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Anonymous asked:

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

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erik-even-wordier:

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\u2019s not \u201cthey are making advances\u201d, it\u2019s \u201cthey just created an exposed salient\u201d. 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

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During a panel discussion she used a term for black people that was outdated several generations ago. It is the one in the name of the NAACP.

File 770 has the story and some follow-up discussion.

@kontextmaschine\u200b, could you spell out how you are connecting this to the OTW and WSFS?

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The WSFS has an obvious parallelism with SFWA, the “Sad Puppies” campaign some years back was capturing and expressing dissatisfaction with their ethic/aesthetic drift as expressed through the Hugos, and I think OTW has both means and motive to serve as a core for fantastical writing institutions that capture pride of place in succession to congeal around.

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