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[seilnakyle]

Absolute Wonder Woman #15

[cognitohazardous]

no one is stupid in quite the same way as a tumblr user

[ot3]

when people say stuff like "you need to have hobbies that aren't media" i agree with the letter of it, because i think that you have to have at least one or two tactile hobbies to stop you from descending into madness. but its never actually about that it always comes with the smug, condescending implication that media is a kind of consolation prize for people who aren't able to have Real interests. and its just like. well i actually do think the collective body of books, film, plays, television, comics, and video games produced by the human race is vast and meaningful enough that a life spent mostly picking through it and reflecting on it could be perfectly fulfilling

[birdplushie]

this is easy to forget when you're not in the middle of reading a book but reading books makes your life a lot more enjoyable

[catgirl-metronome]

Yesterday I finally read "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" and holy shit. I think it's my favorite piece of short fiction ever. My girlfriend and I spent four hours doing a close reading of it and poring over the details (and it was one of the best dates I've ever had).

It has everything. It's a beautiful tone poem about gender. It's a scifi short story about how fucked up it would be if the government could fuck with the parts of your brain pertaining to identity. It's a dystopian work about climate change and the US military industrial complex. It's a scathing indictment of a particular flavor of queer person who will proudly champion lgbt rights but whose activism stops before challenging capitalism and imperialism. It has an utterly sexless passage about sex, followed immediately by a multi-page action scene about piloting a helicopter and working in effortless tandem with your perfect counterpart to shoot down a missile and escape danger which drips with more eroticism than your average literotica story could dream of mustering. It's an emotional and character driven story about a married couple breaking up when one of them decides to transition.

It's really really good and if you haven't read it, you really have got to. I've been mad about what happened to Isabel Fall since I learned about it, but I'm so much madder now. I have no respect whatsoever for the so-called "critics" who decried it when it came out. From the very first moment, it's so very obviously written by a trans woman with so many interesting thoughts and feelings about gender, that in order to miss it you either have to have not read the story at all, or else you would require such a myopic and surface-level view of gender along with such a lack of reading ability and imagination that I simply would not trust any of your literary opinions at all.

[rocket-enjoyer]

here https://isabelfall.neocities.org/Isabel_Fall_-_I_Sexually_Identify_as_an_Attack_Helicopter.pdf

[ereader-enthusiast]

I particularly enjoy when fiction stories make reference to their own in universe fiction stories. I want to read that now.

[eldritch-elrics]

hey project hail mary fans i heard you like stories about a human dude and an androgynous alien who get stuck together in an inhospitable environment and learn about each other and come to trust each other and form a Secret Third Thing relationship. may i introduce you to ursula k le guin’s the left hand of darkness,

[ereader-enthusiast]

Read Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer in one sitting. Really solid book. I feel like you can tell when an author has really cut their teeth on short form fiction before their novels… Kritzer has the sort of efficient, elegant storytelling that I really admire. First read her story Better Living Through Algorithms for a class a few years ago and would absolutely recommend it to everyone, especially in our fun new age of AI.

[ereader-enthusiast]

I’m hoping that live-blogging my reading in the same way that I text updates to my buddies will also motivate me to read things I don’t want to because I think this PhD science guy doesn’t want an Aristotle play by play

[ereader-enthusiast]

have you considered her today. you should

[ereader-enthusiast]

I am attempting to read Wolf Worm and I just can’t get over how much of an idiot this protagonist is. I have a great affection for her. She’s a darling. I would love to read the day to day life of her doing watercolours and whatnot. Why is she in a horror book speculating that her weird patron may be having sexual relations with chickens rather considering the 1) evil bugs 2) implied vampires 3) missing wife. Might even be a bug vampire wife. But no, you’re still stuck on the chickens.

[academic-vampire]

A crucial part of the bookstore experience is saying hi to all the books you’ve already read

[abernathyvalois]

i love reading very very late at night because that’s when the lines between reality and fiction blur and everything becomes a fever dream and you can properly disappear into the pages

[hiveswap]

Hey guys you should totally get into this thing i like. Yeah it's mid at best. It also aged poorly. You'll get nothing out of it at all. You'll like the idea of it more than the actual thing. But at least only takes half your natural lifespan to finish it

[geekysteven]

A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space

[ultraviolet-divergence]

I love in science fiction when something’s an array. The sensor array. The navigational array. Weapons array. Goddamn, yes. Get that shit in an array.

[evedoessomething]

yessss. may i also suggest: the suite. The sensor suite, etc.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

Sometimes people on here will complain about "culture" or "media" in a way that suggests their problem would be solved if their media diet was less than 90% fan fiction