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How your heart is, how is it deep
Rabbit, rabbit! The Deadlands has reopened to poetry submissions. Send us your spectral, your chthonic, your grave-goods, your grief-gifts. We look forward to following you down.
My persistent typo for the name of this magazine is The Deadlads, which feels inevitably as though it will have to generate a ghost poem for A.E. Housman, even though Tom Stoppard sort of sewed that one up years ago. Have some links.
1. In memory of Norma Waterson, her music for a blessing.
2. On double standards of representation: "I also do think that placing the entire onus of trying to anticipate every single bad angle someone somewhere might take when reading the text upon the shoulders of the writer – instead of giving in that there should be also a level of responsibility on the part of the audience not to project whatever biases they might carry onto the text – is the kind of thing that will only end up reducing the range of stories that can be told about marginalized people." I hope she writes her heist story with a cool Latino car thief. On the subject of Jewish vampires, Leigh Ann Hussey's "Blood Libel" (1991) is an oldie but a goodie.
3. I like this music video. It reminds me of the films of Peter Strickland: Qlowski, "Folk Song."
My persistent typo for the name of this magazine is The Deadlads, which feels inevitably as though it will have to generate a ghost poem for A.E. Housman, even though Tom Stoppard sort of sewed that one up years ago. Have some links.
1. In memory of Norma Waterson, her music for a blessing.
2. On double standards of representation: "I also do think that placing the entire onus of trying to anticipate every single bad angle someone somewhere might take when reading the text upon the shoulders of the writer – instead of giving in that there should be also a level of responsibility on the part of the audience not to project whatever biases they might carry onto the text – is the kind of thing that will only end up reducing the range of stories that can be told about marginalized people." I hope she writes her heist story with a cool Latino car thief. On the subject of Jewish vampires, Leigh Ann Hussey's "Blood Libel" (1991) is an oldie but a goodie.
3. I like this music video. It reminds me of the films of Peter Strickland: Qlowski, "Folk Song."
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Off-topic, my other favorites in that book were Esther Friesner's "The Blood-Ghoul of Scarsdale," which aged poorly in terms of cool kid slang lingo but is still funny to me, and the supremely bonkers "A Cold Stake" by Phyllis Ann Karr, where the hero's problem isn't even that he's a vampire, it's that he's imaginative in a world where people with active imaginations are disadvantaged and the targets of bigotry.
Anyhow, that Tumblr post. Dude. I printed it out so I can reread it at my leisure; haven't done that for a while.