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aelin9 · 4 days

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Chris, David B. Feinberg, John Weir, and Wayne Kawadler supporting their friends from the sidelines during the First Dyke March in Washington DC, 1993 | ph: Porter Gifford

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aelin9 · 10 days

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i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

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aelin9 · 11 days

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The problem with having lesbian moms is you try to be super cool and cut all your hair off and buy a leather jacket and wear boots all the time and then you go to some event in your neighborhood and all these women three times your age start cooing “oh you look JUST like your mother when she was your age, my gosh what a blast from the past, oh I just love your hair”

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aelin9 · 23 days

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This is basically how Uprooted by Naomi Novik plays out. Sarkan is a sticker for by the book magic, he follows directions precisely, and does hugely complex and intricate spell work. Agnieszka, my darling chaos gremlin, botches every spell until she figures out how to intuitively feel her way through it, improvising on the fly, letting the magic guide her into unexpected brilliance.

It drives him fucking nuts

All throughout childhood, while my peers were socializing and making friends, I studied the blade read so many books that I am now almost legally blind, which left me with vast and deeply instinctual understanding of English grammar - and next to no ability to explain how it actually works. Friends will often ask me to proofread their writing and then get very mad when I say things like, "You need to completely reverse this sentence and cut this clause entirely; no, I'm sorry, i don't know why, I just know that the way it is now ITCHES 😭"

Now, what I want to see is a fantasy story where this plays out with MAGICAL grammar. Someone from a backwater town deeply steeped in folk magic arrives at Wizard Uni where all their fellow students are like "What do you mean, we should add another '𝞯∘⋇𝞿' to the incancation because it 'sounds better'? What do you mean, 'it could just be a regional thing'?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'THIS SPELL JUST FEELS LIKE IT NEEDS A LIVE RAT'????"

#Naomi Novik #Uprooted #he's a baker and she's a cook

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aelin9 · 1 month

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I love this list! My favourite reads this year with sapphics are:

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

Breaking Character by Lee Winter

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (the sequel Those Beyond the Wall is spectacular too, and the protagonist is a bisexual woman who has women partners throughout the book, but at the end she is with a man fyi)

I Can't Think Straight by Shamim Sarif

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Captive in the Underworld by Lianyu Tan

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

The Mimicking of Known Successes and The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea and A Pirate's Life For Tea by Rebecca Thorne

A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo

Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Ash and Huntress by Malinda Lo

Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

In Charm's Way by Lana Harper

The Philistine by Leyla Marshy

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aelin9 · 1 month

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Why do we say that capitalism must be “dismantled”?

You’ll hear phrases like “Smash the state!” “Eat the rich!” and “Smash capitalism!”

And, yes, of course, but… :)

However relevant those sayings are, our work must be careful, highly organized and above all planned.

Because capitalism and all of its associated systems are not discrete, abstracted entities we can attack independently.

It is a structure, like a complicated machine with many thousands of working parts…

And right now it is connected to absolutely everything.

If we do this… [picks up huge hammer and smashes the machine]

Then a lot of vulnerable people will die.

The machine was built and improved and redesigned and patched over the course of generations. It is very good at its intended purpose, which is ultimately to generate profit.

Every human being alive today relies on the byproducts of the machine to survive, without exception.

The machine’s engineers want it to keep working like it does. In fact, they want to optimise it.

That will kill all remaining life on Earth.

So, we must destroy the machine, quickly and carefully

We must examine its deadly programs and mechanics and replace them with alternatives we built together.

The engineers don’t want us tampering with the machine.

However, we make it run…

So we can make it STOP. Together.

How will YOU help us to safely dismantle the machine?

iww.org

p.s. My computer is on its last legs. If you would like me to draw you a little cartoon and help me get a new computer, learn more at this post.

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aelin9 · 1 month

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there are some pigeons that roost in a traffic light by my house and it delights me every time i see them

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aelin9 · 2 months

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Thank you for your service, Kelly Quindlen 🙏🏾

Do buff women owe it to the world to cut the sleeves off all their shirts? I would argue yes it's a public service to sapphics

We can have a little flexing, as a treat 😏

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aelin9 · 2 months

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Yes this is about Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler, a perfect spectacular book about sapphic competence and badassery and biceps

and it was inspired by this!

https://web.archive.org/web/20220813231015/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/sports/girl-is-pioneer-at-quarterback-for-florida-high-school.html

Me, all year round: American football is dumb and boring it's not worth the head injuries and long term damage US pro sports culture is so toxic and awf-

*discovers F/F quarterback/cheerleader romance*

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aelin9 · 2 months

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Me, all year round: American football is dumb and boring it's not worth the head injuries and long term damage US pro sports culture is so toxic and awf-

*discovers F/F quarterback/cheerleader romance*

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aelin9 · 2 months

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Dahlia Adler has entered the chat

Do buff women owe it to the world to cut the sleeves off all their shirts? I would argue yes it's a public service to sapphics

We can have a little flexing, as a treat 😏

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aelin9 · 2 months

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I've just finished reading "Feed" and wanted to say thank you for all the feels. It was painful. It was also cathartic.

Thank you for portraying siblings relationship in such a way. I'm pretty close with my sis, and we love media that gives us interesting siblings dynamics. (And gods, it definitely feels like there are zombies here where we live, but my sis escaped, and she's safe, and... sorry for rambling. I just love her so much).

Thank you for the "Feed". Thank you for that not so hopeless narrative even with the darkest things happening in the story. I needed it.

I am very glad you enjoyed the book, even as this Ask makes me squirm a little.

An important thing--a very, very important thing--to remember about Shaun and Georgia is that they have gone out of their way to verify that they're not biologically related in any degree. They have the DNA tests to prove it. (Unlike Roger and Dodger, whose tests said "you are the same person, genetically speaking.") They were raised in the same house, being ordered to call each other brother and sister, and don't really have any other functional labels, but they're more like foster kids who grew up in close proximity than anything else.

I say they were the only students at a boarding school for the damned.

So while they call each other by sibling terms, they may not mean them in the same way biological siblings would, or adopted siblings, or anyone with healthy family models.

Please don't hit me.

#yeah this was me and my friend buddy reading this series together #we did NOT see book two coming #we really like sibling relationships too #I even recommended this enthusiastically on an reddit thread for sibling relationships #I had to go back and add an edit after I read the next book #still don't know why r/Fantasy upvoted my rec #Newsflesh #mira grant #seanan mcguire #newsflesh trilogy #feed

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aelin9 · 2 months

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"our son made it through the war to come of age, let's fucken party! rsvp only if you're a little bitch who's NOT coming. all y'all not dead of alcohol poisoning by morning (lmao losers) get dunkt on"

edit: fascinating! the tags are full of two types of people. 1) people who think this is a joke and 2) catholics who fully admit to a bit of cheeky cultural alcoholism just nodding and saying "uh huh"

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aelin9 · 3 months

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Flooflers

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aelin9 · 3 months

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Julius Caesar memes are fun and all, but make sure you don’t forget the true meaning of the holiday: Stabbing the fuck out of politicians for their flagrant, self-serving abuse of power.

#ides of march #julius caesar

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