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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

bawww readercon is high key the con i would most love to visit one day!!

Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

It is again thus strange and somewhat unsettling for the work to be not only read but regarded and recognized. I AM grateful for it. I am just always going to find it disorienting, I think. So I suppose: if you also find yourself alive, despite yourself, despite everything, Archive is for you too.

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

I wrote it for me, and I wrote it for my wife, and I wrote it also, I think, for the places my mind had gone while my body was shattered and still somehow breathing. It has been difficult to return to while my body is breaking again.

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

I did not expect it to be my debut. I hoped, and did not imagine it likely. I did not expect it to be published by Tordotcom -- or to be edited by Carl Engle-Laird. I thought it worth dreaming about, but thought it fairly outlandish.

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

On a more personal note: I have always found Archive a tremendously strange book. It also grows, somehow, more personal with the more distance I gain from it. It is carved so deliberately from so many parts of my soul.

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

I've had my head in the sand re: book stuff almost since pub -- so I am grateful, and humbled, and shaken to be able to say that THE ARCHIVE UNDYING is a finalist in the spec fic category of the Lammys. I would also like to direct folks to read fellow finalist Vajra Chandrasekera's essay below:

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 27/03/2024

THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a finalist for the Lammy Awards in the LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction category. I'm grateful for this unexpected and difficult joy. As a Lammy nominee—so very strange!—I have three painful things to say. I'll try to keep it short. vajra.me/2024/03/27/t...

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The Saint of Bright Doors is a Lammy Award Finalist

THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a finalist for the Lammy Awards in the LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction category.

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SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌] @slhuang.com · 20/02/2024

This is the best editorial on the Hugos mess I've read so far. "But the attitude over the last month has been that we let the riffraff in, and look what happened. Now that we know that WE are the riffraff, our response should change accordingly."

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/02/2024

So essentially the white censorship committee penalized Chinese fans for existing and discarded all of these votes as illegitimate, which instantly removed all the most popular Chinese writers from contention and allowed for a US-dominated year in standard fashion. They did TWO levels of censorship.

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 16/02/2024

If you: 1) Are mad about Hugos 2) Have five dollars you could spare - seriously, five (many don't, but if you do) 3) Please put it here ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

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support, The Ignyte Awards

The Ignyte Awards usually cost about $3000 a year to operate.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

For the last few weeks I've been working with Chris Barkley @cmzhang42.bsky.social of @file770.bsky.social on a report about censorship in the 2023 Hugo Awards. Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3

The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 12/02/2024

You know the situation is especially bad when CNN actually names Israel as the perpetrator of violence

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 12/02/2024

I want to be clear that when I say this it isn’t just vibes. CNN’s reporting on Israel & Palestine has been deeply scrutinized by other journalists, as in this Jan 4 piece by the Intercept. theintercept.com/2024/01/04/c...

Screenshot reads as follows:

One member of CNN’s staff who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisal said that the internal review policy has had a demonstrable impact on coverage of the Gaza war. “Every single Israel-Palestine-related line for reporting must seek approval from the [Jerusalem] bureau — or, when the bureau is not staffed, from a select few handpicked by the bureau and senior management — from which lines are most often edited with a very specific nuance” that favors Israeli narratives.

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The CNN staff member described how the policy works in practice. “‘War-crime’ and ‘genocide’ are taboo words,” the person said. “Israeli bombings in Gaza will be reported as ‘blasts’ attributed to nobody, until the Israeli military weighs in to either accept or deny responsibility. Quotes and information provided by Israeli army and government officials tend to be approved quickly, while those from Palestinians tend to be heavily scrutinized and slowly processed.”

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The language of the directives mirror similar orders from CNN management at the start of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, when Chair Walter Isaacson orderedOpens in a new tab foreign correspondents at the network to play down civilian deaths and remind readers that the violence they were witnessing was a direct result of the attacks on September 11.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 03/12/2023

Exactly this point. One of the things that I'm working on right now is the very idea of a "digital public square" as a powerful, albeit ahistorical, myth that drives everything from platform design to the cultural norms of social media to the ways that users take up the affordances of the platform.

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Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Bringing up the award run by QWOC when the white folks are fucking up feels an awful lot what happens in every other industry when WOC are uplifted and expected to clean up white people’s messes. LD and Suzan deserve better than that. The Ignytes are tremendous enough all on their own.

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Sometimes folks run an award that's like a perfect curated list of everything you know you're gonna like!!

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

For real tho, the Ignytes have consistently been my personal favorite list for every year they've been running.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 23/01/2024

Hi! So I'm L, I do a lot in SFF and one of those things I do is run the Ignyte Awards. We're a spec lit award centering the perspectives/contributions of BIPOC in genre. We came about because existing legacy institutions sustain(ed) practices disrespectful or exclusionary of marginalized creators.

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Home, The Ignyte Awards

WELCOME TO THE IGNYTE AWARDS The Ignyte Awards began in 2020 alongside the inaugural FIYAHCON, a virtual convention centering the contributions and...

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/01/2024

What I don't get is, why be such an asshole to folks with predictable and understandable questions? Like, you can totally stick to the script without being a condescending ass about it. Why does condescending assery seem like the way to go?

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

1. OHHH?? WHOOOA. AAAAH. 2. Congrats to all my fellows on the list!!! I've read so many of these books, and they have brought me SUCH delight! 3. a punchline. they've misspelled my name, but specifically the white name. i can live with that.

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SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌] @slhuang.com · 20/01/2024

THE WATER OUTLAWS is BSFA longlisted! High five and congrats to the other Best Novel authors, esp @older.bsky.social @mvmelcer.com @wtalabi.bsky.social @emcandon.bsky.social @meganeokeefe.bsky.social @vajra.me @kateheartfield.com @suyidavies.com @rfkuang.bsky.social !! cc: @tordotcom.bsky.social

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The Sunday Morning Transport @morningtransport.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

The Sunday Morning Transport charges forward into 2024 with the first of four free stories, this one from Nibedita Sen (@hernibsen.bsky.social), a story to light up your new year. Read it for free and enjoy the archives as well!

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Agni

For the first free-to-read story of the year, Nibedita Sen brings us a brilliant, dangerous world, complex power dynamics, and characters we can’t stop thinking about. ~ Julian and Fran, January 7, ...

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SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌] @slhuang.com · 31/12/2023

New Year’s Eve ONLY — THE WATER OUTLAWS ebook is $2.99!!!! 🗡 Genderdiverse bandits. 🌟 A female protagonist in her 40s. 🏮 Like a Hong Kong martial arts movie, but super, duper queer. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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The Water Outlaws

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

1) i have for a long time collected words for later use 2) i kind of hate having to make up sounds for genre names 3) the book owes an inspiration debt to Friends at the Table, a real play podcast of folks who are MASTERS of the art of real-world-as-name, and who kind of introduced me to the trend!

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

YOU ARE WELCOME FOR THE THOUGHTS craft talk is catnip for me so i am almost always happy to delve!! and yeah, there was just a point when i realized that the 2nd person did some excellent stuff for the layered identity crisis and fucky power dynamics

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

and also it will not surprise to learn that reading Homestuck erased all my trepidation regarding getting funky with second person

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

so it BECAME intentional and a thing i was playing with on purpose, but to start they both just sort of happened! i also get giddy when prose plays with its form or leans into unique structure, so that's where the impulse comes from

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

I wish I could say it was the product of careful planning but that is simply not true. Both the present tense and the 2nd person/secret 1st person were things that just sort of Occurred and then became increasingly thematically apropos to the intense brain schism/sensory elements at play

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

POV shifts so much and so messily in archive that i just want you to imagine how i spent most of copy edits: face down on the floor, wailing about the bed i had made myself and was now being forced to lie in.

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

ENH THE BODY IS ONGOING. been strugglebussing with some aftershocks the past half year, but seems like stuff might be evening out again? fingers crossed!

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

and thank you again for finding something to latch onto within it <3 it still feels like such an odd book to me, and i'm grateful whenever it clicks.

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

EYYYY disability/chronic illness finger guns! but in all seriousness, i hope you find ease for your flesh and POWER TO YOUR WORDS.

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

i think it does not shock people to discover that this book erupted out of multiple years of "catastrophic illness" 🥲 but also if i put out something that isn't mulling over trauma and body horror, i've been doppelgangered, so watch out for that

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

thank you for that too, honestly!! look at that walking maladaptive coping mechanism go! but in all seriousness this book has a lot of brain and mental health thoughts in it, and i do appreciate when folks can dine no that element.

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

SLAPS ROOF OF THE ROBOT this bad boy can fit SO much queer anxiety in it!!

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

listen, what's he going to do, force the stray cat back outside the brain meat? what if it gets hit by a car. just let it get comfy.

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

lol one of the first ways i ever tried to describe it to the internet at large was "what if the robot ALSO did not want shinji to get in it"

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

YOU ARE A KINDNESS AND A TREASURE THANK YOU MUCHLY <333

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Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

BAWWW THANK YOU you have been so consistently cool to me abt it, and i appreciate you every time <3

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