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aelin9 · 10 days

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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 · 12 days

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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 · 13 days

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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 · 21 days

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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 · 27 days

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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 · 28 days

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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*

#lgbtq #lgbtq pride #lesbian #sapphic #wlw #wlw romance #wlw books #sapphic books #sapphic romance #lesbian books #lesbian romance #lesfic #bisexual romance #queer #queer books #queer fiction #lgbtq books

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aelin9 · 29 days

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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 · 2 months

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Flooflers

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aelin9 · 2 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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aelin9 · 2 months

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I'm not a genre expert either, but I've read a bunch of YA - both of these books were chosen for the YA book club I'm in actually! - and I think The Scholomance series is peak YA. This is exactly what YA is, what it's meant to be, what it should be. I don't think it being exceptionally well written, better crafted than others (though not all) in the genre means it's Adult. YA books can be spectacular, teen characters can be sensible, and teen readers deserve quality writing.

re: the last graduate. I think I've said this before, but it is published as adult SFF. As someone who's read truly appalling quantities of YA novels, I'd say that it could be published as a YA book, but it would be a bit different in expectations and tone from the typical installment. Respectfully (poking you gently with a stick) I think you're setting the bar for adultness of the protagonist a little too high because you're unaware just how young and silly the typical YA protagonist can run. El is very sensible.

for example, here is an excerpt from a book I dnf'd a couple years back for being too YA: https://reactormag.com/excerpts-in-deeper-waters-f-t-lukens/. it's a perfectly good book for someone else's taste, it's just VERY (mercymorn voice) wretched infants!!!

I mean, I'll absolutely defer to your superior knowledge of the genre here (and that excerpt sure was...something) but like.

It's a coming of age story, with prominent themes of dealing with the legacy and expectations of your parents, the importance of youth doing better than the generations who came before them, and the vital importance of reaching out and making friends. Relationship drama and romance are treated as or more seriously than life or death struggles with monsters. El is an ostracized loner and incredibly edgy-antihero-coded despite actually being one step removed from sainthood. The prose is clear and fairly unadorned, and the narrative is linear and never really gets clever or tries to play tricks on you. Every page of the narrations oozes with the voice of a very-smart-but-not-quite-as-smart-as-they-think-they-are teenager. It's set in a killer magic highschool!

If Scholomance doesn't count as YA then frankly I'm not sure anything should.

#the scholomance #naomi novik #I'll happily die on this hill

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aelin9 · 2 months

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aelin9 · 2 months

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gender to me is like a car i dont really want one and society would be much better if it was not structured around it. but i got one because it helps me get around and sometimes its fun to make it go fast

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aelin9 · 2 months

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Need y’all to know that in the 1970’s a letter to the editor was published in Daily Telegraph where the author offhandedly used the phrase “Tolkien-like gloom” to describe an area with barren trees and JRRT himself wrote back an incensed rebuttal at the use of his name in a context that suggested anything negative about trees.

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