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Just in time to plan your TBR lists for PRIDE, it’s the fully updated and expanded 2021 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books list!
Author K.A. Doore has done incredible work in gathering all these titles together!
Check out this brilliant list.
In the same vein of cave paintings having children’s handprints higher than their height suggesting them being lifted up or sitting on the shoulders of adults, there’s footprints in Australia dating to the Ice Age showing a group of adults and children walking to a body a water, and one child breaking away from the group to seemingly skip in a wavy path until rejoining the group
This is like 20 thousand years ago! And the joy and happiness of going to water made this child playfully skip along! It’s universal! Dancing their way back to their family!
In a language we will never hear, a culture we’ll never know, with thoughts and ideas we can only imagine! There are millennia of untold moments of happiness, of human connection and warmth that are gone forever. But they still happened! Did that family even notice the tracks they left? How could they have known that that one day their impossibly distant descendants would be able to see the imprints they made?
Another set of tracks in the same area shows three men hunting a giant kangaroo, running at incredible speeds, but one of them had only one foot! They jumped along on one foot, every so often an imprint from a stick appearing. How did they lose their limb? An accident? A fight? A predator? Was it completely gone or maimed? Was it from birth? Either way this person was cared for by their family and was able to heal and participate fully in life! They most likely felt grief when their family member lost the use of their limb! Who cared for them? Who gave them the stick to help them walk? What kind of joy did their family feel when they made a recovery? Did someone shape and carve the stick? They certainly worked all of their other wooden tools, something as essential that would have been too.
This was during the ice age when Australia became a brutally cold, dry desert. Their entire food system had to change. By all indications it should have been a stark and difficult life of little resources. But no! They worked together! They looked after their wounded and sick! The speed that these hunters were running at was incredible and means they were well fed and healthy! A millennia of helping one another and caring for one another and all we can get are tiny glimpses of these moments did they catch the kangaroo did they laugh and congratulate each other when they did how happy were they to bring it back to their families I just
There were people who survived trephination long enough for bone to regrow over the hole. Can you even imagine the care that must have required, in prehistoric times with no sanitation or tech or medicine? We have proof, in the form of human remains, that disabled people who couldn’t have walked or fed themselves survived for years in the Stone Age. We have cave paintings that were clearly made by an adult and a child together, one teaching the other.
The past was brutal, but that doesn’t mean everyone who lived in it was.
hwaet! memory-mother, in meadhall sing the hatred, from heartlocks broken, of achilles peleusson, cursed by his people, wreaker of woes unending. often his spear made the mighty drink to dogs, food for the feathered, strong souls banished to breathe in the dark.
deep it was driven, the doom of zeus, since they stood sundered, bitter in boasting, atreusson the people-king, and sun-bright achilles. but who in heaven struck up their strife? the son of leto, livid at the king, spelled sickness, and the people perished, for atreusson harmed his holy priest, chryses.
spear-greeks he sought by the swift sea-steeds, daring, undaunted, his daughter to ransom, bearing garlands of the arrow-guiding god on a golden staff. he sank before spear-greeks, saying to them and the sons of atreus, people-guides: “sons of atreus, and strong-scaled spear-greeks, may the mighty gods in their mountain-helming halls give you Priam’s gore-gold, and glorious homecoming. only unchain my child, in exchange for this ringhoard, with honor for him, the arrow-hailing son of zeus.”
is this the illiad as a norse saga? i’m in love.
Sumerian-style addition!
Bitter is the wail for you Achilles,
The wail I sing for you!
Bitter is the wail for you Achilles,
Of which the goddess sings!
Lo, the storm of his devastation was falling,
The baleful storm reaping itself upon the host of the Achaeans,
The baleful storm, which takes no mercy,
The storm of devastation, which takes no mercy,
Wrought by his anger.
The dark-headed people,
A thousand went to dust below the earth,
In that wind which swirled like hot clay,
The dogs were abandoning their bodies, to the winds,
The birds were abandoning their bodies to the winds,
The insects were abandoning their bodies to the winds,
Zeus was abandoning them, their bodies to the winds,
Open the copper chest with iron locks;
The tablet of lapis lazuli tells the story.
Long since Agamemnon, Mycenae’s wild bull,
And Achilles, Thetis’ son, the black-beared Aurochs,
Did emperil like lions the sheepfold of Troy- the dark-headed people mourn!
Truly the creator had compelled them to strife- the dark-headed people mourn!
Leto’s son, and Zeu’s son Apollo- the dark-headed people mourn!
He let forth the shroud of pestilence upon the city- the dark-headed people mourn!
The hot winds stirred it forth- the dark-headed people mourn!
And the pestilence shrouded the city like the dead.
The twelfth year having gone, the month ended,
Atreus’ son of princely office,
Atreus son of princely office,
Chryses in his holy house,
His temple of lapis and cedar,
His mighty name with unclean hands dishonoured.
A fun way to get yourself to do chores when you have adhd is to simulate a sense of panic by setting horrible deadlines that fit into other things that you’re doing.
For example, you set up a kettle of water to boil for your tea. Quick! Wipe down the whole counter before it’s done boiling, for the love of god you’re running out of time! Wipe it down! The water is almost boiling.
The water is boiling and your counter is clean. Now set your timer for your tea for three minutes and of my god there’s cups in your room! Quick! Get all the cups from everywhere in the house! Run! You’ve only got three minutes! Get all the dishes into the kitchen!
Oh would you look at that. You got all the dishes in the sink and now your tea is ready. Nice. Now you can chill with your tea.
I’ve found that little stuff like that helps me. Forcing myself into unexpected last minute deadlines. It fills up empty space and my house is a little bit cleaner.
I HATE that I know this works- legit heating something up in the microwave? Rushing to put everything away before it goes off because there is something satisfying about beating it and you feel accomplished.
So I tried this, and I'm genuinely shocked that it worked???
Like, I'm overjoyed that I found a way to do chores without minutes of trying to force myself, but it actually worked??? What kind of sorcery is this???
This will probably work. And I will hate every second of my life while it works.
If you were wondering what use negative emotions have, it’s this sort of thing.
Thing is is, as much m/f that is produced in the world, as a bi woman, sometimes I want to see a man fall in love with an obviously queer woman. I want to see a man realizing that the woman he is interested in is gnc and that isn't going to change.
And women fall for GNC men! I want women who are enamored with their soft queer lover.
I want to see masc/masc and fem/fem m/f ships. Wlm and mlw can and should be queer in media.
You know what, Im seeing my own post again and wanna say.... I wanna see queer makeover scenes and I wanna see the love interest gush.
I want the nerdy conservatively dressed girl bestfriend get her hair done and her fancy clothes on and she appears in a pressed suit. And I want the love interest to loose his breath because she's so handsome in a bow tie and slacks.
I want the guy in a skirt or a dress, I want his love interest so blown away by the way his nylons look.
I wanna see the girl give the boy a corsage.
I want gnc bi love. I want gnc love period ngl.
Drawings with golden details ✨
Winter jackalope will appear on Etsy on Sunday ( and some more original art)
One time, I had a dream that I was making peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, and most of them were the regular measurements in cups and stuff. But at the end of the recipe, instead of saying “2.5 cups of chocolate chips” it said “627 chocolate chips.”
So when I woke up, I made some peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. And instead of measuring out chocolate chips, I counted them (and suffered a lot of odd looks from my family for it).
Well, it turns out that 627 chocolate chips is the amount that the recipe called for (2.5 cups). Not only that, but 627 was the exact amount of chocolate chips that we had left in the house.
Forbidden knowledge was granted you that night
This is it, the best news story (from BBC news):
Ok, so here is the croissant that started all this mess:
When asked about what kind of animal might it be, the woman said: "It's this, oh, what is it called... A lagun!"
The devil works fast, but The Krakow Animal Welfare Society works faster:
They already made a merchandise with an illustration of the lagun - they posted information about it on Facebook on Tuesday evening and by the Wednesday morning everything was already sold out.
My university professors are so delighted about this story that they are writing tons and tons of limericks, moskaliks and lepiejs (those two last genres are very popular, ridiculous and humorous types of short poems, in last decades popularized by Wisława Szymborska) and posting them on official Facebook pages of our university departments, and I am dying of laughter.
Important update on the story: owners of cafés and bakeries in Kraków realized that this wonderful idiocy that took over the country could bring them profit and help animals, and started selling croissants labeled as laguns: i.e. Massolit Café & Bakery is sending 10% of income from selling laguns to the Krakow Animal Welfare Society. Thankfully laguns are selling like hotcakes and bakeries don't plan to stop making them, so the story that started and could quickly die as just another seasonal nonsense transformed into a tool for helping small, helpless, vulnerable creatures, far less dangerous than vicious lagun.
This is how cyptids get started.
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Love how Amena's impression of SecUnit goes from "controlling robocop" to "emotionally repressed idiot." Meanwhile MB's impression of Amena goes from "annoying teenager who hates me" to "annoying teenager who will not fucking leave me alone." That's the kind of growth I like to see
I was so delighted when I first read Network Effect and got to the point where MB and Amena were on their own because inflicting a teenager on MB is the best/worst thing Martha Wells could have done to MB at that point in its process of figuring how to cope with people
UGH having an emotion about how Murderbot has enormous difficulty navigating relationships as someone who's not supposed to be a person (in addition to being socialized by TV) because not only does it have a questionable understanding of how healthy human-human relationships work, but it has no precedent for how human-construct or construct-construct or bot-construct relationships work (other than ownership). And so it has to figure out, from scratch, answers to questions that humans can generally take for granted like
How can you express affection?
What can you ask of one another?
What are your responsibilities to each other?
How do you comfort each other? Support each other? Express anger at each other?
Not to mention that as a bot/construct, the line between personal and professional gets fuzzier than ever. Where you draw the line between respecting autonomy and ensuring safety? What if keeping people safe is as integral to one's identity and personal fulfillment as it is for a SecUnit or ship?
What is the shape of the space that you're supposed to fill? What do you do when you don't have any instructions on how to be a person like yourself? To paraphrase that one Martha Wells interview, the general struggle of having to figure out how to exist in a world that isn't made for you is just A Big Mood.
If you're reading this...
go write three sentences on your current writing project.
# my favourite part about this post # is that nowhere does it say to reblog this # but we’re all reblogging it # because if we have to suffer # so do other writers
F u c k
Oh damn–
(via @ave-aria) @puppetmaster55 PUPPET STOP REBLOGGING THIS YOU’RE MAKING ME BE PRODUCTIVE.
(via @puppetmaster55) I’LL STOP REBLOGGING THIS WHEN IT STOPS MAKING ME BE PRODUCTIVE.
(via @ave-aria) GODDAMMIT.
Damn it, Puppet, why.
Hi Ro!
Bitch
They sold their soul for that talent
Non metallic metal techniques be like
When Future Meets Past .....
Egypt parades 22 of their ancient kings and queens through the streets of Cairo as they’re being transferred to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
The Pharaohs Golden Parade
wait its that bad in india????
as of 22nd April 2021 we have about 16.3M total cases and a death toll of 187K . Only about 1.4% of the population has been fully vaccinated yet.
on top of that, we've been facing a major shortage in oxygen supply (to the point where the govt has decided to airlift oxygen from other nations), a shortage in hospital beds and services. The numbers keep rising and with the spread of the new strain, the scenario has transformed into something deadlier than ever.
our infrastructures are falling apart and we need all the help possible at this very moment so the nation can be atleast saved when there's still a chance. I've already lost two of my friends, a teacher and family to the second wave and I can only imagine how much worse it can get. so i would like to take this opportunity to link in some donation posts below–
Donate to trusted local nonprofits in India responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Your gift is eligible for tax benefits in the U
> Here is Akshaya Patra's Covid-19 relief service— help provide meals and packed grocery to those in need
Protect India from Coronavirus
Getting the word out at this time of crisis matters.
Please reblog and help
Some links to important resources down below—
> Important Covid-19 Help Guide in India
> Covid 911 that regularly updates donations and emergencies for those in need
> Covid Help India
> if you're an american you can find and contact your representative and can ask them to support the suspension of vaccine patents.
> UK petition to suspend covid vaccine patents
> petition for anyone who lives in EU country to suspend vaccine patents
PLEASE DO NOT DONATE TO PM CARES!
every reblog matters. help.
Here is a citizen run site with a tracker and also adheres to emergency needs, complete with much more important resources.
Saw a truly vile taker earlier so I have to write about the differences between asexuality and desexualization or I WILL explode on a molecular level. This is gonna be long because I’ve been angry about this for Many Years and can’t take it anymore so BUCKLE IN.
There’s a popular attitude that asexuality + any other marginalized identity or experience is a sort of Forbidden Combination because it inherently “desexualizes” that identity. This is a viewpoint that has drawn language from some genuine discussions of desexualization, but has been twisted and hyped by acephobes and exclusionists to the point where even people within those groups are afraid to write or headcanon characters that are asexual + disabled, female, a person of color, neurodivergent, mentally ill, trans, etc.
First and most importantly: I cannot even put into words how damaging and stifling this is to those of us who are one of these “forbidden combinations.” There’s this level of shame that often comes with the territory that often walls us off from more generalized positivity and support. Acting like imagining or writing a character that resembles us is a Sin ™ makes this SO much worse.
For example, I am ADHD, most likely autistic, and asexual. The first time I ever felt free to explore the idea of a character who is both asexual and neurodivergent was with a canonically asexual character, and it was the most remarkably freeing and exciting experience. In my experience, having an ace headcanon for a character that even hinted at neurodivergence would get you dogpiled with accusations of ableism, so I avoided it for years and years out of fear–but I could FINALLY write about someone who resembled me! I could finally explore how those two sides of me interact and interconnect! I hate knowing that the reason why it’s more accepted to start with the ace character and add other headcanons was because of this idea that asexuality is a demeaning identity (conflating it with desexualization, which I’ll get into later), but regardless it’s been a great time.
…And now I’m seeing people insisting that, no, even if you’re starting with a canonically ace character, adding a headcanon for another marginalized identity is also bad and “desexualizes” that identity. Now it’s a “these two things are never allowed near each other” rather than just “ace headcanons are bad for anything but a white, able-bodied, neurotypical, able-bodied, cishet man.”
All of the above completely disregards the actual execution of the writing for a harmful and lazy attitude of “never allow these two identities near each other.” But execution matters. Learning what desexualization actually is, and not treating it as a synonym with asexuality, is vital for undoing these attitudes.
Why is desexualization harmful?
This is highly summarized, but the gist is:
- Infantilizing the person, treating them like they can’t be a consenting adult in a sexual situation.
- Depriving the person of agency, which ties into the above issue of treating them like they can’t consent. This is also an overlapping issue with oversexualization, which treats a person like a sexual object regardless of their input.
- Treating the person as undesirable; the disgust reaction of “I hate imagining this person in a sexual/romantic situation, so let’s just wall them off from the possibility completely”
- In fandom, a character being dismissed or sidelined in circles that focus on romantic/sexual content.
These are also terrible things to portray about asexual people. If the execution of an asexual character or headcanon includes the above, it’s demeaning and acephobic! But if an asexual depiction does not include these elements, it is not desexualization.
I want to keep this post fandom nonspecific since this is an issue EVERYWHERE I went, but the character in question for the “you can’t headcanon him as anything but white or it’s desexualization” accusation I saw (ironically written by a white person) a) is an adult, b) has confidently set boundaries for sexual activity, c) is unabashedly portrayed as receiving romantic interest & desire for the entire course of the show, and d) is the main character and almost always centered in fanworks. It’s practically a checklist for why the above wouldn’t apply. But with this lazy, harmful approach of “asexuality can’t be combined with any other marginalized identity,” it still gets the “problematic” label slapped on it. And let me tell you, the asexual PoC in the discords I’m in were NOT happy with that post telling them “just :) think about why this is wrong :))”
TLDR: Before you accuse people of “desexualizing” a character by combining asexuality + another marginalized identity/experience, learn what desexualization actually is. Learn how those elements also harm asexual people. Embrace the reality that asexual people of many backgrounds and experiences exist, and we deserve the right to be portrayed and portray ourselves. Learn the difference between a positive portrayal and one done to dismiss or demean a character. And SUPPORT ASEXUAL PEOPLE instead of treating us like a demeaning identity.
Ik for a fact I’ve reblogged this before but I wanna add- I’m brown, plus sized, AND neurodivergent. When ppl get on my case about characters I personally see as being asexual, it pisses me off to no end because it shows a distinct lack of understanding and a refusal to learn. It shows me that they have associated aspec identities with whiteness or privilege. It’s extremely disrespectful for anyone to claim that aspec identities are inherently de sexualizing and I’m still so mad that the discourse continues
