Sarah Guan

#MSWL!

I’m imagining one of these exorcists getting caught up in some epic political struggle, and the others admonishing, “Don’t be such a drama queen! Our family sticks to lesser demons and dead commoners for a reason! Stop meddling with dead emperors!”

Someone please write me an epic, thorny, political science fiction or fantasy novel with these protagonists, thanks. #MSWL forever!

This is A MOOD.

Also, a key component of my #MSWL foreverrrrr

THIS THREAD. This is a killer (pun very much intended) speculative fiction premise. Is someone writing this? Please? #MSWL

Somebody write me the #SFF novel inspired by Fatima al-Fihri and her groundbreaking university. #MSWL

A meeting today made me think: I’d LOVE to see a huge, sweeping pre-Columbian epic fantasy novel in my inbox.

Before the Europeans landed and ruined everything, there were vibrant, sophisticated, and competitive empires in the Americas. That’s as epic fantasy as anything. #MSWL

How are these birds even real?? They look like they belong in some futuristic techno-utopia?? Are they creepily beautiful government spies???

...would read this novel. #mswl

Coming out of the “Making Hopeful Art in Hopeless Times” panel at the #Nebulas2018.

YES, #MSWL—send me #hopepunk. The world is on fire, so let’s give the good guys agency.

Thanks, @snarkbat, @MikeRUnderwood, @lettie_prell, @J_R_Dawson (and @_alexrowland for coining the term).

Consider this whole thread a #MSWL

I want stories about good moms and bad moms, dedicated moms and indifferent moms, moms who move mountains for their kids and moms who do amazing things in spite of having kids.

All these women existed—and continue to exist.

Happy #MothersDay.

#MSWL

Can you imagine? Avatars of important buildings and cultural landmarks, who wear their façades like beautiful garments? Angkor Wat, the Great Pyramids, the Hagia Sophia, etc.—all walking the earth as mysteriously well-dressed humans?

#MSWL

*lies on floor, envisions an epic tale of (possibly genderbent) warrior heroes, religious conflict, magic, nuanced takes on colonial politics, etc.*

Oddly specific #MSWL: a story involving a contracts lawyer who specializes in genies, faeries, and other wish-granting entities.

This artwork is incredible. I would buy a book with this warrior woman on the cover!

In other words, #MSWL: a fantasy novel with this protagonist.

YES—give me “Bring It On” at wizard (or space) school! #mswl

I want #SFF stories about socioeconomic disparities at academic institutions.

Public school zoning on Mars? Affirmative action at fantasy college? Exploitation of student athletes at interstellar universities? PLEASE.

How about an anticolonial twist on the scholar-hero who seeks “lost” or “underutilized” arcana from cultures not their own? #MSWL

Read this @hopkins_exhibit article on the questions that one #SFF work, #BlackPanther, asks of the museum studies field:
jhuexhibitionist.com/2018/02/22/why…

I can’t stop thinking about this.

Someone write me a reverse, PoC Howard Carter #SFF novel where cultural artifacts are repatriated to their rightful inheritors. Give me the fantasy or future tech inverse heist novel. #MSWL twitter.com/_iwakeli_i/sta…

YES. Especially when exes have to be Mature Adults who interact with each other in professional, humane ways because there are things more important than their old ghosts—like winning a war, or negotiating a peace, or fixing an economy, or passing a law, or RAISING A CHILD. #MSWL

YES. 100%. Would love to see a manuscript like this. #MSWL

Doesn’t need to be American, either. I know it’s an especially important conversation in our country right now—and to be clear, would LOVE this as a US-centric story—but this is a global issue.

This painting is mindblowingly beautiful and gives me such Lady of Qiao Guo (岭南圣母) vibes, I can’t even. Somebody write me the #SFF book to go with this artwork, please! #MSWL

Yes, this! #MSWL #SFF