Word is that the SFWA episode of the podcast won't be until near the end of the month or after the first of the year.
Good. Make them squirm a good long time. They're already overreacting enough to make themselves look guilty, and with such a long lead time between learning of the impending exposé and its actual drop they're bound to make even bigger fools of themselves trying to either kill it or "get in front of it," making them look even worse in the process. With luck maybe it will prompt someone within their ranks to confess ahead of time to try to head off the worst of it, or even better -- maybe someone will let something slip while trying to wriggle out from under the spotlight and wind up incriminating themselves incontrovertibly.
I don't want to see Justin have to actually deal with litigation, but there's a reasonably strong possibility that these degenerates will be stupid enough to sue him to try to stop him from releasing the podcast episode. This would -- of course -- be an astonishingly stupid move since that would undoubtedly open them up to rather broad discovery (any kind of claim they could make against him with any possibility of getting to that stage would involve some kind of falsehood claim, and as we all know in the US the truth is a legitimate defense against libel, slander and defamation claims).
They really don't want those closet doors opened by a legal process. The skeletons are stacked so high they'd lose personnel trying to count them all.
But due to Rick's recent crusade against people taking about SFWA's dirty little secrets, I believe shedding some light on one of Rick's heros might be pertinent, if only to remind people of what kind of creature Pat's defending.
Christ, this has me looking back over my (formerly fond) memories of reading the Titan/Demon/Wizard trilogy by John Varley and realizing there were some foul sexual undertones in the books I completely missed as I read them. There's a (very) brief scene in the first book where the protagonist is raped by one of her fellow crew members, but it wasn't described in scintillating detail. I didn't think much of it at the time because it fell within the realm of believability (stressed-out spessman loses his mind, boffs the hottie then runs off to get eaten by random monsters "off-camera").
But by the third book, thanks to the insane consciousness running the sort-of "space ark" they're stuck on, the prominent species (centaur-like things, numbering in the tens of thousands) has been genetically mutated so that it reproduces by producing eggs after mating (instead of live births), and the eggs only ever begin developing if they're "blessed" ... by the protagonist (now also genetically modified) putting them in her mouth and covering them with her saliva, then handing them back.
Thinking about it further, the crew boarded the ark in the first book via what amounts to vore, which is also used on an ongoing basis throughout the trilogy by the self-aware ark as a means of punishment, murder, healing, mind control and genetic mutation. As you can imagine, this results in plenty of body horror too.
Fuck man, are
all sci-fi authors perverts?
That's crazy a 14 year old would wear a Vampirella costume, but I can't help but think today you have 14 year olds in skimpier bikinis on beaches, pool side, and the like.
I had the same thought. As risqué as that costume is, she was "just" wearing it as a costume and (presumably) that wasn't her normal garb. Kids wear a lot less these days with enthusiastic adult support. Just look at Desmond is Amazing (poor kid). Crazy that parents willingly take their children to pools and beaches dressed the way they are, especially given the pedophilia scare going on as the past couple of generations were growing up. Then again "over 9,000" became a meme and people don't even remember where it came from anymore (a comically bad Oprah episode where she gave that metric as the number of internet chomos some researcher unearthed with some conspicuously minimal bait).
