A Mess of Fixations

ALMOST ALL (old) BLIND ARVEN AU REFS

This is Part 1, I’m reposting this with the refs of: Giacomo, clavel, Crispín, Lacey, amarys, and Drayton.

The fans: oh okay she’s cool yeah

Gamefreak: … and this is Larry. He’s literally just some guy

I love Grusha so much

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As a librarian, it is demoralizing to see how low the circulation statistics are on lgbt+ books and books by BIPOC authors. I include them in displays and readers advisory, but people still don't check them out as much. Libraries only have a finite amount of resources, including space. We don't get a book then keep it forever. If not enough people check it out, we have to get rid of it to make room for more books. And when James Patterson Book #69 gets checked out 30 times in one year and cool, subversive Sci fi novel with a Black trans woman main character has never been checked out once, the librarian (me) has to make a hard decision.

If you're looking for something tangible and easy to do this pride month, look for lgbt+ books (there are millions of lists online that you can find. It's easier than it's ever been to find diverse books) and check them out from your library.

No time to read? Look for a short story or poetry anthology and just read as much as you have time for. Or just check out a book cus it looks interesting and read as much as you can. We have movies too.

As cool as it would be for me to just keep the books I want and get rid of the ones I don't, I have to listen to the community on matters of collection development. And the community tells me what books they want by checking them out and leaving the ones they don't want on the shelf.

if i shouldn’t use my cane because i can sometimes technically walk without it, it would just hurt like a motherfucker then abled people should no longer be allowed to use potholders to take things out of the oven because i mean

Volatile Memory, by Seth Haddon

HAWK is a consciousness trapped inside a mask in the shape of a Hawk—or is she just code that thinks it was once alive?

Wylla is a scavenger in need of a payday. Selling HAWK might be her ticket to freedom, but can she justify the sale when the mask speaks back to her?

This is a sapphic tale of revenge and adventure out with Tordotcom July 22nd!

and an alternative version~

I liked it and it's a fun and short book on astrobiology and what it could be like to be a field biologist in the area. My big gripe with it is that there's a throwaway line (nothing major) where sea cucumbers are referred to as "cnidarians" to which my science brain went "no!!!".

I also like that they made an ad hoc classification system using Earth-life as analogues or simile and ended up having trouble using it for the alien life they found.

Also I did fanart of the "rats" as I was near the end.

y’all know what time it is

(Meat Horse time)