nenena | More links of interest: RaceFail (and some win).

livrelibre has written a useful guide for anyone late to the RaceFail imbroglio, which opens with links to some comprehensive summaries, and goes on from there.

Some members of the pro SF/F finally breaking their silence. A bunch of beautifully heartening posts are linked here. (ETA: Tons more here, too.) There's also this winnage from Niall Harrison. Of course there have been pro writers like K. Tempest Bradford involved since the beginning, though, so it's important not to ignore them.

In less happy news, an important and powerful voice in the prowriting community brought a steaming bucket of fail to the yard yesterday. But seeing as how he has declared that things like this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this are "absolutely goddamn pointless" and nothing more than a mere "LJ hissy fit," I see no reason to not return the favor. I don't really care about any of the absolutely goddamn pointless things that he posts about while having another of his mere blog hissy fits, and I'd suggest that nobody else bother to pay attention to his fail, either. He's not interested in what we have to say. That pretty much automatically makes the feeling mutual.

Edit several days after the fact: I apologize for and completely rescind the previous paragraph. Why? Because I like this. A lot.

I like it not just because of what it is - a real, true, meaningful apology, the first I've seen from among the real pantsdroppers in this imbroglio - but also because of who it's coming from.

Scalzi's a stubborn, arrogant SoB. And that's exactly why we love him, of course. But it also makes him the last person, absolutely the last person I would ever have expected to back down after making such a sweeping condemnation in his blog. Because I know a thing or two about stubborn, arrogant people. I'm one myself. And yeah, we're usually the last people to admit that we were wrong about anything, especially anything said on the internet.

So yeah. This gives me a lot of hope.

And I'm sorry, Scalzi, for dismissing you the way that I did.

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