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Zoe Williams, Algol’s Mistress, 2021, glazed ceramic, 19 5⁄8 × 18 7⁄8 × 8 5⁄8".

the three inventions the world needs the most are cure for cat allergy, strap-on you can feel, and cigarette that’s good for you. scientists get on this right now please

petr1kov

i understand the impulse to recommend a wizard of earthsea to people who were into harry potter because of the fact that it's one of the most well known novels to use the concept of a school for wizards, but still, that alone feels like a very shallow similarity to me and really not enough to draw a comparison, if only because earthsea is a magical world with an incredibly solid worldbuilding that also has a magical school in it, while harry potter in it's essence IS the magical school and everything else that exists in that magical world is made to prop that up (which is why jkr so clearly struggles to write anything that's outside of hogwarts, as the fantastic beasts movies proved to everyone)

probablyasocialecologist

“There are male and female dragons in the earlier books, but I don’t know if Kalessin, the Eldest, is male or female or both or something else. I choose not to know. The deepest foundation of the order of oppression is gendering, which names the male normal, dominant, active, and the female Other, subject, passive. To begin to imagine freedom, the myths of gender, like the myths of race, have to be exploded and discarded.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Earthsea Revisioned