#nkjemisin

[lyntuitive]

broken earth family portrait #wip

[sistahscifi]

✨ Black Creators Who Changed Genre Storytelling ✨

Shoutout to @blackgirlnerds for this powerful spotlight on the Black visionaries who transformed sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction.

When we talk about architects of the genre, two names stand tall: Octavia E. Butler and N.K. Jemisin.

🖤 Octavia E. Butler didn’t just participate in science fiction; she expanded its moral and political imagination. Kindred forced time travel to confront slavery directly. The Parable novels tackled power, faith, and survival in ways that still feel prophetic. She proved speculative fiction can interrogate the present just as fiercely as it imagines the future.

🌍 N.K. Jemisin rebuilt epic fantasy on her own terms. With the Hugo Award–winning Broken Earth trilogy, she fused sweeping world-building with environmental collapse, systemic injustice, and inherited trauma. She disrupted the Eurocentric defaults of high fantasy and made it clear: Black imagination belongs at the center of the epic.

These aren’t just great writers. They’re blueprint-makers.

Start (or revisit) here: 📖 Kindred — Octavia E. Butler 📖 Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler 📖 The Fifth Season — N.K. Jemisin

Honor the legacy. Support Black genre media like Black Girl Nerds. Keep building futures that center us.

[macbethz]

i love all the city we became avatars equally <3 *thinks about manhattan* so theres this borough-

the first drawing is very special 2 me because i finally was able to draw him exactly how i imagined him while reading which is always a struggle for me when drawing characters from books

[nkjemisin]

Uh, so, about... me.

Since I got an ask about this -- guys, I don’t ever look in the “nkjemisin” tag. I went away for a while but before that I was on Tumblr for years and I know how this place works (tho there have been some changes, I notice). I get that most of the folks in that tag are talking about my work, not to me. I will never interact with anyone in this tag unless they reach out to me first, so relax.

I do follow tags specific to my work, however -- e.g. “great cities” or “the city we became” -- in part because I love seeing fanart of my stuff (!), and because I otherwise often miss important media that happens (like say the interview I did with A Very Big-Name Magazine a few weeks back that got posted but nobody told me, sigh) and sometimes that’s the only way I can find out about it. But if that still causes anxiety... Look, y’all.

I don’t care. Like, forreal -- I do not care what you’re saying about me or my work. There was a time back when I was a baby writer when I cared intensely about stuff like that, but years of racists ranting about how I’m The Doom of Science Fiction or whatever pretty much cured me of that urge a long time ago. Review away, bitch away, whatever. Even if I happen to see it, my reaction is likely to be, “Huh. Oh, hey, cat pics/something shiny!” and I guarantee I will forget about whatever I saw in about .024 seconds after that.

Now, this also covers if you’re actually trying to get my attention -- tagging it with nkjemisin won’t work. You’ll need to send an ask, directly.

Re: fanart -- I will always ask before I reblog it! I also get that not everybody wants the attention.

Now to go remember how to pin a post on here.

[charon30030]

A little book review

I never use this account for squat besides liking random posts so I may as well make a little informal book review for a series that I really enjoyed.

Last night (no, this morning. I was reading till 2:00 AM) I finished The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin. It’s part of the Great Cities duology with The City We Became, which I read about a year ago so my memory’s not as clear with that one. And it is, uh... It’s a really good series!

I don’t really know how to review books...

Well, if you like New York, if you like found family, if you like Lovecraft but not the xenophobic junk that comes with him, if you like a wee bit of body horror, if you like queer stories and POC stories, and if you like poetic prose, you’ll probably jive with these books. The main cast is really endearing, each of them represent a borough of New York and one of them is New York. Jemisin definitely took a lot of care when it came to research and using many perspectives, along with her own experience as a New Yorker.

I also think Padmini (AKA Queens) is asexual? I mean, it’s a throwaway line...

“I don’t like women that way, either! I don’t like sex!”

She’s also just least horny of the bunch, so I can definitely see it. If that’s what Jemisin was intending, then hell yeah! Ace rep!

On a more personal note, for the past, I dunno, five or so years? I’ve been dealing with depression. The year before I actually reached out for help and started therapy and antidepressants, I had just completely lost the motivation to read, and I used to read all the time. The World We Make is the first book I’ve been able to read since I got out of that smog, and it’s just nice to be back again.

I had also lost the motivation to write. It’ll take a bit more effort to get back into that.

[mementomirare]

Because it is among my all-time favourites and because I'm a bookbinder, I made N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy into a fancy hardcover edition.

It features

- glittery nightsky bookcloth with black and gold stamping

- a dusk-grey ribbon marker

- matching grey pages separating the three novels and the short story

- insanely golden endpapers that gloriously shed glitter everywhere

Now go y'all and read it, it has everything you could wish for!

[itacoisa]

Melhores leituras de 2022

Não diria que esse ano foi com muitos livros incríveis, apesar de buscar valorizar mais minhas leituras, já que tinha certeza que não teria muito tempo, resolvi entrar em alguns projetos de leituras que resultou nas piores leituras do ano... E nas melhores também!

Então vamos lá...

AS COISAS QUE PERDEMOS NO FOGO

As coisas que perdemos no fogo é um livro de contos escrito pela argentina  Mariana Enríquez e nos apresenta vários contos de suspense e terror e eu gostei muito. Enquanto lia pensava muito em como esse livro podia de passar no Brasil, principalmente considerando que já vi muitos casos “””semelhantes””” no meu estágio. 

Sinceramente, não lembro bem quais os contos favoritos, mas acho que foi “O Quintal do Vizinho” e “O Rapaz sujo”.

Se você gosta de um terrorzinho e de contos estranhos podem ir sem medo, mas fique sabendo que nem sempre temos uma explicação no final de cada conto (o que, pra mim, não é um pouco negativo). 

A TRILOGIA DA TERRA PARTIDA

A Quinta Estação, o primeiro, foi o melhor livro com continuações que li esse ano, é um daqueles que a gente queria ter escrito, sabe? O segundo livro não é do mesmo nível, mas eu ainda acho ótimo, o terceiro já é um pouco decepcionante... Mas de qualquer forma, vale sim a leitura. N. K. Jemisin foi a grande “descoberta”  desse ano, quero ler tudo dela.

A TRILOGIA DO CEIFADOR

Esse foi a melhor série do ano! Nesse quesito, inclusive, houve uma disputa entre a Terra Partida e do Ceifador, mas neste último as sequências a decaída foi menos acentuada, rs, então levou essa conquista. Essa trilogia flui, é bem gostosinho de ler e tem até que umas discussões legais.

MUNDO SEM FIM

A continuação de Pilares da Terra e mais uma novelinha das 9 em forma de livro. O livro é gigante, mas lendo 50 páginas por semana dá pra ir de boas.

MAR SEM ESTRELAS

O livro único do ano!!!!! Acho que foi o mais gostosinho de ler, fiquei muito obcecada por este, inclusive, rendeu até a minha playlist favorito do momento. Gosto muito de livros sobre livros e ainda mais com esse tom fantasioso... tipo o de Um estranho sonhador? Foi uma experiência e quero reler.

FOGO & SANGUE

Tem quem não goste, tendo em vista que parece um livro de história de Westeros, mas eu amei kakakakaak Não tem como um livro de fofoca ser ruim, ainda mais um com dragões.

E é isso!! Para ano que vem tenho algumas apostos, tipo O Caminho dos Reis, mas veremos... 

[tolrone]

The Broken Earth Trilogy in Order by N. K. Jemisin

Nassun / Meov battle

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