened with Mercedes Lackey? Burn the SFWA with fire.", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/685093163617140736/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>Oh FFS, you hear what just happened with Mercedes Lackey? Burn the SFWA with fire.</p></div>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/685084920695193600/\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>Just gonna be a footnote in the case study of how OTW stole a march on WSFS and SFWA</p></blockquote><p><p>I cannot emphasize enough that the valence of this stuff flipped when the wave crested, it&rsquo;s not &ldquo;they are making advances&rdquo;, it&rsquo;s &ldquo;they just created an exposed salient&rdquo;. WSFS\ufffc\ufffc and SFWA are organizations of writers that were calibrated in a pre-Internet era where the role of (business-minded) publishers and agents ballasted them, they were vulnerable to ideological capture; successor organizations founded in a modern era of modern pressures will be armored against</p></p>"}