we, of course, came from hell

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[imatmywormrightnow]

I seem to be living a very expensive lifestyle called eating food regularly

[dogpuppy]

[gloamglozerglam-deactivated2022]

only the true king could remove the sword from the stone…. no one else could…… they didn’t have…. arthurization

[cryptic-curation]

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.

[orpheuslament]

i dont trust anyone whos hostile towards city pigeons one bit & im being very serious about it

[caesarsaladinn]

every morning i wake up and make the worst possible time management decisions anyone has ever made

[creekfiend]

also we are so primed to be like "well this system is fair, bc look, there's a few people from Traditionally Excluded Groups participating!" which, yeah, that is what they want you to think. that is why they will let exceptional individuals from those groups through the gates.

you don't look at who is in the walled city to determine who is being unfairly excluded. you look at who is outside of the walled city.

who is not present? why are they not present? what is the given reason/excuse for them not being present?

[the-nugget-squad]

I bet crunching your little fangs into cardboard feels good as hell for a cat

[pardalote]

Finished stitching my Oversight series.

12 small embroidered poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads.

[snarp]

One time I did that thing where you try to commune with your ancestors by getting insanely sleep-deprived and doing a shitload of drugs at a place that was sacred to them, which in my case was the parking lot where they used to dump the frogs after they injected them with piss. And obviously I was hoping to get given a revenge quest, like a relatively-recent one that I could conceivably still track down and kill somebody's descendent over?

But I guess I should have used different drugs because the wronged ancestor I got was this I think neanderthal who was around when they invented bags. Like, to carry shit in. Before bags they just carried everything like, in their hands and arms and stuff.

And she was still mad about the bags! Like, absolutely furious that some other biped had done that. Total disrespect to the craft of carrying items, in her opinion; ruined a whole generation's balance and arm strength. And she personally had been *so* good at balancing fruits and dead animals in her arms stably and over lengthy walks. Which she demonstrated to me.

And she was like "you know why you have back pain. It's those fucking bags." And I went, "oh yeah I know my doctor told me my fucking high school backpack did permanent damage." Then I had to tell her about backpacks, and you have never SEEN a neanderthal or whatever she was that fucking mad. She asked if I could find a descendent of whoever was responsible for *those* to kill, and I had to say no, I'm sorry, but the backpacks were also a really long time ago, I cannot trace guilt in blood on that one either.

So she was really pissed off and went like "I don't think you really even want an ancestral revenge quest." And I was feeling kind of defensive at this point and asked her why she didn't kill the bag lady herself with a spear when she wasn't looking. And then I had to explain spears, too. I guess the bags came first?

But anyway, apparently one of my ancestors died trying to drown the inventor of the bag, and as a result I agreed to kill the dean of my high school (a compromise). I wrote to Ursula K. Le Guin about this but she never responded.

[snarp]

Stop tagging this "unreality," it happened

[maxknightley]

being a jack of all trades is dope as fuck honestly. it's like I'm doing crop rotation inside my own brain

[garaksapprentice]

holy fuck but that's actually what it feels like though? It's finally cooling down here so soon it will be woodworking season. Just finished a giant stack of mending/alterations and I can't bear to look at the sewing machine for a while, time to get back to the embroidery I put on hold. Knitting for too long makes my wrist hurt so I have to space it out with spinning and inkle weaving. Got reminded markers exist and impulse bought some watercolours, time to get back to practicing art for a while. etc.

[fairycosmos]

there used to be things to watch on youtube

[romanceyourdemons]

guy working on an artwork they knew would push them technically: what the hell why do i keep doing this wrong. am i haunted by malevolent spirits and such

[depsidase]

[penny-anna]

Bookriot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels by Female Authors

Bookriot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels By Female Authors Bookriot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels By Female Authors

ok let's do another one! this time we have Bookriot's 100 sci-fi fantasy novels by female authors.

just to pre-empt a few possible objections to the list, it was published in 2016 and:

JK Rowling's public transphobia downward spiral began in 2018.

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells) was published in 2017 and Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) was published in 2019.

The Fifth Season (NK Jemisin) was published in 2015 & given that the editor included a different NK Jemisin I presume Fifth Season simply hadn't hit all-time classic status yet.

The editor stated upfront that they included 1 book per author.

I have no idea what We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) is doing there given that it categorically is not SFF.

How many of Bookriot's 100 sci-fi fantasy novels by female authors have you read?

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[penny-anna]

hokay so i was curious as a point of contrast to the Guardian list how well tumblr would do on a best 100 SFF novels list. so i went looking for one and google directed me to NPR's top 100 novels list and i'm like aight i'll just use that one keep it simple. but as i scrolled down the list i was like wait there's been no Octavia Butler at all?? which i honestly found quite offensive but i was deep into adding books to my list challenge by that point.

also the version of the list i was looking at only had 97 entries on it; i am unsure if that's a counting error bcos some of the entries are series or if it's just missing 3 items off the NPR list but i opted to rectify both issues by adding 3 Octavia Butler books on the end.

so here is my list challenge of the 97 book long NPR top 100 list but I added Octavia Butler:

Nprs Top 100 Fantasy/Sci-Fi to Read

NPR top 100 books except there were only 97 on the list so I added 3 Octavia Butler's on the end. why in the world the original list had...

How many of the NPR: Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books list have you read?

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where a series is listed you can count that as the first book or the whole series at your discretion.

[penny-anna]

ok i should have done a deeper dive, i managed to track down the actual list and the 3 my version were missing are:

Conan the Barbarian (Robert E Howard)

The Xanth Series (Piers Anthony)

The Thrawn Trilogy (Timothy Zahn)

i am comfortable w these being ommitted

the list dates to around 2011 and was chosen by audience poll which does mean that compared to more curated lists its a more honest list of what's popular but unfortunately well uh. well i think it's pretty clear scrolling down the list what the voting demographic was like.

[midiport]

im going to explode in the kiln