Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Writing And Conversing Elsewhere
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2020 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
Sometimes I write about books I've been reading on my Dreamwidth blog. For instance, I've been trying to read everything that Zen Cho has published. As she self-describes,
'Almost all my published stories can be summarised as "Asian girl/woman meets magical creature, sasses and/or fights them"'
And I've made a few front-page posts to MetaFilter recently. Most entertainingly in a wholesome way, I recommend a few short stories about robots and artificial intelligence, I particularly recommend a robot-related story by Holli Mintzer called "Legal Salvage", and I recommend a few very short tales about humans and nonhumans trying to understand each other. Less wholesomely, I accidentally nerd-sniped the site by linking to a linguist discussing how "you guys" works and how we might know whether it is gender-neutral, thus provoking a 230-comment (so far) discussion thread.
