Is it wrong that I find it amusing to be mistaken for a Guardian-reader or Guns’n’Roses fan? Yes. Very wrong. It’s also wrong that I’d be amused to learn that someone thought I was serious about the title Gweel & Other Alterities. Serious about the Alterities bit, I mean. “Alterity” is a word used by, well, I’d better not describe them. But one example is China Miéville. ’Nuff said. And here he uses the word with exactly the phrase I’d’ve hoped he’d use it with:
“I’m not interested in fantasy or SF as utopian blueprints, that’s a disastrous idea. There’s some kind of link in terms of alterity.” — “A life in writing: China Miéville”, The Guardian, 14v11
Elsewhere Other-Accessible
• Ex-term-in-ate! — extremophilically engaging the teratic toxicity of “in terms of”…
• ’Ville to Power — Mythopoetic Miéville incisively interrogates issues around Trotsko-toxicity…
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 
Maybe you were on to somethiing when you described Mieville as having “a torturer’s face”.
10 years ago a BBC journalist wrote a blog post (now deleted) called “Emotional violence and social power”. She describes an abusive relationship with a “feminist, socialist man” who was a famous writer. After receiving a legal threat she removed his name, but some people remember who it was.
Which has nothing to do with his writing, of course. But it’s interesting that he has mostly ceased writing since 2016, and has kept a low profile. Maybe he’s worried about other victims coming forward.
Hmmm. Worrying you should say that. I spotted Arthur C. Clarke as a paederast, from stuff in his books, and that turned out to be true. The worrying thing is that I’ve claimed to have spotted Headpress CEO Kegsy “Doktor Nekro” Korpescu as a necrophile movie aficionado and former Headpress co-CEO David “Sooner Or” Slater as a serial slayer aficionado. As a joke, like. But what if that’s all true too dot dot dot?
I think it does. He writes like a narcissistic tosser, so it’s no surprise that he behaves like a narcissistic tosser.
Whoops — typo alert! For necrophile movie aficionado read “necrophile-movie aficionado” and for serial slayer aficionado read “serial-slayer aficionado”. Can’t think why I keep missing the hyphens.
If two death-film researchers can watch nine snuff-videos in four days, how many death-film researchers would it take to watch one-hundred-and-ninety-eight snuff-videos in six days?