Her personality is waaaaaaay more Sapphire though, so fine.

I do wish Garnet looked a little more like Sapphire and kinda less like a larger, cooler Ruby.

rebecca sugar is all HAHA i got GAY SEX in your kids' cartoons!!!

also same-gem fusion is okay and inter-gem fusion is not.

oh i suppose that's how stevonnie happens huh, although probably to a lesser extent. this was no dancing or nothing

also apparently accidental fusion is possible?????

http://bookofpoems.tumblr.c… Here's that bit. Tell me it isn't that. TELL ME.

i'd say fusion slaves but uh this episode makes that sound a little unlikely

Probably the realest fusion-as-sex nod yet.

"And you hadn't before?" "Of course not. When would I have ever…?" "I'm so sorry." "No, don't be."

in b4 katy perry "hot n cold" fan music video

No Undertale? Really?

For the record, I think that the text went pretty far out of its way to make David Smith sound like a petulant child who has a stupid privileged sense of the world (he has a place to live that he completely lucked into, for god sakes). He even calls his girlfriend an object. He does that!

btw, thanks for convincing me into a more critical reread for The Sculptor. Gonna do that after I finally work through The Arab of the Future.

For the record, all of his major books have been reprints of Optic Nerve stuff. So yeah, always collections.

For what it's worth, I think "satire" is a mischaracterization of what defenders say he's trying to do and more avoiding some of the traps you think it falls into.

I'll be reading it again based on some comments here with a more critical eye. PS Your writing up there is a much nicer summation of what's going wrong with the book than, I think, your review.

The one about the Chia Pets or whatever killed me.

You don't have to look hard to find the interviews re: the treatment of his female character, who is based heavily on his wife. Re: the rest, points taken. I'm gonna have to read it again!

I did, and I'm on Tasha's side. I thought critics were represented as being pretty much on the nose about David's mediocrity, forcing him to call an audible now that his ability to mold anything however he wanted clearly wasn't enough. If anything was evil, it wasn't critics but how he was chasing critics, and his own…