Kat

a good read today, from @charliejane: “escapist fiction is about liberation, and imagining a happier, more just world is a direct assault on the forces that are trying to break your heart.”

https://reactormag.com/never-say-you-cant-survive-how-to-get-through-hard-times-by-making-up-stories/

Never Say You Can't Survive: How To Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories - Reactor

Charlie Jane Anders is writing a nonfiction book—and Tor.com is publishing it as she does so. Never Say You Can’t Survive is a how-to book about the storytelling craft, but it’s also full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish in the present emergency. Below is the Introduction, followed by the first […]

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Nov 7, 2024 at 9:37pmWeb
Show threadiraNov 7, 2024
@kat @charliejane this speaks to the same notion https://www.guernicamag.com/the-faraway-nearby/
The Faraway Nearby

<p>What’s your story? It’s all in the telling.</p>

Guernica
Show threadKatNov 7, 2024
@iraantlers Solnit is always and forever a balm in tough times.
Show threadiraNov 7, 2024
@kat Has she written anything about Tuesday’s void staring back to us? Or whatever we should name this dark day?
Show threadKatNov 7, 2024

@iraantlers it’s not exactly hopeful, but i found it validating. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/us-progressive-election-trump-maga

(this was very difficult to find because social media is broken, i don’t know if she has a regular column anywhere other than the Guardian)

Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do

Americans will be stuck cleaning up after Maga’s destructive streak because men like this never clean up after themselves

The Guardian
Show threadiraNov 8, 2024
@kat thanks Kat — yes, good article.