@golgaloth yes, tech changes very quickly but so do social attitudes. My books from 2012 seem dated now. And then there are international changes and Covid and natural disasters, impossible to keep up.
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@golgaloth Clever, I don't know. But players have attempted to charge a stampede head on, with a double somersault, followed by a midair swing, and bounce off a magical pocket stretched to a trampoline.
Only to get a crit-fail on the magic-pocket-jump, and end up as part of somebody's inventory.
Played through Aeon's End: Legacy with my friend Dan in two weekends flat. That was a LOT of fun, and made for us two custom, unique breach magi that we can use in (re-)playing the New Age box and then the Outcasts campaign.
All in all, loved it. Tempted to do a custom box to hold our magi. Planning an expedition for the two of us for the next time we get to play.
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I've noticed that when a new (often not-actually-new) technology that is mostly harmful emerges, the capital systems driving it take pains to partition in the public mind an area of "clearly useful" cases where You Gotta Give Em That At Least, no matter how many harmful cases stack up against it, and that this tactic is pretty successful on certain classes of people who value being Reasonable more highly than accepting the testimony of those harmed,
Books already contain content warnings by how they are categorised, their cover images, blurb, etc. Adult, Young Adult, Children's, Romance, etc.
This is where the author can give the reader a good idea as to what's inside. If you feel the need for anything more specific, you probably haven't written your back cover (or web-page description) properly, or you need to find a better cover image.
The cover image was taken up by a particular superheroine from this novel series. Behind her is an Ominous Shape, too out of focus to clearly discern.
The blurb was all What's that behind her? and Will it eat her?
Spoiler Alert: in this book, she's a minor character, only present for about ten pages. Although the Ominous Shape does eat people, she never gets within a thousand kilometres of it.
Oh absolutely, a bunch of synagogues cutting off a FUCKING FOOD BANK beause it published a statement of concern about DELIBERATELY FUCKING STARVING PEOPLE TO DEATH is the way to reduce hatred of Jews.
Good job everybody, take a break. Rabbis who listen aren't (IME, YMMV, etc) any more common that priests who listen, or imams who listen but it's tempting to call some of these assholes and let them know how I feel.
They serve a valuable function, though “should” is a strong word. In one way, it’s a personal preference — I see more content warnings in author notes than from the publisher, which implies to me that the publisher is neither enforcing content warnings nor preventing them. And obviously self-published authors (like myself) make the decision for themselves, both to include them or not, and where to draw the line.
BUT if the author/publisher doesn’t provide them, it’s almost certain that reviewers will. Some reviewers just list them to help out other readers. But some get very annoyed that they had to find out for themselves.
I also suspect it’s generational ie younger authors are more likely to do it, for their younger (but still adult) audience. I think it comes from losing the unspoken cues (imprint, genre, cover style, blurb etc) from traditional publishing that told us what to expect, due to the rise of genre-busting self-publishing, and also a more general blurring of genre lines, combined with the culture of fanfic, where thorough warnings are expected as a community-driven convention.
And I also think it is a bit muddled, as any big and self-determined umbrella term is likely to become. It can be “warning: contains graphic violence” or it can be “warning: only-one-bed trope alert!!!” And that’s ok but it might undermine the serious content warnings for the readers who need them. But I think readers have become used to parsing CWs for themselves.
It's official, folkes! Cruel Provocations is now available!
A couple of reviews already that are five stars, neither from people who have any reason to be nice to me. I'm overwhelmed.
I would suggest not using Amazon for a physical copy. They have KDP and get shirty about fulfilling other POD services. So Booktopia or Barnes & Noble for the physical. Amazon are great for the eBook versions, as are any of the other stores.
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New Year new #Wikipedia list. Reebee Garofalo was one of the original people who put together Rock Against Racism Massachusetts but you may know him as the snare player for the Good Trouble Brass Band playing in the HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands. He was cited in a ton of other Wikipedia articles and made that Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music chart you may have seen in an Edward Tufte book. A good guy to get to know, deserves a longer article but this is good for now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebee_Garofalo
This guy's name is Bum Farto and the categories on his Wikipedia article are: 1919 births, Missing people, People declared dead in absentia, 20th-century American criminals, and Firefighters. I don't think I have anything more to add except amazement no one had written this article before.
