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Some sketches of Estraven from The Left Hand of Darkness!
#artists on tumblr#traditional drawing#traditional art#traditional painting#gouache#the left hand of darkness#therem harth rem ir estraven#estraven#genly ai#genly#ursula k. le guin#fanart#book fanart
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“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”
Genly Ai, Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness"
#ursula k. le guin#ursula le guin#the left hand of darkness#left hand of darkness#genly ai#genly#therem harth rem ir estraven#estraven#love#human connection#bonding#they can get inside you and mess you up#hainish cycle
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My entry for The Left Hand of Darkness Secret Santa this year
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So did anyone else read The Left Hand of Darkness and notice that Genly and Harth show up in Breath of the Wild as Rito? Or was that just me?
#character inspiration#the left hand of darkness#ursula k leguin#books#genly#genli#harth#legend of zelda#breath of the wild#tears of the kingdom
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[strangers in a strange land, wanderers in a vast and unknowable universe]
#primary visual inspo for this was a glow in the dark glittery unicorn puzzle I was obsessed w as a child#tlhod#the left hand of darkness#ursula k. le guin#genly ai#therem harth rem ir estraven#marcusart
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Eyelashes frozen shut, thawed with a kiss.
A while back @aurpiment made a comment about Genly and Estraven based on The Kiss, as a concept. And? Fellas, I had to
#the left hand of darkness#genly ai#therem harth rem ir estraven#my art#fellas is it gay to travel 80 days across the ice with your not yet friend and then kissing his eyelid?#well? is it?#I’m really pleased with this actually even tho I wish I could make it look more painterly
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Illustrations by David Lupton from the Folio Society edition of The Left Hand of Darkness.
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Genly and Estraven and their journey across the Gobrin ice
I also made a book poster for tlhod with this drawing under the cut :)
#they are constantly rotating in my brain lately#the left hand of darkness#genly ai#therem harth rem ir estraven#tlhod#ursula k. le guin#i made estraven a bit too feminine#sorry my friend#my art
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- The Left Hand of Darkness out of context
#the left hand of darkness#tlhod#ursula k. le guin#genly ai#therem harth rem ir estraven#lhod#left hand of darkness#ursula le guin
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my piece for TLHoD Secret Santa 2023, organized by the inimitable Anjael! You know when you're on your way to do a radio interview and you end up walking at the back of the entourage with the alien who just showed up in your city, and he starts trying to tell you that vertebrates on his planet have evolved flight? What a day huh
#taishe art#the left hand of darkness#tlhod secret santa 2023#had such fun playing around with this scribbly style & working outside to in :)#also I think I'm the most satisfied I've yet been with the way their faces came out so yayyyy. them. looka t the them.#iirc Genly has a line like 'only Estraven ever seemed truly curious about my world and how things worked there' ... fascinating stuff!
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old-er drawing when i'd just finished reading the left hand of darkness for the first time
#the left hand of darkness#genly ai#estraven#therem harth rem ir estraven#ursula k. le guin#tlhod#my art
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genly ai pov chapters during the ice crossing: estraven is a conundrum. estraven is the most infuriating man I’ve ever met. etrasven is so womanly. I can’t pin him down. what the hell does he mean by that. he’s so soft looking. he did this for me. who is he. he’s looking at me with his womanly stare again. he is pissing me off. he’s so earnest I’m scared. I need my best friend.
estraven pov chapters during the ice crossing: *logistics* “dear journal, here at the top ten things i noticed about mr. ai today” *licks genly’s eyeballs until his lashes unstick then makes them dinner* “he is like a baby and doesn’t take care of himself right I need to do it but he is also so strong so much stronger than me” *gently rubs out frostbite from genly’s face* “dear diary, here are my further contemplations on me mr. ai’s psyche” *logitics* “we cannot touch” *logistics* “genry, please trust me I’d do anything for you to trust me teach me telepathy so I cannot lie to you” *ruminations on the state and the nature of life*
#left hand of darkness#therem harth rem ir estraven#estraven#genly ai#ursula le guin#teehee!!!#okay but this book is Not about this#it’s just also got this#these chapters took me out
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“It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.”
Genly Ai, Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness"
#ursula k. le guin#le guin#the left hand of darkness#left hand of darkness#kindness#despair#being human#who we are#genly ai#genly#hainish cycle
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TLHOD SECRET SANTA 2022 MASTERPOST
Thank you to everyone for taking part ! <3
1. By Telizere for Nick
2. By Anjael for Mossfloss
3. By Venn for Telizere - with accompanying notes on Ao3 here
4. By Nick for Manny
5. Fanfic: How a Ghost Becomes a God by Naq for Brightlady
6. Fanfic: la quinta by Manny for Naq
#tlhod#the left hand of darkness#lhod#tlhod secret santa 2022#incredible work as always#so much love for this book to this day#genly#estraven#faxe#pesthry
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Uni keeps making me have Left Hand of Darkness takes
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tlhod’s Gender Situation as written in 1968 (published in 1969) was about a man from Earth who goes to another planet inhabited by alternate-bio ambisexual humans who are completely like Earth humans in every other respect. The man from Earth at first expects them to be like men in a way that’s recognizable to him, and that expectation causes him some struggles in relating to them, but he then comes to accept them on their own terms.
An updated look at that Gender Situation might be about a nonbinary person from Earth who goes to another planet inhabited by alternate-bio ambisexual humans who are completely like Earth humans in every other respect. The nonbinary person from Earth at first expects them to be like nonbinary people in a way that’s recognizable to them, and that expectation causes them some struggles in relating to them, but they then come to accept them on their own terms.
Mutatis mutandis since “nonbinary” is a way, way broader category than “man” (hello multigenders I love you) but people who have never heard of gender are going to have a different, for lack of a better word, thing going on than someone who is familiar with a gender binary and has rejected it.
(I also think having a normal earth queer person interact with members of a fantasy gender/lack of gender would be interesting. Real deal meets metaphor. It’s like if an actual trans woman met Jadzia Dax.)
#mt#the left hand of darkness#the way some people read the book and go ‘silly Genly Ai! of course they’re not men they’re nonbinary’ makes me go#‘you ARE Genly Ai 2.0.’#and I say this with love because he’s a great character but also with a bit of mischief#Joanna Russ’s take on the gender situation was ‘if a woman went to a women planet she would think it ruled’#but the women from the woman planet are actually recognizably women and are also from earth#not a spec-bio new human#that the earth woman tries to fit into an existing framework#so of course she thinks it rules. they’re lesbians.#meeting women from Planet Lesbian would obviously rule#so I think Russ has addressed a completely different gender situation#but she thought she addressed the same one
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