🌲 Writing to Formula: Beyond Plotting vs. Pantsing
Writing to formula using an outline that follows pre-canned benchmarks like in the hero's journey is like using a compass to draw a circle.
Karen Haegemans on Elissa of Carthage
The historicity of Dido, founder of Carthage
Book Review: Genesis
Ken Lozito on colonizing a dangerous planet
Prisons & Punishment
Conceptions of Justice in SFF
On Removing Monuments to White Supremacists
Iconoclasm is as old as monuments
Female Judges as Rulers
Biblical Deborah & Andamana of the Canary Islands
Women & Militaristic Cultures
The relationship between fierce reputations and women's rights
Prophecy & Language
The word for when foretellings come true
Maritime Empires
The Phoenician gap in our understanding
It’s Not Harmless Talk: On Sexual Assault
Don't tell me being friends with people who have sketchy attitudes toward women and sex, with people who joke about sexual assault, is no big deal.