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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • I didn’t know that academia was already bypassing traditional publication systems, but I am all for it. For literature, seeing how in many cases publishers are more into gatekeeping what is published than doing quality control or improving it I am very happy when authors become independent and do everything on their own. As you said, next years are going to be interesting in this sense. Let’s just hope that Amazon doesn’t take over the whole system, as it is already trying to do.








  • I can’t get enough of these in the literal sense that I barely find them:

    -Children and YA books in which parents and adults stop being just an annoyance and start helping the protagonists (without replacing them even though they are more experienced). E.g. Elatsoe

    -Convincing others to help not through violence (in the more general sense) but through compassion. E.g. the way everyone helps Grogu in the Mandalorian or Piccard in Star Trek: Piccard.

    -The feeling of hope in the world, that you don’t need to do everything yourself because there are other good actors in the world. E.g. Animorphs and The Lord of the Rings.


  • I never tried video-clubs (well I tried a think called videoclub a few decades ago, but was a very different thing…), online was always in written, which had its good things, but felt pretty disconnected.

    It is great that you founded a club! I have the feeling that if I want to participate again I will have to make one too (and will be a SFF one probably)


  • Really? The few I participated I was lucky that there was a diversity of ages, genders… with everyone participating equally. That is something I have always like about practicing sports, that you get in contact as equals with very different people, while at school or work it is always people pretty much like you.