mostly sapphic·witch·romance (pick two) and, in mentally calmer times, climate paranoia
formerly : emmadilemma@ramblingreaders
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Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy.
Tina never worries about being ‘ordinary’—she doesn’t have to, since she’s known practically forever …
"Anti-binary" is the best way I can explain the author's thesis: You've been taught that you must live within these behavioral guardrails, you must endure back-breaking work, and then you either Win or you Lose. And you've been taught wrong.
The cover and the title may prime you for a lot of card- and chart-reading, and while there are chapters on that, the "magic" is spread lightly throughout. Magic is one of the things that The Man says has no value or dismisses as fakery or superstition—but far from being worthless, these may be the way you find meaning.
Unlike the author, I do not identify as a witch, or queer, or even particularly anti-capitalist. But I am sold on her use of these themes to orient us toward our own truths and away from The System. There's plenty to learn for all of us who'd be leading fulfilling lives …
"Anti-binary" is the best way I can explain the author's thesis: You've been taught that you must live within these behavioral guardrails, you must endure back-breaking work, and then you either Win or you Lose. And you've been taught wrong.
The cover and the title may prime you for a lot of card- and chart-reading, and while there are chapters on that, the "magic" is spread lightly throughout. Magic is one of the things that The Man says has no value or dismisses as fakery or superstition—but far from being worthless, these may be the way you find meaning.
Unlike the author, I do not identify as a witch, or queer, or even particularly anti-capitalist. But I am sold on her use of these themes to orient us toward our own truths and away from The System. There's plenty to learn for all of us who'd be leading fulfilling lives if we weren't listening so much to our detractors. Who, by the way, hold 99% of the wealth and power in our all-men-created-equal liberal democracies. Nobody said it was going to be easy. But one lovely day, we'll see our collective power and feed the grasshoppers to the bird. Tweet tweet.
@Tellington@millefeuilles.cloud did i read that she had no children when she wrote this? i swore i had seen some interview where she said her thinking changed after kids (a question not a value judgment; i haven't any either)
Muffin maker Olivia Roberts has had it with her awful exes taking advantage of her good nature. The theft of …
The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads presents a celebration of music that offers insight into …
The world is on fire. So tell your story.
Things are scary right now. We’re …
People sometimes talk about escapist storytelling as a kind of dereliction of duty—as if we're running away from the fight. That's some garbage right there, because escapism is resistance. In her 1979 essay collection The Language of the Night, Ursula K. Le Guin paraphrases Tolkien: "If a soldier is captured by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?… If we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape and to take as many people with us as we can."
I've seen recent self-flagellation over reading fiction, particularly fantasy and romance, in these times. @charliejane@wandering.shop is having none of it. We shouldn't either.
The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads presents a celebration of music that offers insight into …
The language is that of a young woman writing in her journal. The chapters are short, as is the book. Yet it manages to remind the reader of climate change, of class unfairness, of where the revenge motive leads. It starts with a girl on a bridge who sees nothing before her, and ends with that girl earning her future.
When you're living in Korea, as I am, you are constantly fed media reports of violence against women, a phenomenon made even more disconcerting by the lack of consequences for the perpetrators, even in the face of stark and overwhelming evidence.
— A Magical Girl Retires by Anton Hur, Seolyeon Park (Page 156)
A comment in the translator's postscript. It is sadly true everywhere I look.
Amelia Applebaum isn’t in love with Walter Holland. He just happens to be her favorite moderately famous, chaotically bisexual YouTuber. …
@kingrat hmm, yeah. hard questions all—only the ISBN really identifies any of that and it only maps to a specific edition, without knowing how to group with other editions of the same book, much less author. and since not every server has all books all the time, different people importing and modifying could make a real mess.
@kingrat why is federation so haphazard on bookwyrm? do you know if this is a design flaw or a feature?
Muffin maker Olivia Roberts has had it with her awful exes taking advantage of her …
Dr Blackwood didn't seem put out. She returned to her reclined position, still looking super-spy cool. Maybe it wasn't the sunnies so much as the black turtleneck and black slacks. Very Agent 99.
— Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter (42%)
how does anyone reading this book get a reference to agent 99 (looks in glass) oh
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Universal …
The Far Side is even more surreal and cerebral than I had remembered. I pulled this book off my shelf looking the "cows standing in front of trees, smoking" cartoon, but there are lots of (presumably scientific) in-jokes whose references I don't get. Maybe I did once.
