#tLHoD

[baytadax]

Fear is very useful. Like darkness, like shadow.

[latelylately]

"He had stripped off his wet outer clothes and sat in shirt and breeches, barefoot, collar open...neat, tough, durable, his sleek furlike hair shedding the water like a bird's feathers: he dripped a little onto his shoulders, like house-eaves dripping, and never noticed it. He was not discouraged. He belonged here."

[ringneckedpheasant]

watercolors by trans artist tuesday smilie

[littlestpersimmon]

Genly Ai

[mourningmaybells]

Ursula K. Le Guin would do numbers on tumblr

[kailysander]

The Left Hand of Darkness

[chernychnyi]

exiles

[art-of-pluton]

"Like the end and the way"

I think about The Left Hand of Darkness literally every day since I first read it in july

[hermitmoss]

Illustrations by David Lupton from the Folio Society edition of The Left Hand of Darkness.

[agoddamneddelight]

Genly and Estraven and their journey across the Gobrin ice

I also made a book poster for tlhod with this drawing under the cut :)

[toolusingmammalgirl]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “ekumenical mission to gethen” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever I don’t feel shit

me 5 minutes later: dude I swear i just saw a sarf agent in the kemmerhouse

my buddy estraven pacing: argaven is lying to us

[asparklethatisblue]

That’s not very interplanetary diplomacy of you, Estraven…

[latelylately]

"How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?"

[ringneckedpheasant]

[strangers in a strange land, wanderers in a vast and unknowable universe]

[eveningalchemist]

Sometimes when I see 'ai' here I get excited because I think it is my silly always chilly guy, Genly Ai from the 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, but no, it is generative AI, my enemy in the least fun way possible.

[mourningmaybells]

my face hurts from trying not to laugh at family dinner