#prisoners of peace

[quakgrass]

[Image Description: A digital drawing of Talis (in the body of Rachel) and Greta from the book The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow. Rachel is a pale woman with short black hair, Talis has a fed up expression and carries Greta bridal-style. Greta is in shock, looking extra pale, with her long red hair in a braid. She is holding her broken hands in front of her chest and wearing white clothing. End ID.]

Stop the presses!

[aroaessidhe]

[libraryleopard]

Tor.com’s “This Book Queered Me” series guest blog posts of SFF authors discussing formative queer literature is one of my favorite things to read and occasionally I think about what my version of one of those posts would be. It’s not about your favorite queer book, but about one that affected you deeply, and the series includes both explicitly queer literature and subtext or queer interpretations, which means you can kind of talk about any book there if it was important to you. 

One time I did a deep dive into trying to figure out what the first queer piece of literature I ever read was and determined that it was probably the short story “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville, about a boy who is questioning his sexuality and is granted three wishes by his fairy godfather, one of which is to be able to tell the sexualities of other people around him by whether or not they look blue. It was originally published as part of a collection of queer YA stories, but I read it in one of Coville’s collection of short stories, and I remember it being notable for basically being the most first or at least the most obvious gay representation I ever encountered, at age 12. 

I think The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow is also probably up there as a formative piece of queer literature simply because of the way that Greta’s sexuality was presented in the book–it wasn’t anywhere near the first piece of queer literature I read, but having a character who just has her sexuality filed under “further research required” and was questioning her sexuality in general, not because of a relationship or feelings for a specific person, felt really relatable to me at the time. The Scorpion Rules isn’t really a book about sexuality–it’s about power and politics and sacrifice and artificial intelligence–but somehow that one-line description of Greta’s relationship to her sexuality was very validating and relatable to me in high school. 

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

[teethkid67]

YOU LOOKING FOR SOMETHING :)?

+1 face closeup

[roseunspindle]

Books I Want to Get to in 2023

[wizardingsworld]

Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore in HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN 2004 | dir. Alfonso Cuarón

[7cfc00]

home is where the heart is (and yours is gone)

[imaybe5tupid]

Why bother? (Why bother?) It's gonna hurt me. (It's gonna hurt me.) It's gonna kill when- (Why bother!) -You desert me! (Gonna hurt me!)

Set after Nightmare. Laios is reminiscing and contemplating.

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

(Not sure if this idea has been floated already, I'm relatively new to tumblr)

I'm convinced the finale is going to have plenty of callbacks to the Bad Batch's intro story in TCW (I mean, we've already gotten a few callbacks).

So...

Since Tech was the one who directly helped Rex find and retrieve Echo, and then carried Echo through the shafts...

What if Echo is the one to find Tech and carry him out of Tantiss???

[justmenoworries]

Asterius in Hades: affable sympathetic character, pretty nice guy, adaptational sympathy, making his backstory of being imprisoned and then killed more tragic than a glorious tale about a hero vanquishing a monster Polyphemus in Hades II: Nah everything bad you heard about this guy is onehundred percent accurate

[thegoodmorningman]

"Hey speaking of having made my peace with it, you wanna go do some forced labor for our kind owners, the shareholders?"

[rotzaprachim]

at this point the attractiveness of giving Bibi, Putin, the Hamas leaders, and the ayatollah of Iran a Boy Scout pen knife and then locking them all in a box with only a half pack of Oreos for sustenance

[libraryleopard]

it’s been six years since i read the swan riders by erin bow and sometimes i still think of the line “grace, in a grid of falling stars” at random moments 

[authorafterhours]

I just know Will and Hannibal are featured in so many true crime podcasts and documentaries.

[mickeym4ndy]

I need a million more AU’s where Ian and mickey meet again in their mid thirties when Yevgeny’s a teenager