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I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously . . .

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.

subplotsideshow

I think it's time to admit that we've actually devolved, and that streaming services are, in fact, worse than video/DVD rental stores.

cosmicfloat

Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower

eleanor-arroway

Lauren Oya Olamina is truly a protagonist of all time

she's very practical, she's an empath, she's a cult leader, she's learning to draw for fun, she's making acorn bread and adopting children into her community, she's obsessed with populating interstellar space even as societal order is collapsing, she's writing the bible but this time it's about how diversity and change are central to a thriving society, she's stocking up on weapons and caching supplies, and she's like twenty... no one is doing it like her

fuck-u-maga

soggypages

"I hope people who read Parable of the Sower will think about where we seem to be heading - we the United States, even we the human species. Where are we going? What sort of future are we creating? Is it the kind of future you want to live in? If it isn't, what can we do to create a better future? Individually and in groups, what can we do?"

-Octavia E. Butler (1999)

toddycats

My hope for whoever is reading this is that your life starts making sense and coming together. I hope the good days are right around the corner for you.

catnippackets

they can touch a little, as a treat

zipsunz

watched the anime yesterday :)

cosmicfloat

Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower

the girl & the witch

“can you draw this one?“

gailynovelry

I think it might be useful if we viewed representation as an imperfect community effort rather than a big, heavy weight that every writer, artist, animator, etc needs to bear by themselves.

totally-a-wizard

Also I've always viewed it as a "Yes, and" endeavor. For example I don't mind queer villains in fiction but I do have a problem when that is the only queer representation in a certain context.

soulcandy

You're only allowed to kill your gays if there's more than one and you don't kill all of them.

gailynovelry

Okay. So. I say this as kindly as possible.

This post is not about making iron-clad Rules for Good Rep.

This post is about actually paying attention to your community, and the communities of the people you are portraying in your writing, and putting a little thought into finding the underrepresented and portraying it. It’s also about taking a breath and absolving yourself of the need to do it perfectly as a marginalized person. There is no perfect way to do it, because no group is a monolith.

I’m just a little weary of having to manage moral scrupulosity in myself and my community.

If I followed this rule to the letter, as a queer author who loves tragedy, I would not be allowed to write a single-character work of tragedy and make it queer. You know? Can we be messy? Can we let each other be messy?

And the post is also not limited to queerness.

If one does not like how the usual stories go — if one feels unseen — then the solution is more stories, rather than clamouring to take away other people’s pens.

You are allowed to tell your stories.

writer-brittany

The solution is more stories, rather than clamouring to take away other people’s pens.

guavamandering

having a smart woman follow you back is so scary bc it’s like what if she finds out that im stupid

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