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Genevieve Williams, writer of things

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SFF writer, hardingfele player, tracker, librarian. Longer writings and book reviews at welltemperedwriter.wordpress.com. masto: [email protected], insta: datamuse. SFWA, Codexian. Back Shakespeare Adjacent on Kickstarter!

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Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · Jul 21

On #tracking in fiction and real life (TVTropes is more accurate than you'd think!), and how I incorporated it into my story for #ShakespeareAdjacent, "Bitter Waters; or, The Villain's Appointment." #Kickstarter is 89% funded and closes in two days!

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On tracking and Western tropes: the landscape of “Bitter Waters”

(Note: the Shakespeare Adjacent Kickstarter is 89% funded with two days to go! Back now to get us over the finish line!) There’s this trope. It’s a staple of Westerns, and of adventure fiction gene…

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Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 2d

If you have a thing you keep mulling over, coming back to, wondering about, thinking you’ve decided to let go but it keeps coming up…do it.

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Always go with the Unipiper.

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That calls for a full yurt, or one of those big canvas Renfaire tents

Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 5d

Clearly this kitten is helping me write by sitting on my lap, ensuring that I have to stay here and make words rather than go clean the kitchen or something. Such a helpful kitty!

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 7d

It's Black Speculative Fiction month!

All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.

1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...

2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
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Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 8d

I had a conversation with a cab driver in Italy last year who had been to the U.S. several times and observed that American drivers didn’t seem very aware of the space our own vehicles take up. Thinking he might’ve had a point.

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Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 9d

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River Otter Ecology Project @riverotterecology.bsky.social · 9d

Sometimes a bobcat falls right to sleep in front of your research camera.

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Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 9d

This is the moment I learn that none of my library school professors knew the correct pronunciation

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 9d

Not looking for solutions here. I know how to track down physical copies. The point is that streaming has drastically reduced access. So much isn't available digitally. These catalogues are miniscule vs what we used to have access to on physical media.

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Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 9d

I’m in that community (I’m not especially fond of the term Hellenic polytheist but haven’t found a better one) and this kind of thing is really, really common. I feel like people need to deprogram before joining.

Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 10d

It's attached to the sunglasses. Like those old eyeglasses-and-nose disguises.

Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 11d

Nice

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 12d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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This is awesome, I thought I was 51.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 16d

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:

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Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 16d

“Weaponized incuriosity” is a perfect descriptor and I thank you for it.

Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 17d

Came here to say this. Much of the YA SF I read back in the 80s was dystopian or at least grim, it’s not new.

Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 17d

Gave the first one to my niece. I can imagine her reaction to a Heinlein juvie. She’s too polite to roll her eyes, but.

Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 18d

The dream!

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Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 19d

Too many you say?

*hides tomato plants behind other tomato plants*

Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 19d

It is fair to say that I've never seen a shitbag *quite* like this.

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Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 21d

The Chanur series are among my favorite books by one of my very favorite writers, not only because I related hard to all the misfit characters refusing to stay in the boxes--gender-wise, socially, politically--they'd been crammed into, but because they really are damn good. About time for a re-read.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 22d

In the '80s and '90s, CJ Cherryh questioned and critiqued our assumptions about how gender is expressed and understood, creating science fiction narratives that reflect trans identity and experience. It's time for a retrospective.

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Exploring Gender and Trans Identity in the Worlds of C.J. Cherryh - Reactor

The Chanur series poses key questions about gender roles, expression, and identity.

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Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 21d

18 years as an academic librarian which included teaching research workshops is enough to make me wonder what reality they’re living in, for sure.

One where it’s more about clout and scoring points than talking about anything real, I reckon.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21d

None of the most prominent people talking about universities have any real idea what does and doesn’t happen in classrooms.

Genevieve Williams, writer of things @rimrunner.bsky.social · 25d

One of my last projects before leaving academia was devising a new library budget structure, which hadn't been updated in 30 years. One factor was indeed number of majors. Business and nursing were first and second, and it was a long drop to the third. It was a private liberal arts college, too.