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  • Writing While the World Burns: What Does It Mean to Be a Writer During the Climate Crisis?

    In this episode, we talk to writer/editor Sarena Ulibarri about what it means to be a writer during a global climate crisis. Do writers have a responsibility to address the problem? Are we a part of the problem? Does art matter when the world is on fire? Should we educate people or offer them an escape from the horrors of reality? Should we give people hope or scare the shit out of them? Can art change the world, or are we just like the musicians on the Titanic playing for the upper-class while the ship goes down?

    Sources/Additional Reading:
    • World Weaver Press
    • Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures
    • The Spiral Ranch
    • Chrysalis in Sunlight
    • Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
    • Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters
    • Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World
    • ‘I want you to panic’: Climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, lays it on the line for world leaders
    • Titanic Orchestra
    • Solarpunk: A Reference Guide
    • How Climate-Change Fiction, or “Cli-Fi,” Forces Us to Confront the Incipient Death of the Planet
    • A Very Nutty Christmas
    • ‘Titanic’ Prompts Pollution Study
    • Raffi Says No to Ads for Kids

      • About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is executive producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.

      Rite Gud is supported by readers like you. If you enjoy what you’ve read here, please consider supporting Rite Gud on Patreon, or via the Kittysneezes Boutique. 

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      52 min
    • Transgressive Queer Fiction and the Right to Be Messy

      Straight writers frequently portray cisgender heterosexual characters with twisted sexual pathologies or dysfunctional, miserable relationships. But when an emerging sci-fi writer published a sharp, witty, in-your-face short story about a transgender helicopter pilot in a dystopian future, prominent members of the writing community rushed to viciously condemn her until she withdrew her work and went into hiding.

      In this episode, horror writer Gretchen Felker-Martin joins us to talk about the importance of making space for transgressive fiction by queer writers. We also discuss didactive versus expressive art, the trap of respectability that queer creatives fall into, and Isabel Fall’s “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter.” (And Raquel mispronounces the word didactic several dozen times.)

      Links:
      • Gretchen’s Twitter
      • Gretchen’s Patreon
      • She Kills People From 7,85- Miles Away
      • Drone Disorientations: How “Unmanned” Weapons Queer the Experience of Killing in War
      • The Right’s One Joke:
        • https://twitter.com/9_volt_/status/1127612977585299457
      • “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” (via Wayback)
      • What’s the Harm in Reading?
      • That Tyler the Creator tweet:

        • Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Cyber Bullying Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Screen Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha

        — T (@tylerthecreator) December 31, 2012

      • The Abominable Act: Depictions of Gay Sex in Horror Film
      • An Attempted Suicide Forced a Tumblr Community to Open Its Eyes About Bullying
      • Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
      • ‘Better Call Saul’ Gets the Point of Prestige TV
      • Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequences
      • Me Sowing, Me Reaping:

        • Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

        Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

        — The Golden Sir (@screaminbutcalm) March 12, 2019

      • Remembering Hollywood’s Hays Code 40 Years Later
      • Yoon Ha Lee on being trans
      • PORPENTINE
      • Briar Ripley Page
      • Torrey Peters
      • Black Dresses
      • {familia} KM Claude
      • The Pervert, Michelle Perez and Remy Boydell

        • About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.

        Rite Gud is supported by readers like you. If you enjoy what you’ve read here, please consider supporting Rite Gud on Patreon, or via the Kittysneezes Boutique. 

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        1 hr 14 min
      • Creepypasta and Other Eerie Starches

        In this spooktacular episode, we talk to Ash and Jon of the Horror Vanguard podcast about the internet-based form of horror fiction known as creepypasta.

        In a culture increasingly controlled by a small handful of media corporations, creepypasta presents a form of communal storytelling, a digital version of the campfire where kids gather round to swap scary stories. We take a look at how creepypasta uses the unique structure of the internet to give us the creeps and how it falls into the greater tradition of horror and gothic literature. We also examine why the entertainment industry’s attempts to capitalize on creepypasta so often fail, and how creepypasta can survive as the internet grows ever more centralized.

        This topic was suggested by one of our subscribers. If you’d like to suggest a topic and get access to the latest episode before everybody else does, sign up for our Patreon.

        Links:
        • Behind Creepypasta, the Internet Community that Spread a Killer Meme
        • Ted the Caver
        • The Story of Slenderman, the Internet’s Own Monster
        • Lavender Town Syndrome
        • The Rake
        • Ben Drowned
        • Candle Cove
        • Suicide Mouse
        • The Russian Sleep Experiment

          • About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com.
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           Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.

          Rite Gud is supported by readers like you. If you enjoy what you’ve read here, please consider supporting Rite Gud on Patreon, or via the Kittysneezes Boutique. 

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          1 hr 13 min
        • Writer Beware! Spotting Shady Agents, Vanity Presses and Other Scams

          The road to publishing can be a thorny one, filled with con artists lying in wait to pounce on unwary writers. Fortunately, Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware is here to tell us how to avoid being scammed. During our chat, Victoria answers questions like the following: How can you spot a shady agent? What’s the difference between self-publishing and vanity publishing? Should you enter a contest with an entry fee?

          Victoria also tells us about one of her more interesting cases, a dastardly tale involving the Canadian Royal Mounted Police!

          Recommended reading:
          • The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Guild of America
          • Writer Beware! 
          • Writer Beware: The Blog
          • Victoria Strauss’s website
          • Writer Beware’s email address
          • Jane Friedman’s website
          • David Gaughran’s website
          • The bizarre saga of Melanie Mills

            • About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.

            Rite Gud is supported by readers like you. If you enjoy what you’ve read here, please consider supporting Rite Gud on Patreon, or via the Kittysneezes Boutique. 

             

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            47 min
          • The Dark Side of Fandom Part 2: Friendship Simulator
            Why do people love the Disney corporation? Why do people watch other people play video games? Can fans influence creatives’ work for the worse? Does the mainstreaming of geek culture represent a triumph for social outcasts, or is it all just a capitalist plot?

            In part two of our discussion on the dark side of fandom, RS Benedict talks to Tim Heiderich about parasocial relationships, Twitch streamers, Nazis, Pink Floyd’s The Wall and fans who want to watch their idols burn.

            Recommended reading/viewing:
            • The Dark Side of K-Pop
            • Mary Weiland’s heartbreaking letter in Rolling Stone about the death of her ex-husband, Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland
            • Fake Friends Episode One
            • Parasocial Relationships: The Nature of Celebrity Fascinations
            • That movie where Melissa Joan Hart falls in love with a nutcracker is in fact real
            • Rammstein — “Mann Gegen Mann”
            • Disney lobbies Congress to change copyright laws
            • Nine Inch Nails — “Every Day Is Exactly The Same”
            • The Skinner Box
            • That bit from The Wall
            • That time Roger Waters spit on a dude
            • How it feels to listen to podcasts
            • that Electric Literature piece about Judy

              • About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.

              Rite Gud is supported by readers like you. If you enjoy what you’ve read here, please consider supporting Rite Gud on Patreon, or via the Kittysneezes Boutique. 

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              1 hr 7 min
            • The Dark Side of Fandom, Part 1: Have You Accepted Spider-Man as Your Lord and Savior?

              Tim Heiderich of Have You Seen This took the time to talk to us about the creative perils of fandom. Fandom can be fun, but it can also turn ugly too, or it can keep us so busy focusing on someone else’s work that we fail to develop our own talents.

              This was a huge conversation, so we split it into two parts. In the first installment, we talk about toxic fandom, simulacra, and the siren song of nostalgia.

              (This episode includes a mention of Harry Potter fandom. Please note that we recorded the episode before JK Rowling outed herself as a huge transphobe on Twitter so we neglected to call her a TERF.)

              Recommended reading/listening:
              • Simulacrum
              • 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back
              • Disney’s Weaponized Nostalgia
              • The Dark Side of the ’90s Beanie Baby Craze
              • School Shootings Drove Stephen King to Take Rage off the Shelves

                • About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.

                Rite Gud is supported by readers like you. If you enjoy what you’ve read here, please consider supporting Rite Gud on Patreon, or via the Kittysneezes Boutique. 

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                1 hr
              • Originality: Feh, Who Needs It?

                RS Benedict talks to Stephen Mazur, Assistant Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, about originality. How important is it, really? Readers and editors say they crave original stories, but much of our pop culture these days is proudly derivative: sequels, remakes, reboots and adaptations of pre-existing source material. And the human race has been telling stories for millennia; chances are, someone else has already had a story idea just like yours. Should we even bother trying to tell original stories? Does originality matter?

                Mazur also talks a little about the nuts and bolts of running the long-running sci-fi mag, why some writers are remembered while others vanish, and whether or not you should write that werewolf detective story.
                Recommended reading:
                • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
                • Kali Wallace’s “Botanical Exercises for Curious Girls” (FSF March 2011)
                • Cassandra Khaw and Jonathan L. Howard, “Shooting Iron” (FSF Sept/Oct 2018)
                • GV Anderson, “I Am Not I” (FSF July/Aug 2017)
                • Interview with Wole Talabi on “The Harmonic Resonance of Ejiro Anaborhi”
                • Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series. (In general you should definitely be reading Ursula Le Guin!)
                • That time Caresse Crosby, the inventor of the brassiere, ghost-wrote smut for Henry Miller
                • Interview with Ken Liu on “Arc”
                • Go Forth and Multiply: Twelve Tales of Repopulation
                • Correction: While many of Philip K. Dick’s books came out as paperback originals, these titles were published first in hardback: Time Out of Joint, The Man in the High Castle, Now Wait for Last Year, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, A Scanner Darkly, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
                  • About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezzes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.

                  Rite Gud is supported by readers like you. If you enjoy what you’ve read here, please consider supporting Rite Gud on Patreon, or via the Kittysneezes Boutique. 

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                  1 hr 35 min
                • No More Heroes with JR Dawson
                  Much of speculative literature focuses on superheroes and Chosen Ones. But what about ordinary people or flawed people who don’t save the world? Do they matter?

                  Sci-fi/fantasy author JR Dawson joins us to talk about why she writes about ordinary people, and how privilege and inequality warp our idea of whose story deserves to be told. She also talks about being a Midwestern writer, her favorite literary losers and that time Hans Christian Andersen got really weird with Charles Dickens’ family.

                  Recommended Reading:
                  • JR Dawson’s Twitter account
                  • JR Dawson’s Patreon
                  • Virginia Woolf, If Shakespeare Had a Sister
                  • President Lincoln’s Connection to Nebraska
                  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
                  • Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back
                  • That time Hans Christian Andersen got really weird with Charles Dickens’ son
                  • Charles Dickens liked looking at dead people
                  • Lore Olympus

                    • About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezzes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.

                    Kittysneezes is supported by readers like you. If you enjoy what you’ve read here, please consider supporting Kittysneezes on Patreon, on Ko-Fi, via the Kittysneezes Boutique or by supporting Rite Gud on Patreon. 

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                    40 min
                  • Guns: How to Feature Them in a Realistic Way

                    Tons of stories feature guns, but they’re usually portrayed in a wildly unrealistic way. Nate Bethea of What a Hell of a Way to Die was kind enough to stop by to talk to us about what writers get wrong about firearms. What’s the difference between a clip and a magazine? Why do you have to pump a shotgun (besides it sounds really cool)?

                    Some things to remember: guns are very loud and very dangerous, and the human body has a lot of blood in it. So much blood. Way more than what they show you in movies. It’s messy.
                    Content warning for discussions of gun violence.

                    Sources/Additional Reading:
                    • What a Hell of a Way to Die
                    • TRASHFUTURE
                    • How much blood is in a human body?
                    • What happens when you get shot and survive
                    • Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke
                    • Karl Marlantes’ Matterhorn
                    • James Jones’ The Thin Red Line 

                      • About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezzes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.

                      Kittysneezes is supported by readers like you. If you enjoy what you’ve read here, please consider supporting Kittysneezes on Patreon, on Ko-Fi, via the Kittysneezes Boutique or by supporting Rite Gud on Patreon. 

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                      54 min
                    • Men Writing Women (Badly)

                      R.S. Benedict and guest Meg talk about the creepy, objectifying, or just plain ridiculous way that all too many male authors write female characters. No one is spared as we poke fun at your favorites from Don DeLillo to Vampire Hunter D. Why does the literary establishment make fun of Stephenie Meyer’s thirsty, purple prose while lauding similarly horny descriptions by John Updike? Why do men think that breasts defy the laws of physics? What on earth is a vagina purse?

                      We also talk about good male authors and the perils of writing while horny. Join us as we attempt to describe a male character the way a man might write a woman.

                      Recommended reading/viewing:
                      • The Men Writing Women Twitter account
                      • Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace 
                      • Not a Beautiful Protagonist
                      • Everything we learned about women’s anatomy from male authors

                        • Some spectacular tweets including the vagina purse:

                        Fun fact, the same guy who is directing #lucyinthesky is the author of the book that inspired me to start this whole damn page (BEFORE THE FALL, Noah Hawley) pic.twitter.com/qNuicwSPJL

                        — Men Write Women (@menwritewomen) September 12, 2019

                        We don’t get real pockets in pants because we have tiny purses in our vaginas!!! #thanksforthat #menwritingwomen (Stuart Woods, Desperate Measures) pic.twitter.com/42tTjv5Cs9

                        — Men Write Women (@menwritewomen) July 29, 2019

                        the Very Real Scientific Explanation of how babies are made #submission (CAT MAGIC, Whitley Strieber) pic.twitter.com/X1jdeORqsc

                        — Men Write Women (@menwritewomen) August 28, 2019

                        https://twitter.com/men_write_women/status/1159824903727702017

                        (of course Joss mentions her feet)

                        Such a difference to read female heroes from the male perspective rather than the female (Wonder Woman as written by Joss Whedon) pic.twitter.com/fB9AAltw2c

                        — Men Write Women (@menwritewomen) August 8, 2019

                        I guess god IS a woman (Vampire Hunter D, Hideyuki Kikuchi) #submission pic.twitter.com/bydAmzTzL3

                        — Men Write Women (@menwritewomen) August 7, 2019

                        Well, my tits have stood up and walked out (COSMOPOLIS, Don DeLillo) pic.twitter.com/0Q8OJZ5Bhy

                        — Men Write Women (@menwritewomen) August 6, 2019

                        pic.twitter.com/WinL7ksY8W

                        — Helen Rosner (@hels) April 1, 2018

                        About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezzes – dot – com.
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                         Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.

                        Kittysneezes is supported by readers like you. If you enjoy what you’ve read here, please consider supporting Kittysneezes on Patreon, on Ko-Fi, via the Kittysneezes Boutique or by supporting Rite Gud on Patreon. 

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                        33 min

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                      This isn’t a podcast for total beginners. We’re going to assume that you know what plot structure is, what a protagonist is, where ideas come from, and how to use a semicolon. This is a podcast for…