#Ursula le guin was right

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

I think to topple the devine rights of kings billionaires, we need to dispel the myth that they have that money because they are smart and worked hard and make good decisions

I think the zip ties on the submarine and the limited views on the advertising platform might begin to show them for what they are

They are not smarter than you. They are not better than you. And if you suddenly magically got all that money people would stop saying 'no' to you too. and that is not a good thing

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[kailysander]

The Left Hand of Darkness

[hopeworth]

SUN COMING UP ON A DREAM COME AROUND ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM THE EMPIRE NOW SUN COMING UP ON A WORLD THAT’S EASY NOW ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW

[gnome-punk]

Artist credit:

[enbycrip]

[deadmegumi]

I hate when a lecturer says something and I make a genius connection and then later on in the lecture they reference that exact thing I was going to comment on thus rendering my genius commentary on the topic I was going to make to my friends later obsolete

[starlit-pathways]

True goodness is like water. Water's good for everything. It doesn't compete. It goes right to the loathsome places, and so finds the way.

—'Easy By Nature' from Tao Te Ching (道德經) by Lao Tzu (老子), rendition by Ursula K. Le Guin

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: ALWAYS COMING HOME by Ursula K. Le Guin.

The people have Spoken, so I'll be reading this 618-page brick next! The cover page credits the author, an artist, a composer, a geomancer (??), and the author of the intro, so. I suspect I'm in for a Ride™. I am both Excited and Intimidated--will report back on how this goes!

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[ursulaklegay]

ULTIMATE (queer) SF LIST (in progress)

Rivers Solomon - An unkindness of ghosts, The Deep, Sorrowland 

Akwaeke Emezi - PET, BITTER

Jaqueline Koayanagi - Ascension

Otter Lieffe - Margins and murmurations trilogy

Ursula K. Le Guin - The left hand of darkness

Becky Chambers - To be taught, if fortunate, the wayfarers series, the Monk& Robot series

Octavia Butler - The Xenogenesis series

Chana Porter - The seep

Tamsyn Muir - The locked tomb series

Ray Nyler - The mountain in the sea

Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing

M.E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi – Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

Marge Piercy – Woman at the edge of time

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[angrywall]

Ursula Le Guin

10 years ago today. Almost insane how worse everything has gotten since.

[maddiemuu]

two pieces i did of tehanu earthsea (and also tenar)

[asyoulikeitnow]

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

[progressivemillennial]

A good reminder on Black Friday, the most capitalist of days! Just because we are born into a capitalist world doesn't mean it has been or will always be a capitalist world, nor does it mean that there isn't something better for humanity than capitalism.