{"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/685103539956154368/", "html": "
Anonymous asked:

Oh FFS, you hear what just happened with Mercedes Lackey? Burn the SFWA with fire.

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theresponseblog:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

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Just gonna be a footnote in the case study of how OTW stole a march on WSFS and SFWA

I cannot emphasize enough that the valence of this stuff flipped when the wave crested, it’s not “they are making advances”, it’s “they just created an exposed salient”. 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

that said, romantic fantasy has been a vulnerable target for a while now (https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/149052648292/wrangletangle-lizziegoneastray-prokopetz) and Lackey being a venerable figure doesn’t mean she was an especially powerful one. Sometimes being one of the old guard just means you were the last to pack it in.

David J Prokopetz

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What do you think all the “lesbian space atrocity” stuff is? That crowd has ins with the OTW scene, too

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