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My favorite thing about this is that the “traditional” woman isn’t always on the left. By switching it up the artist is really committing to the idea that the right way for a woman to be is however she wants.
Just wish some of the women were plus size..
I really love how much Lainey’s art and positivity is bringing people joy and I really hope you’re checking out her insta, it’s full of so many more
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9:21:21 pm today will be the 21st second of the 21st minute of the 21st hour of the 21st day of the 21st week of the 21st year of the 21st century
Technically true.
He got the job.
He takes his job seriously.
Have you heard the good word about the Pembrokeshire walrus yet?
This walrus is fucken lost.
But Wales has lost its collective shit about it. They're generally keeping its location secret to keep people away, but we get updates every day if it's still here, if it's happy, if it's healthy. We think it was in Ireland about two weeks ago, which is interesting, because it is not actually native to Ireland either. Why is it here? No one knows.
It seems to like Pembrokeshire beaches.
I regret to inform you all that the walrus is a delinquent.
In attempting to climb aboard a dinghy in Tenby it capsized it.
It then proceeded to Tenby harbour where it tried to climb aboard a fishing boat.
Incredibly, this is not an April Fools
Today on English People RUIN Everything, a bunch of English tourists from Essex and Leeds broke covid-19 regulations and travelled to Tenby over Easter to try and see Wally (so named after Where's Wally) and crowded him with jet skis and surfboards and stuff, so he's not been seen since Monday. We don't know yet if he's moved to a secluded spot again, or left Wales entirely.
But, you know, I doubt we were going to have Wally for much longer anyway, since they need to head back home again at some point. Godspeed, Wally. May your fish be ever plentiful.
The English went back home and Wally came back to Tenby! We stan a true Welsh icon, folks.
Some facts about Wally:
She is named after Where’s Wally because she is hard to spot
She was previously in Ireland, and then secluded beaches in Pembrokeshire, but has really taken a shine to Tenby, which is a delightful village
She has a scar on one flipper but it’s long-healed and doesn’t seem to bother her
She is the southern-most walrus ever spotted in the wild!
The current theory as to how she got here is that she fell asleep on an ice floe that drifted south, but she’s not bothered about returning yet
She’s believed to be two years old
Her gender is still a bit of a mystery but we seem to be leaning female
This story on Wales Online claims she’s believed to be male, but then uses female pronouns. It also features a video of some Welsh people chatting about Wally, including a child whose first language is very clearly Welsh and by the end of his part is struggling to think of things to say about the walrus in English.
WALLY UPDATE!!
The Western Telegraph has opted for male pronouns, and is being very firm that Wally is male, although other news outlets are still all over the place. But what has Wally been up to the past few days?
He is rapidly gaining weight, and is still giving no cause for concern to either of the organisations watching him (which are the RSPCA a bit and Welsh Marine Life Rescue a lot; this is funny though because a walrus is so far outside of the wheelhouse of either of those organisations like we’re all just guessing here, lads)
His delinquent ways have continued - he has now attempted to climb onto multiple buoys (all unsuccessfully) and at one point nearly got a mooring rope stuck around his neck.
Has he learned from this?
FOLKS HE HAS NOT!
He is now a Fashion Icon. He has surfaced multiple times wearing accessories in his moustache. Mostly this has been shells, but three days ago he upped his fashion game by wearing this starfish:
What an Icon.
The photographer of this picture, one Amy Compton who has been Wally’s official photographer since the start, has been making these delightful Wally masks (inset). They sell for £5, of which £1 goes to Welsh Marine Life Rescue. If you would like your own Wally mask, contact her here!
My mother came for a visit today and we checked and Tenby is an hour away from me, so we went for a Lovely Day Trip to Find a Walrus.
Friends, I took the shittest photo there has ever been of a Walrus. But I absolutely did get to see em.
A lifeboat wandered by to check em out at one point, and ey just... sank. Just dropped below the surface like Homer Simpson moving backwards into a hedge. After a while the boat left, and Wally surfaced again.
I can now confirm that ey really, really likes blowing water around like a whale, and also kept eyeing up that buoy next to em.
Also, I had entirely forgotten how comically beautiful Tenby is, but that's an aside
Time for a Wally Update!!!
It's only a little one, but apparently we're getting Serious about this walrus, lads - the police are now stepping in to say that anyone interfering with Wally (examples of this interference to date: throwing things at him, taking boats and paddle boards out to him, throwing fish overboard to tempt him closer, etc) is committing a criminal offence and we must send evidence of Assholes to them. So that's fun!
Meanwhile, the tense stand-off between the RNLI and Wally continues over Who Gets To Use The Lifeboat Slipway. Here is a picture of Wally in full delinquent mode.
What a public menace.
Time for the weekly Wally news!
Here is the problem with 2,500 lbs of predatory sea potato using the slipway of a lifeboat station as a spa bed: sometimes, canoeists get in trouble near Stackpole and need rescuing and then some underwhelmed Welsh coast guard is going to have to try to chase said predatory sea potato off the slipway so they can launch the boat.
Here is the problem with that scenario: an underwhelmed Welsh coast guard basically views 2,500 lbs of predatory sea potato as a sort of ornery gelatinous cow, and so will try to do this with, and I am not making this up, a broom. But a ton of overgrown seal has no fear of brooms, so the attempt is not entirely successful under time-sensitive conditions while canoeists are actively drowning 10 miles away.
Solution? An air horn.
Which did work long enough to get the boat out, and then Wally clambered back aboard barely minutes later and fell asleep again. So trick learned, I guess.
Anyway, since I've apparently become Tumblr's primary Wally journalist, I thought I'd go for a cheeky visit again today so I could report on their condition FIRST HAND (you're all welcome, I have incredible integrity). Today I tried using a binocular over my phone camera with was extremely stressful and moderately successful - and I have two pieces of NEWS.
Story the First
Two dinghies with divers aboard suddenly turned up and sailed right up to them. There are Welsh Marine Life Rescue volunteers everywhere, and one woman immediately yelled "YOU ARE TOO CLOSE. MOVE AWAY."
Everyone on the cliff went silent. The boats went closer.
"YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW," yelled the beachmaster. "MOVE AWAY."
Tumblrs, they did not.
"CAN YOU HEAR ME?" she yelled. "MOVE AWAY."
At which point, the whole fucken cliff starts joining in, because Welsh people are Like That.
"Move away!"
"Leave 'im alone, mun!"
"Move away, butt, what you doing!"
"He's the size of an 'orse, bois, can't you see 'im from here?!"
"Bloody move you fucks, you'll scare 'im away again!"
(That last one was, I swear, an eighty year old woman.)
The boats, suddenly being yelled at by a whole cliff of Welsh people, sailed away. Later, we followed the beachmaster who was now on a mission, and found her with a couple of community police officers ripping the shit out of the divers. It was very satisfying.
Story the Second
I mentioned my binocular and phone trick. It came in handy. At first it gave me some very satisfying shots for a distance picture on a phone camera:
But, you know, whatever.
But THEN I got this picture:
which I got 0.256778 seconds before that majestic Arctic beast of purest beautiful nature untamed FELL OFF THE SIDE OF THE SLIPWAY LIKE A CAT THAT GOT TOO CLOSE TO A TABLE EDGE
Wally was fine, the seagull to the right was traumatised.
This is not an update as such but my friend Chris who I took with me to get the scoop on Wally on Sunday had a real camera with him, and he has produced a WAY better photo than I did, and I want you all to see Just How Louche a Walrus is capable of looking:
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Learning a language that doesn't use the same writing system as your native one is so fun because they change the font and you're doomed
I had a penpal from Greece in high school. She had the neatest handwriting ever. She taught me a bunch of basic stuff, and it got to the point that we'd write our letters almost exclusively in Greek (a big deal, as this was before Google Translate was even a thing).
Cut to junior year of college. I took Classical Greek as part of my degree, and I was feeling like I had a leg up over my classmates, whose Greek handwriting looked like kindergarten chicken scratch, while mine was smooth and quick. I turned in my first assignment feeling pretty damn proud of myself.
About three assignments later, my professor pulled me aside with the goofiest look on his face...
"I appreciate the effort, but..."
You remember that phase I think all little girls go through in middle school/junior high? Where we have swirly tails on our G's or our Y's get all swoopy, or we dot all our I's with little hearts?
Yeah...
Turns out, all the perfect little flourishes I'd been putting on my letters were not, in fact, part of the letters at all. My penpal had just still been in that phase when she taught me the alphabet!
some examples of printed vs. handwritten, and handwritten variability
chinese:
korean:
russian:
greek:
On the one hand I wanna encourage all the beautiful cursive handwriting to fly like it wants to neverneverland. On the same hand, I wanna encourage it to stay there and out of my language learning world.
Dutch artist, Redmer Hoekstra.
Ooooh, because “path” and “toad” are written and pronounced the same way in Dutch!
Pad en pad.
Een paddenpaadje.
A road of toads.
I trode on the toad road
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I think it would be very funny for like characters in a fantasy setting to walk into a pub and try to order and the bartender sighs and goes “species and age?” While pulling out a massive book holding the drinking age for every type of species capable of purchasing alcohol
Alternately or additionally: the staff always ask everyone’s species before serving them because one of the hazards of running any sort of food service business in a species-diverse city or space station or whatever is you have to be very careful to avoid accidentally poisoning somebody by doing the equivalent of feeding a pan of fudge to a dog. Lists and tables of what food is appropriate for what species would also be helpful in avoiding serving people stuff that’s technically edible but unappetizing to them (a human could probably technically safely eat a lot of the stuff on the Kzin menu if the meat was handled properly, but they probably wouldn’t enjoy most of it).
I think it might be quite interesting to see what sort of food culture might emerge in a community made up of multiple different intelligent species with different biologies and diets.
Menus that look like this:
The Crucible: Green potato and rhubarb leaf salad with yew berries, deadly nightshade berries, deathfire mushrooms, ghost pepper, and firefruit, with firefruit oil dressing. Served with focaccia bread and a tall dark stout ale and followed by a dessert of cannoli. THE choice if you’re a Dwarf in the mood for a spicy salad! Price: SD 1.50 - Substitute spiced mead for ale: add DN 25 to price. Safe to eat for: Dwarves only.
The Fisherman’s Midden: An assortment of fish (whole and pieces), fish viscera, fish heads, assorted shellfish and other seafood, chicken, beef, and pork, all decomposed to a slushy consistency and served in a gravy of rotten raw eggs, decomposition liquor of assorted meats, and fermented fish sauce, topped with guano (sourced from assorted birds, bats, and reptiles). Served with 1 gallon of soured milk and a side of fresh marrow-filled long-bones. A pride of our menu: a feast for the nose and the eyes as well as the mouth! Price: SD 3.50 - Add assorted restaurant scraps, assortedly aged: add DN 10 to price. - Replace milk with 1 gallon of kumis: add DN 50 to price. - Replace milk with 1 gallon of strong spiced beer: add DN 50 to price. - Add side dish of assorted fruit, fermented and decomposed to slushy consistency: add DN 50 to price. Safe to eat for: Ghouls only.
The Hunter’s Reward: One fresh whole hind leg of horse, served raw and skinned and sprinkled with salt. Served with 3 gallons of kumis and a large plate of raw cow viscera with partially digested vegetable content still inside. A pride of our menu: after this meal you won’t need to eat for at least three days! In fact, we guarantee that! Order this meal and leave your name with your server when you’re finished, and if you feel a need to eat again in less than three days, come back here and your next meal is on us! A good choice for a busy Orc about town! Price: SD 15 Safe to eat for: Orcs, Dwarves, Elves. Recommended for: Orcs.
The Cheeseburger Combo: A cheeseburger, served with a large Caesar salad, a side of thick-cut French fries, and a tall mild spiced beer. Price: SD 2.25 Safe to eat for: Humans, Elves, Dwarves. Recommended for: Humans, Dwarves.
The Hamburger Combo: Similar to the cheeseburger combo, but served without cheese, with a vegan spring salad instead of a Caesar salad, and with a tall lemonade instead of a beer. Price: SD 2.00 Safe to eat for: Elves, Humans, Dwarves. Recommended for: Elves, Humans, Dwarves.
The Garbageman’s Treasures: Assorted restaurant scraps, aged assortedly. A good choice for a Ghoul on a budget! Price: DN 20. Safe to eat for: Ghouls only.
The Very Fresh Chicken: 1 chicken, whole, alive. For people who like their meat very fresh, and don’t mind a little challenge with their meal! Price: SD 2.00 Safe to eat for: Elves, Orcs, Ghouls. Recommended for: Orcs.
The Ironfish Plate: Slices of raw fish of assorted kinds, unseasoned but artfully prepared, served with assorted dipping sauces. A good choice for a Human and Orc who want to share a meal: a full meal for the Human and a light snack for the Orc. Price: SD 3.00 - Add tall mild spiced beer: add DN 50 to price. Safe to eat for: Elves, Orcs, Humans, Dwarves, Ghouls. Recommended for: Orcs, Elves, Humans, Dwarves.
The Friendship Plate: Assorted aged cheeses and assorted cured meats. Served with a tall dark beer and a glass of red wine. Are you a Ghoul dining together with Human or Dwarf friends, and worried that the sights and smells of your food might make your friends uncomfortable? If so, this meal was designed with you in mind! This meal is appetizing to all three species, though of course idiosyncrasies of the individual palette must be considered. Price: SD 2.00 - Add sweet wine for dessert: add DN 25 to price. - Add sweet liqueur for dessert: add DN 50 to price. Safe to eat for: Ghouls, Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Orcs. Recommended for: Ghouls, Humans, Dwarves.
And so on.
Credit to @littlepinkbeast for their ideas about Dwarf diets and cuisine that I used for this.
I love this because to my mind it’s exactly the sort of thing that you’d see people doing at restaurants that cater to a multi-species clientele. I mean, it’s not all that different from what people do now on their menus for people that want vegan or gluten-free food.
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Fantasy books written by women are often assumed to be young adult, even when those books are written for adults, marketed to adults, and published by adult SFF imprints. And this happens even more frequently to women of color.
This topic’s an ongoing conversation on book Twitter, and I thought it might be worth sharing with Tumblr. And by “ongoing,” I mean that people have been talking about this for years. Last year, there was a big blow up when the author R.F. Kuang said publicly that her book The Poppy War isn’t young adult and that she wished people would stop calling it such. If you’ve read The Poppy War, then you’ll know it’s grimdark fantasy along lines of Game of Thrones… and yet people constantly refer to The Poppy War as young adult – which is one of its popular shelves on Goodreads. To be fair, more people have shelved it as “adult,” but why is anyone shelving it as “young adult” in the first place? Game of Thrones is not at all treated this way…
Rebecca Roanhorse’s book Trail of Lightning, an urban fantasy with a Dinétah (Navajo) protagonist has “young adult” as its fifth most popular Goodreads shelf. The novel is adult and published by Saga, an adult SFF imprint.
S.A. Chakraborty’s adult fantasy novel City of Brass has “young adult” as its fourth most popular Goodreads shelf.
Tasha Suri’s Empire of Sand, an adult fantasy in a world based on Mughal India, has about equal numbers of people shelving it as “adult” or “young adult.”
Book Riot wrote an article on this, although they didn’t address how the problem intersects with race. I also did a Twitter thread a while back where I cited these examples and some more as well.
The topic of diversity in adult SFF is important to me, partly because we need to stop mislabeling the women of color who write it, and also because there’s a lot there that isn’t acknowledged! Besides, sometimes it’s good to see that your stories don’t just end the moment you leave high school and that adults can still have vibrant and interesting futures worth reading about. I feel like this is especially important with queer rep, for a number of reasons.
Other books and authors in the tweets I screenshot include:
Witchmark by C.L. Polk
A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Day Before by Liana Brooks
A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell
Shri, a book blogger at Sun and Chai
Vanessa, a writer and blogger at The Wolf and Books
TLDR: Women who write adult fantasy, especially women of color, are presumed to be writing young adult, which is problematic in that it internalizes diversity, dismisses the need and presence of diversity in adult fantasy, and plays into sexist assumptions of women writers.
Never forget the amount of hate R.F. Kuang got for explicitly stating that The Poppy War, one of the most triggering books I’ve ever read, should never be shelved as YA. She did so out of extreme concern of the content getting into the wrong hands without warning.
And then two days later Jay Kristoff said the same thing about Nevernight…and nothing happened.
#i do agree that ‘diversity of content or author = ya by default’ is a problem#however#another huge contributing factor to this: anything that isnt either a. dry and boring or b. completely devoid of substance are ya by default#like. adult fiction is limited to: smutty romances; westerns; Serious Mysteries; or High Sci Fi/High Fantasy.#and in the latter case the more convoluted the world the better#anything that is Actually Well Paced is presumed to be For Kids Who Can’t Pay Attention To Boring Adult Books
The worst part about creating this post is seeing all the tags and reblogs that are constantly trying to go “okay, but YA/adult is actually superior to (other age grouping.” In both cases, you get the since that they’ve never read whatever they’re talking about.
I read adult fiction and young adult fiction, although it’s rare that I’ll read middle grade. I’m not sure if the tags above are actually what the writer thinks or what the writer is saying other people think. Anyway, it’s not true and is the reason I keep screaming into the void about the many authors writing wonderful, diverse stories aimed at adults.
If you spend any time at all looking at what’s out there, you’ll quickly find all sorts of interesting adult fiction…
I don’t read a lot of genre romance but think the genre gets treated unfairly for reasons that relate to how American culture treats women and sex (see the whole genre getting dismissed as “smut”). One of the romance authors I have read is Alyssa Cole, whose book A Princess in Theory was a NYT notable book of the year (which is HUGE for a romance genre book). Basic plot synopsis is that a NYC grad student gets spam emails saying she’s the long lost fiancee of an African prince… but they’re not spam. Oh, and the series includes a f/f book. Or if you want romance books with no on-page sex, I’d recommend Heather Rose Jones’ Alpennia series, which are historical fantasy romance by an asexual lesbian author. A young woman inherits a fortune and needs protection from a dashing swordswoman.
I haven’t actually read any adult Westerns. I don’t think it’s that popular of a genre, at least not compared to romance, mystery, or fantasy/science fiction.
I’m not sure what the criteria is for “serious mysteries,” but I do enjoy audiobooks of adult mysteries and thrillers (and YA mysteries too). I just relistened to one of my all time favorites, My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, in which a Nigerian nurse starts to suspect that her sister is actually a serial killer. Her sister keeps killing the men she dates, claiming it’s self defense and begging the protagonist to help her with the clean up… only, this has happened three times now, the latest man was stabbed in the back, and now her sister’s flirting with the man she likes. And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention one of my all time favorite mystery authors, Tana French who has absolutely brilliant stories set in Ireland. My favorite is The Secret Place, about two detectives investigating a murder at a Dublin girl’s boarding school. Or do you want something queer? The Last Place You Look by Roxanne is the start of a mystery series about a bisexual PI investigating the case of a missing girl. If those all sound too dark, there’s also an entire subgenre called “cozy mysteries” that are mystery novels with a lighter tone. It’s not an area I read but it’s hugely popular!
I haven’t heard “high sci-fi” used as a genre label before, so I’m assuming it refers to either space opera or military sci-fi, which are the go-to subgenres for people claiming that adult sci-fi is just a bunch of straight white cis dudes shooting aliens in space. Which isn’t even true of that subgenre, where you’ve got authors like Yoon Ha Lee, a trans Korean-American man, writing military sci-fi where everybody’s queer (okay, Ninefox Gambit does hit you over the head with the world building but just accept that math is magic and don’t try to understand it). Or for sci-fi that’s shorter, faster, and lighter on the world building, I’d recommend the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, in which a rogue security robot wants nothing more than to watch TV in peace but suddenly has to actually do its job and protect some pesky humans, which might involve the greatest terror of all – social interaction. The first book in the series, All Systems Red actually won an Alex Award, which is an award specifically for adult books that would appeal to young adult readers.
In high fantasy, I just finished reading Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne, which is set in a South Asian fantasy world and has two lesbian protagonists. One is a princess who is exiled to a prison for trying to overthrow her brother the emperor. The other is the maidservant who is assigned to her in her jail cell. Only, she wasn’t always a maidservant and she has her own goals, especially since her country was colonized by the empire.
I’m always tired of assumptions about how the age category a book is written for determines whether or not it could possibly be worth reading. There’s wonderful, engaging stories in both young adult and adult literature, and I wish people would stop offhandedly dismissing such vast swaths of stories.
“Isn’t this all a little hard to believe?”
“I can think of a lot of things that are hard to believe. What part do you mean?”
“That the fate of the world depends on twelve people in a rented office suite whose coffee machine doesn’t even work.“
“What would you find more believable?”
“I don’t know, something… grander?
“You know, the first incarnation of this group had an actual palace? Extra-dimensional strongholds and snazzy colour-coded jumpsuits and badges that hurt your eyes if you looked at them for too long.“
“What happened to them?”
“They turned out to be cultists of the Bleak Powers. Every last one of them. The only reason they didn’t destroy the universe themselves is because each cell thought they were the only ones, and they wasted all their resources hiding from each other. Cleanup was an incredible pain in the ass.”
“Okay, but surely there’s a middle ground between that and… well, this.”
“It’s been tried – many times. The iteration before us was a government agency. Do you want to know how long they lasted?”
“I have a feeling you’re about to tell me.”
“Their director sold out to the Bleak Powers in just a little under thirty-eight minutes. I’m given to understand it was a new record.”
“So what’s special about you lot? Why don’t you go the same way?”
“This is a profession that self-selects for lack of ambition. Each person in this office wants nothing more than to be left alone, and that’s the one thing the Bleak Powers will never permit. We’re prepared to move Heaven and Earth – and beyond, if necessary – for a little peace and quiet, and we think you are, too.“
“What makes you so sure?”
“You once switched grocery stores because the checkout clerks at the old one started to recognise you.”
“I– well, I mean, that could just be social anxiety.”
“We have a sense for this sort of thing.”
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Move in together. Problem solved
That witch hasn’t said a single word but im calling it now - Himbo.
Also yes move in together, platonically or romantically doesn’t matter, I’d watch the hell out of that wlw mlm solidarity fantasy sitcom anyway.
A fair maiden knocks on the goth lady’s door and says she’s here to find love.
The goth sighs, points across the road and says, “Witch is over there. He doesn’t do love potions because consent but he might be able to make you prettier, although 90% of the time it turns out the spell didn’t do anything but make you more confident.”
The maiden blushes and sheepishly explains that she knows he’s the witch, she just talked to him and he sent her over here.
Goth looks over her shoulder to see the himbo witch standing outside his house giving her a grin and a double thumbs up.
Lisa Olstein, from “Dear One Absent This Long While”
[text ID: June efforts quietly. I’ve planted vegetables along each garden wall
so even if spring continues to disappoint we can say at least the lettuce loved the rain.]
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