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scalziwhatever_feed) wrote2025-10-06 09:53 pmIn Which I Have a Thought on Taylor Swift and Her Latest Album
It’s a thought I first had over on Metafilter, in a thread about Swift and The Life of a Showgirl, which came out last Friday and has already racked up 3.5+ million in sales. It will almost certainly end its first week with even more, is almost certainly debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, along with very likely clearing out most if not all of the Billboard Top Ten with the album’s tracks next week (so long, Huntr/x! Glad you got your eight weeks at #1 in!), not to mention winning the movie theater box office crown last weekend with a Showgirl listening party. Not a great week for Swift haters, not that this would stop them.
The thread about Swift and the new album goes all over the place, and I added my comment on both, and how in this moment it’s likely impossible to get a bead on the new work, and where I think Swift goes from here. I’ve reposted it all below (with very minor editing for clarity), for posterity and because I know a lot of you don’t go over to Metafilter, but still might find the comment interesting anyway.
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The new album is fine, and basically pairs with Reputation. I suspect people who don’t like this album don’t like that one either, and that’s all right. I didn’t need to know how amazing Travis Kelce’s dick is, but I suspect he’s perfectly happy with the quality of his member being immortalized in song, even if it’s likely to get him endless shit in the locker room. The Charli XCX diss track thing is two messy humans being messy at each other, also not my favorite, but inasmuch as Charli XCX has posted an image of herself in the studio in the wake of the track, I think she’s got her own.
In a larger sense, speaking as someone with a mere fraction of Swift’s sales and even merer fraction of her social profile, who nevertheless has a unusually dogged coterie of haters (as well as a certain tranche of easily-pleased fans!): at a certain point of notability (or notoriety) it doesn’t matter what you put out, the range of opinions about it will be so wide and scattershot that anyone looking will be able to pick and choose among them to paint a picture of wild creative success or looming artistic doom. Swift’s work, love it or hate it or somewhere in-between about it, is at this point never less absolutely competent in its construction, which makes the immediate critical evaluation of it even more difficult. The inherent quality of the work will get lost in the noise of the release and it will take time (a year, possibly two, maybe more) for everything to calm down enough to get a more dispassionate bead on the work as a coherent piece of art. By which time it will have sold eight million copies, or whatever, and she’ll have moved on to whatever else she’s doing.
As an aside to the quality of the work, I do think we are at a point where Swift will be moving out of her “imperial” phase as a pop music entity, if only because time comes for every cultural phenomenon; the cultural eye is a gimlet one. The pop stars who most closely align with Swift’s cultural ubiquity – Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince (and to a lesser extent U2) – all experienced a (relative) decline as a mover of the zeitgeist. This cultural decline doesn’t mean a decline in financial success; look at U2/Rolling Stones/Journey/etc being bigger concert draws today than when their music had immediate musical relevance. But at a certain point you stop picking up fans from the younger end of the age curve, because a fifteen-year-old doesn’t vibe with a 35-year-old. Swift is already shading into mom pop (a complementary genre to dad rock), and that’s going to become more pronounced as time goes on.
I suspect that Swift already knows this – she is extremely smart with her business and her career – and I will be interested in seeing how she will position herself moving forward. I don’t know if she’s going to slow down or “disappear,” since, based only on what I know of her from her public image, she doesn’t strike me as a person interested in slowing down for anything. But it’s possible we might be at the end of Swift’s pop star era and at the beginning of her multi-hyphenate era. All those Swifties are grown up (or are about to be) and have or will soon have a bunch of disposable income. We might be about to see Taylor Swift become whatever the white millennial version of Oprah or Martha Stewart would be. And I think that would be hugely intriguing.
— JS
scalziwhatever_feed) wrote2025-10-06 08:02 pmCrisis! At the Cat Tree
Yes, it is well established that Smudge gets to claim the top spot on the cat tree, and that Spice takes the middle seat, with a third, lower seat available but usually unclaimed, or was, until Saja came and claimed it. But! Today! An usurpation! Saja has taken the middle seat, in flagrant violation of the scratching order! This aggression will not stand, man!
Yes, there is tension today in the office.
Also, Spice is currently sitting in the Eames chair. But I assure you, she is not happy about it.
Stay tuned for more internecine Scamperbeast drama!
— JS
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Got home yesterday, passed out in the bedroom for about three hours, went to bed at a reasonable hour and slept until almost noon.
So, uh, yeah. As much as I'm like, "ah yes, I love teaching! This is so easy!", uh...
Not really?
(It's done, office hours Monday, this is fine.)
Woke up with a migraine from referred pain, which may explain the whole "why I slept as late as I did" thing. Oops?
We went wine tasting today! Which is to say, did the wine tasting that was free as we picked up our half-case from the winery. Good times. Last time was a total mess (the guy overpoured; Max ended up drunk after I tapped out and went, "I cannot do this and drive" — it's supposed to be like, enough to sip twice, and this was literally 3 oz/pour... — the fact that the wine was also not to my liking probably did not help anything?), but this time was great. Box has the brut in it again (YES THANK GOD), a bottle of the pinot blanc they do that I like, their rose (which is very solid), and...YES, HAHA, YES, a bottle of their cab sav. Which. Hell yeah, give it to me.
(Cabernet sauvignon is my favorite style of wine, surprising absolutely no one who has seen what else I drink. It's...fine? Probably?)
Picked up lunch, came home, ate, ran D&D. Today was the weird, "so you've been flipped into a mirror universe..." game that I have been hoping to run since literally August; worked out okay, I think? Players had fun, set the stage for what has to happen next, and...yeah.
Tomorrow is more D&D and aside from that, absolutely nothing. I'm going to make empanadas, probably, because the weather has turned and I have been wanting to, but, yeah.
Otherwise?
I met up with the guy who wants me to hold hands and jump off the startup cliff with him. It was very —
At the university I did my PhD in, my name in the department is basically verboten and has been since my first week of graduate school. This has absolutely nothing to do with me (so far as I can tell), and everything to do with Bad Academic Politics.
I am sort of used to starting from less-than-zero when I interact with people — like, whenever I do anything that is tangentially tied to that department, I feel like I need to project intensely that I am a Friendly Normal Person, Please Like Me!!
Right, so, yes.
I figured that he would meet me and that would be the end of it. But no.
I met him in a bar in the city, and the first thing he said to me, after the preliminary greeting, was, "so, what do I have to promise you to get you to agree to do this with me?"
I sort of blinked. "Uh...I mean, I want to see how [specific stuff] shakes out?"
He nodded very seriously and asked if he could take me out to lunch while he's up here next week. I blinked again and said sure, as long as it wasn't the days that I'm traveling (out of state wedding).
So. Um. Yeah.
It's...complicated. There is almost certainly no money in it, at least not immediately.
It's also something where I understand the science fairly well (which is a relief, it's physics-based this time), and they don't want me for the science part, they want me because they think I'd do well as the CEO.
...yeah, even typing it feels weird.
(I said that I would think about it.)
(I think what's strangest for me is that I get it. Like — I understand why he wants me to lead it. I know exactly why. It even makes sense. I just. HOW?)
I think about the uphill climb I have with anyone up here, where it's like, oh it's you, and my reputation was ruined by factors beyond my control before I started my degree, and where what acceptance I have has been in departments that aren't mine. (The College of Engineering people love me! EE in particular thinks I hung the moon! The College of Business people also think I'm nifty! I'm giving a class for free to their femmes-only cohort in two weeks! AND YET.)
I think about that a lot, and then I think about how at $RivalUniversity, everyone down there thinks I'm great, and I wonder how much better my mental health would be if I had listened to one of the professors that wrote my letters of recommendation re: where I should have applied.
OH, WELL.
Out of state wedding next week. Will be out Thursday through Saturday, then Sunday is the booth thing I'm supposed to run at the farmer's market, and...yeah. Jesus. I don't think things slow down until the week of the 13th, and even that's — we're going to see Lord Huron. So.
How, &etc.
Final thing, suppose: it's October, so we've been watching horror movies.
Last night: Oculus. Not bad, just — goddammit, Mike Flanagan, why are you so insistent on monologing??
Tonight: Talk To Me. Uh.
You know, when I said I wanted a ghost story, I was thinking more "haha teens play with Ouija board, Bad Stuff Happens", not "TRAUMA SPLITS FAMILIES APART AND LEADS TO MORE TRAGEDY".
Seeing Miranda Otto in it (Eowyn, if you, like my husband, are going "??? who?") was a pleasant surprise, but — Jesus. The movie felt less like horror (though it absolutely was), and more like — well. I love The Ritual, where the established Problem is that People Are Grieving, Grief Is Complex, and this feels like it was informed by that in some ways, but — without going into spoilers, a lot of it hinges on, "my mom died and I'm fucked up about it" in a way that made me deeply sad. Not, "ooh, horror!" so much as "SOMEONE GET THIS CHILD INTO THERAPY", ha.
Anyway, I said something ages ago about wanting to watch Bring Her Back, and Maximo is now like, "WE SHOULD WATCH THAT SUNDAY NIGHT", but after Talk to Me I'm not sure I'm up for another "the real horror was the fact that we aren't good at dealing with grief!" movie :x
Fingers crossed that we decide to watch something that's less, uh, informed by trauma? ha.
(Bring Her Back in particular, the villain is driven by the unexpected loss of her daughter — as if that wasn't enough, the filmmaker made it after losing a close friend, so...it's like, "oh my God, is this going to brutalize me emotionally, probably".)
(I SUPPOSE WE SHALL SEE.)
scalziwhatever_feed) wrote2025-10-03 11:10 pmSunset, 10/3/25
It’s been a while since I’ve put one of these up here, so, here you go. It’s a doozy. I hope you have a fabulous weekend.
— JS
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halfshellvenus) wrote2025-10-02 12:10 pmbullet, dodged a
Still trying to get the last of the fire/smoke-damaged replacement goods bought (deadline is today), and then I'll dive back in to trying to get stuff put away. We've held off on putting down the new rugs until we were sure the cat's head wound had stopped bleeding, and I have one more bookcase to assemble. HalfshellHusband just needs to decide where he wants it, because it's big and heavy. We still have a total of about THREE pictures up in the entire house. There's just so much to do that it's overwhelming, and I find it hard to make headway on anything. :(
I worked on my Idol entry last weekend, and it was a fun one. Our group is getting smaller and smaller, so please read the entries and vote if you can! We need the outside help.
Finally, my previously promised TV recs. Most are on Britbox/Acorn:
Shetland - We rewatched the series from the beginning, and it is a delight. Hard to lose one of the main characters (and have an interloper seem to become the lead, if bossiness is any indication), but the characters are really enjoyable throughout. 10 seasons, and 11 is currently being filmed.
The Chelsea Detective - This gentle detective series really grew on me. 3 seasons so far, and I hope more are coming.
Grace - British police procedural in Brighton, well-written and engaging.
Life on Mars - John Simm (from Grace) also stars in this show about a London detective who is in an accident and is transported back to 1973. OMG, the crude idiots in the 1970s version of policing! Funny and touching.
Recipes For Love And Murder - a South African "cozy" mystery with a Scottish main character. Charming throughout.
The Devil's Hour - Peter Capaldi is fantastic in this captivating show about time-looping and crossover realities.
Doc - An abrasive doctor suffers a brain injury and the resulting amnesia leaves her with a time gap of the last traumatic 8 years that caused her to become such an unpleasant person.
I've probably forgotten some, but they'll probably come to me eventually.
scalziwhatever_feed) wrote2025-10-02 04:00 pmThe Big Idea: Seamus Sullivan
Greek mythology is a mythos that is full of despair, anguish, and characters that can’t seem to a catch a break. Author Seamus Sullivan brings us some of these familiar ancient characters in his debut novel, Daedalus is Dead. Follow along to see how Sullivan’s relationship to his son contributed to the inspiration of this classic myth retelling.
SEAMUS SULLIVAN:
Years ago, when I first tried to write about Daedalus in the form of a ponderous and contraction-free short story, Maria Dahvana Headley gave me some characteristically thoughtful line edits, and one note in particular stayed with me. She had gone back into my draft and added contractions, explaining that a lot of writers instinctively reach for “I am” rather than “I’m” when writing something set in antiquity, but at the expense of distancing the story from the reader. Contractions allow for intimacy, and intimacy is what the story demands.
Years later, I tried to write about Daedalus again. I had become a parent, and the first year of my son’s life overlapped with the first year of the global COVID-19 pandemic, a brutal police crackdown on protests, the January 6th insurrection, and other delights. I was deeply angry with men, with a society built to accommodate the worst impulses of men, and with myself for being part of it. With Headley’s note at the back of my mind, I framed the story as Daedalus’s direct address to his late son, Icarus. I’d worked in this mode before, a parent directly addressing their child. There was an assumption in there somewhere that any kid born in the present day would, before long, start observing the world and demanding that the adults explain themselves.
For me, Greek mythology’s appeal has always had something to do with grandeur, with the glory and tragedy of an imagined past, sure, but also with scale and awe and durability. Maybe that’s just how it feels when you read the stuff as a kid. Writing in the Mary Renault style wouldn’t work for me – I didn’t have the skill or the eye for anthropological detail to pull that off, and anyway there was no point in pretending I wasn’t doing the literary equivalent of shaking my fist at the world immediately outside my window. So most of my narration’s intimacy came from my own day-to-day, which largely consisted of carrying an inquisitive baby around and explaining things to him, and for the grandeur I went back to Homer.
Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation had been out for a few years by then, so I went over passages from that and from my older, Stanley Lombardo Iliad translation. Those helped with the details of how royal households worked (slave labor and all), what funeral rites were like, and a general idea of how to convey that sense of grandeur in vernacular-friendly language that would pull readers into this imagined version of a bronze age society. Wilson’s Odyssey introduction was a great resource for social context and for how composition and performance of Homeric verse might have worked. In the spring of last year I got to see Wilson perform the opening lines of The Iliad for a packed New York Public Library audience, in the original Greek, with enviable gusto; I came away with a deeper appreciation for the artistry and energy that kept these texts alive, in performance and print, for millennia.
Magpie-like, I accumulated images and ideas from other sources. Much of the opening chapter, describing the escape from Crete and the fall of Icarus, comes from Ovid. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, an intensely affecting depiction of a mother’s search for her child, has a haunting image of an older woman seeking work at the village well as a nursemaid, and this influenced my back story for Naucrate, Daedalus’s wife and Icarus’s mother. (Naucrate has a name and a job description, household slave, in Pseudo-Apollodorus, but we don’t have much surviving information on her character beyond that.) I learned about an old tradition of reluctance to mention the king of the underworld by name, referring to him only through indirect titles, and worked that into the book as well. While Daedalus, the character, has an extremely dry sense of humor, I did my best to put some jokes in, because there are jokes and boasts and coarse insults in Homer, and because I find people do crack jokes when they’re under constant stress.
All this research made the book genuinely fun to write, even though it’s a book about things in the world that make me intensely sad and angry. I did my best to make the book fun to read as well. Only an egomaniac would seriously entertain the hope that his work will stick around as long as Homeric verse, but I do like to think about the comfort and collective enjoyment that audiences would have found in hearing very old myths performed and retold centuries ago, including the many, many versions of those myths that haven’t survived into the present day. If my own version can provide some of that enjoyment for you, if we can both shake our heads, together, at the terror and grotesquerie and grandeur of the world we inhabit right now, I’ll feel like I did my job.Â
Daedalus is Dead:Â Amazon|Barnes & Noble|Bookshop|Books-a-Million|Powell’s
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scalziwhatever_feed) wrote2025-10-02 01:20 pmAuthors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag
To begin, for those of you who do not follow such things with intense interest, a little context about the “AI” company Anthropic being sued for stealing authors’ works and reaching a settlement. Go read that and come back when you do.
The law firm representing authors in the suit has posted up a searchable database listing which works are included in the settlement. I went and looked and had 17 qualifying works, and filed claims for them; at $3,000 per title it adds up. Now, how much of that $3k/title I get after lawyer payout and other shenanigans will be another question entirely, but that’s for another time.
I will note that this settlement is not “free” money – my work, along with the work of thousands of other authors, was stolen to feed an LLM whose function is at the heart of Anthropic’s current $180 billion-plus market valuation. This settlement is, bluntly, the absolute minimum Anthropic could get away with paying.
It is also more than I expected. I had expected Anthropic to litigate this thing until the heat death of the universe. But the fact of the matter is that the damage, such as it is, has already been done. Anthropic has reaped the benefit of its theft and any additional training data for LLMs will have to come from other sources, and at this point someone in Anthropic’s legal department decided it’s better to throw a few (relative) coins to copyright holders than to have a legal liability outstanding. Authors qualified for the settlement can refuse it and pursue individual claims against Anthropic, but most authors can’t afford to do that and won’t (and wouldn’t necessarily get more even if they did). For most of us, this is it.
My suggestion to other authors, unless you genuinely have hundreds of thousands to burn to pursue an individual case, is to check that database above to see if you have a title in there that you can file a claim for. The settlement is not great! But it’s still something, and these days most authors — hell, most people — are not in a position to turn down something if they can get it.
On a slightly lighter note, having so many works used to train Anthropic’s Large Language Model (as well as most of the other ones; they all sifted through the same stock of stolen works) at answers the question about why sometimes the responses I get from them sound a little like me. It’s because more than a little of me is in there. I do a better version of me, though. I always will.
— JS
jazzfish) wrote2025-10-01 10:58 pmbeen a minute
Continuing to apply for both GIS and tech-writer jobs; so far I've seen a grand total of three responses, since May. Not great.
Anyway, I'm currently in Duluth MN at a GIS conference, in the hope that there will be Networking Opportunities. Not that I know how to Network; I am notoriously bad at being social with strangers even at SF/gaming/etc conventions.
In other fun news, the connector port on my phone died last Monday (while I was spending the day accompanying Mya for minor outpatient surgery), and the connector port on my tablet died on the way to Minnesota. The phone I can at least charge magnetically; the tablet is as good as dead until I can get it fixed. Bah. Never rains but etc. I would consider replacing my phone but a) money, and b) it is the Correct Size of phone (iPhone Mini) and they don't make them like that anymore.
Finally getting around to reading Neon Yang (fka JY Yang)'s Tensorate novellas. I forget who recommended these, or if it was anyone specific vs a general "hey these exist and are pretty good". They are in fact pretty good: Chinese-inflected fantasy, magic that feels magical, excellent prose and broad but quite believable characters.
Onward. Sleep and then more sociable.
scalziwhatever_feed) wrote2025-10-01 05:58 pmThe Big Idea: Beth Cato
You can’t judge a house by its paint job. Or by the nefarious things that have gone on inside said house in the past. Author Beth Cato takes us for a tour in the Big Idea for her newest novel, A House Between Sea and Sky. Follow along to see what lore this house holds.
BETH CATO:
Murder houses have feelings, too.
In the case of the titular House of my new cozy-literary fantasy A House Between Sea and Sky, those feelings include loneliness, anxiety, and some undeniable obsessive-compulsive tendencies. After all, it’s not easy to be a witch’s hut for centuries. One’s oven gets used for all sorts of sordid things.
But House has now been abandoned. For years it has lingered, essentially dozing in its precarious position on a cliff at the edge of a strange continent. But on this stormy night, it stirs awake as it recognizes something: a woman flavored by a magic even older than its own. House’s curiosity is piqued. It doesn’t try to hide itself from the woman’s eyes. It lets her come close. Even more, when the woman returns, dragging along a man limp with despair, House lets them both inside to take shelter from the raging rain and lightning.
As House describes the scene:
I am not their home, but I can be a refuge. I can, maybe, know the warmth of bodies and voices again, my hollowness less hollow.
I open my entry to them in invitation.
The year is 1926. The place: Carmel-by-the-Sea in California. The human point of view is that of the woman flavored by magic, forty-five-year-old Fayette Wynne. She is a scenarist for silent films. She’s struggling to catch up on her script-writing after the recent death of her beloved Ma. Fayette’s siblings are dead, too. Her grief is a boulder she can’t budge, though she truly does have one other family member left–the sentient sourdough starter dubbed Mother that her family has tended for decades. Mother’s divine healing powers were not adequate to heal Ma, though, and Fayette bristles with resentment.
Then there is the man Fayette rescues from the storm. Rex Hallstrom is a rising star in Hollywood, handsome and charismatic. But Rex has been forced to act through most every moment of the day, and the falseness of his life is eating away at him like acid. He needs help. He needs hope.
All of my other fantasy novels have been about high stakes: the world is in danger, the kingdom is in danger, that kind of thing. This is a different kind of book. The stakes are low and intimate. These people–and House is definitely a living soul and a person–need each other if they are to survive.
I invite you to step inside this world, too. You’ll find House to be the most accommodating of hosts. There will be a warm fire. Good, fresh sourdough bread. An incredible view. Perhaps some surprise company will arrive as well–after all, this is a witch’s house, and the unexpected should be expected.Â
Just be sensitive about House’s feelings. It truly is striving to be more than a murder house of lore, but maaaaaybe it doesn’t always make the right choices. Just know that it is trying, just as we all attempt to get by, day to day. We all could use a little more care and compassion as we slog through this storm that we call life.
A House Between Sea and Sky:Â Amazon|Barnes & Noble|Bookshop|Audible
scalziwhatever_feed) wrote2025-10-01 02:32 pm“3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years” Part of the Amazon First Reads for October
If you have Amazon Prime, then you have access to First Reads, Amazon’s program for giving their subscribers an early look at books that will be publishing soon. And starting today and for the rest of the month, that means you have access to “3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years,” the time-travel short story (more precisely a “novelette” as it clocks in at 10,000 words) I wrote as part of The Time Traveler’s Passport, an anthology of stories about time and/or travel, edited by John Joseph Adams, which will also stories by R.F. Kuang, Peng Shepard, Kaliane Bradley, Olivie Blake and P. DjèlĂ Clark, and be generally available in November. My story is a sneak preview of the sort of mind-bending stories that anthology will provide you, and I’m happy to represent my fellow authors as a sneak preview.
Here’s the link to the “3 Days” page on Amazon. If you’re eligible for the First Reads program, it’ll let you know in the sales widget. Otherwise you can pre-order the short story for $1.99 (or its equivalents wherever you might be).
Whenever you read this new story of mine, enjoy!
— JS
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therealljidol2025-10-01 12:50 amVote - Week 11
clauderainsrm:
(Note: majorica is still in it. She just took a bye. Because of her fast turn around back into the game, and how tired I was last night I mistakenly thought she'd never left. She DID have a bye to use! My apologies!)
For those remaining though, we have a poll. How many people will be leaving us?
I’ll admit that I was advocating for no one leaving. I’m going to be on vacation this week and didn’t want to watch a poll… but the Wheel said there was an elimination, so… all things must bow to the Wheel!
The poll will be a longer than usual though, because I’m not closing it until I come back. :D
Which means longer to read, comment and vote for your favorites - and more time to get other people to do the same!!
*spins to see how many people will be leaving*
1
So make sure to get out there and support your favorites!
The poll will close Tuesday, October 7th at 8pm.
(I get back Monday and will be tired. So giving myself that wiggle room! Enjoy your time with the poll! And good luck everyone!
Vote For Your Favorites!
alycewilson's entry
6 (19.4%)
bleodswean's entry
10 (32.3%)
drippedonpaper's Bye Week - Votes Do Not Count
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3 (9.7%)
fausts_dream's entry
9 (29.0%)
flipflop_diva's entry
9 (29.0%)
halfshellvenus's entry
9 (29.0%)
inkstainedfingertips's entry
11 (35.5%)
legalpad819's entry
6 (19.4%)
muchtooarrogant's entry
7 (22.6%)
roina_arwen's Bye Week - Votes Do Not Count
3 (9.7%)
unicornfartz's entry
10 (32.3%)