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Erm…looks like we’re trending again.
Why?
@neil-gaiman I definitely need “Why? Love.” in your handwriting (and your signature) as I want it tattooed on me. It’s the answer to everything, when 42 won’t quite cut it.
Take your pick!
Happy New Year! I can't wait to see what's in store!! Especially what books imma read this year, I'm so excited to find new stories!
Good morning to everyone except all the people who don't tip their door dash drivers!
Xiran Jay Zhao has changed my fantasy standards forever. The protagonist of Iron Widow, Wu Zetian, is beautifully unhinged and their sheer force of will is inspiring. The internal struggle of wanting to be a force of change and the brutal toll the current world circumstances have on their mental health is all too familiar to any non-man who has been involved in activism across time. I hear their screams of loss, longing, bitterness, anger, hatred, and determination beyond the page. I hear it in my soul. Iron Widow conquers hard real topics with the brutal honesty and ache I've hardly ever seen, let alone in a sci-fi fantasy romance novel.
Xiran Jay Zhao, thank you, you nonbinary icon.
This is their official author photo btw 💖🐄💖
Link if you want to know how to support them with your book purchase:
https://xiranjayzhao.com/index.php/books/
Is it just me or are the new tumblr users convinced there's a penalty of some kind for using this site like it's meant to be used?
reblogs have always been in short supply for artists, sadly, but it's hitting the shitposts and even the cat pictures lately. Gotta keep getting the word out that reblogs are good and keep people posting new material that will be passed around for the next 12 years
They’re used to other social media sites, where the only equivalent of reblogging is straight-up content theft; so the idea that you can put someone else’s stuff on your page and have it not be a bad thing is a strange experience for them.
They’re likely also used to an algorithm recommending content based on what they hit “like” on, so they probably think that that’s how this works, too.
Preview of Sam Long’s story, drawn by the amazing Cynthia Yuan Cheng! (@cynthiaycheng, cynthiaycheng.com)
Becoming Who We Are Kickstarter ends Dec 14! Preorder now to help us fund the book!
bit.ly/becomingkickstarter
Exclusive to Kickstarter - the limited Hardcover edition of the "Becoming Who We Are" anthology.
Hey this looks really awesome but there are 5 days left and it still needs quite a bit of funding to hit the goal. Spread the word, signal boost, I want my books! There are tiers specifically for libraries and retailers as well, so especially share with any librarians or bookshop owners you know!
Four days left...
Okay, I was just going to reblog this without commentary, but I can't keep this to myself. I'm a PhD student in environmental science and this is my fucking highway.
The first published study about climate change (that I am aware of-- feel free to point out if there's an older one) is an 1896 paper by Svante Arrhenius. He pointed out the link between the greenhouse effect and changes in atmospheric CO2.
Plate tectonics, which the geoscience community now recognizes as near indisputable, was a fringe theory until about the 1960s.
Just in case anyone thought that climate change was a "recent fad" in research.
Seeing @neil-gaiman on tumbler feels the same as it would to see him on the city bus. Like it's cool to support public transportation but also I did not wake up ready to see Neil Gaiman.
Anyways, hello sir, have a lovely day ✌🏻
Excuse me SJM SOFIE WHAT!!!
don't use "ftm" it's outdated and offensive. it implies that the trans person was their agab, which we never were. i was always a boy, never a girl who became a boy.
i'm 35 years old. i've been IDing as trans or something similar to trans for nearly 20 years. i was probably calling myself FTM while you were playing tag during recess, anon.
i WAS a girl. i IDed as a girl early in my life. i recognized myself as a girl, called myself a girl, lived as a girl, and was a girl. who then IDed as a man. hence, F t M.
spend more time worrying about yourself instead of strangers on the internet, anon.
sorry not sorry if this comes off as needlessly hostile, but i've been getting a lot of shit from a lot of teenage trans kids about the language i use to describe my own goddamn experience, and i'm growing real fuckin weary of it.
i have elder trans friends who call themselves transsexuals and transvestites and trannies. are you going to seriously go to a 60-year-old trans person who survived the reagan years and tell her she's not allowed to use certain language to describe herself because it might offend the delicate sensibilities of some teenager on the internet?
do yourself a favor and log off, find some real-life trans people who are over the age of 20 or 25, and spend time talking to them instead of getting all holier-than-thou at random strangers on tumblr.
It may be weird to encounter because it's not the trans narrative that the media sells to us as 'the only valid way to be trans', but the 'I always knew I was x' is not all-encompassing.
Anon there are more people than you think who were girls who grew up into men, or boys who grew up into women, or girls or boys who grew up to be nonbinary. There is a rather obscure theory that girl and boy are distinct genders from man and woman and while the most common trajectory is that boys grow into men and girls grow into women it's not the rule.
Let people define themselves.
also if you think genderfluid people are real and you're not just humoring us, you by definition have to allow that gender can change over time. I was a girl once. I am not a girl now.
Chiming in with solidarity to OP.
I feel very protective of my former identity BECAUSE there's so little room in the Mainstream Trans Narrative ™️ for allowing gender to change.
I was a girl. Now I'm genderqueer. Maybe later I will find different words for myself.
There has to be room for all of us in the trans community or there's no point to any of this.
Ive been here long enough to see words like ftm/mtf, afab/amab, transmale/female, trans man/woman all go through the cycle of ppl telling you to “Dont use X word its out dated. Now use this Y word”. Only for a year or two pass and suddenly “Y word is outdated. Now use Z word” like yall this is exhausting. Just because a word is old doesn’t automatically make it a slur or offensive.
They're pulling high school clique bullshit out and just replacing 'uncool' with 'problematic' and pretending it's activism somehow. We're trying to get work done here not everybody is going to keep up with the ever-rotating lexicon of words.
I used to be a member of the commentariat where I learned the phrase
THERE IS NO QUEER REVIEW BOARD
Which has kinda helped me be a bit better at being decent
SJM how dare you I will never recover!!!!
SJM I beg of you to stop mentioning teeth in your sex scenes where there shouldn't be teeth. It doesn't make your characters sound like they know what they are doing, it just makes me afraid for the way they kiss 😭
Say what you will about SJM but she is 7 books away from reaching the number of books Tolkien wrote, and the women have names and are out here getting dick
There is so much art where Bryce from Crescent City is white- not even tan with the gold. But I don't think she reads as white, especially because all we know about her complexion is that she has "gold dusted skin and freckles." Then as we go on we see she struggles with oppression and racism specifically because she is bi-racial. I'm not going to say SJM handles that with grace or insight to the reality of that experience- but it's a better read then "wHaT iF rAcIsM hApPeNeD tO wHiTe PeOpLe"
I'll admit I haven't finished the series yet, but I feel like people read that she had red hair and made some assumptions. There are people of the global majority that have read hair too. I personally pictured Erin Kellyman while reading (one of the sword lesbians in the show Willow (2022)).
If you are reading (or have read) Crescent City let me know y'all's take/reasoning.
'Don't you dare look at me'
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ah, childhood.
