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December 02, 2021Cinderella Is Not a #Girlboss: The Problem With ‘Feminist’ Fairytale Adaptations
We like folklore, and we like feminism. So why not combine them? A lot of writers do. Feminist retellings of old fairy tales are very popular. We have girlboss Cinderella starting her own business, rebellious Belle teaching girls to read in Beauty and the Beast, Snow White leading an army into battle. And why not? What’s wrong with updating folklore for a more enlightened age? We all like to see strong women kicking ass, don’t we?
But sometimes, despite our good intentions, these updates lose something in translation.
Links
Mattie’s Gumroad
Woke Disney
The Podhand
The Tiger’s Bride
The Lure
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, critiques and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by Surgeryhead. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud.
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 3 min
November 11, 2021Puppy Play
In this episode, we re-examine the saga of the notorious Sad Puppies. What happened? What ripple effects did it have on the sci-fi/fantasy community? Did we learn anything from this? Should we learn anything from this? And is there more to the story than the official narrative?
Kurt Schiller joins us to talk about angry mobs, squeecore writing, and the musical stylings of forgotten 90s techno group Psykosonik.
Links:
Blood Knife
Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons: An Analysis of Theodore Beale and His Supporters
The 2021 Hugo Awards
A Decade of Sore Winners
Young Adult Author Sarah Dessen Apologizes for Rallying Fellow Authors, Fans Against Northern State Graduate
Young Adult Author Cancels Own Novel After Race Controversy
If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love
Psykosonik – “Welcome To My Mind”
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, critiques and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by Surgeryhead. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud.
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 11 min
October 21, 2021How Books Happen, With Gretchen Felker-Martin
In this episode, Gretchen Felker-Martin joins us to talk about her gritty post-Apocalyptic trans novel Manhunt (spoiler free) and how an idea becomes a traditionally published book. We talk about the myth of overnight success, how much money novelists actually make (it is not much), the writing process, agents, research, and dealing with controversy.
This is part one of a two part episode. In the second part, which will appear on our Patreon for Book Club tier members, we discuss the novel in depth.
Links:
Manhunt
How the presidents died
I don’t wanna grow up (and neither can you)
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, critiques and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by Surgeryhead. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud.
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 16 min
October 21, 2021 How Books Happen, With Gretchen Felker-Martin

In this episode, Gretchen Felker-Martin joins us to talk about her gritty post-Apocalyptic trans novel Manhunt (spoiler free) and how an idea becomes a traditionally published book. We talk about the myth of overnight success, how much money novelists actually make (it is not much), the writing process, agents, research, and dealing with controversy.

This is part one of a two part episode. In the second part, which will appear on our Patreon for Book Club tier members, we discuss the novel in depth.

Links:

Manhunt

How the presidents died

I don’t wanna grow up (and neither can you)

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, critiques and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by Surgeryhead. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud.

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.

1 hr 16 min
September 30, 2021The Tragedy of the Creative Commons: On Superheroes and Modern Mythology
Whenever a critic complains about the ubiquity or the creative emptiness of superhero narratives in contemporary pop culture, fans argue back that mass entertainment is just the modern incarnation of our rich cultural heritage: superheroes are mythology, and fandom is folklore. Is this true, or is this a way to flatten the complexities of traditional art while giving commercial media a spiritual significance it does not deserve?
Karlo Yeager Rodríguez joins us.
Links:
Podside’s Patreon
As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood
MP Writes to Disney over Spider-Man Gravestone Dispute
Against Presentism
The Monster in The Green Knight Should Be Sexier
Comic Book Superheroes: The Gods of Modern Mythology
Superhero Films Are Bad for Democracy
Disney and Pixar’s Female Characters All Have the Same Face
Disney, Copyright Law, and Spider-Man
The Tragedy of ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’
Puerto Ricans Citizens Protest Developer’s Beach Project
“I hate that they called a 14 century poem a franchise so much.”
IKEA unveils surreal, terrifying Pride sofas and the memes are impeccable
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, critiques and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by Surgeryhead. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud.
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.
The post The Tragedy of the Creative Commons: On Superheroes and Modern Mythology by Matt Keeley appeared first on Kittysneezes.
51 min
September 09, 2021In Defense of Degenerate Art
Artists have always been under pressure to create work that embodies proper morals. In the old days, if art didn’t honor the Church and glorify the state, the artist could be imprisoned, tortured and killed. Even today, pop cultural critique focuses largely on a work’s ability to impart appropriate social values: Is Black Widow feminist enough? What does the live action Lion King remake say about found family? In this episode of Rite Gud, Jack from Bad Books for Bad People joins us as we pay tribute to art that isn’t here to teach you right from wrong, art that’s amoral and shocking and offensive and harmful (whatever that means), what some people might call degenerate art.
Links:
Bad Books for Bad People
Degenerate Art: Why Hitler Hated Modernism
Fuck Moral Art
How the CIA turned American Literature into a Content Farm
The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction
On the genius of the self-taught musician
Murasaki Shikibu: A Thousand Years of Anonymous Fame
George Lucas talks about the Soviet film industry
What the history of kissing in film can tell us about ourselves
Nimona Movie Cancelled by Disney Less Than a Year Before Release
Half of Latino Immigrant Characters on TV Are Portrayed as Criminals, Study Finds
What’s the harm in reading?
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, critiques and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by Surgeryhead. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud.
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.
The post In Defense of Degenerate Art by Matt Keeley appeared first on Kittysneezes.
1 hr 37 min
August 19, 2021This Is My Hole, It Was Made for Me: On Negative Space and Leaving Room for the Reader
A story is a type of conversation with the reader. If you don’t leave room for the reader to speak, you’re a terrible conversationalist. This room, this essential emptiness, is called negative space. In this episode, we will discuss why the words you don’t write are just as important as the words you do. We are joined by MK Anderson.
Links:
QualiaRedux on Youtube
Qualia’s Patreon
Cedar Court
Grizzly
Writing in the Negative
Negative Space is a Positive for Creative Writers
The Analogy of the Wheel in Daoism and Ba Gua Zhang
6 Times ‘The Good Place’ Was Obsessed with Frozen Yogurt
Less worrying about confusing your worst reader, more worrying about impressing your best reader.
Where a Vampire Walked, Tastes Clash
The hot Mothman statue
Morbier
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, critiques and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by Surgeryhead. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud.
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.
The post This Is My Hole, It Was Made for Me: On Negative Space and Leaving Room for the Reader by Matt Keeley appeared first on Kittysneezes.
54 min
July 29, 2021Genre Bustin’ Makes Me Feel Good
Genre is safe. Genre is comfortable. Genre tells us, as readers, what to expect. As writers, genre gives us guidelines to follow, which can make it a lot easier to plan a story: put the villain monologue here, put the meet cute there, tragically kill the protagonist’s mentor in this part of the story. But do we rely on genre conventions too much? Can genre hold us back? Is genre busting good? In this episode of Rite Gud, we are joined by writer and designer Matt Maxwell.
Recommended reading:
Jeff Bezos had a 12-step guide for making ‘iconic’ TV shows that Amazon Studios execs had to follow, according to a new book
The CIA recruited ‘mind readers’ to spy on the Soviets in the 1970s
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Peter Watts, Blindsight
Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Frank Herbert, Dune
Matt’s website
Header image by estartee on Flickr
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, critiques and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by Surgeryhead. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud.
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.
The post Genre Bustin’ Makes Me Feel Good by Matt Keeley appeared first on Kittysneezes.
1 hr 13 min
July 02, 2021 NSFW: Not Safe For Weenies
On this very special NSFW episode of Rite Gud, goth girl correspondent Matilda Lewis and veteran tijuana bible cartoonist Bitter Karella (creator of The Midnight Pals, co-host of the A Special Presentation podcast) join everyone’s favorite audio gremlin Sid Oozeley to discuss a topic most scandalous—sex scenes! Can our ribald heroes run the gauntlet through what can go wrong with sex scenes, diagnose the sexual pathology of a particular kind of SFF writer, and offer suggestions for how anyone can improve their dirty writing? Enjoy ninety minutes of this all-goblin panel discussion of how to make sex scenes in prose hotter, wetter, and better.
Links:

* Matilda’s Gumroad
* Sid’s Paypal for Tips
* A Special Presentation podcast
* The Midnight Pals
* Morrissey Wins Bad Sex Awards
* Bad Sex Awards Cancelled
* Anatomy of a Bad Sex Scene
* Most Ridiculous Sexual Phrases
* Karella’s Study of Fatty Wank Archetypes, Parts 1 & 2

* Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)
* The Encounter
* Love Sonnet XI
* Read Aleister Crowley’s Dirty, Dirty 666-Word Sex Poem ‘Leah Sublime’
* Sappho Fragment 22 (courtesy of Anne Carson’s “If Not Winter”)
* MsScribe: The Harry Potter Fandom’s Biggest Con Artist

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. Sid Oozeley is an unprofessional SFF writer, veteran couchsurfer and Rite Gud’s own audio gremlin; words in Blood Knife and several bricked laptops. 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. Show edited by Sid Oozeley.
The Rite Gud theme is by Surgeryhead. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud.
1 hr 32 min
June 17, 2021Why We Can Stop Flogging H.P. Lovecraft’s Dead Bloated Corpse
In today’s sci-fi/ fantasy community, it’s fashionable to dig up H.P. Lovecraft and put him on trial as the avatar of everything wrong with speculative fiction. While we won’t defend Lovecraft’s abhorrent social values, we have to ask: what is the point of this? What do we gain by canceling a man who is now a dusty skeleton mouldering in the dirt? Are we really reckoning with genre fiction’s bigoted past, or are we just looking for a way to distract from our contemporary problems?
In this episode, Karlo Yeager Rodríguez joins us to talk about horror, colonialism, and Captain Picard’s dangerous space dumps.
Links:
L*vecraft Country
Found in the Archives: America’s Unsettling Early Eugenicist Movement
Racism in the American North
The Route of Ice and Salt is a vampire classic back from the dead
Decolonization is not a metaphor
Podside Picnic
Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race
In Maine, a Hidden History on Malaga Island
New Life and New Civilizations: Socialism, Progress & the Final Frontier
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, critiques and more. Show edited by Sid Oozeley.
The Rite Gud theme is by Surgeryhead. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud.
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 18 min

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