#oryx & crake

[papenathys]

Going to be honest. Books about cannibalism and/or flesh in relation to exploitation, eco-fascism and the food industry always hits a bit different for me, and is much better than "cannibalism as love metaphor uwu"

*is this because I'm aro or because cannibalism as social satire horror is simply genius, we'll never know

[mostlyghostie]

Third version of this bookshop print- a couple of people requesting custom book prints asked to put them into this background

Instagram / Shop

[rijinks]

I participated in Hourly Comics Day 2025 on Bluesky yesterday! The basic challenge is to draw a quick comic strip or panel for every hour that you're awake, typically mundane diary stuff. I completed it for the first time!

[parakavka]

anyone want to rec me some science fiction/speculative fiction books?

[quotespile]

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

[cr4ke]

i think i might be the last oryx and crake fan on earth.

[quotessentially]

From Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

[readtilyoudie]

“All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.”

Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by Margaret Atwood

[headknight-oh]

We are living the dystopia are ancestors warned us about

[litandlifequotes]

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

[pandora-books]

"He really did love these women, sort of. He really did want to make them feel better. It was just that he had a short attention span."

Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

[guiltyonsundays]

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy.”

I’m always thinking about this quote, but particularly lately because this idea is at the core of so much of Margaret Atwood’s fictional work - the way that the male gaze strips women of interiority, renders them contextless sex objects.

There’s a particular type of male character in Atwood’s work, a man who seeks out women with traumatic experiences of sexual violence and then responds with righteous indignation and obsessive curiosity to her relation of those experiences. Viewing himself as a white knight, an enlightened saviour, superior to the men responsible for her suffering, he is in fact a voyeur, viewing her pain through a pornographic lense, barely concealing his excitement and arousal at the thought of inflicting sexual violence on her himself, mining and poking and prodding at her trauma in order to give his own empty life a fleeting sense of purpose. Dr Simon Jordan, Jamie Walsh, and Jimmy alias Snowman all fit this profile.

[that-blue-spren]

Oryx and Crake spoiler alert!

I was surprised that the Crake decided to removed some intellectual skills in order to create a peaceful and happy new species. For some reason, it reminds me the biblical telling with originally restricted humans that unlocked their potential by eating from the tree of knowledge.

Also, if Crake expected to avoid any religion he shouldn't have left Snowman as their leader... Snowman is an expert in literature.

[redsnerdden]

Utah Begins The School Year By Banning 13 Books, Including Works by Margaret Atwood and Judy Blume

Utah Begins The School Year By Banning 13 Books, Including Works by Margaret Atwood and Judy Blume #Books #Politics #Censorship #Writers #Creators

It’s that time of the year again, kids going back to school and as always, we have another statewide book ban on our hands. That’s right, the Utah State Board of Education has begun the school year by ordering schools to begin removing 13 books that include works by Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur, Sarah J. Maas, Margaret Atwood, and other authors for content that the state has deemed to be pornographic or…

[752winters]

albums i like to fall asleep to sometimes + why

(in no particular order, i just thought that compiling a list would be fun & a good look into my music taste (as if anybody asked for it))

also kinda doubles as a topster

crusher - jeremy zucker (super solid pop album imo, the mix is very soft and easy to relax to)

speed run (or spiral) - frost children (it’s very fun and silly but also the sound that lulu prost is able to achieve itches a certain part of my brain that nothing else does)

apple - a.g. cook (i don’t know how i do this actually but it just soothes my brain as well)

marriage - oryx & crake (just a brilliant album from a band i take pride in being the only person i know who knows about them)

floral green - title fight (classic)

hey what - low (i love noise & the harmony that only a married couple can make)

e - ecco2k (beautiful and exquisite and somewhat eerie but perfect for super late at night)

thank u, next - ariana grande (nostalgia factor + general ethereality)

aldn’s whole discography tbh (don’t know why, don’t ask)

the battle at gardens gate - greta van fleet (very pretty & very solid rock record)

something to give each other - troye sivan (dancey but also insightful and also produced and mixed beautifully)

[froggydafroggy]

Yes, it's a "Creation of Adam" reference. Yes, I had to trace God/Crake's hand because I was struggling with the anatomy, learning how to digitally paint, and making the deadline for a class project. Yes, you should go read Oryx and Crake.