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"Estranged Children of Storybook Houses"
You know the theory that the story of fairy changelings originally were about autistic people? This story takes that idea and runs with it really well. Could have been trite but absolutely was not.
— Mar 15, 2022 11:11PM
You know the theory that the story of fairy changelings originally were about autistic people? This story takes that idea and runs with it really well. Could have been trite but absolutely was not.
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Artemis
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"I Am a Beautiful Bug!"
A bitter, satirical, spitefully proud story about transition and being a minimum wage cog in the machine, and going "fuck that actually." The author's notes say it was written in a bad mood in a waiting room and yeah I can see that.
— Apr 15, 2022 12:38AM
A bitter, satirical, spitefully proud story about transition and being a minimum wage cog in the machine, and going "fuck that actually." The author's notes say it was written in a bad mood in a waiting room and yeah I can see that.
Artemis
is on page 184 of 222
"Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel"
The titular novella. Or novelette? It was structured like a long short story rather than a short novel, and ahhhHHH. The interwoven stories of Sebastian, Lara, and their mother Donna, their hopes and fears and resignation to the way the world is. Finding meaning in the places they can, in the night after they get off work and the bitter empty hope of the moon.
— Apr 13, 2022 11:26PM
The titular novella. Or novelette? It was structured like a long short story rather than a short novel, and ahhhHHH. The interwoven stories of Sebastian, Lara, and their mother Donna, their hopes and fears and resignation to the way the world is. Finding meaning in the places they can, in the night after they get off work and the bitter empty hope of the moon.
Artemis
is on page 100 of 222
"My Noise Will Keep the Record"
This is one I had to read twice (a few stories so far have been like that), and absolutely benefited from doing so. Sad, about sci-fi ableism and real ableism and people with extensive prosthetics that keep them alive and they need to pay off working for a company that sells luxury wearable tech for data harvesting. The Pavlov line smacked me in the face.
— Mar 27, 2022 11:41PM
This is one I had to read twice (a few stories so far have been like that), and absolutely benefited from doing so. Sad, about sci-fi ableism and real ableism and people with extensive prosthetics that keep them alive and they need to pay off working for a company that sells luxury wearable tech for data harvesting. The Pavlov line smacked me in the face.
Artemis
is on page 78 of 222
"As Tender Feet of Cretan Girls Danced Once Around an Altar of Love"
Archaeology! Immortality! Loss, longing, and living. A Cretan snake woman watches her home fall to ruin and be excavated again, watching an archaeologist tell her people's story (wrong, sensationalized) and collects other people's stories of her lost love, Ariadne (also wrong, sensationalized). This made me Feel things but I'm not positive what.
— Mar 15, 2022 08:15PM
Archaeology! Immortality! Loss, longing, and living. A Cretan snake woman watches her home fall to ruin and be excavated again, watching an archaeologist tell her people's story (wrong, sensationalized) and collects other people's stories of her lost love, Ariadne (also wrong, sensationalized). This made me Feel things but I'm not positive what.
Artemis
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"The Android That Designed Itself"
A three-part meditation - sermon, manifesto, theory - about creating yourself. Interesting to see the three-part structure in relation to the next story's specific call-out against binaries in favor of triplets. Also surprising and interesting to see a re-working of Jarboe's now-famous tweet as the opening lines.
— Mar 15, 2022 08:11PM
A three-part meditation - sermon, manifesto, theory - about creating yourself. Interesting to see the three-part structure in relation to the next story's specific call-out against binaries in favor of triplets. Also surprising and interesting to see a re-working of Jarboe's now-famous tweet as the opening lines.
Artemis
is on page 52 of 222
"We Did Not Know We Were Giants"
A short, almost mythical story about giving yourself to an indifferent god, and then hunting and eating eat.
Not sure if it's empowering or chilling.
— Mar 09, 2022 11:30PM
A short, almost mythical story about giving yourself to an indifferent god, and then hunting and eating eat.
Not sure if it's empowering or chilling.
Artemis
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"The Seed and the Stone"
I read this story twice to feel like I understood it, and I'm still not sure I do, and that's fine. Mystical, quiet, and luminous.
— Mar 07, 2022 09:17PM
I read this story twice to feel like I understood it, and I'm still not sure I do, and that's fine. Mystical, quiet, and luminous.
Artemis
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“The Nothing Spots Where Nobody Wants to Stay”
Bitter and sad, evokes being a teen and wanting to scream and get away, living in a social space where nobody wants to see you or wants to be near you.
— Mar 01, 2022 09:52PM
Bitter and sad, evokes being a teen and wanting to scream and get away, living in a social space where nobody wants to see you or wants to be near you.
Artemis
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"Self Care"
The narrative voice of this one was at once absolutely wild and intimately familiar. I felt like I knew this person, but only on twitter. A transmasc loser punk in a New England town being swallowed up by rising sea levels, with nowhere to go but a Catholic shelter, intensely resisting anyone's attempts to "help" him without understanding him but wanting to belong somewhere... snarky, bouncy, angry, real.
— Feb 28, 2022 11:18PM
The narrative voice of this one was at once absolutely wild and intimately familiar. I felt like I knew this person, but only on twitter. A transmasc loser punk in a New England town being swallowed up by rising sea levels, with nowhere to go but a Catholic shelter, intensely resisting anyone's attempts to "help" him without understanding him but wanting to belong somewhere... snarky, bouncy, angry, real.
