oh good, the horrible people have arrived

A science-fiction writer of some notice has taken rather severe exception to the Legend of Korra finale. It’s the sort of vicious vitroil that I would expect out of Concerned Women for America – it’s too crude for the relatively-erudite such as Focus on the Family, and a bit too literate for the cretins at the American Family Association. You don’t have to read it; it’s the usual eliminationist rant.

I found out about it via Jim Hines’s post to his blog, and mostly, I spent time talking about how Korra affected a lot of us. But then Mr. Writer’s minions started showing up with their all-queers-are-child-molesters savagery, and, well, I may have started to have some fun with them last night.

A week ago, I made a now rather popular commentary on poison. These are people who would do and are doing everything they can to keep that poison inside of us – any method, rhetorical or otherwise, apparently will suffice. One of them is currently actively attempting to conflate abuse victims with child molesters. It’s quite repulsive.

I can’t imagine how it must feel, to be that brutal a sadist. Even I’m not that sort of terrible person, and I’m a goddamn supervillain.

Ah, well. I’m just glad the Avatar is on our side. \o/

eta: Hooo, I hadn’t noticed the comment section on the original post had grown so much – I’m not sure whether my favourite comment is the one about how the rules of drama require that a strong female character have a stronger male love interest, the complaint about how Katara never learned proper submission to Aang, or the assertion that all anime exists to train child molesters.

It is a very strange universe over there.

eta2: Anna has a post up about the last beehive of 2014, and the idea of exterminating ideas, in the way Mr. Writer demands.

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bone walker is more than an accessory

I’ve been talking a lot about Bone Walker as a soundtrack album for the Free Court of Seattle fantasy novel series, because, well, it is.

But I think that creates a misleading impression. People have been after me for a long time to do an instrumental and/or a trad album. This is also that album.

Leaving out the readings, and the tie-in factor, and this is a 10-track album of mostly traditional music. The arrangements aren’t real traditional, maybe – or, as one might say, “that’s all well and good, but it’s not very Irish, is it?” – but it’s still pretty heavily trad.

And that’s mostly just a long way of saying, “You don’t have to read the novels to like the album.” It’ll all make sense without that – well, okay, maybe the readings will be a little bit context-free. But the rest?

This was envisioned as a quick project, something that would take about six months and be a fun Kickstarter reward. But it grew way beyond that. Sure, part of the reason it took so long is because of unpleasant surprises like eye surgeries. But it also took longer because we put so much into it. We pushed ourselves hard. We brought in guests like Alexander James Adams and Sunnie Larsen and Sarah Kellington and Ellen Eades and Leannan Sidhe and Klopfenpop. We invented new process technologies and went way the hell over budget, something I’m not in the least sorry about.

So what I’m saying is: don’t hear “soundtrack album” and think “accessory to something else.” It’s not. It stands on its own. Give the samples a listen, and if you like what you hear, pre-order. Even with the Kickstarter money, we won’t be ahead of this curve on shipment. But I think when people hear it, they’ll know – it was worth it.

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