"Queer" is a great alternative to LGBT+. It's quicker to say. It doesn't relegate any identity to the other side of the plus sign. It invites all queer folks to be equal. It's cool being queer.
John Wiswell
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John Wiswell
@Wiswell
Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Debut novel SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (DAW and Quercus Books). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. Rep: @hannahnpbowman
Joined June 2009
- Black Panther postcredits scene: Killmonger awakes in a strange hospital. He's shocked that he's alive. How did the vibranium blade miss his heart? In a chair to his left, Ian McKellan's Magneto reads James Baldwin. He looks up, smiles, and says, "My name is Erik, too."
- friend: Werewolves are impossible to kill. You need silver bullets. me: Why don't you just feed them chocolate? friend: Why would I--OH MY GOD, JOHN.
- Wishing all my fellow authors a Bigolas Dickolas of their own.
- Spider-Man is an aspirational fantasy about being able to quickly and conveniently get around New York City.
- Someone said Home Alone was "Middle Grade Die Hard" and I haven't slept in three days
- Vash the Stampede, I've seen what you've done for others and...
- The Universe twirled her skirt. "You know the best part?" she said, then opened two black holes. "It has pockets!"
- Replying to @jujutseok and @onyowalkmanngl I clicked expecting a bunch of PoC above and below Spongebob.
- Cultural goal: get people to call it "Cosmic Horror" instead of "Lovecraftian Fiction." It's Portal Fantasy, not Lewisian Fiction; Epic Fantasy, not Tolkienian Fiction. Most Cosmic Horror doesn't actually read like Lovecraft. There's nothing wrong with leaving his name behind.
- I'm ace. I'm aro. I'm disabled. And I just won a Nebula Award. Thank you to everyone for the kindness and support, and to my fellow writers on the ballot who wrote such amazing works. I wouldn't be here without you.
- Make no mistake. When Senators vote to strip pre-existing conditions from the ACA, they are voting to kill the chronically ill.
