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Save your friend.

Not since the war has this been so accurate

One of them wouldn’t bother, but the other might have been bitten by a radioactive spider at some point and would find a way to reach the hanging plant.

Same. Not bad all around but did end up with techniques to get out of situations. Charming people but also just going to a far away place inside my head while the my demeanor was stoic. Succeeded in emotional survival but at a cost to the soul which I am currently focusing on making healthier.

Literally everyone right now.

Sounds like compelled speech by a government actor upon private citizens.

Those spots are dermatosis papulosa nigra. They’re a common benign skin condition in older black men. Morgan Freeman has them. Danny Glover has them. Nelson Mandela had them. They are not something that anyone needs to be ashamed of. Bill Cosby is a despicable piece of shit, but his skin is fine. His behaviour is not.…

Hmm... eldrich horrors rise from sprouting 10-year-old basil. Sounds like a good story.

ALL THE APPLAUSES. You are very good at this logical argument thing. You should be a lawyer.

Thank you so much for this! Now, if you could please define “disensouled.”

Thank you.

Thank you for this! It’s really incredibly useful for a layperson infuriated by the “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law” crowd. I saved it for future reference!

Is he going to jail/facing other state-imposed criminal penalties? Is someone making him pay civil fines? The answer to both questions is 100% NO. Those are the only circumstances when we are constitutionally entitled to be considered innocent until proven guilty. Furthermore, the Constitution absolutely protects…

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What about Ukoback? He invented fireworks and fried foods. He’s practically the patron saint of America.

What about Baal-berith, Hells’ librarian and accountant ?

Oh, and Fritz Leiber-who’d been one of the 1950’s writers obsessing about nuclear war & the paranoid society—when he wasn’t inventing sword & sorcery.

Grumpy middle-aged SF writers grousing about minorities and “lit’r’y” fiction have been around forever, or at least as long as the early ‘70s (which constitutes “forever” for me). But back then, the SF community was much smaller and self-contained, as well as whiter, older, straighter and more male. As Chip Delany…

My absolute favorite Carrot moment comes in The Fifth Elephant, when Carrot reminds everyone that they took the King’s Shilling and swore an oath to the King, and “the King hasn’t released them yet.”