I didn’t know how much I’d missed this newsletter until it arrived and I yipped aloud. The idea of “isekai” feels especially handy right this second, when the world we actually occupy feels acutely hopeless, and we desperately need to imagine inhabiting other and better worlds. Realist storytelling is useless in that endeavor, maybe even counterproductive. But genre saves. Genre saves!
I didn’t know how much I’d missed this newsletter until it arrived and I yipped aloud. The idea of “isekai” feels especially handy right this second, when the world we actually occupy feels acutely hopeless, and we desperately need to imagine inhabiting other and better worlds. Realist storytelling is useless in that endeavor, maybe even counterproductive. But genre saves. Genre saves!
GENRE SAVES. Oh my gosh, I want to make a thing with that!! The 🥹 face I made at this whole comment — thank you <333333
"The unreliable narrator to top them all (or not, as the story reveals¹)" had me CACKLING
I am very 👀 at both Sell Your Haunted House and The Mourner's Bestiary, thank you for always be a ripe source of recs of all flavors and mediums
POOR SHEN YUAN, poor heavenly pillar <33333
And HOORAY, both are excellent (in very different ways), I hope you enjoy them!