From The World We Make, a fantasy novel about defeating Lovecraftian monsters and fascism with magic and multiculturalism

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60399181

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    1 year ago

    Reading up on that now. Goddamn. Twitter and its consequences . . .

    Jemisin did apologize: https://nkjemisin.com/2021/07/statement-on-isabel-fall-comments/

    Full story, for anyone else who wasn't familiar with what happened: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22543858/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I dunno what it is about YA twitter, but it seems like a uniquely toxic place even among social media.

        • Golabki [comrade/them,undecided]
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          1 year ago

          Chronological adults at least, the best YA is often just accessible regular fiction you wouldn’t realize is YA without the label.

          Like, “Island of the Blue Dolphins” was only marketed as YA because the only publisher who gave it chance was a YA publisher. Decades later every school kid in CA still reads it afaik, it’s used to teach to literary analysis and ties into social studies modules.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            1 year ago

            As far as i can tell the only thing that makes a story ya is slapping the ya label on it. I've read a bunch of ya novels that go as hard as much "adult" fiction.

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      So I remember googling a bit about NK Jemisin when I was reading The City We Became a while back and seeing some stuff about this and being pretty disappointed but this thread has me looking into it more and I ran into this tweet that juxtaposed her apology with her actual involvement in the Twitter mob that harassed Isabel Fall.

      It kind of seems like her apology misconstrues her behavior to sound less bad and victim blames Fall.