#teela brown

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Ringworld

[Image description: Interpretations of four characters from Ringworld by Larry Niven. Teela Brown is an energetic white woman with brown hair, wearing a four-leaf clover necklace. Louis Wu is a confident mixed-race man who is bald with a long ponytail. Nessus is an anxious white and brown alien with two ‘heads’ and three legs. Speaker to Animals is a large, orange catlike alien.]

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Teela Brown (Larry Niven, Known Universe) responding to the, "My luck was always for my descendants, never for me" nonsense she was reframed with in later books. Way to make the only female character you allowed on Ringworld be only about her reproductive organs, Niven.

[heuristicherald]

"Mad?" He thought about it. [...] And so he probed for anger as he would have probed for an old toothache. And he found nothing.

- Niven, L. (1970) Ringworld. Pg 249.

[heroofthreefaces]

I'm coming to feel sorry for Donald Trump; though along with everything else I feel, not instead of it. Because of his father's wealth he grew up so isolated and insulated that he can't relate to people for lack of human experience. He's Teela Brown: he's biologically human but he's something other than human because of his luck. He thinks being a great businessman is gaming the system and profiting at being a bad businessman purposely, because he's never been at risk for the consequences of being a bad businessman. He's spent all his life getting anything he wanted by hook or by crook instead of having to exert any effort. Now he's finally gone after something he can't get that way. (Hopefully. Stay tuned.) And not only are his usual methods failing him suddenly at the last minute, the facts coming to light that those are his usual methods are actively why they're failing. He's the worst kind of elitist scum less by choice than because he never learned any other way. He's seventy years old and he's not getting his own way for the first time in his life, and he's never had a whit of experience that'd teach him to cope with that. He's as pitiable as he is reprehensible.

[capricornwholovesdanger]

sometimes I wish there was more of a ringworld/tales of known space fandom so there could be more rational, thoughtful, well-meaning discussions about gender and reproduction and whatever.

right now it's all just elderly bros who have read everything and just want mansplain it for you, honey, or agitated social justice types who only read 'ringworld' and now need to broadcast their opinions about teela brown. 

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Teela Brown's modern solo

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Teela Brown dancing at 'Hall of Fame' in America :)

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Teela Brown