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June 22, 2023Boast in the Shell: Why AI Art is Overhyped
In this episode, we’re talking about artificial intelligence. Not the sympathetic kind played by Haley Joel Osment, not the mean but hot kind like SHODAN, but the kind that generates content. There’s been a lot of hype lately about the power of AI to create writing, visual art, and music. In this episode, Wendy Xu joins us once again to talk about the rise of the machines.
[Transcript here]
Links
A sci-fi magazine has cut off submissions after a flood of AI-generated stories
Lawyer who cited cases concocted by AI asks judge to spare sanctions
The AI Feedback Loop: Researches Warn of Model Collapse as AI Trains on AI-Generated Content
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
Tor tried to hide AI art on a book cover, and it is a mess
The Enigma of the Lascaux Bird Man: The Erection that Embodies the Mysteries of Prehistoric Art
In Praise of Discomfort
Folding Ideas: The Future is a Dead Mall
(header image via Mirko Tobias Schaefer with modifications)
About Rite Gud: Raquel 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 and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.

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1 hr 7 min
June 01, 2023I Dream of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Coziness. Comfort. Hygge. We all enjoy it. Maybe we have a favorite comfort food, or a favorite piece of comfort media, or a favorite comfort character. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you need it. But when the pursuit of comfort takes over your entire life, and your entire worldview, your art suffers, and maybe society does too. In this episode, we’re talking about why speculative fiction shouldn’t get too comfortable. We are joined once again by Tai Black.
Transcript available here.
Links
Sixties Fantasy Sitcoms and the Rise of Cozy Fantasy
World Magazine (Evangelical on Game of Thrones)
Albert Mohr (Baptist on GoT)
Jorts the Cat accused of ableism after Twitter faux pas
The wellness products Americans love to buy are sold on both InfoWars and GOOP
Pure Moods CD commercial
Ray Comfort’s banana argument
About Rite Gud: Raquel 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 and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1 hr 2 min
May 11, 2023Poster’s Elbow
We’re all online–excessively online–far too much of the time. For writers, social media can be a valuable tool for networking and self-promotion. But is it necessary? And can the drawbacks outweigh the positives? In this episode, Matt Keeley and Magen Cubed join us to talk about the difference between writing and posting. Transcript available here.
Links:
Magen’s website
A very deep dive into the tale of Groverhaus
Lola’s Sebastian’s channel
Chris Bookish Cauldron’s channel
BookTok’s racial bias
TikTok tracked users who watched gay content
About Rite Gud: Raquel 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 and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1 hr 26 min
April 20, 2023Orc Gusano
A few months ago, we read Marge Piercy’s 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time for our book club. The main character of the novel is Mexican-American, and the author is a non-Latinx white woman, and unfortunately sometimes that shows. It’s a little clunky in parts. It’s a really good book, highly recommended, no disrespect to Marge Piercy, but there are a few moments where it’s really glaringly obvious that this is a well-meaning white lady writing a Chicano character. But while I was reading it, I started to ask myself, “Has Latinx representation in American sci-fi and fantasy really gotten any better since that book was written fifty years ago?” And the answer is, I’m not sure. So today, we’re talking about it with Karlo Yeager Rodriguez of Podside Picnic and Jay Hawking.
Links
Jay Hawking at itch.io
Karlo’s website
Interview with Karlo
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s old Indiegogo page for Prime Meridian
DC Comics reduces Latinos to their food in Hispanic Heritage Month covers, fans say
Why are some Puerto Ricans demanding the island cancel its contract with power company LUMA energy?
About Rite Gud: Raquel 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 and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.

Transcript here.
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1 hr 11 min
April 01, 2023Susan Sontag’s Notes on Sleepaway Camp
[Transcript here]
Many things in the world have not been named, and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility, unmistakably modern—a variant of sophistication, but hardly identical with—it that goes by the cult name of Sleepaway Camp. In today’s very special episode of Rite Gud, Magencubed joins us to examine that seminal queer text, auteur Robert Hiltzik’s 1983 film Sleepaway Camp.
Links:
Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp”
Magen’s website
Magen’s Substack
About Rite Gud: Raquel 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 and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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38 min
March 30, 2023Filthy Lucre
[Transcript]
In our culture, it’s taboo to talk about money. You don’t ask another person how much they make, or how much their possessions cost, or how much they have in the bank. That’s especially true in publishing. Writers don’t usually talk openly about money. But they should. People should know the kind of money writers actually make. Readers should know whether or not they’re supporting an exploitative industry, and aspiring writers should know how much–or how little–they’ll realistically earn. We’re not doing this to scare you away from writing. We just think it’s better to have a realistic idea of the industry so you don’t get blindsided.
In this episode, Simon McNeil rejoins us to talk about what writers usually make, the hidden costs of writing, and why Disney Must Pay.
Links:
Simon’s website
Six Takeaways from the Authors Guild 2018 Income Survey
Destituent Power and Divine Economy in Elden Ring
I Never Made a Living Wage When I Worked in Publishing
“Sponsored” by my husband: Why it’s a problem that writers never talk about where their money comes from
An agent explains the ins and outs of book deals
Royalties in Kindle Unlimited
Black authors are on all the bestseller lists right now. But publishing doesn’t pay them enough.
Three-in-ten Americans now read ebooks
Clarion West 2016: Meet Team Arsenic
DisneyMustPay: Authors form task force to fight for missing payments
How Rod Dreher’s blog got a little “too weird” for the American Conservative
A Dribble of Ink: Interview with Sam Sykes
(header image via Roman Oleinik with alterations)
About Rite Gud: Raquel 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 and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1 hr 10 min
March 09, 2023Gentrified Horror
Transcript here.
A lot of horror stories start like this: a family moves into a suspiciously cheap dreamhouse. Over the course of the story, the house reveals its sinister nature–voices whisper unsettling things, mirrors reflect people who aren’t supposed to be there, the walls bleed–and at last the occupants discover its terrible secret. You can’t gentrify a haunted house–you either have to accept it as it is, burn it to the ground, or run away. But that doesn’t stop people from trying. And right now, there’s a cheery little squeeful family trying to move into a creepy old house called horror fiction. Here to talk about it, is Andrew F. Sullivan, Canadian, horror author, and bread-shaped dog owner. (Not to be confused with the other, inferior Andrew Sullivan.)
Links:
How Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House Betrays Shirley Jackson
Lesbians moving out of “Dyke Slope”
What I’d like is that I’d like to hug and kiss you
Trent Reznor is here to have a bad time
Torblog’s hilariously bad piece about final girls
“You left the bodies and you only moved the headstones!”
Andrew F. Sullivan’s new book, The Marigold
About Rite Gud: Raquel 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 and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1 hr
February 16, 2023Writing TTRPGs
In this episode, we’re taking a look at a rather different kind of writing: writing for games. Our guest, Caitlin Fortier, makes TTRPGs–that’s tabletop role playing games–and she’s going to tell us how it works from inception to publication. Full transcript available.
Links:
Burgerpunk Kickstarter
RentAThug store
Guinea Pig Press on Twitter
Jeff’s Twitter
Luckasz on Twitter
Cola Wars
About Rite Gud: Raquel 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 and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1 hr 1 min
January 26, 2023Talking about Comics with Wendy Xu
In this episode, we’re going a little outside of our comfort zone to talk about visual media: in this case, sequential art, or graphic novels, or comics. Joining us for this episode is comics artist and illustrator Wendy Xu, who made Tidesong, Mooncakes, and the upcoming The Infinity Particle. Wendy was kind enough to join us and answer some questions about comics from our Discord members.
Full transcript is available.
Links:
Wendy Xu’s website
50 Watts
Shivana Sookdeo
Olivia Stephens
Shannon Wright
Melanie Gillman
Rian Johnson’s amazing Knives Out storyboards
About Rite Gud: Raquel 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 and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1 hr 12 min
January 05, 2023The Right’s War on Libraries
As part of this podcast’s dedication to sparking controversial, attention-getting discourse, we have a new piping hot take for you here today: libraries are good. But in this country, libraries are under attack by a small but zealous movement among the far-right.
[Full Transcript Here]
Links:
America’s Culture Warriors Are Going After Librarians
USA Freedom Act: Before Snowden, Librarians Were Anti-Surveillance Heroes
The Strain of Censorship on Public Libraries
State of America’s Libraries Report 2022
Only library in Michigan town to close after voters defund it for refusing to ban LGBTQ books
Banned in the USA: the Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools
The artificial growth of hate speech
What does ‘woke’ mean? Whatever Ron DeSantis wants.
Books Unbanned
The Great Places Erased by Suburbia (the Third Place)
A Room of Their Own: How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy
Eric Adams cuts library budget
ALA office for intellectual freedom
ALA get involved Unite Against Book Bans
#FReadom
Customers get mad when you hand them flowers
Eric’s website
Eric’s Substack
The Killing of Hypatia
About Rite Gud: Raquel 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 and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1 hr 9 min

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