call me a peregrine falcon the way i’m killing that dove. the way i’m eating that dead dove up
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call me a peregrine falcon the way i’m killing that dove. the way i’m eating that dead dove up
I finally finished itššš
I donāt like it at all, but Iāve spent too much time and effort toā¦idkā¦just hide it
Ugh
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it is reported that the shifa operations ward has caught fire
Three testimonies from North Gaza
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This isā¦..niche. Do period-appropriate chickens even still exist? Idk anything about chickens. I like the fancy ones.
Period appropriate chickens (āheritage breedsā) do still exist, and even include some very fancy ladies, such as:
The Brahma, a popular giant known for its massive meat production and comically large eggs.
The cochin, seen here with gold and black ālaceā pattern
The barred plymouth, an incredible forager for lightly wooded terrain
The fayoumi, often regarded as The Oldest Breed of chicken
The wyandotte, a particularly good forager as well as a bulky, meaty bird.
The Minorca, a Spanish bird with stunning black feathers
And of course, the famous indonesian ayam cemani, which has black meat and bones
Old timey chickens often ARE the 'fancyā ones!
I love this incredibly niche complaint! Get some heritage breeds, they do totally still exist. Same could likely be said about some other animals like pigs, sheep, and cows.
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still fuckin hate that “bee-free honey” that’s made from……… apples. bitch who you think sexed up those apples
A farmer, by hand and with love and care
wild bees still sexin em up when he’s not looking
old mccuckhold had a farm it seems
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*smashes you over the head with a potion bottle but it was a healing potion and it heals you for the exact amount of damage i dealt you* oh… uh. hm. do you think you could just lay on the floor and pretend to be unconscious
uhhh i guess that’s reasonable. how long? maybe five to ten seconds?
longer. *aside, to my minion* how long does it take to set up the heinous device?
(in a stage whisper) three minutes if we’re speedrunning it.
*back to the hero* just picking a number at random here. let’s say three minutes
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Being in a group chat with a bunch of mentally ill girls who suck at taking care of ourselves is really funny. Weāll constantly be giving each other advice like āhey you should probably eat somethingā āhave you taken your meds today?ā āif youāre not feeling well maybe you should get some sleepā and stuff like that and then none of us have the self awareness and self respect to take the advice we give each other until we we hear it from someone else
in heaven, each one feeds the girlie next to her
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PLEASE for the love of the universe read anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy written from marginalized perspectives. Y’all (you know who you are) are killing me. To see people praise books about empire written exclusively by white women and then turn around and say you don’t know who Octavia Butler is or that you haven’t read any NK Jemisin or that Babel was too heavy-handed just kills me! I’m not saying you HAVE to enjoy specific books but there is such an obvious pattern here
Some of y’all love marginalized stories but you don’t give a fuck about marginalized creators and characters, and it shows. Like damn
If anyone has any recommendations give them to me please!
Gladly! The pieces on this list aren’t limited to specifically anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy, but they do center related and relevant topics, themes, etc.
- Anything by NK Jemisin. She is the best speculative fiction writer of her generation and probably the best speculative fiction writer alive. She is easily one of the best writers working right now, across all genres. That’s not hyperbole. She deserves all the hype.
- Anything by Octavia Butler. She needs no introduction. Her short fiction is incredible; “Bloodchild” is one of the pieces that inspired me to write.
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. Excellent. Just read it.
- The Radiant Emperor duology by Shelley P. Chan. It broke my heart and it’ll break yours.
- Babel by RF Kuang. You’ve probably already heard of this book because Harper Voyager marketed the shit out of it and was right to do so. It’s very, very good. Kuang writes a compulsively readable story, that’s for sure.
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo.
- So Long Been Dreaming: Post-Colonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (anthology) edited by Nalo Hopkinson.
- Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (anthology) edited by Nalo Hopkinson.
Severely underhyped books of assorted speculative genres:
- The Blood Trials by NE Davenport. Given the current chokehold romantasy has on the public it’s insane to me that this book hasn’t sold a billion copies.
- The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez. It’ll change you.
- The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera.
- The Lesson by Caldwell Turnbull.
Read widely. Read diversely. People of the Caucasian persuasion need to stop getting pissy when the story doesn’t immediately center them and they don’t automatically relate to everything the character says and does and is. Just let yourself get swept in the story—even if it touches on (gasp!) racism—and maybe, just maybe, it’ll reveal something to you.
Or maybe not! Marginalized sff authors do not have to and should not have to educate their readers. But if I see one more white person complain about how Black characters are fundamentally annoying because they complain too much I’m going to fling myself into the sun
Thanks for coming to my ted talk I didn’t want to do it but here I am
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