#catherynne-m-valente — Public Fediverse posts

Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente: 📚 61/2025: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: So much of this made me laugh, and it all wrapped up in an extremely satisfying way. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/12/20/space-oddity-by-catherynne-m-valente

#CatherynneMValente #SpaceOpera #Books #Photos

News from Norwescon September 2024: Announcing Writer Guest of Honor Catherynne M. Valente and Artist Guest of Honor Wayne Barlowe, soliciting ideas for panels and panelists, and our planning meetings are about to start and we’re looking for more volunteers! … (#CatherynneMValente #concom #NWC47 #volunteering #WayneBarlowe)

Full post: https://www.norwescon.org/2024/09/03/news-from-norwescon-september-2024/

Announcing Writer Guest of Honor Catherynne M. Valente: We are pleased to announce that Catherynne M. Valente will be our Writer Guest of Honor at Norwescon 47! … (#CatherynneMValente #NWC47)

Full post: https://www.norwescon.org/2024/08/28/announcing-writer-guest-of-honor-catherynne-m-valente/

#FinishedReading this interesting but flawed and frustrating #SciFi from #CatherynneMValente . She isn't a versatile enough stylist for the technique of telling the story via a collection of different styles - letters, film scripts, gossip columns etc. Bluntly, everyone sounds the same, and the supposedly wildly popular films by the main character are especially unconvincing. I considered not sticking with it but am glad I did, as the final act was quite good. #Bookstodon @bookstodon

"One awful man should not be able to destroy something the world created together, for good or ill. No, we didn’t create the code or rent the offices, but without the words we put together in those little boxes, Twitter is and was nothing. Humanity made that place, and it is all our best and our worst. One unimaginably rich man should not be able to take away the livelihoods of millions of people ..."

#CatherynneMValente, 2022

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

Sounds like capitalism to me 🤷

"If you think that’s not true, that it’s only capitalism that curdles the milk, ask yourself whether you think, even with all the money in the world, you ever could pay Amy Coney Barrett or Marjorie Taylor Green or Lindsey Graham or Josh Hawley or Andrew Tate or Brett Kavanaugh or Jim Jordan enough to become a progressive feminist eco-warrior activist."

#CatherynneMValente, 2022

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

Of course you could. These people are mercenary sociopaths.

(1/2)

"And I also understand that we are the generation who has to go through this part of it. We’re the ones born in time to be forced to make the rules and defend them. To say hey maybe one guy shouldn’t be able to own the village square. Because it was never remotely possible before. It’s all new and we have to figure it out. To agitate and legislate and be constantly vigilant."

#CatherynneMValente, 2022

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

#NetCulture #TechRegulation

"It’s the same. It’s always been the same. Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control.

Stop being human. A mindless bot who makes regular purchases is all that’s really needed."

#CatherynneMValente, 2022

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

"Stop talking to each other and start buying things. Stop providing content for free and start paying us for the privilege. Stop shining sunlight on horrors and start advocating for more of them. Stop making communities and start weaponizing misinformation to benefit your betters."

#CatherynneMValente, 2022

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

#SocialMedia

@coelliptic "Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things" is an excellent take on that.

(NB: the title is sardonic / sarcastic in the extreme.)

I saw an article in my dad’s morning newspaper about Prodigy. And I obviously wanted to read it immediately because I already felt this was an important, powerful thing that I loved. This ability to talk to other people and connect with them without cruelty or judgment.

The headline was: PRODIGY SAYS: STOP TALKING TO EACH OTHER AND START BUYING THINGS ...

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34101694

By Catherynne M. Valente (@catvalente)

@Tayhatmaker @annaleen @pluralistic

#CatherynneMValente #StopTalkingToEachOther #StartBuyingThings #SocialMedia #Prodigy

Writers, and readers, I hope you'll say hello to the wonderful @catvalente who not only authored one of my favourite #middlegrade books ever (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making), but also writes adult #scifi, short stories, etc, including the wonderfully bonkers #SpaceOpera...love that tagline.

Anyway, she's on #Mastodon so give her a big wave.

#CatherynneMValente #SFF #WritingCommunity #fantasy @bookstodon

https://mastodon.world/@catvalente/109556991957048320

@catvalente so helping people rebuild their networks is hard and their's no machine algorithm and no easy way to find people. E.g. if I was interested in the writer #CatherynneMValente or #CatherynneValente or even #CatValente then I'd have _no_ way of finding their profile without a # leading there which is a shame because not everyone is going to Google https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherynne_M._Valente when a name sounds familiar and the profile is blank and https://www.catherynnemvalente.com/ doesn't have a tag.