velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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a one-man conspiracy
I’m not exactly crowing with victory, here, but some of us got assigned a spirit animal by circumstance, and it’s not our fault if it just happens to be awesome.
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the real reason you’re not selling out in 2026
… if you’re not paying to play, you’re likely not playing at all—unless you’re playing on the platforms, in which case you’re still paying, only with something far closer to your soul than the record labels of old ever asked for.
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track changes to their lair and kill them
Techniques of revision and rewriting that involve distance from the earlier draft, whether figurative or literal. (Bonus material: why I hate track changes.)
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building up against the left wall
Some notes on an interview with hyperproductive sff author Adrian Tchaikovsky on his writing practice, with plenty of good stuff about worldbuilding.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”