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[raven]

I'm not usually in the habit of crossposting between social media––y'all put up with enough of me without having to put up with it twice––but for some reason I want to keep a more permanent record of this twitter thread, which does some work explaining why I think a) a sense of place in fiction is important and b) how this is often a cipher for rebutting white and Western assumptions about my work.

As a bonus, it features the novella I'm allegedly working on, the one about the other Archivist. (By which I mean, the soft-spoken, contending-with-eldritch-horrors, completely-lacking-in-self-awareness archivist who belongs to me, as opposed to the one who's the Magnus Archives Archivist! I have to watch the first very closely to make sure he doesn't turn into the second.)

I think it's also worth reposting this alongside the general statement that I fucking hate George R.R. Martin. If pushed to it I could say some things about how cringingly masturbatory and grabby it is to spend hours talking about dead white guys at the Hugo awards ceremony in this year of our Lord 2020, and also about how mispronouncing the names of black and brown people is the paradigmatic small violence against us, but honestly I just really fucking hate the guy.