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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

There's a pretty decent number of women authors who just write male-focused or general fiction, especially for teen and young adult audiences. See Diane Duane (the first three Young Wizards and then Book of Night With Moon are highlights) or (and 6/6 of Erin Hunter) for better-known examples. It's probably more interesting to talk about women writing female-oriented-relationship-stuff in ways guys wouldn't be repulsed by. For that... :

  • Diana Wynne Jones is best-known these days for Howl's Moving Castle, but I like to recommend her Dark Lord of Derkholm and Year of the Griffin as good examples of stories that have a plot, but are about relationships. In Derkholm (tl;dr: fantasy send-up of portal fantasy from the view of the world's natives who are treated as a tourist spot, as a commentary on industrialized evil and pointy-haired bosses), between the main character and his wife and family, and with his immediate peers; in Year of the Griffin (tl;dr wizard school story with the interesting twist that the main characters don't struggle to fit in) between the protagonists and a society that they don't know if they can trust.
  • CJ Cherryh's more standard scifi fare, and she's no Zahn, but she's a pretty good writer, and especially Chanur is driven by relationships far more than tactics or technobabble, but still hits that Pernish 'there's an actual plot, it's just not faffing and then suddenly everybody's friends/lovers'.
  • Bujold should go without saying, but the Vorkorsigan saga is very much about phrasing women-relationship-things into forms men and especially young men are trying to grow into: honor, loyalty, trustworthiness, and . I'll recognize that Gentleman Jole isn't very good, but .
  • Mercedes Lackey... is mixed. Valdemar is Very female, even by the standards of Telecoms (if you liked that bit of Pern) or Romantic Fantasy; the Elemental Masters series (and not-quite-part-of-it Fire Rose) are extremely well revised takes on classical fairie tales in ways that are more enjoyable reads than technically impressive. But she's pretty much a distillation of what guys say they don't like, without the obnoxious parts that they don't like about it.
  • Tamora Piece is more male-friendly and often technically better, but in turn it's less clearly women's-relationship-writing in most works, if still less could-pass-as-male as Duane.

((That said, I'm one of probably thirty people on the planet who liked Darkship Thieves, so my taste is... not very refined.))

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

Consider the number who become obese, refuse to socialize, or are just unpleasant and offputting, there's clearly a 'something' she has to do.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

They were making 25% of revenue from licensed games, and in 2021 EA suggested that had been $2bn between 2019 and 2021 alone, and that’s pure margin.

I can't really even remember any games from that time. Battlefront II (the second Battlefront II), the one with the lootboxes, I guess?

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

Disney lost a bunch of parents pushing gay shit too. Like toddler movies that aren't good is recoverable from- they're toddler movies, after all- and probably doesn't even make a difference. But the people writing their preteen sitcoms being in charge of pixar wasn't the thing that pissed people off. It was GayBC agenda pushing.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if they weren't Star Wars specifically, the prequels (especially the first) would have been much better received, Jar Jar Binks aside.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

Gotta make it present tense for that.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

Mercedes Lackey? Not everything she's written, but there was that one book about a teen boy being bullied... who then gets the magic power to set his bullies on fire (and set other things on fire). I had no complaints.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

Andor was actively incredible though

Haven't looked into it at all. I know redditors who enjoy it immensely so I assumed it was pretty soy.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

Kindles? iPads

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

Other than the (I suspect partially trendy) AuDHD? Something to do with physical mobility, but I've never learned what. Has needed a walker to get around for ages, and is certainly not yet old enough where that'd be unremarkable.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

Famously, the entire corpus of Jane Austen.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

I mean if you just mean 'written by a woman' the Hunger Games trilogy had broad appeal.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

There's been quite a lot of Christian big name science fiction writers, actually- Jerry Pournelle was Christian even if he changed denominations a lot, CS Lewis wrote science fiction, etc.

Friday Fun Thread for August 22, 2025

Fair, was speaking more to the extent that they're basically rat-monkeys.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

If we're counting LDS as Christian, Orson Scott Card and Larry Correia might rival him depending on how you count 'successful'.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

You're thinking too much in terms of the general election. In an election where a politician gets 100% of the votes, the process (primary/party otherwise) by which they were selected is the real election.

It's not a stable equilibrium point.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

Plus you get a bunch of loonies in Congress because the district is so far off center that the primary is the larger hurdle.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

This is a good to catch up with it. The epilogue just finished yesterday (for Unsounded proper: the second half will have a new title and begin in January.)

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

I still haven't seen the last one, and should be surprised if I ever do.

I feel so seen haha. I also refused to watch the last one. Can't even remember its name if I'm being honest. Total fundamental drop off of interest.

You know I also thought Rogue One scratched the itch - interesting. Lots of the more traditional non-woke critics hated it.

Andor was actively incredible though (although I have yet to see the second season, just timing issues).

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

Lewis's The Space Trilogy does a pretty excellent job, I think.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

I was wondering how a Christian worldview would mesh with interplanetary science fiction, but this explains it.

Friday Fun Thread for August 22, 2025

the ridiculous shoot or move but not both (without perks) in the newer ones.

That's not a thing in general. You can both move and shoot, unless you are using a sniper rifle.

Friday Fun Thread for August 22, 2025

Full-strength no caveat endorsements for recent releases:

You should play them if you haven't.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

As I recall he sold it well below what he’d have received in an open bidding process because thought Disney and Iger would be better stewards of the brand.