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NYT/USAT Bestselling author of Fairyland novels, Space Opera, Deathless & more | patreon.com/catvalente | TipJar: paypal.me/catherynnevalente
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A Classical War

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By Catherynne M. Valente
| Welcome to Garbagetown
Note: the way this Substack usually works is that every public piece has a follow-up piece for subscribers only containing all the screams I restrained to make the free one nice and civilized and not have to argue reality with sea lions in the comments. However, this particular one is a standalone under a paywall because I’m about to talk about real people I used to know very well during the era of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
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Blood Money: The Anthropic Settlement

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By Catherynne M. Valente
| Welcome to Garbagetown
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by merchants, scraped, digested, weaponized… Today, if this is relevant to you, is the final day to file a claim in the massive* Anthropic Copyright Settlement, and I just finished filing mine. Jesus fucking Christ. Yes, I put it off til the last minute, and other than my usual dizzying procrastination abilities, I definitely did that because I didn’t want to look. I didn’t want to face it.
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It's That New Tier Smell: Happy Ninth Anniversary!

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By Catherynne M. Valente
| Patreon
Hello everyone! This March marks the ninth anniversary of this Patreon, which is, quite frankly, rude of Time, and a bit implausible. But I thought to celebrate the occasion, for the first time, I would initiate a new tier for the Laboratory! See, I live in a 124-year old house on an island in Maine that was...interfered with by a previous owner who was good enough to build stuff, but not to build it correctly, and definitely not to finish very much. And the salt air just annihilates everything.
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