David A. Riley claiming that the National Front was not a fascist party (which even the slightest amount of research can debunk) and claiming that he was never racist, even though he has said this, elsewhere:

David A. Riley has been involved with fascist movements and white supremacist groups since 1973 and that has not changed. The only thing that has is he’s gone underground with it and tried to keep anyone from the small press horror scene from knowing of his involvements. David Andrew Riley is a fascist and white supremacist and his presence in the small press is toxic and cancerous.

The biggest reason the war on "Happy Holidays" is dumb as fuck is that even in a strictly Christian context, the holidays in question are Christmas and New Year's.

Even the most carefully sheltered religious ignoramous who's never heard of Diwali or Chanukah HAS heard of New Year's Day. You know—that thing that happens a week after Christmas? That's often a government-mandated statutory holiday? Where all the calendars change? So close to Christmas that many businesses, schools, and other institutions often take the days between them off too?

It's so absolutely clear that the grown adults peddling this crap are making something up to get angry about, because Christians have been wishing each other Happy Holidays for centuries. (Twelve whole days of Christmas, and extra events like Epiphany or Feast of the Innocents, too! These days we even get Second Christmas, for the Julian calendar folks!)

They're not angry about "erasing Christmas". Christmas is indelible. They're angry at having to acknowledge literally any other religion as having a right to exist, more or less. They want to live in a theocracy, while simultaneously saying that religious oppression would be terrible if it happened... to them.

I'm so goddamn sick of it. Of people who ask "Which holidays?" as if it's some sort of sick burn, not something that can slide from moderate inanity through to actively bigoted malice.

Keep Christ in Christmas?

Great idea. You start. Love your neighbour and shut the fuck up.

*They want to live in a theocracy, while simultaneously saying that religious oppression would be terrible if it happened... to them.*

Not exactly right, but close: they want to live in a theocracy, *while denying that it's a theocracy at all* because there can be no other legitimate way to live, it's just normality, any other way to exist must be discredited and denied.

It's like the fundamentalists who won't read fiction because "fiction is just lies"; no, *that's* not why they won't read fiction—the real reason is that fiction is text, holy scripture is also text, but fiction explicitly acknowledges that *what it describes is not real*, and to admit that *any* text can describe something unreal is to admit that holy scripture might also be unreal, *and they can't allow that realization to dawn*.

It's a deeply scary totalizing perspective that ultimately denies the very existence of alternatives (including people who don't fit their beliefs).

There’s two ends of the horror spectrum

Describe the house in excruciating detail without describing the occupants because the furnishings, geometry, narrative path through the architecture, and all the trappings of the residence all combine to *imply* the personality of the occupants, and the reader's imagination will make them far more horrifying than the author ever could.

already got a blazed marvel post. the adpocalypse is closer than we think so heres your daily PSA

don't interact with corporate tumblr accounts

yes even to dunk on them. i don't care if you have the sickest burn of the century lined up, don't even give them the time of day

the eventual and inevitable fall of twitter marks a change in the advertising industry, and tumblr is unclaimed territory. if we want tumblr to remain the social media bastion it has become, it needs to remain as unappealing to corporations as possible. do not engage. in a marketing strategist's eyes, any kind of attention is good attention. don't "silence, brand" them. don't kungpowpenis them. don't send them hate anons. don't hate-follow them. corporate tumblrs are not a single entity and they will not be harassed off this site. we only have a shot at repelling them because of tumblr's lack of an algorithm. so turn off recommended posts on your dashboard, put it chronological order, and install an adblocker. if you don't seek out these blazed posts and actively ignore them when they happen upon you, the corporations will starve. in this case, the best kind of protest is a silent one

Reblog.

Makes sense.

Speaking as an author ... a 4 star review drags down the average: a lot of readers won't look at anything that averages less than 4 stars, so it really isn't helping. If they're the very first reviewer on a book, and the second hates it and gives it one star, then it's going to look like a 2.5 star average, which ain't good. I've had politically motivated asswipes go on Goodreads and systematically one-star every book of mine listed there, including ones not yet published (or even written): it really drags down the average and deters people from buying the book at launch.

I appreciate their need to keep track of what they read. But surely the way to do that is with a private book blog or an anonymous Goodreads account, not one linked publicly to their identity as a publishing salesperson?

Meanwhile, if they're in the sales team they shouldn't be doing anything that might reduce the marketability of one of their authors' books.

(As for me, in this situation I might have a quiet word with my editor, NOT naming the salesperson in question, but mentioning it as an issue in general terms. Because if it's happening to me with this one sales person it's probably happening to other people and/or with other sales folks, and maybe it's something where the response should be to give some thought to establishing a company-wide policy.)