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The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
Han Solo at Star's End by Brian Daley
Batman: Death by Design by Chipp Kidd, Dave Taylor (if counting GNs lol)
You can learn so much reading comic books :)
Just saw a Word of the Day thing (I assume implying semi-obscure words) and it was Tatterdemalion
and I thought, I know that word: The Ragman, The Tatterdemalion of Justice! Lol
(Also a common descriptive of the Second Doctor)
I was thinking of modern variation of The Boy Who Cried Wolf:
Once there was a little boy (or girl) who had good eyes (and wasn't stupid); he saw some wolves far away.
"Wolf!" he cried.
But because the elders had bad eyes they laughed and said there was no wolf.
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One of the the things I like about Shelfdust (a site I only recently came across) is the contributors can be sophisticated, incisive, and critical but still write with a joyful love of the medium/genre not wholly scarred by performative cynicism.
..than writing an essay, laying out a POV, then having somebody argue with you using points you had already addressed (and you felt rebutted) in your essay. And you're not sure if you were incoherent or they just skimmed lol.
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(Also full disclosure: I should have a piece appearing in the site in coming months; tho I'm not complimenting the site 'cause they accepted a piece by me, I pitched a piece because I liked the site :)
The wolves got closer and the boy cried "Wolf!"
The elders looked and could not see the wolves so they said the boy was hysterical and too "PC" (Prone to Calling wolf).
The wolves got closer and the boy cried "Wolf!"
The elders beat the boy and said he was too "cringe."
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Then the wolves atracked. The elders panicked and threw the boy to the wolves, but the wolves ate the sheep anyway. Then the elders gathered 'round the mauled boy and said, "Why didn't you warn us?"
And the boy gasped, "Tornado."
The elders couldn't see a tornado so they beat the boy instead.
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There's an op-ed writer I've interacted with occasionally and if I disagree with him his terse response is "I covered that in my essay" or "read my essay"....which I had. Almost like he can't understand, once he has pontifucated, others might still differ lol. To be fair: nothing more annoying..
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One of the great errors in fiction from past decades is that we always portrayed tech bro CEOs as geniuses when the truth is, most are dipshit bigots who got lucky or bankrolled by daddy.
On their own merit, they fail every time.
