science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1979)
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"All too often in the past, science fiction writers made things easy for themselves by portraying a white, middle-class, male-dominated universe, even attributing white, middle-class, male values to their 'alien' races. I'm not comfortable writing about such a universe, behaving as though it represented the one true way."
-Octavia Butler
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A fun recent commission!
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I looked into the yellow eyes, wondering how much I saw and understood there, and how much I only imagined.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
-- Octavia Butler
(Riomaggiore, Italy)
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Hey Octavia E. Butler Fans! The Earthseed Pullover Pattern Is Here! Designed By Alex Reynoso: 👉 https://buff.ly/3lg9GWk 💜
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by octaviabutler
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someone should have introduced octavia butler to omegaverse, she'd have had a field's day with it and written by far the most interesting and complex and fucked up version of it possible.
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“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn’t say them, couldn’t sort out my feelings about them, couldn’t keep them bottled inside me.”
— Octavia E. Butler, “Kindred”
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Andreea Kindryd was a production assistant on the original Star Trek back in the 1960s, and was heavily involved in the civil rights movement alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. She became one of the first Black women movie/TV producers, and was friends with Octavia Butler. She's written a memoir called From Slavery to the Stars that just came out, and it's well worth picking up. Please show her some love!
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Parable of the Sower is legitimately the scariest book I’ve ever read.
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Happy birthday to the late, great, and multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning sci fi author Octavia Butler, born on this day in Pasadena, California in 1947.
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To survive,
Know the past.
Let it touch you.
Then let
The past
Go.
-Octavia E. Butler, from "Earthseed: The Books of the Living," Parable of the Talents
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