#blaylock

[myabortion]

Remodeling ideas for a large transitional study room with a freestanding desk, a dark wood floor, a brown floor, white walls, and no fireplace

Prof Jonah Choiniere

[disquaireday-lyon]

Example of a huge transitional guest carpeted and beige floor bedroom design with beige walls and no fireplace

The Culture Affective Neuroscience Lab Canlab

[projecto-educativo-apordoc]

An enormous two-story brick house with a metal roof and a clipped gable roof as an example of a transitional exterior design

Jakub Hladik

[coffeb-u-n-n-y]

Присоединяйтесь к "Гомункулу" Блэйлока, у нас есть: толпа трупов, оживших при помощи карпов, злой горбун, прыщавый подлец, капитан, курящий через свою ногу-протез, профессор, одержимый процессом пищеварения, вареный горох и очень. много. шкатулок. 👍👍👍👍

Join Blaylock's "Homunculus", we have: a bunch of corpses brought to life by carp, an evil hunchback, a pimply bastard, a captain who smokes through his prosthetic leg, a professor obsessed with the process of digestion, boiled peas, and lots. and LOTS. of boxes. 👍👍👍👍

[obliquecompendium]

Rereading an old favourite, James Blaylock's The Elfin Ship, and it mostly holds up and is still very good. But I'm struck more every time by the utter lack of women as characters.

It's not noticeable at first, since it starts out as just the story of two middle-aged bachelors on a road rafting trip, so it's not particularly strange when few other people have speaking roles. Then they pick up a teen companion, and again it's not that strange that it's a boy. It's only once they actually get to the city and then start for home again that you realize that nearly everyone in a speaking role is a man. It's not even just sexism in the typical sense, as even the places that would stereotypically be women's roles in many older stories (e.g. baking, innkeeping, millinery) are held by men.

A handful of women are mentioned in passing or appear in the background, but only one female character plays any real role in the plot, who is [SPOILER] and still has no actual dialogue.

So the author seems to be doing something on purpose, I imagine in relation to the works he was inspired by and commenting on (like Twain and Grahame), and I'm not sure exactly what it is or how I feel about it yet. (I do note that this is not a trait of Blaylock's work in general, while he generally has male protagonists plenty of his other stories do have women as characters! And the sequel to this one specifically has a woman as an antagonist. Hence why I'm thinking about what he's doing here in particular.)

[littledapperdudes]

Dallas Brick Exterior Example of a huge transitional white two-story brick house exterior design with a clipped gable roof and a metal roof

[geniewithwifi]

Guest Bedroom Example of a mid-sized french country guest carpeted and beige floor bedroom design with gray walls