Notices by Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)

"The American democratic republic is survived by a country of the same name, the United States of America, now a presidential dictatorship."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/us-democracy-dies-trump-236-years-20292708.php

Why did that absolutely terrible earnings call NOT tank Tesla stock? Is it just all the insider trading keeping the corpse afloat?

Never, ever again will I listen to an editor telling me a villain is “too cartoonish”, or that a plot point is “too outlandish”.

"By reducing these protests to just another predictable event that doesn't warrant significant coverage, NPR and other outlets are failing in their fundamental mission: to help Americans understand what's happening in their country and why."
https://www.readtpa.com/p/not-very-compelling-how-npr-dismissed

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"Now that the agreement has been canceled, the DOJ will no longer monitor the ADPH to ensure compliance."
https://popular.info/p/trump-administration-cancels-program

The moment I find myself thinking, "Wow, *you* must be fun at parties," is the moment I apply a block. Life is too short for Well Actuallys, sealions, Reply Guys, and the Perpetually Indignant.

Curate your space, my beloveds.

A tracker for persons disappeared by Trump and the Republicans.
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

"Hence the paradoxical situation of literature in the conservative parts of the United States, where it is dismissed as having no utility and yet is also seen as enormously dangerous."
https://lithub.com/viet-thanh-nguyen-most-american-literature-is-the-literature-of-empire/

"If, tomorrow, Donald Trump revoked his entire regime of tariffs, it would not matter. It might temporarily delay some economic pain, but the rest of the world now understands that it must move forward without America."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over

Yeah, that's enough for me today. Gonna go to bed and read about Victorian-era murders, because that seems more cheerful.

"With each subsequent Hunger Games book, Collins has stripped away more and more of the spectacle of the Games in order to grab a certain subsection of readers by the scruff of the neck and shake them so they finally get the fucking point."
https://www.polygon.com/analysis/547538/hunger-games-suzanne-collins-explained-meaning

The madness will continue until rich white men suffer real, actual consequences—social, financial, legal—for their actions. It’s that simple.

Coming into my mentions full of apologia for the rich is not recommended. Christ Jesus, respect yourself more, also, read the fucking room.

Boy, historians are just going to have a field day with all this.

An enchilada and two chocolates later, the world looks a little less grim.

Back to revising smutty vampires!

Because if a publisher is saying this publicly, Christ alone knows what’s going on privately.

…yeah, so, if a publisher is publicly saying, “We’ve spent out authors’ royalty money and can’t pay them without a loan or GFM”, that is HIGHLY concerning and I would take it as a sign NOT to do business with that publisher.

I would also, if I had already signed a contract with that publisher, seek professional advice about rights reversion, and a full independent audit of all sales.

Just as a beginning.