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stoneware · 2 years

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#tin can string #upload #archive #le guin

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jellyghostspace · 1 year

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Finishing up a new piece! Inspired by Earthsea, ignore the spooky hand at the top it doesn't belong to anything

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heliological · 3 months

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omelas writing masterpost

accepting that I will be thinking really hard about omelas approximately once per year for the rest of my life so here's a bunch of links for future me next time I go down this rabbithole

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)

Omelas, Je T’Aime, Kurt Schiller (2022)

The Ones Who Stay and Fight, N.K. Jemisin (2018)

The Ones Who Yell at Omelas, Rite Gud podcast (2022) [links a bunch of other responses]

tumblr post by shedoesnotcomprehend (2018)

After We Walked Away, Erica L. Satifka (2016)

Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole, Isabel J. Kim (2024)

and bc I always forget, the BTS music video that references it is Spring Day

@ myself read another story jfc

#le guin #omelas #hmu if you've got other stuff that's interesting #always want to talk about uklg #also I want to see some older interpretations since all of these are from the past 10 years

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ladymacbethisagirlboss · 8 months

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More and more I wish Earthsea had got the adaptation it deserved. An adaptation that loved and valued the incredible power of these books. An adaptation that captured the heart of Earthsea, it's gentle, stern atmosphere, it's passion and it's fire. And most importantly, an adaptation NOT JUST FULL OF WHITE PEOPLE. It's insulting.

Nowadays, fantasy adaptations are so key to bringing a fanbase and attention to older works. So this is my plea - read them! They're such incredible works of fiction, with POC mains and queer characters. If you're a fan of LOTR or WOT this is your jam. If you like Brandon Sanderson or James Islington, give it a go.

If they've passed you by, or you've never got round to reading them, this is your sign.

READ EARTHSEA

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eilooxara · 2 years

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Thing from a dream I just had: a tumblr user with a bi pride flag colored avatar posted "I am ok with Le Guin just bag catching teens"

I assume, had the dream continued, that deceased author Ursula K Le Guin kidnapping teenagers with a bag would have been the latest drama going around tumblr and that this would have been how I heard about it

#Le Guin #eilooxara shitposts #eilooxara dreams #eilooxology

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boymiffy · 1 year

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Hello boymiffy! i wanna get into ursula k le guin! what do you recommend to read :)?

oh helloooo!

ok to start here is a post with great links to online resources such as websites and some of her essays – one of my faves is the carrier bag theory which is also available online

two of my fave of her books are the left hand of darkness (more about gender) and the dispossessed (more a discussion of society and class), which are great – the left hand of darkness is shorter and slightly less discussion of theory so is a greater starter point for her fictional worlds! all of which are available for pdf/epub here

i have not read but have heard good things also about the lathe of heaven if that is something u might be intrested in!

otherwise an easy start to her style of literature are the wizard of earthsea books which you shouldn't stay away from just because they're categorised as kids books !!

if you just look her up on youtube there is the full film of 'the worlds of ursula k le guin' (which i have not seen but looks good) and several of her talks/interviews which are all super interesting

happy reading ^_^

#hope this was helpful!#ask #anon #le guin

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seaside-werewolf · 1 year

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What is your Hogwarts house?

Im not a huge fan of Harry Potter anymore after ms.raging terf (especially because i live in the UK), read Earthsea instead!! : )

Has a magic school (briefly) and is better written imo. Even has a young boy/man scarred by an evil that is intrinsically tied to him that he must eventually face etc etc...

Enjoy this quote by Ursula K. Le Guin about Rowling:

#asks #anon #earthsea #le guin #ursula k. le guin

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figcatlists · 1 year

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“Literary” speculative fiction reading list

A list of recommended sci-fi and fantasy books with high-quality prose and serious or complex themes, including works by Le Guin, Wolfe, Delany, Miéville, and Banks. This selection is drawn from a much longer list of well-written and ambitious SF that I published on my website.

#book recs #book recommendations #book reccs #reading list #book list #speculative fiction #science fiction #fantasy #sci fi and fantasy #le guin #china mieville #iain banks #gene wolfe #samuel r. delany #literary #literature

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ruminanimur · 1 month

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A quick sketch of Tenar/ Arha from The Tombs Of Atuan

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literary-illuminati · 7 months

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But no, really oddly profoundly conservative book, given Le Guin's reputation - really very clear that trying to improve the world is the province of meglomaniacal eggheads, beauty and culture grow only through struggle and strife, the good life is a solid job where you work with your hands and a wife at home,, etc, etc.

#the lathe of heaven #le guin #sff #tht

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thatgirlonstage · 4 months

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I’m slowly working my way through Le Guin’s Earthsea series, which I’m mostly like, eh, it’s fine but it’s hardly seizing me by the skull and turning my brain inside out like her adult sci-fi stuff has so far. I don’t know if I’m too old for it and would have appreciated it more as a kid/teen, or it’s just not my thing in general (I see this series recc’ed a lot as an alternative for That Other Series Where Wizards Go To School and while I think that’s fine as a, here’s a book to buy your 8yo nephew instead of the other one, I really don’t think it’s a good rec for someone who used to love that series and is looking to fill that void, because the vibe is EXTREMELY different imo, especially after the first book)

I am however sitting and clutching my head about Farthest Shore and the incredibly casual gay teacher crush that Arren has on Ged.

It never goes anywhere, it is always suffused with the “teenager talking about the hot teacher” kind of feeling, and it evens out significantly over the course of the book into more platonic respect and companionship, but at the beginning it is absolutely a crush in the romantic/sexual sense and it is not subtle

And it just. This book was published in 1972. It is over two decades older than me. I could have read this book as a kid. I could have had this. I have no idea if it would have changed anything or gotten through to me earlier but… but I wish I’d had it.

I don’t know. There’s a lot of queer media stuff out now that I’m really happy kids have and in some abstract sense I might wish that I’d had that world growing up, but at the same time, I can’t… Steven universe or the owl house couldn’t have existed in 2001. The world would have to have been a fundamentally different place. And I don’t know the me who would have grown up in that world. I don’t know what they or she or he or xe would be like. That’s a different person who is not me.

But this—this has been here the whole time. I could have read this at any time. And I’ve never even heard of it. I feel like I maybe saw A Wizard of Earthsea on bookstore shelves sometimes? But I never touched it and I don’t know anyone who read it and I certainly had no fucking idea this kind of relationship was in the series until I read it with my own two eyes. Even as an adult I’ve only heard people talk about Wizard and a little bit about Tombs of Atuan. I knew absolutely nothing about Farthest Shore until I picked it up for myself.

I don’t have a neat conclusion here. I don’t even know if I have a point. I’m just. Missed opportunities.

#earthsea #le guin

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luketaluketa · 4 months

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Ged sketch because i was reminded of how he's white in the cover like 90% of all the editions

#earthsea #tales of earthsea #ged #sparrowhawk #le guin #ursula k. le guin #sketch #brazilian artists #luketaart

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doruwuwei · 9 months

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I'm devouring Ursula K Le Guin's sci-fi works and, tbh, I've never been more radicalised in my life.

Currently reading The Dispossessed and this one's taking all my tabs.

I'm gonna shower you with some of my favourite fragments.

All of these are from my category of philosophy. But this book has everything.

#ursula k. le guin #the dispossessed #the left hand of darkness #le guin #scifi #doru says

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masc-maenad · 4 months

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And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.

Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969)

#this book made me happy #so heres a lil bit for yall #le guin #left hand of darkness

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carbonatedgatorade · 2 months

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#le guin #dungeon meshi

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thirdity · 1 year

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Relationship among all things appears to be complex and reciprocal — always at least two-way, back-and-forth. It seems that nothing is single in this universe, and nothing goes one way.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Late in the Day

#connection #interdependence #reciprocity #quotes #Le Guin #Ursula K. Le Guin #Late in the Day

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