Secret Calls In The Phone/sewing/cat Room (chapter 4 Of Bllb U Will Always Be Famous To Me)

you’ll have one joke post complaining abt old misogynistic scifi blow up and years later you’ll still get people reblogging it with tags like “why i don’t touch scifi.” hey. im at your door with a pile of scifi in my hands. i’ll lovingly read ursula k le guin or octavia butler to you aloud myself. let me in let me in please please please please hello

Invisible Cities • Italo Calvino 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Severance • Ling Ma ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Tombs of Atuan • Ursula LeGuin 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔁 Fallen Hero: Rebirth (IF) • Malin Rydén @fallenhero-rebirth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fallen Hero: Retribution (IF) • Malin Rydén @fallenhero-rebirth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🔁 The Amulet of Samarkand • Jonathan Stroud ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

The Golden Compass • Phillip Pullman 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Powers • Ursula LeGuin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gideon the Ninth • Tamsyn Muir 💀 DNF.

The Subtle Knife • Phillip Pullman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Here There Be Dragons (Webcomic) • Steve Horton & co-creators @htbdcomic 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Farthest Shore • Ursula LeGuin ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nimona • Nate Stevenson 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Moon of the Crusted Snow • Waubgeshig Rice 💀 DNF.

Ain’t I A Woman • Bell Hooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ship of Magic • Robin Hobb 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Empress of Salt & Fortune • Nghi Vo 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Pillars of the Earth • Ken Follett 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Braiding Sweetgrass • Robin Wall Kimmerer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

🔁 Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone • JK Rowling ⭐️⭐️

Mad Ship • Robin Hobb 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

i don't doubt they would have leveraged tain hu to exercise control over baru, and above all baru wants to be untethered from these higher powers, so it's not that she gained nothing towards her aim. but that she carries out the execution as she does out of posturing for her new imperial coworkers / to give off an image of loveless detachment and not only does everyone see through it, but there is not a single response among her peers as she was gunning for. it utterly alienates the coworker that has commonality with her in this hostile world and who had previously been hopeful to bond with her over it. cairdine farrier is DELIGHTED. not even in the way that she would have wanted him to be in her ruse. he knows she loved tain hu. he doesn't want her to not be gay. he wants her to be gay and suffer the anguish of KILLING what she loves in order to prove that she can overcome her base instincts of being gay. he sees her actions as evidence corroborating his theory. she becomes another cog in his plan by it. you didn't even get what you wanted out of this, you can't help but think. you blew up everything for worse than nothing.

The Rangers (2010)

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short story: asks you to consider your own complicity in capitalist and colonialist society

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my somewhat unpopular opinion is that "famous story retold from female character's pov" is a good concept, actually. it's just that it became gimmicky very fast and spawned a storm of lazy works that refuse to engage with the source material in any meaningful way and flanderize everything into generic YA tropes. but at its core taking a known story and exploring it through the perspective of a female character even, and perhaps especially, when said character is not a particularly active agent on said story, is a way to remind people that women are still people with rich inner lives and that the real life women that we learned to think as pawns in the lives of men were/are still humans whose complex interiority deserve exploration on principle that everyone, but especially the people who live on the margins, deserve exploration. but that's a concept that gets defeated when most people writing those lazy retellings can't write complex interiority to save their lives.

put three f/f ships you like in the tags. doesnt matter how obscure or embarrassing the media, go for it. and no, your m/m ship doesnt count as women

"In the space of a sundown, you show me the wide world from a horse’s back, and the soul of the world within my own walls" - Fool's Errand

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