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lynati:

To them, money means more than people so they thought it WOULD be.

I would ABSOLUTELY pay more for chocolate. I ALREADY pay more for chocolate, because when I can, I buy the organic fair trade super expensive stuff from the health food shop on the chance that they DO treat their workers and the planet better. Usually, at the moment, it’s Alter Eco. Or, occasionally, Pana Chocolate.So, if Nestle and Cadbury’s and the rest would get with the program and meet the bare minimum for human decency already, that’d be great.

peraltiagoisland:

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peraltiagoisland:

jake on queer eye

antoni, pouring a glass of water: pls drink this

tan: a leather jacket… over a hoodie… over a plaid shirt? what’s the inspiration behind this?

jake: bisexuality

jake: so my dad left when i was 7-

karamo, signing adoption papers: i am your father now

jake, already sobbing: not sure how my other gay black work dad will feel about this

bobby: so im gonna renovate ur house, really make the place organized

jake, sweating in adhd: uh not sure how long that will last

jonathan, putting away his razors in shock: wait what do you mean you physically can’t grow one?

holt, bursting through the doors in dramatic gay fashion: who is this ‘karamo brown’ and why are we involved in a custody battle?

Sorcery of Thorns

marrogerson:

rj-anderson:

marrogerson:

Hello all—

I’m now able to share that my second book is titled Sorcery of Thorns. It’s set to be published in May 2019, and is another YA fantasy unrelated to An Enchantment of Ravens. (For those of you who thought Enchantment was too short, you may be pleased to hear that Sorcery is substantially longer.)

While Sorcery’s premise isn’t technically a secret—there will be a preview in Enchantment’s paperback when it comes out later this month—I’m a little shy about revealing more before the official announcement. For now, the main character is a 6′3 battle librarian named Elisabeth Scrivener, and it’s about magical libraries that contain sentient grimoires who occasionally turn into monsters (which is why battle librarians exist in this setting). Here’s an excerpt:

These weren’t ordinary books the Great Library kept. They whispered on the shelves and shuddered beneath iron chains. Some spat ink and threw tantrums; others sang to themselves in high, clear notes on windless nights, when starlight streamed through the library’s barred windows like shafts of mercury. Others still were so dangerous they had to be stored in the underground vault, packed in salt.

I can’t put to words how excited I am about this book. If you happen to be an Instagram type, there’s a photo of my excited flesh visage holding the title here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnR0oS3FzVN/

Well, this sounds straight up fantastic and I want to read it yesterday. (Also mentally fan-casting Gwendoline Christie as Elisabeth until further notice.)

That makes me so happy—I modeled Elisabeth’s height after Gwendoline Christie’s, because I love her more than life itself.

Unfortunately I can’t give Sorcery to you yesterday, but if you happen to want it on, say, Friday…

iamshadow21:

mrsmichaellorca:

prokopetz:

vanquishedvaliant:

some middle aged white dude who has never had a problem with his perfectly sculpted body in his life: Does replacing our flesh with metal and circuits… disconnect us from humanity? When you replace man with machine… how long does the soul stay connected?

literally anyone who has had a limiting physical condition, interacted with prosthetics or assistance devices: You really don’t understand the ‘Punk’ of Cyberpunk, do you?

Something a lot of early cyberpunk’s modern imitators don’t seem to grasp is that the reason early cyberpunk treats cybernetic modification with suspicion is because those modifications are often performed against the recipients’ will at the behest of state and corporate interests. It’s an explicit metaphor for the commodification of bodily autonomy under capitalism – and it draws a direct line to contemporary abuses of the same. It’s not by accident that the first chromed-out street samurai to grace the pages of cyberpunk literature is a woman.

I like the OP’s post as well as the preceeding reply. Both make excellent points about cyberpunk and cyborgs.

Yes, the post is great, disability, punk and women combining in a genre of sci fi, but I WANT TO READ A FLAGSHIP TITLE WITH A STREET SAMURAI WRITTEN BY A WOMAN. What is the title???

biblioaesthetica replied to your text post: WarCross, Marie Liu.

Oh, cool, that one was already on my to-read list for other reasons, and it looks like my local library has a copy! I’ll move it up the list and borrow it soon.

allmyfansquees replied to your text post: I think the protagonist is a woman rather than the writer – I kind of assumed it was a reference to Ghost in the Shell but I’m probably influenced by living in Japan so long. I don’t know much western cyberpunk! (though if you do get a title I’d definitely be interested in that too!)

I freely admit I have huge blanks where anime is concerned. Besides Astro Boy (my first ever fandom, age 3), Ah! My Goddess, The Cities of Gold and Chobits, I really haven’t seen much at all. I know the title of Ghost in the Shell, of course, but beyond that it was science fiction and that it should never have been cast with white people like Scarlett Johannsen for SO MANY REASONS, I couldn’t tell you the first thing about it. I shall investigate it for future viewing. 🙂

mrsmichaellorca:

prokopetz:

vanquishedvaliant:

some middle aged white dude who has never had a problem with his perfectly sculpted body in his life: Does replacing our flesh with metal and circuits… disconnect us from humanity? When you replace man with machine… how long does the soul stay connected?

literally anyone who has had a limiting physical condition, interacted with prosthetics or assistance devices: You really don’t understand the ‘Punk’ of Cyberpunk, do you?

Something a lot of early cyberpunk’s modern imitators don’t seem to grasp is that the reason early cyberpunk treats cybernetic modification with suspicion is because those modifications are often performed against the recipients’ will at the behest of state and corporate interests. It’s an explicit metaphor for the commodification of bodily autonomy under capitalism – and it draws a direct line to contemporary abuses of the same. It’s not by accident that the first chromed-out street samurai to grace the pages of cyberpunk literature is a woman.

I like the OP’s post as well as the preceeding reply. Both make excellent points about cyberpunk and cyborgs.

Yes, the post is great, disability, punk and women combining in a genre of sci fi, but I WANT TO READ A FLAGSHIP TITLE WITH A STREET SAMURAI WRITTEN BY A WOMAN. What is the title???

Some days suck

Anxiety is super bad today, so I had to take a valium. Between the Valium and the anxiety, I can barely focus to read, which is REALLY ANNOYING because my book is really awesome right now (Trickster’s Queen- Tamora Pierce) and I have only read it once before, over ten years ago, and I don’t remember the story enough to skim it. Also don’t have focus to knit, and am chewing my nails down to the quick, so I’ve got my Tangle Jr. Hairy and I’m hoping that will be enough to stop me chewing may hands so bad.

Ugh.