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[petiteclover]

Female Worker at the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut | 1943

— Bernard Hoffman

[poetsandwriters]

“Alexander Chee once said something like, When you put something that actually happened to you in a story, you have to privilege the needs of the story and not merely what happened. I don’t remember the exact quote, but I think about that all the time.”

— Brandon Taylor, in this week’s Ten Questions; read the rest at pw.org!

[smokefalls]

“The first time she stood naked in front of him, she felt as free as she ever had in her life. A being of pure desire. No name, no history, nothing except what she wanted from him.”

— Alexander Chee, “Did You Die at Home?”

[ceeturnalia]

[jkottke]

Alexander Chee: How Can I Write At A Time Like This? “We are being hit with what I would call advanced resilience targeting, an attack on our ability to be in community, to be healthy, to make a living, to know our rights, to have a government.”

[magictransistor]

Ray G. Scarfo. Behold the future of Lunar living, Science Journal, May, 1969.

[70sscifiart]

Happy Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday

[alexanderchee]

I used to draw these obsessively as a child. I miss that actually. Might be time to draw one again.

[writtenwolves]

Destroying art is practice for destroying people

Alexander Chee, "On Becoming an American Writer" in How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

[protoslacker]

If I could go back in time to the student I was then, I would say to him, I know this life feels full of murder and harm, but you will meet some of the best people in the world, people better than you can imagine right now. They will love you and you will love them, and together, you will teach each other to change the world together, and it will, unfortunately, still need more change, most likely for your whole life. And you can’t give up because giving up gives your enemies power and hope. But in doing this work you will meet pretty much everyone you will ever love. The loneliness you feel will part, especially when you start this work.

Alexander Chee in The Querent. Homecomings

I was invited to go back to my high school to talk about my work and was asked about despair. The students surprised me and I surprised myself.

[hottypeclub]

[hottypeclub]

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

albertsoloviev

[aerizusa]

What blossoms yet has no fruit is the white wave of the reef putting on the sea god’s head.

— Ono no Komachi, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (tr. Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani)

[actuallysara]

Connor Storrie for Saturday Night Live

[cryptonature]

It’s really that simple.

Withhold time/resources from organizations building an anti-human future

[grandturtleperson]

How many times have you seen a man ask to be fucked on cable television, expressively, politely, urgently? How many times have you seen a man say he preferred it and the story turns on that admission? And he weeps as he says it? How many stories have you seen where a man discovers this kind of sex is his greatest joy and he will risk everything in order to continue to have this with a man he loves? ... The sex is the story and tells the story. It is inherent, and this also is a relief in a year when we saw discourse fomenting against sex scenes in novels as gratuitous and unwanted. These men have sex like two people discovering themselves and each other both, learning what they like, learning what the other likes. They are in the grip of the paradise they are building. Some of the most amusing memes for the show mock the real estate that gets nicer and nicer the more they have sex but this landscape is a metaphor for the sex they are having, the world it is building between them.

— Alexander Chee, 'In Your Arms I Would Start A War: A Heated Rivalry Notebook', The Querent, 17 Jan 2026

[lastparty]

I have a theory about coming out. That you won’t do it unless you fear losing the love of someone else. Everything else is bearable otherwise. But only that which makes it unbearable brings it about, like losing love. There’s a world made possible and real when Shane and Ilya have sex and they discover it together, and they want it more than they want anything else except maybe the Stanley Cup.

The sex is the story and tells the story. It is inherent, and this also is a relief in a year when we saw discourse fomenting against sex scenes in novels as gratuitous and unwanted. These men have sex like two people discovering themselves and each other both, learning what they like, learning what the other likes. They are in the grip of the paradise they are building. Some of the most amusing memes for the show mock the real estate that gets nicer and nicer the more they have sex but this landscape is a metaphor for the sex they are having, the world it is building between them.

Alexander Chee on Heated Rivalry

[nevver]

Caught looking, Shunpei Kamiya (because)