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Wobbuffet, the Patient Pokémon, is unable to initiate attacks. Wobbuffet like to live in dark areas so they can keep their pitch-black tails concealed. #mefite
"Chris Gavaler and Dan Johnson set out to measure how identifying a text as science fiction makes readers automatically assume it is less worthwhile, in a literary sense, and thus devote less effort to reading it": https://goo.gl/t52N9X ... Related posts by Gavaler include the texts used in the study: https://goo.gl/xaZRsd ... https://goo.gl/8eQwxp ... https://goo.gl/cNzvH4 ... and in 2014 he wrote about SF, literary fiction, slipstream, and other labels: https://goo.gl/7zR1Pd
For all the site’s flaws, answers like this are why I stick around #metafilter
https://ask.metafilter.com/314875/Zero-Budget-Birthday-Ideas-Under-Dismal-Circumstances
Two more for my re-read list--very much enjoyed these stories by Morris Tanafon: "The Last Spell of the Raven" (Glittership, 10/2017; #fantasy; recommended on Charles Payseur's blog) and "Interred with Their Bones" (Mythic Delirium, 1/2017; #horror; cw: eating disorders/suicide) ... http://www.glittership.com/2017/10/05/episode-47-the-last-spell-of-the-raven-by-morris-tanafon/ ... https://mythicdelirium.com/featured-story-%E2%80%A2-january-2017
#Metafilter 's The Little Professor has posted her annual list of public domain horror stories--a "desert island" edition that looks great: http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2017/10/howl-the-annual-horde-of-halloween-horrors-desert-island-edition.html
Aw, Julian May--I loved the Pliocene Exile series in high school: http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2017/10/rip-julian-may.html ... http://file770.com/?p=25509 ... Her first SF sale from 1951 is online at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/Astounding_v48n04_1951-12_Gorgon776#page/n7/mode/2up
Innocent Chizaram Ilo's "River Boy" has interesting imagery--another I'll re-read at some point this year: https://firesidefiction.com/river-boy
I liked 3/5 of the stories in Bracken Magazine IV--bookmarked for re-reading: http://www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-iv/
Multiple reading lists at Goodreads make me hope for time to binge-read horror novels by Christmas: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1066-horror-week
The latest from Mallory Ortberg at Shondaland: http://www.shondaland.com/live/a12790496/emails-i-have-never-received-mallory-ortberg/ ... Reminds me of "We Who Are Your Closest Friends" a little too much to feel its full potential, but I liked it
Just another #mefite checking in
