mostly sapphic·witch·romance (pick two) and, in mentally calmer times, climate paranoia
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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.
Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed through the ages alongside other magic …
An attractive review of magical texts through the ages, from papyrus to illuminated manuscripts to artifacts produced for modern entertainment properties. Presents magical texts in the fashion of a typical art-history review, without in-depth focus in any particular era.
This is a good book for web devs or security folks to backfill or enhance their knowledge. You need to already understand each covered topic; none of the chapters will get you off the ground floor of any subject, and the book is hampered by editing errors, especially in acronyms, that will confuse those who don't already know what the author meant.
The paint-loaded palettes of fifty world-renowned artists are displayed alongside the paintings the artists created using those hues, and the …
