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I propose this year be Two thousand twenty FIX. this year we're fixing shit. If you got a problem fix it right away if you can. As soon as you notice even. Fix shit. Fix your leaky faucet. Clean your shower. Talk to your friends about that thing they do that makes you feel unloved. 202fix

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ceruleanheaven

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

thepromiscuousfinger

kamscorn

no i dont want to ‘ask chatgpt’ i want to go to a wikipedia page and spend half an hour reading an article like a real person

bookpdf

not being productive or relaxing but a secret third thing

underwaterfraulein

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

bandagedthoughtsblog

eroscestlavie

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

kiefbowl

drop your women written fantasy and sci-fi recs. no YA pls 🙏

c4nonball

WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIIIMEEEE! EVERYONE READ WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME!!! 📢📢📢📢

ordereduniverse

Woman only societies:

-Daughters of the Great Star series by Diana Rivers

-When Women Were Warriors series by Catherine M. Wilson

-Ammonite by Niccola Griffith (fantasy/sci-fi blend)

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Other fantasy and sci-fi:

-Binti series by Nnedi Okorafor

-Octavia Butler novels (the Parable series or the Patternmaster series are great starting points with her work)

-Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

-Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

-Fires of the Faithful and Turning of the Storm by Naomi Kritzer

-The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

-Spear by Nicola Griffith

-The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood

-The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

-Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

-A Prayer for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

-Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens

-Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk

-Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

-The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

-The Upstairs House by Julia Fine

-An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

-The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker

-My Real Children by Jo Walton

lavenderselkie

- Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

- Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine

- Magic of the Lost series by C.L. Clark

- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

- The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley

- MURDERBOT DIARIES by Martha Wells pls read them I love murderbot

- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

- The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

- Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

- Sultana's Dream extremely short story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein

I'm not good at content warnings but some of these should definitely have them.

demon-of-the-ancient-world

Just going off the many Lists saved in my phone:

-The Inheritance Trilogy by N. K. Jeminsin -The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers -The Farseer Trilogy (and the rest of the connected series in Realm of the Elderlings) by Robin Hobb -The Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty -The Winterlight Trilogy by Katherine Arden -Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country by Emily Tesh (connected novellas) -The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell (a personal underrated fave of mine) -Or What You Will by Jo Walton -A River Enchanted and A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross -A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown (pretty sure it isn't YA? But I'm not certain) -Piranesi by Susanna Clarke -The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck -The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (significant horror elements) -Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (and presumably its sequel(s?) but I haven't read beyond book 1 yet) -The Lighthouse Witches by C. J. Cooke

#feminist literature #literature