The Deep  (2019)

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clipping

Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.

Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.

Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are.

by Rivers Solomon (Author), Daveed Diggs (Author), William Hutson (Author), Jonathan Snipes (Author)

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Rivers Solomon is the author of An Unkindness of Ghosts, and was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award finalist for Best New Writer. They graduated from Stanford University with a degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and hold an MFA in fiction writing from the Michener Center for Writers. Though originally from the United States, they currently live in Cambridge, England, with their family. Find them on Twitter @CyborgYndroid.

Daveed Diggs is an actor, singer, producer, writer, and rapper. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping. Diggs originated the role of Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the 2015 musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda which he won a Grammy and Tony for. He also cowrote, produced, and stars in the film Blindspotting. Find him on Twitter @DaveedDiggs.

William Hutson is a composer, known for Room 237 (2012), The Mayor (2017), and Ten Minutes Is Two Hours (2013). He is part of the rap group Clipping. Find him on Twitter @Clppng.

Jonathan Snipes is a composer and sound designer for film and theater living in Los Angeles. He occasionally teaches sound design in the theater department at UCLA, and is a member of the rap group Clipping. Find him at Jonat8han.com.

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You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

Our Leader. He is us. We are him.

*Photos from Javier’s interview on Dies Minutos

Are you in love? Yes, very much so. I have a Japanese partner, we don’t have the same profession and I think that’s important. I’m happy.

Having a full personal life, does it help you professionally? Having a good and satisfactory personal life depends on what you do on a daily basis, not only on your partner. It’s one of the most important things when one of the parts is known, like me. It has to be a person who understands you, that doesn’t get between your job and you, because for me, my job is very important. They have to understand you and understand your profession.*

*special thanks to ellaestloved for the translation! :D

THE WAY JAVI IS GIGGLING THO FJHDJQH

Three people from such different backgrounds working together to create such an inspiring story. I really do feel like this is the golden age of figure skating and we will never see anyone like Yuzuru Hanyu again. He truly is the definition of a champion, inside and out, and his friendship with Javier is the stuff of legends. It makes me sad thinking that one day all of this will come to an end, but for now let’s just enjoy it.

Yuzuru Hanyu rooting for & suffering with training mate Javier Fernandez during a bad day

pair skaters hanyu/fernandez 2k18

interviewer: another gold medal! how do you fee-

yuzuru: did you know that He, Javier Fernandez, jesus himself, is the light of my existence 😭🙏🤧

This is you, and this is your badness level. It’s unusually high for someone your size.

Legolas to Gimli (via incorrect-middleearth-quotes)

Legolas: Will you drive me to meet Gimli?

Elrond: What did Thranduil say?

Legolas: He said no.

Elrond: Then why would I allow you?

Legolas: He's not the boss of you.

Elrond: [internally] This is a trap this is a trap this is a tr

Legolas: Roses are red, violets are blue...sunflowers are yellow...tulips come in all kinds of colors...daffodils are also yellow.

Gimli: Was that supposed to be a poem?

Legolas: No, I just like flowers.

Thranduil: No, no, I do not have an "extreme distaste" for dwarves.

Thranduil: Elves LOVE dwarves.

Thranduil: In fact, my son's best friend is a dwarf named--

Thranduil: *looks at smudged writing on hand*

Thranduil: Gucci.

One of the best things about Gimli going to Valinor is the way it happened. Like if he’d been invited to go along on one of the swan boats by Galadriel or something that would be reasonable, still completely unheard of but it makes sense that someone like her could talk the Valar into letting him in. But no, he goes with freaking Legolas. Legolas, who was eloquently described in one post as “the baby gay dudebro redneck of the elves.” Legolas, who missed all the boats to Valinor because he was running around having adventures, and then when he decided to finally go, having never seen the ocean in his life, went “I’ll just build my own boat how hard can it be” and presumably just showed up to Valinor 15 decades late on what I like to imagine was a barely seaworthy disaster of a boat and some random dwarf in tow like “this is fine right?” in the ugliest Sindarin accent ever to grace its white shores.

The implication being that the Valar, when confronted with this situation, all shrugged wearily and said “sure, why not.”

The Company was arranged in this way: Aragorn, Frodo, and Sam were in one boat; Boromir, Merry, and Pippin in another; and in the third were Legolas and Gimli, who had now become fast friends.

Back me up. A fear submitted by Gen to Deep Dark Fears - thanks!

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