just when i think i can't love you ANY FUCKING MORE. uuuuugggghhhhh!! "didactic fiction"= make it teaching; but prescient, functional, and also fun <3 yes yes yes, this is it
I love it already and full disclosure, I have only read a couple of paragraphs. Not because it isn’t gripping but because I want to hear you read it. I love your didactic fiction. Don’t ever apologize for it again or I will be super annoying about it.
I also really love didactic fiction! I know a lot of people (myself sometimes included) have a hard time imagining the world being other than it is, and I think doing so is absolutely vital and irreplaceable, and fiction has a huge role to play in that.
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All I can say is MORE PLEASE!! can't wait to hear it in your voice. Honestly, I think I'd enjoy anything you write or said, unless it was very un-Margaret like. My eternal thanks for making the Bad Times a little less bad and a lot more hopeful and silly.
Thanks, I loved that. One of the problems I’m having with the apocalypse is that I can’t figure out my packing list. It keeps changing in a mysterious equation involving the news and how homeless I am. And I don’t know if it’s just another personal apocalypse, or if I should just go ahead and lean into the apocalypse at this point. Gonna write a whole thing about it.
just when i think i can't love you ANY FUCKING MORE. uuuuugggghhhhh!! "didactic fiction"= make it teaching; but prescient, functional, and also fun <3 yes yes yes, this is it
I love it already and full disclosure, I have only read a couple of paragraphs. Not because it isn’t gripping but because I want to hear you read it. I love your didactic fiction. Don’t ever apologize for it again or I will be super annoying about it.
Woww I adore this!
I also really love didactic fiction! I know a lot of people (myself sometimes included) have a hard time imagining the world being other than it is, and I think doing so is absolutely vital and irreplaceable, and fiction has a huge role to play in that.
(& if Strangers ever needs canadian distro help lmk! sheerspite.ca)
thanks! I'll pass it along to the rest of the collective!
All I can say is MORE PLEASE!! can't wait to hear it in your voice. Honestly, I think I'd enjoy anything you write or said, unless it was very un-Margaret like. My eternal thanks for making the Bad Times a little less bad and a lot more hopeful and silly.
I discovered Bertolt Brecht when I was 19. It was never cool to say, but a good didactic work can feel like being seen.
Solidarity for you all. Keep it going. Live as long as you can.
Love it! Can't wait for the next installment!
I would read 100,000 words of this (or more)...
I love this.
I WANT TO READ THIS FOREVER
Literally what I came to the comments to say!!
three cheers for muppet babies!
Thanks, I loved that. One of the problems I’m having with the apocalypse is that I can’t figure out my packing list. It keeps changing in a mysterious equation involving the news and how homeless I am. And I don’t know if it’s just another personal apocalypse, or if I should just go ahead and lean into the apocalypse at this point. Gonna write a whole thing about it.
I love this piece so much. The grain of sand metaphor brought to mind part of an old poem by Edgar Allen Poe called "Dream Within A Dream":
"I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?"
Thanks for your work as always!
HI there, here is my translation into German: https://www.trueten.de/archives/14259-Das-Ende,-wie-Sand-postapokalyptische-Fiktion-oder-Wie-ich-mich-den-Muppet-Babies-im-Krieg-gegen-die-kannibalischen-Nazis-aus-den-Vororten-anschloss.html