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the two most valid ursula k le guin quotes are the one that compares capitalism to the divine right of kings and the one about kirk being in love with spock
So long as we get to include "the constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind" because that kind of marries both of yours
um... you are so right.
Saw some photos of them behind scenes on fb and put them together yno
this looks like a new meme format
*Immediately dyes hair red and practiced cool and uncaring stance*
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“Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” – Mary Elizabeth Frye
Happy Pride 2019!
the thing about people who are like “i don’t like tolkien that much, fantasy should move on and be better” is that i AGREE that fantasy has all the wrong holdovers from lotr. but when you ask those people what contemporary fantasy they think is better, they’ll say shit like name of the wind or game of thrones, and i do not relate to that…..at all?? or even, like, brandon sanderson, whose books i REALLY like. but if you’re still naming mostly white straight male authors, what is it about tolkien you wanted to leave behind exactly???
If y’all’s “moving on from Tolkien” is still centered in reading fantasy written by cishet white men, y’all are missing out.
Martha Wells, Books of the Raksura. Shapeshifting gargoyle-dragon-lizard people in a matriarchal society. About finding a new home and a new family. Really evocative world building that hints at much older civilizations in a luxuriant setting.
NK Jemisin, The Broken Earth series. Post-apocalyptic setting. People of color actively dismantling systems of oppression. People of color being justifiably angry at what has been done. People of color being powerful. A black woman as the main character and multiple queer characters. She won THREE Best Novel Hugos for this series.
NK Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy. An empire has imprisoned and enslaved multiple gods, and is using them to further their oppressive systems. The mixed race female protagonist helps them find liberation. Some polyamory and non-binary themes.
Aliette de Bodard, Dominion of the Fallen series. “Dark Gothic fantasies set in a ruined turn-of-the-century Paris devastated by a magical war.” Fallen angels, Asian dragons, Viet culture, and queer PoC in positions of power. Her website has lots of free fiction as well. Special mention to The Tea Master and the Detective, a Sherlock Holmes retelling where Sherlock is a WoC and Watson is a sentient spaceship.
Fran Wilde, The Bone Cycle. Beautiful worldbuilding, tradition, (mis)information, climate change. This series is so gorgeous I have deliberately not finished reading it yet, because I am saving the last few chapters of the final book for when I’m going through a rough patch and need something lovely to escape into.
Amal El-Mohtar, Seasons of Glass and Iron. Fairy tale heroines going “nah, fuck this nonsense, we’re making our own story”. Amal mostly writes poetry and short fiction, and all of it is beautifully lyrical. Her words are so beautiful they make me angry.
Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky. It blends several genres in one, and honestly you are better off reading it than reading any summary I could make about it.
And so many, many, many more in the fantasy/sci-fi/horror genres. Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher, Alyssa Wong, Ken Liu, Rebecca Roanhorse, Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant, Daniel José Older, RF Kuang, Nnedi Okorafor, Jeannette Ng, Ann Leckie, Ted Chiang, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ruthanna Emrys, Louise Erdrich, Elizabeth Bear, Saladin Ahmed, Nisi Shawl…
If you can’t afford them, that’s okay, you have options:
Make sure to check them out at your local library.
Don’t want to go to the library, or don’t have a means to do so regularly? Ebooks! Overdrive/Libby is your friend–you just need to get a library card and then you can borrow ebooks through their ever-growing database. You can even recommend books to them–authors will get a sale if the library buys the book! They also have a growing audiobook supply, and you can recommend those to your library as well.
Libby has a phone app that is perfectly functional, so if you don’t have a dedicated e-reader but own a smartphone, you can get your books that way too.
Do you prefer short fiction? So many of these authors have stuff available online, be it on their website or on zines. A brief search will supply you with more fiction by non-white-dudes than you know what to do with.
tl;dr:
Read diverse authors.
Some Thoughts on EJ Levy
(Image: An X-Men panel of Cyclops, who is saying, “These are our lives. It’s not a game of dress-up for the terminally over-privileged.”)
Cis writers: when you insist that trans identities are nothing more than misplaced misogyny and overly rigid gender roles, you are also claiming that trans people cannot possibly be aware or considerate of either our own minds or those factors. Cis publishers: When you hire cis writers to tell–or, in many cases, co-opt–our stories, you are rewarding and reinforcing the same.
The idea that a person–especially a person as intelligent and socially aware as Dr. James Barry–couldn’t distinguish between identifying as male and disguising himself to navigate a sexist system is so grossly patronizing and dehumanizing; and to do so in the face of his explicit lifelong and dying wishes is even more ghoulish.
Cis women: Your experiences are not the experiences of trans men. Transmasculinity is not a cheat code for hacking patriarchy.
There’s a lot more I want to say about this–could say about this–but I kind of feel like enough trans experiences and lives and hurt have been ground up in the machine this week; and I don’t really feel like donating mine up for consumption.
Fun statistical fact: Cows are about 300 times more likely to kill you than coyotes.
Minor sidenote to statistical fact: If it was common for people to keep several hundred coyotes on their property and routinely chase them into a corral and handle them, this statistic would be different.
this is a great summary of ‘conditional probability’, a statistical property many people grapple with
…I feel like this post just made me realize that both coconut trees and vending machines, items often quoted in wacky death statistics, are both things that people shake vigorously often.
20 intelligence 0 wisdom, 20 dexterity 0 wisdom, 20 strength 0 wisdom
sometimes I get so angry thinking about ‘The Imitation Game’ that I have to go in a little ‘upset big tantrum room’ in my head for a calm down
like, Benisnatch Cumberque played the same character he’s always plays as an asshole genius and we were all supposed to be okay with it, but it’s basically character slander
at different parts of the movie Turing is described as ‘arrogant, “inhuman,” “narcissistic,” and even “a monster,” in the film he goes against those around him and is shown to periodically ignore and belittle his colleagues
And. I. Am. So. Angry.
Alan Turing was described by his friends and people that knew him as “intensely shy and kindly”, he was said to “inspire loyalty and affection among those who appreciated his unusual gifts” and was “unfailingly generous with his time and expertise, especially toward younger recruits”
He was kind, he was kind, HE WAS KIND, he was kind
he was kind and geeky and awkward and gay, I don’t care if the whole of society doesn’t find that compelling, I don’t care if we don’t value kindness as an attribute in men, he deserved to be loved and respected as he was, not as we wish he was
I am so sorry Alan Turing, I am so sorry your story was not told with care and thoughtfulness, I am so sorry you didn’t get to be shown to be deeply in love with the men you loved, I am sorry your great and terrible tragedy was never unfolded as a kind and brilliant man abused by a horrible homophobic system
You are a hero that turned the tides of history like no other and I am so sorry
Also, Alan was out at work and told the cop that guy stole his money. People were not all more homophobic than they are now, being queer is just decriminalized. Oscar contenders just want to uphold this false narrative that people are less racist, less transphobic, less sexist than in the "bad old days".
The “I’m Awkward and Don’t Know What To Do With My Arms” starterpack
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Therapists are just…. Common sense filters
Me: yeah so I just don’t have the energy to get up and make myself a sandwich or wait for something to cook so I just. Don’t
Her: why don’t you just eat the sandwich components without putting them together
Me:
Her: you can just eat a handful of cheese and some sandwich meat. You don’t have to make a sandwich.
Me:
Me: what
Therapists finding loopholes for mental illness things is one of my favorite things about dealing with mental illness because it really helps me understand that just because a reaction is Common doesn’t mean it’s Right. Does doing dishes stress you out a lot? Buy paper plates. Do your obsessive thoughts make you worry about leaving your curling iron on so you drive home from work to check? Just put the curling iron in your purse and bring it to work with you while we work on tackling where this worry comes from. Symptom management doesn’t have to look like drudgery.
i used to go days without showering because seeing my body was so upsetting that i would end up spiraling and then i realized i could simply turn the lights out. it took some getting used to but i’ve been showering with the lights off for years and it’s now one of my favorite parts of my day.
do whatever you want nothing is real and there’s no need to inflict unnecessary suffering on yourself just to try to seem “normal”
I love this post
Hmmm
These kinds of loopholes make life so. Much. Better.
One of my favorite stories is this lady had extremely bad OCD. Every day she’d be late to work because she was convinced that her hair dryer was going to burn down the house so would always have to turn around and check it. Multiple times a day even. A bunch of doctors tied to “fix” her of that fear, until one day she got a doctor that suggested she bring the hair dryer with her. Other doctors were annoyed, saying that wasn’t a the correct way to help, but she gave it a go. When she had that fear, she’d look over and see the hair dryer unplugged in the seat next to her and was able to carry on. I think it’s such a perfect example of actually helping someone instead of forcing them into a neurotypical standard.
That story helped me stop repeatedly checking if my front door was locked. Instead of checking that the door was locked over and over I would check my security system app. If it’s on it will alert me if the front door opens.
“…actually helping someone instead of forcing them into a neurotypical standard” should be added to the Hippocratic Oath.
Started reading about the door and I thought they were gonna say they took the door with them
YALL IM FUCKING DEAD
We never got a hint of Chidi agonizing over what to teach Eleanor, which you’d think they’d want to play up for comedy.
We’ve also got this multi-hour lecture that was put on YouTube, and it doesn’t seem to have been a classroom lecture. I can imagine that when it was decided that Chidi Anagonye was going to do this Important Lecture, everyone else in his department groaned, because how is he going to decide what to talk about, let alone what to say?
And he’s panicking too. He doesn’t make decisions well at all and he knows it. Maybe the best decision is backing out. He’d say he’s got the flu except for the part where he’s a terrible liar. So the fork is grinding in the garbage disposal and the noise of his anxiety is getting deafening, but then he bumps into this guy.
He’s older, American, calls himself Michael. Michael seems like a nice guy. He can tell Chidi is having trouble, so they take a walk in the park and talk. “Let me give you some advice, Chidi,” he says. “Don’t think about reaching every single person in the audience. Think about one person. Think about reaching deep into the soul of one person. Not literally—“ he chuckles at his own joke—“that would be cruel, right? But think about how you’d reach one person who needs you.”
“But how do I—how do I choose one person over all the other billions?”
“Well, first of all, you really think billions of people on this planet are going to watch your lecture? Didn’t think so. Well, here, let me describe someone to you. She’s a loner. She’s… she’s a bit of a monster, but she knows it. She knows she’s not a good person but she wishes she were. Thing is, she never had the support of a community to learn from. She knows it’s not an excuse but she genuinely doesn’t know what it means to have a social contract. What do you say to reach her?”
They walk on in silence, and the din in Chidi’s head is slowly muting too. They part with the pleasantries of strangerhood, and Chidi wonders if he’ll ever see that man again.
Back in his office, he reaches for Scanlon. What we owe to each other. That’s what he’ll say.
Someone : What job do you want to do ?
Me :
