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The age of ‘climate fiction’: how Indian novels and cinema have spotlighted stark realities with more nuance than the West
In Janice Pariat’s latest novel, Shai’s story begins with a declaration — “to go back to where I came from — the wettest place on Earth”. The protagonist of Everything the Light Touches(2022) wrestles with the limitations of what she knows about her hometown and the community she belongs to.
Take the metal underneath her feet: a flaming supernova produced uranium some six billion years ago. But…
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#age of ‘climate fiction’#Amitav Ghosh Gun Island#Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain #author of Latitudes of Longing#climate change in india#climate fiction cli fi#climate fiction Saumya Kalia#climate films#climate novels#Indian climate fiction#Indian climate stories#Shubhangi Swarup#Tamil film ‘Kadaisi Vivasayi’ (2022)#The Arbit Documentation of an Amphibian Hunt#weather and climate change
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Book Review – ‘Dyschronia’ by Jennifer Mills
Aussie Climate fiction with melancholy
Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopia
No. of pages: 354
One morning, the residents of a small coastal town somewhere in Australia wake to discover the sea has disappeared. One among them has been plagued by troubling visions of this cataclysm for years. Is she a prophet? Does she have a disorder that alters her perception of time? Or is she a gifted and…
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#book#book review#Casey Carlisle#cli-fi#climate change#coastal town#CritiqueCasey#Dyschronia#dystopia#Ed#environment#environmental disaster#Fiction#fossil fuels#Ivy#Jennifer Mills#Novel#Review#Sam Australia#science fiction#speculative fiction#time travel#Writing
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Kirkus Reviews gave my futuristic novel a STARRED REVIEW, which I just learned it's a feather in my cap. Hooray! Here's the review -- with one plot twist removed.
Pat’s dystopian novel examines gender identity, environmentalism, and sexuality on an island enclave in the year 2111. Set mainly on an island off the coast of what used to be Maine, the narrative begins in a post-Collapse world struggling to survive nuclear fallout, environmental disintegration, and worldwide economic failure. In this future world of chaos and lawlessness, Riddles Island (which is child-free and mostly technology-free) offers increasingly rare amenities to its inhabitants—peace and security.
The small, self-sufficient populace are all nonbinary (and use the pronouns mer instead of her/him, e instead of he/she, and others), with most couples being polyamorous. The harmony, however, is maintained in large part through pharmaceuticals. The Ridlets, as they are called, take D2—a cocktail of drugs that regulates hormones, dampens emotions, and supposedly keeps the residents “healthy and alert.”
But when a raggedy pirate named Jed lands on the island and meets the nonbinary couple Rory and Dylan, he connects sexually with Rory and talks mer into quitting a daily dose of D2. Jed, who travels as far away as Brazil with his crew, visits Rory infrequently after that initial tryst. With each visit, he finds mer not only more feminine, but also more lucid (not to mention more open to lifestyles outside the strictly regulated confines of the island) after quitting the D2.
When Rory discovers . . . mer utopian existence suddenly looks much different. The characters here are vividly drawn (even secondary characters are memorable), the world-building is nuanced and convincing, and its examination of gender identity and gender roles in society makes this novel hard to put down. Add to that a post-apocalyptic backdrop that adroitly explores climate change and global food security, and many readers will find their worldviews challenged, even expanded, after living vicariously through Rory and mer adventures on and off the island.
This visionary glimpse into humankind’s potential future is an absolute must-read for fans of post-apocalyptic fiction.
#postgender#climatechange#environment#kirkusreviews#dystopian#futuristic#novel#sci fi#cli fi#visionary#nuclear power#nuclear renaissance#utopia
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An Arbitrary Collection of Book Recommendations
(put together for a friend out of SFF I've read over the last couple of years)
Cli-Fi
Tusks of Extinction and/or The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler. They’re pretty different books in a lot of ways – one is a novel about discovering a certain species of squid in the Pacific might have developed symbolic language and writing, the other a novella about a de-extinction initiative to restore mammoths to the Siberian taiga – but they share a pretty huge overlap in setting, tone and themes. Specifically, a deep and passionate preoccupation with animal conservation (and a rather despairing perspective on it), as well as a fascination with transhumanism and how technology can affect the nature of consciousness. Mountain is his first work, and far more substantial, but I’d call it a bit of a noble failure in achieving what it tries for. Tusks is much more limited and contained, but manages what it’s going for.
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys. In a post-post-apocalyptic world that’s just about figured out how to rebuild itself from the climate disasters of the 21st century (but that’s still very much a work in progress), aliens descend from the sky and make First Contact. They’re a symbiotic civilization, and they’re overjoyed at the chance to welcome a third species into their little interstellar community – and consider it a mission of mercy besides, since every other species they’ve ever encountered destroyed themselves and their planet before escaping it. Awkwardly, our heroine and her whole society are actually pretty invested in Earth and the restoration thereof – and worried that a) the alien’s rescue effort might not care about their opinions and b) that other interest groups on earth might be more willing to give the hyper-advanced space-dwelling aliens the answers they want to hear. Basically 100% sociological worldbuilding and political intrigue, so take that as you will.
Throwback Sci Fi
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky is possibly the only thing I’ve read published in decades to take the old cliche of ‘this generic-seeming fantasy world is actually the wreckage of a ruined space age civilization, and ‘magic’ and ‘monsters’ are the remnants of the technology’ and play it entirely straight. Specifically, it’s a two-POV novella, where half the story is told from the perspective of a runaway princess beseeching the ancient wizard who helped found her dynasty for help against a magical threat, and half is from the perspective form the last surviving member of a xeno-anthropology mission woken out of stasis by the consequences of the last time he broke the Prime Directive knocking on his ship tower door and asking for help. Generally just incredible fun.
Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh is, I think, the only thing on this list written before the turn of the millennium. It’s proper space opera, about a habitat orbiting an immensely valuable living world that’s the lynchpin of logistics for the functionally rogue Earth Fleet’s attempt to hold off or defeat rebelling and somewhat alien colonies further out. The plot is honestly hard to summarize, except that it captures the feel of being history better than very nearly any other spec fic I’ve ever read – a massive cast, none of them with a clear idea of what’s going on, clashing and contradictory agendas, random chance and communications delays playing key roles, lots of messy ending, not a single world-shaking heroes or satanic masterminds deforming the shape of things with their narrative gravity to be seen. Somewhat dated, but it all very impressively well done.
Pulpy Gay Urban Fantasy Period Piece Detective Stories Where Angels Play a Prominent Role
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark stars Fatma el-Sha’arawi, the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities in Cairo, a couple of decades after magic returned to the world and entirely derailed the course of Victorian imperialism. There’s djinn and angels and crocodile gods, and also an impossible murder that needs solving! The mystery isn’t exactly intellectually taxing, but this is a very fun tropey whodunnit whose finale involves a giant robot.
Even Though I Knew The End by C. L. Polk is significantly more restrained and grounded in its urban fantasy. It’s early 20th century Chicago, and a PI is doing one last job to top off the nest egg she’s leaving her girlfriend before the debt on her deal with the devil comes due. By what may or may not be coincidence, she stumbles across a particularly gruesome crime scene – and is offered a deal to earn back her soul by solving the mystery behind it. Very noir detective, with a setting that just oozes care and research and a satisfyingly tight plot.
High Concept Stuff That Loves Playing around With Format and the Idea of Narratives
Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente is a story about a famous documentarian vanishing on shoot amid mysterious and suspicious circumstances, as told by the recovered scraps of the footage she was filming, and different drafts of her (famous director) father’s attempt to dramatize the events as a memorial to her. It’s set in a solar system where every planet is habitable and most were colonized in the 19th century, and culturally humanity coasts on in an eternal Belle Epoque and (more importantly) Golden Age of Hollywood. Something like half the book is written as scripts and transcripts. This description should by now either have sold you or put you off entirely.
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez is the only classic-style epic fantasy on this list, I believe? The emperor and his three demigod sons hold subjugated in terror, but things are changing. The emperor, terrified of death, has ordered a great fleet assembled to carry him across the sea in pursuit of immortality. The day before he sets out on his grand pilgrimage to the coast, a guilt-ridden guard helps the goddess of the moon escape her binding beneath the palace. From there, things spiral rapidly out of anyone’s control. The story’s told through two or three (depending( different layers of narrative framing devices, and has immense amounts of fun playing with perspective and format and ideas about storytelling and legacy.
I Couldn’t Think of Any Categories That Included More Than One of These
All The Names They Used For God by Anjali Sachdeva is a collection of short stories, and probably the most literary thing on this list? The stories range wildly across setting and genre, but are each more or less about the intrusion of the numinous or transcendent or divine into a world that cracks and breaks trying to contain it. It is very easily the most artistically coherent short story collection I’ve ever read, which I found pretty fascinating to read – but honestly I’m mostly just including this on the strength of Killer of Kings, a story about an angel sent down to be John Milton’s muse as he writes Paradise Lost which is probably one of the best things I read last year period.
Last Exit by Max Gladstone – the Three Parts Dead and How You Lose the Time War guy – could be described as a deconstruction of ‘a bunch of teenagers/college kids discover magic and quest to save the world!’ stories, but honestly I’d say that obscures more than it reveals. Still, the story is set with that having happened a decade in the past, and the kids in question have thoroughly fucked up. Zelda, the protagonist, is kept from suicide by survivor’s guilt as much as anything, and now travels across America working poverty jobs and sleeping in her car as she hunts the monsters leaking in through the edges of a country rotting at the seams. Then there’s a monster growing in the cracks of the liberty bell, an in putting it down she gets a vision of someone she thought was dead is just trapped – or maybe changed. So it’s time to get the gang together again and save the world! This one’s hard to rec without spoiling a lot, but the prose and characterization are all just sublime. Oddly in conversation with the whole Delta Green cosmic horror monster hunting subgenre for a story with nothing to do with Lovecraft.
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh is a story about aliens destroying the earth, and growing up in the pseudo-fascist asteroid survivalist compound of the last bits of the human military that never surrendered. It stars a heroine whose genuinely indoctrinated for the first chunk of the book and just deeply endearing terrible and awful to interact with, and also has a plot that’s effectively impossible to describe without spoiling the big twist at the end of the first act. Possibly the only book I read last year which I actively wish was longer – which is both compliment and genuine complaint, for the record, the ending’s a bit messy. Still, genuinely meaty Big Ideas space opera with very well-done characterization and a plot that does hold together.
#meta#book recommendations#sff#sharing this mostly so I don't lose it next time my laptop dies#and also hey why not
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hell, while we're on the subject!
i read a lot. like, i get through 15-30 books in a month depending on life circumstances. i'm wanting to get back to this blog, but not quite up for the horny stuff yet, so let's swap book recs:
rec me a book that knocked your socks off, and/or:
ask me to rec a book based on what you usually like :)
i like sci fi, cli fi, mysteries/thrillers, courtroom dramas, and occasionally coming-of-age novels (adult ones, not big on YA lately).
most recent read: After On by Rob Reid (4.5/5)
currently reading: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (5/5 so far!)
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Have you read any cli-fi? In my discussion group today we got to discussing how climate activism in action is often missing from fiction (whilst talking about the ministry for the future). Since you are so well read, I figured I'd ask you, if you have come across anything good you could recommend? Thanks in advance:)
I've read a few cli-fi novels yeah, or at least what I think count!
The Wall by John Lanchester
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
A lot of Solarpunk stories are adjacent to cli-fi so I've included those:
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters
Special mention to Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson and Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach which are cli-fi adjacent.
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‘Dr. Karen Lord is one of our greatest, and in her latest novel, The Blue Beautiful World,she shows us exactly why that is. Dr. Lord is looking at the big picture here. This is not simply a cli-fi book, it is not simply a first contact story, nor is it just a space opera. It is all of these things, it is so much more than these things. We follow Owen, a mega popstar with an uncanny ability to draw a crowd and make people fall in love with him—he is described as being the “hometown hero” of every city, because he sings in every language and appears to be everywhere at once. What exactly happens during his shows is anyone’s guess, but he seems to have the world in his hands, as if by some ultra-human force. Owen and his team find themselves at the center of intergalactic attention, and Owen’s abilities might be the key to helping humanity. The Blue, Beautiful World is tied to others in Dr. Lord’s Cygnus Beta but stands alone brilliantly, with fully fleshed-out characters that you’ll become more and more invested in as the story unravels—the story zooms out to galaxy level and deals heavily with A.I. and cutting-edge technology, but its cornerstone is the relationships between characters and their individual growth throughout. In the way that all great speculative fiction is, it is a story about what makes us human, and how the connections we form with each other are vital to our survival, and it’s told in the most exquisite prose.’
Lovely preview from Christina Orlando for The Blue, Beautiful World!
#books#literature#caribbean literature#speculative fiction#the blue beautiful world#karen lord#cygnus beta
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I blew through this book called "girl in ice" by erica ferencik bc it was a taut fast-paced thriller or whatever. it's about a woman who travels to greenland bc her dead brother's boss emails her about a girl he thawed out of a glacier in Greenland (where her brother died). the girl doesn't speak any modern Greenlandic dialect and the main character is a linguist who specializes in ancient Nordic languages so maybe she can figure out what the girl is saying. from the moment I read the summary on the cover I was like "oh shes like hundreds of years old" but it took so long for any of the characters to suggest that bc they didn't know they were in a cli-fi (climate change themed science fiction) novel. there's all kinds of dark and twisted secrets up at the remote research base and it's the main character's job to unravel them before anyone else dies
the main character had a severe anxiety disorder and had been taking ativan for months, sometimes multiple pills a day. also drinking a lot. during the book someone steals her bottle of pills so she has to quit benzos cold turkey. and the way that was written felt so unrealistic to me. I know it's a high stakes life or death thriller situation so she had to force herself through but like... she would be chemically dependent on the ativan. she should have been impaired by physical withdrawal symptoms. and she kind of was, she was extremely paranoid and forgetful and seeing things that weren't there. but bc it was a thriller novel she was right to be paranoid and she was being gaslighted. it wasn't quite like "now that she's off her meds she can see clearly and do what needs to be done" but i felt like the portrayal of addiction was off
the descriptions of greenland were very immersive and I always like the tense atmosphere of people who don't trust each other trapped in a small space. it's a pretty quick read too. if you want to read a thriller with a brainy protagonist a la michael crichton or dan brown you could do worse. I just felt like the main character accomplished an awful lot of stuff for a woman with an anxiety disorder forcibly detoxing from benzos
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11. 3 books that you would recommend everyone to read
This one is so tough!! But here goes:
"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. I mean, what can I say? This book holds up astonishingly well for being 160 years old (not perfectly, but still). It's a tale plump with sincerity that I think we could all use more of. Plus Jo is a trans icon imo
"How to Do Nothing" by Jenny Odell. This is blisteringly anti-capitalist, but maybe more importantly pro-biosphere book. If nothing else, this is a book about noticing
"Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about one of the greatest atrocities of the 20th century (the firebombing of Dresden), the catastrophe that was WW2, the unraveling of time that followed it. And yet it's also a riot??
thanks for asking! I love this question
ok 3 more: "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson (optimistic cli-fi novel about how we can avoid the impending catastrophe), "A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki (I can't summarize this book), and "Caste" by Isabel Wilkerson (an exploration of America's caste system against Black people)
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Media Challenges
Saw a post on how reading should be quality over quantity.
On the one hand I totally agree. On the other hand, I can’t read anything I don’t want to read unless I’m grinding and I get into ruts, so I try to trick myself by setting arbitrary goals and challenges. It’s what works for my weird brain. At least some of the time.
I usually aim for 100 books a year. This year I also aimed for 20,000 pages on Storygraph, and I had a Reading Bingo I devised for myself.
I am in fact always reading but this way I make sure a) I’m not just rereading faves, b) I’m not just reading fanfic or web novels, and c) I’m trying a variety of genres and authors.
So how am I doing so far? I am actually well beyond the goal on paper but a lot of the stuff I read (danmei) I decided not to record on Storygraph or Goodreads, just in my notebook so I still have one to read to make my goal in Storygraph. The pages are done. The Reading Bingo I relaxed some categories so I only miss one but the category is Tagalog and I’m giving up on that. It’s hard and I hate that it’s hard. (Or maybe I’ll read one of my Tagalog comic books and mark that off…)
The Reading Bingo was enough of a success that I made up a new one for next year AND made a smaller movie bingo as well (3 by 3 rows) coz I find it difficult to sit through them.
Book categories include literary classic, children’s classic and sci fi classic, friend’s rec, 2023 release, cottage core, cozy fantasy and solarpunk/cli-fi, among others.
Movie categories are campy horror, mystery, classic, queer romance, SFF, foreign language, animated, short film and documentary.
It’s just a way to make it more fun. I can get a bit competitive with the books but 100 is sort of a natural number for me. If something happens and I am far behind I would adjust my goal accordingly.
I just have to say that it’s really difficult to devise rewards for myself since I indulge myself anyway. So for next year I have to restrain myself to just buying 10 books for the whole year and then any bingo line I finish I can add another book to that number. I’m not sure I won’t just lose my head and splurge but we will see.
There’s no reward for the movie bingo except being able to hit the categories I set for myself.
Aside from these I also aim to watch at least one movie in theatres and one live performance—usually a play—per year. I actually watched 2 of both this year. Dungeons & Dragons and Spiderverse 2, and for the plays The Addams Family Musical and a raunchy comedy called The Birds and the Bees.
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Like all good people, author Sim Kern is concerned about our climate. And like all good teachers, they're trying to educate people. Which is why they've written the young adult, dystopian, cli-fi, sci-fi novel "Seeds For The Swarm," which you can learn about in this exclusive interview.
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23 Startling Climate Fiction Novels
[via booklistqueen]
Have you ever heard of cli-fi?
Cli-fi, short for climate fiction, is a branch of dystopian fiction set in the present or near future, forecasting a world devastated by climate change. Explore the popular climate fiction books with these startling novels about climate change and global warming.
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
The High House by Jessie Greengrass
South Pole Station Ashley Shelby
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
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Honk if You're Horny and The World is Ending
Hey Tumblr I'm tipsy and if you like books that have George Washington as the antagonist, fire-lion wolves, apocalypse settings, and lesbian dildo drama, then you should definitely purchase with your dollars World War We the book I wrote despite traditional publishing being scared to tears of the word dildo:
It wasn't a waste of time but I'm not gonna lie I will remain BITTER!
Free on gumroad, .99 cents on Amazon (fuck Bezos but I a bitch does what they gotta):
Fuck I'm coming back to edit and add a description. It's bitchin I swear but here's the actual description:
World War We is a fast-paced, post-apocalyptic afrofuturist “cli-fi” Western for readers who enjoy the grunge-futurist humor of Gideon the Ninth, the post-human extraterrestrial existentialism of Lillith’s Brood, and the spirited pulp-western resistance of Upright Women Wanted. This standalone novel focuses on Stroy, a ruthless warrior and hopeless romantic in 2119 who falls for an old flame’s new tricks.
When America is plunged into a smoke-choked water-parched wasteland, 22-year-old Stroy, a brash, lovelorn loose-cannon swashbuckler with looser morals to match, axes her way through Gustblood Valley to rid the land of an invasive half-human species, astride her trusty steed, Fence the talking firebiter. Nowadays, she’s a mailwoman. Life hasn’t lost all its glamor, though. In Red Rim, Stroy gets to ferret messages between the war-grazed ruins, wow the locals with her mutant abilities, and, if she gets lucky, show off her prized possession: What might be the last designer dildo on Earth. When a calculated, kissable fellow mutant from her past makes off with the silicone treasure, Stroy takes up her axe once more. Fence is at her side, if quick with the criticism and light on morale. Together, the duo rides out of the only safe zone on the West coast in search of sweet revenge, but, instead encounter a series of clues Stroy’s cryptic crush has strewn across the desert, leading to something much larger in scope than a dildo heist: A conspiracy brewing around three half-human clones of the founding fathers colonizing what remains of the West. Forced to reckon with her brutal acts years ago in the heart of Gustblood, Stroy is faced with old-model human extinction, a gambit pile-up a million miles deep, and a situation so absurd, only her worst enemies would believe her, let alone stand a chance fighting.
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“The Ministry for the Future is a cli-fi novel by American science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson published in 2020. Set in the near future, the novel follows a subsidiary body, established under the Paris Agreement, whose mission is to advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights are as valid as the present generation's. While they pursue various ambitious projects, the effects of climate change are determined to be the most consequential”
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Bestseller
Price: (as of – Details)
Indie Author Debuts with Bestselling Cli-Fi Novel!
That’s the headline Felix Ryder is dreaming of, the one that will turn his life around. Searching for the winning formula, he spends his days researching marketing hacks and apps promoted by the self-publishing maven, David Dill.
Felix’s narcissistic personality and obsession with success at all costs puts his best…
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Holidays 4.20
Holidays
Anniversary of Something That Happened So Long Ago Everyone Has Forgotten What It Was Day
Aries zodiac sign begins
Chinese Language Day (UN)
Columbine Anniversary Day
Daffodil King Day
Day of Shame (Elder Scrolls)
Deepwater Horizon Anniversary Day
Doge Day
420 Day
Global CRSwNP Awareness Day
Go Around Humming "You Light Up My Life" Until Everybody Screams Day
Grain Rains Day (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)
Indian Day (Brazil)
International Cli-Fi Day (a.k.a. Climate Fiction Day)
International Peter Tosh Day
Jose de Diego’s Birthday (Puerto Rico)
Look Alike Day
L. Ron Hubbard Exhibition Day (Scientology)
National Administrative Professional Day
National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day
National Canadian Film Day (Canada)
National Day of Action Against Gun Violence in Schools
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Sumardagurinn First (1st Day of Summer; Iceland)
Take a Break to Rest Your Mind Day
Volunteer Recognition Day
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International Milk Tea Dumpling Day
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National Cold Brew Day
National Cold IPA Day
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day
3rd Thursday in April
Biomedical Research Awareness Day [3rd Thursday]
College Student Grief Awareness Day [3rd Thursday]
Get To Know Your Customers Day [3rd Thursday of each Quarter]
High Five Day [3rd Thursday]
International Pizza Cake Day [3rd Thursday]
National Ask An Atheist Day [3rd Thursday; also 9.16]
National D.A.R.E. Day [3rd Thursday]
National High Five Day [3rd Thursday]
Sumardagurinn Fyrsti (1st Day of Summer; Iceland) [1st Thursday after 4.18]
Throwback Thursday [3rd Thursday]
Independence Days
Arlandia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Arnerea (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Flammancia (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
Morland (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
West Korea (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Agnes of Monte Pulciano (Christian; Saint)
Anicetus, Pope (Christian; Saint)
Beuno (Christian; Saint)
Caedwalla of Wales (Christian; Saint)
Daniel Chester French (Artology)
Eastre (Teutonic Goddess of Spring)
Frontinus (Positivist; Saint)
Gabriel of Bialystok (Orthodox Christian; Poland)
Hugh of Anzy le Duc (Christian; Saint)
Intergalactic Alien Solidarity Day (Pastafarian)
James of Sclavonia (Christian; Saint)
Joan Miró (Artology)
Johannes Bugenhagen (Lutheran)
Marcellinus of Gaul (a.k.a. Embrun; Christian; Saint)
Oda of Brabant (Christian; Blessed)
Odilon Redon (Artology)
R. Bud Dwyer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Serf or Servanus of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
Theotimos (Christian; Saint)
Tuktuki (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 8 of 24)
Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [8 of 24]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [16 of 53]
Historically Bad Day (Hitler born, Columbine massacre, Deepwater Horizon explosion & 7 other tragedies) [2 of 11]
Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Hitler's birthday. Plus, everyone's high.)
Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [22 of 60]
Premieres
African Diary (Disney Cartoon; 1945)
Aggretsuko (Anime TV Series; 2018)
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (Song; 1967)
American Idiot (Broadway Musical; 2010)
Annie Hall (Film; 1977)
Boyhood Daze (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)
Buddy in Africa (WB LT Cartoon; 1935)
Charming (Animated Film; 2018)
The Company of Women, by Mary Gordon (Novel; 1981)
Duck Duck Goose (Animated Film; 2018)
Dummy (TV Series; 2020)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, recorded by Judy Garland (Song; 1944)
Hot Fuzz (Film; 2007)
Jazz Samba, by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd (Album; 1962)
Jumping’ Jack Flash, recorded by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1968)
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1611)
Make Mine Music (Animated Disney Film; 1946)
Mexican Cat Dance (WB LT Cartoon; 1963)
Miami Blues (Film; 1990)
My Boy Jack (Film; 2007)
Puppy Love, by Dolly Parton (Song; 1959)
Rising Sun, by Michael Crichton (Novel; 1992)
The Robber Kitten (Disney Cartoon; 1935)
Salem (TV Series; 2014)
The Spirit of St. Louis (Film; 1957)
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South, recorded by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1931)
Today’s Name Days
Hildegund, Odetta, Wilhelm (Austria)
Berta, Loen, Marta (Croatia)
Marcela (Czech Republic)
Sulpicius (Denmark)
Orvi, Urbe, Urva, Urve, Urvi (Estonia)
Lauha, Neela, Nella (Finland)
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Day of Year: Day 110 of 2024; 255 days remaining in the year
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Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 5 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Bing-Chen), Day 1 (Wu-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 29 Nisan 5783
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J Cal: 19 Aqua; Fiveday [19 of 30]
Julian: 7 April 2023
Moon: 1.5%: Waxing Crescent
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Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 11 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 32 of 90)
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 1 of 30)
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