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The entire history of women’s struggle for self-determination has been muffled in silence over and over. One serious cultural obstacle encountered by any feminist writer is that each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.

Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence

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you wouldn’t last five and a half minutes in the five and a half minute long hallway where they raised me

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for now baru’s flushed quadrant is tain hu, her kismesis is shao lune, her moirail is aminata, and the one where there is a third guy that stops you from fighting another guy is iraji and apparitor respectively. Sorry for saying that and I have locked us both in a sinking ship because I messed up our trim so badly and we are going to die

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When I walk into the mall and see Christmas decorations up the day after Halloween, I feel the same way Hamlet did when his mom married his annoying uncle so shortly after his father’s death.

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can’t tell if skeleton crew is going to be my jam or not but that music choice for the trailer is WILD

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you have to laugh that baru did all that and then the concept of trim entered the narrative. tau-indi was like The universe rewards our positive connections to each other and because we are a part of the rich web of humankind we will always be ok because of our bonds and how we endlessly save each other though if there are disruptions to this then we invite misfortune upon ourselves and baru's like OK superstitious weirdo...cuhraaaazy, anyway, back to betraying....why do i suddenly feel like the right side of my brain is about to explode and i am going to die

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whos gonna monetize my freak

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I liked Starling House a lot and am excited for whatever Alix Harrow writes next, but I'm really struggling to get through Once and Future Witches despite its library due date coming up alarmingly quickly

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The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape

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Obviously I would love for baru cormorant to get a formal wrap up but I will still think it’s really funny if Seth Dickinson never writes the fourth book. Girl even the author had enough of you

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Employee Satisfaction.

And more work. Having trouble seeing this extra-long comic? See the original here on my website.

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This is a satisfying number

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Books read in 2024: CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata

Everyone laughed. “He really would,” I said nodding, thinking that if I ever became a foreign object, I’d no doubt be eliminated in much the same way.

Oh, I thought absently, I’ve become a foreign object.

[...] You’re a foreign object. It’s just nobody bothered to tell you because they find you too freaky. They’ve been saying it behind your back, though. And now they’ll start saying it to your face too.”

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Love giving middle schoolers a selection from Medea and asking them when they think it was written and inevitably one of them says “well this guy is named Jason, which is a modern name.”

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The first rule of writing sci-fi is to actually familiarize yourself with the genre conventions so it's not just a fair to middling action movie that happens to be in space. The second rule of sci-fi is get freaky

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