One of the many, many things that used to wind me up in national UCU meetings was management's insistence on using honorifics/titles of nobility them to describe MPs, etc. Because nothing says "workers' rights" quite like propping up a self-imposed ruling class...

Show Post

I respect that. I would never remember his real name b/c I don't really want him to take up that much of my memory.

Show Post

1000%. The American version is people being weirdly formal about authors they like and always writing "Mr. King" or "Mrs. Christie." Weird. It's especially annoying, as an anti-monarchist, when the author is *only* known by their title, e.g. Lord Dunsany.

Show Post

I would so very much like to read Wollheim's correspondence with DAW authors. I want to know what he and Thomas Burnett Swann talked about in particular.

Show Post

once again not quote-dunking but if you're handwringing about the man-hating "bad feminists" who "deny men any kind of sexual agency" you are one femto-iota away from crying about "misandry" and you should shut up

Show Post