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https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26745816-mopop-hall-of-fame-recognition-for-bujold

I am pleased to report that I have been honored with a place in the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle's 2026 Hall of Fame roster:

https://www.mopop.org/sffhof-vote-2026

If you click the plus sign next to an entry, it gives a little explanatory paragraph.

I've described career awards before as "an award for winning awards". Collect the whole set...

https://www.sfadb.com/Lois_McMaster_B...

(This database is incredibly handy, and I'm so grateful to the unsung folks who put it together. It has much to offer beyond Bujold, I should point out.)

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on July, 07

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Update:

The Lefebvrians have issued the most hilarious, sanctimonious, jaw-droppingly egotistical, self-martyred, AND THEN YOU'LL BE SORRY response to their excommunications imaginable:

https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpresjigf22z (thread)

okay on today’s episode of “Give Us Thia Day Our Daily Thread,” guys the official response from SSPX to their excommunication is fucking hilarious. absolute whiny baby shit

“you are so mean and unfair, yet we heroically forgive you for it with our saintlike forbearance” girl please

Commentary:

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mprgjiy73k2h

Possibly if you thought the church needed you so badly you should not have spent the last 40 years screaming "You're not my REAL Pope" at the guys who were, in fact, your real Popes

https://bsky.app/profile/azasloth.bsky.social/post/3mprfzbkikk2s

You EXCOMMUNICATE Miette like the heretic? Oh! Oh! Jail for Mother Church! Jail for Ten Thousand Years!

Also now I'm hung up on the egg thing:

https://bsky.app/profile/malachitetiger.bsky.social/post/3mprkixqaos2r

I love how badly this metaphor got away from them.

What exactly do you need an egg for so bad that would nevertheless result in you *returning the egg later*??

rydra_wong

https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpp226iwoc2j

I just think in my heart of hearts that Christofascists don’t ever expect to face consequences because it doesn’t happen nearly as often as it should

https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=irimtated.bsky.social&post=3mpns6zsf3s2q (thread)

I've been thinking about how I've been feeling about this, and my friend and I feel slightly guilty about being *so happy about this*. And I wonder if part of it is that we (particularly as brown women) are always asked to bend & build bridges to people who think of us as less than human 1/

https://bsky.app/profile/hammancheez.bsky.social/post/3mpnzbdcnrs2a

Pope : with mercy and love and deep regret, i must call this a schismatic act

Half of bluesky with their shirts off and earrings out ready to brawl outside applebees : GET THEIR ASSES WOOOOO

https://bsky.app/profile/mostlybree.kitrocha.com/post/3mpp4xs7bfk2n

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

https://bsky.app/profile/neolithicsheep.bsky.social/post/3mpoyyzxtek2v

It's not that I am suddenly embracing Roman Catholic doctrine wholesale, it's that I am suddenly embracing the amount of spite Bob from Chicago is bringing to the function, as it were.

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https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26733331-some-useful-history-for-writers

Aha.

Nice YouTube video summarizing information I'd only been able to glean in bits and pieces over a lifetime of reading about history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcITe...

Recommended.

Also, found a bit later on the same dive, another topic I've been thinking about for a long time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xx-f...

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on July, 02

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a) IT'S OFFICIALLY A SCHISM!!!

b) Excommunications for EVERYBODY!!! Not just the consecrators/consecrated!

Not just official members of the society, either, but anyone who formally adheres to them:

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican-declares-sspx-bishops-priests-schismatic-says-lay-faithful-risk-excommunication

Though the statement did not define what constitutes formal adherence to the schism for laypeople, it explicitly upheld a 1996 note from the then-Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, which said formal adherence to the schism was comprised of two elements: consciously choosing adherence to the society over obedience to the pope, and "exclusive participation in Lefebvrian 'ecclesial' acts, without taking part in the acts of the Catholic Church," referencing the group's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

Details on what people need to do to get un-excommunicated: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-07/fraternity-saint-pius-x-ways-to-repent-return-full-communion.html

This is a Big Fucking Deal.

And all sacraments administered by the priests from now on are invalid, including marriage and confession.

c) The Vatican is now being very consistent in referring to them as "Lefebvrians" just to make sure everyone knows we're talking about the followers of this antisemitic piece of shit:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/feb/19/richard-williamson-lefebvre
https://www.ncronline.org/news/lefebvre-movement-long-troubled-history-judaism

d)

synecdochic is awake: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpod4qebxk25

and explaining things: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpojo257e22r (thread)
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpokam4ft22r (thread)

Conclusion of thread: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpos4ov4t22r

No more His Holiness Nice Pope indeed. Benedict and Francis tried the carrot. Leo is bringing the Chicago baseball bat of loving fraternal correction to the problem now.

e) For anyone catching up, Claire Willett has been providing invaluable Schismwatch reportage:

https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpkuvtp2ms2s
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mplzv67h7s2j
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpnitsarss2h

also in case you have missed the excellent memes about this in the replies:

yes, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith did in fact used to be called the Inquisition

you may be familiar with their earlier work

f) Also I need to make sure that everyone knows the schismatic act had MERCH:

https://www.ncregister.com/cna/sspx-consecrates-bishops-in-defiance-of-rome-s-schism-warning

For the occasion, the SSPX even sold commemorative items, including an exclusive 75 Swiss franc box of wine — about $92.50 — called “Cuvée des Sacres,” featuring pinot noir, syrah, petit arvine, and fendant, with each bottle decorated with the image of one of the consecrated bishops.

Also white baseball caps printed with "Écône 2026" were distributed at the entrance, apparently.

rydra_wong

The Guardian: ‘Get away from there – run!’ The stunning film about love blossoming amid the carnage of Aleppo

Like Boulos, I also covered the siege of Aleppo from afar. Every day, I would check the shifting frontlines and where bombs had dropped via real-time maps, exchanging messages and voice notes with civilians and activists, getting to know a place and its people intimately, but through a screen. The documentary is the best depiction I’ve come across of the powerlessness and guilt that those of us on the other end of a shaky internet connection feel while friends and loved ones in besieged and blockaded places go through hell.

They talked about the traffic light footage classification system in the Q&A, but I didn't know they'd actually had a psychotherapist involved. In the Q&A they said part of the function was to avoid traumatizing their editor too; they had extensive discussions in advance so the editor didn't even have to see any red footage unless they were certain it was necessary for him to.

https://www.birdsofwarfilm.com/ -- has listings for where it's showing in the UK and Ireland

rydra_wong

synecdochic is explaining Catholic Church inside baseball again:

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpj5yrntqc2v (thread)

Previous rounds of Pope-exegesis:

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3loqsfhswjk2r
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3m3eovdxmwk2z

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https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26722053-two-bujold-mentions

One long, one short.

Long, a YouTube book discussion of, of all things, The Vorkosigan Companion, using it to try to analyze, for want of a better term, my literary biography. It's weirdly smooth in a way that suggests AI assistance, but it's also pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdG9...

The original material it heavily draws from is here:

https://www.amazon.com/Vorkosigan-Com...

and elsewhere ebooks are sold.

I also got this note from an acquaintance --

"I heard your name mentioned on Angela Davis's MPR show this week discussing good reads. We thought you might like to hear it! Skip to 32:39 for your mention."

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2026/...

It's a kindly shout-out from an SF reader calling in -- clearly, the presenters had never heard of me, but they have now, so, cool.

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on June, 28

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