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  • Saving Criticism from the Corporate Marketing Machine

    Cultural criticism has always been an essential part of our media ecosystem, especially when it comes to geek culture. And on the surface, it’s thriving. Every blog, every YouTube video essay channel, every op-ed page of every major publication pontificates on very important questions like “Is Wonder Woman a feminist icon?” “Did Thor fat-shame me?” and “Is Super Mario a queer ally?” But is any of this really meaningful, or is it just another part of the big corporate content marketing machine? In this episode, we’re talking to Kurt Schiller, editor of Blood Knife, on how we can—and must—create media analysis that goes sharper and deeper.

    Links:
    • Blood Knife 
    • Meet Captain Marvel: Fighter Pilot, Feminist, and Marvel’s Big Gamble
    • Meet Captain Marvel—the feminist Air Force  officer-turned-superhero set to rival Wonder Woman
    • Brie Larson: Captain Marvel is a symbol for women 
    • https://twitter.com/negaversace/status/617054288569860096
    • The controversy over the new immigration novel American Dirt explained

      • 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.

      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 Saving Criticism from the Corporate Marketing Machine by Matt Keeley appeared first on Kittysneezes.

      1 hr 30 min
    • Bad Writing Advice
      We here at Rite Gud work very hard to create thoughtful dialogues designed to help our listeners write good. But, there are many writing advice columns that won’t help you write good—that will actually encourage you to write bad, or at best mediocre. There’s a lot of money and clout to be made giving writing advice, and a lot of conventional wisdom, but how much of that is really helpful, and how much of it can steer a fledgling writer in the wrong direction?
      In this episode, we question some classic writing advice, pick apart bad suggestions from good writers, and even venture into the wasteland that is Chuck Wendig.
      Links:
      • Mattie’s Twitter
      • Wolfskin
      • Jonathan Franzen’s Ten Rules for Novelists
      • 21 Harsh but Eye Opening Writing Tips from Great Authors

        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.

        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
      • I’m Not Here to Make Friends: On Unlikable Female Characters

        Filthcore queen Gretchen Felker-Martin returns to talk about unlikable female characters. What makes a woman unlikable? Why are we so quick to condemn female characters for minor flaws? Why does art hate ugly people so much? Why don’t we talk about male characters’ likability? And why on Earth do we think grown-ass women need role models?

        Links:
        • Gretchen’s Twitter
        • Gretchen’s Patreon
        • Female characters don’t have to be likable
        • “Morbier” by R.S. Benedict
        • A brief history of pubic hair in art
        • ‘Better Call Saul’ gets the point of prestige TV
        • Lady Gaga comes under fire over “pop stars don’t eat” comment
        • Why do period product commercials use blue liquid?
        • Henry Cavill’s mustache nearly became a $3 million problem for Paramount
        • Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? A Forum on Likability

          • 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.

          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 32 min
        • Translation, or Mi Tio Es Infermo, Pero la Carretera Es Verde!

          SFF author and professional translator Mário Seabra Coelho talks to us about the art of translation. Writing translations, even only as an exercise, can open a writer’s eye to new perspectives, new devices, and new poetic turns of phrase.
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          We discuss all the important questions: How much should a translator challenge the audience? How far should a translator deviate from the original text? How do you cope with the untranslatable? And why are there so few synonyms for dildo?

          Surprise appearance by Mário’s cat.

          Links:
          • “The Three Nights of the Half-Gent” by Mário Seabra Coelho 
          • All My Nightmares Are Named Heather
          • Mário’s Twitter
          • Su Hui: The Palindrome Poet
          • The Signature Noodle Dish in Parasite Tells a Complicated Class Story
          • Italians Mad at Food
          • European Portuguese Dub of Dragon Ball Z

            • 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.

            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 Translation, or Mi Tio Es Infermo, Pero la Carretera Es Verde! by Matt Keeley appeared first on Kittysneezes.

            1 hr 18 min
          • The Bitter Medicine of Unhappy Endings
            Horror writer G. Emerald, who has a background in the medical system, joins us to talk about the healing power of stories that leave us with a bad taste in our mouths. Audiences like happy endings, but do we really need every story to end on a high note? Are we being pacified? Why did the Hays Code require movies to have uplifting endings? Do happy endings sublimate the revolutionary energy that we should be putting into activism instead? Why are horror fans handling the pandemic better? What does it mean to have a Cronenberg day? Why is KA Applegate the Chad to JK Rowling’s Virgin TERF? We also touch upon Apocalypse hunks, the inevitability of death, and the nightmare that is the human body.
            Links:
            • The Unknown: A Covid-19 Charity Anthology
            • Pandemic Practice: Horror Fans and Morbidly Curious Individuals Are More Psychologically Resilient During the COVID-19 Pandemic
            • Toxic Positivity
            • The Just World Fallacy
            • On “cozy revolution” stories
            • KA Applegate’s extremely badass letter to fans disappointed about the ending of the Animorphs series
            • Vietnam’s Success in Containing COVID-19 Offers Roadmap for Other Developing Countries
            • Rent: Look Pretty and Do as Little as Possible
            • On Writing about Trauma and So-Called “Misery Porn”
            • Self-Care Won’t Save Us
            • The MCU’s relationship with the military
            • The Far-Right Coup in Bolivia
            • This TV movie about nuclear war depressed Ronald Reagan
            • A 28-year-old woman is the first COVID-19 survivor to receive a double-lung transplant in the US

              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.

              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 Bitter Medicine of Unhappy Endings by Matt Keeley appeared first on Kittysneezes.

              1 hr 20 min
            • Who Are You Talking To?
              When you write a story, do you ever stop to consider who you’re telling the story to? We’re not talking about the real-life author and the real-life audience demographics. We’re talking about what’s going on within the fictional pocket universe of the story you’ve created. Who is the narrator telling the story to within the universe of the story? And why is the narrator telling their story to that person?
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              What’s the relationship between them? Sci-fi/fantasy author Karlo Yeager Rodríguez joins us to talk about the relationship between storyteller and in-universe audience.
              Links:
              • “As the Shore Calls to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood”
              • “Writing for the End of the World”
              • Karlo’s website
              • The Upper Berth
              • The Believer
              • “Surprised by Our Own Characters”
              • “The Tell-Tale Heart”

                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.

                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 Who Are You Talking To? by Matt Keeley appeared first on Kittysneezes.

                1 hr
              • Writing About Sex Work

                In this episode, Mistress Snow, PhD joins us to talk about sex work in writing. What do writers get wrong? How do writers promote inaccurate and harmful stereotypes about sex workers? How can writers do better?

                We also talk about emotional labor, how Russians have too many names, and the agony of the academic job market.

                Links:
                • Mistress Snow’s piece about her mentor dumping her for being a domme
                • Horror Vanguard’s episode on Cam
                • “When They’re Dead, They’re Hookers” – The Media Trope that is Literally Killing People
                • Pretty Dead Girl Takes a Break
                • 17 Facts About Sexual Violence and Sex Work
                • The difference between decriminalization and legalization of sex work
                • The false promise of the Nordic model of sex work

                  • 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. 

                  The post Writing About Sex Work by Matt Keeley appeared first on Kittysneezes.

                  1 hr 3 min
                • A Wretched Episode of Scum and Villainy
                  Villains in fiction tend to fit a certain template: erudite, aristocratic, queer-coded, monologuing and vaguely British. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it gets a little old after a while. So for this episode, we’re going to take a look at some real-life villains, from globe-striding corporate monsters to small-time petty jerks, and see how fiction measures up. Joining us is Kelton of Psychic Dolphin Garage and Garbage In Garbage Out.
                  Links:

                  Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Curious Sociopathy
                  TrueAnon’s interview with Maria Farmer
                  The Most Disturbing Details From the NXIVM Case
                  Wyatt Koch Is Bold
                  The Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes 

                  “I was a starter wife”
                  Juicero is still the greatest example of Silicon Valley stupidity
                  What to know about the “raw water” trend 
                  Controversial “Feminist” Hugo Schwyzer Has a Very Public Twitter Meltdown
                  How Men’s Rights Leader Paul Elam Turned Being a Deadbeat Dad into a Money Making Movement 

                  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. 
                  1 hr 48 min
                • Telling Your Own Stories

                  When Stephen Mazur, Assistant editor at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, interviews writers, he always asks them this question: “Why do you write?” One of the most common answers is: “Because I couldn’t find the stories I wanted to read.”

                  In this episode, filmmaker Shannon Strucci and critic Leslie Lee of Struggle Session were kind enough to join us to talk about why we need to tell our own stories instead of waiting for someone else to tell it for you. We also discuss the corporate monopolization of media, the value of supporting independent marginalized artists, and rethinking what it means to participate in culture. Special appearances by Shannon’s dog and Raquel’s cat.
                  Links:
                  • Struggle Session
                  • Leslie’s Twitter
                  • FAKE FRIENDS Episode 1  and Episode 2
                  • The Nerd Crew: A Pop Culture Podcast by Red Letter Media
                  • On Ghostbusters and Identity
                  • On the Choice to Consume Small Art
                  • Culture Consumption Versus Culture Creation
                  • Martin Scorsese’s 1993 letter to The New York Times on cultural diversity
                  • A squeamy fact you may not know about Wonder Woman
                  • Conservative Koch Brothers Are Secret Investors in Wonder Woman
                  • Despite Efforts, Sexual Assault up Nearly 40% in US Military
                  • Slimy Swamp Ghost
                  • Day of the Dead trademark request draws backlash for Disney

                    • 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. 

                    The post Telling Your Own Stories by Matt Keeley appeared first on Kittysneezes.

                    1 hr 8 min
                  • Writing the Body: Avoiding Characters Who Are Brains-In-Jars (Unless That’s Your Whole Thing)
                    In this episode, writer and stuntwoman SL Huang joins us to talk about writing that fully explores the physicality of its characters. How can we write characters who feel like flesh and blood people, not disembodied brains in jars? How do race, gender, class, and other features of identity influence our relationships with our bodies? Has visual media made us less aware of our sense of smell, taste and touch?
                    Recommended Reading:

                    * SL Huang’s website
                    * SL Huang’s Twitter
                    * Zero Sum Game
                    * Null Set
                    * Critical Point
                    * Burning Roses
                    * Strong Female Characters Beyond Ripley?
                    * 69 Percent of Men Don’t Wash Their Hands After Using the Bathroom?!
                    * Black is beautiful, but our bodies are not for your fetishes
                    * I Once Bawled in Yoga Class—and Now I Know That’s Totally Normal

                    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. 
                    41 min

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