#octavia Butler

[blitzsicedcoffee]

I see a lot of people buying the Handmaid's Tale right now and that's great but can I suggest Parable of the Sower? It is basically a textbook example of how the US would look if even half of Project 2025 is implemented. Be warned though it is kinda traumatic, violent, very mature themes, and WILL make you cry.

But it also gives a lot of endurance and hope.

[muffinlevelchicanery]

[strathshepard]

Octavia Butler's notes to herself

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

When I was six…I asked my mother for a library card. I remember the surprised look on her face. She looked surprised and happy. She immediately took me to the library…From then on the library was my second home.

Octavia Butler

[siltmedallion]

Octavia Butler on why she writes

[forever70s]

science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1979)

[dramyhsturgis]

Octavia E. Butler's must-read masterpiece Parable of the Sower (1993) begins its first chapter on July 20, 2024.

[mwana-wevhu]

[victusinveritas]

From Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.

[nkjemisin]

"All too often in the past, science fiction writers made things easy for themselves by portraying a white, middle-class, male-dominated universe, even attributing white, middle-class, male values to their 'alien' races. I'm not comfortable writing about such a universe, behaving as though it represented the one true way." -Octavia Butler

[fayevalcntine]

Claudia + Hunger

Interview With The Vampire (2022) | Fledgling, Octavia Butler | Interview With The Vampire, Anne Rice | Abbey, Mitski | Square, Mitski

[ktzart]

I looked into the yellow eyes, wondering how much I saw and understood there, and how much I only imagined.

[mostlyghostie]

A fun recent commission!

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[antigonick]

You [humans] are hierarchical. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... [...] That was like ignoring a cancer. [...] Intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But denial doesn't matter. A cancer in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.

— Octavia Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, Book I)

[eleanor-arroway]

Lauren Oya Olamina is truly a protagonist of all time

she's very practical, she's an empath, she's a cult leader, she's learning to draw for fun, she's making acorn bread and adopting children into her community, she's obsessed with populating interstellar space even as societal order is collapsing, she's writing the bible but this time it's about how diversity and change are central to a thriving society, she's stocking up on weapons and caching supplies, and she's like twenty... no one is doing it like her

[essektheylyss]

I've got like a hundred pages of Parable of the Sower left so please appreciate this meme that's apparently been taped up in lieu of a bookseller recommendation card at my local store for a while: