Category: Sociology
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the cozy catastrophists of cosplay doomerism
I don’t know if Brennan’s use of the “cozy catastrophe” label comes with an awareness of its origins, but it may be more fitting than they seem to realise.
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we (believe that we) have always lived in the castle
I’ve noticed for some years now a discursive tic in what little fannish media I still consume, in which reviewers rehearse a catechism along the lines of “minority representation in genre literature, both at the level of characters and the level of authors, has always been and still is terrible”. To which my response is…
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if the house keeps winning they’ll just burn it down
One of the previous year’s surprisingly difficult lessons has been the need to stop considering reportage from the US as in any way representative of a baseline for circumstances elsewhere.
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this oppressive cardinality
They were nonetheless your superiors, and you their inferiors—and that relationship was reinforced tirelessly by the structures and rituals of the place.