This Plant Is Upset

1. dedicated to Playing Nice with others, and helping others get along

And also

2. notorious for Taking No Shit

Because people will be foul and nasty to each other and then I insert myself like “hello all of my Friends how is everyone today :) is everyone feeling Kind?”

Nobody tries to convince me they’re right. Nobody tries to get me on their side. They know I Take No Shit. Everybody just Plays Nice until I’m gone.

If only they would realize that they can Play Nice and also Take No Shit. It’s possible.

Play Nice is about being civil, not being a doormat.

I’m living life with everybody mad at me and nobody arguing with me. And if you never argue with me well then as far as I know we are Friends and I’m going to continue to treat you like a Friend.

You understand. Making people say what they mean really can shock them.

"You were not born with venom in your veins."

- @voiceofobrien

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I crafted two small spellbooks for this piece.

And overdyed/stained the ribbons with ink so they'd be more orange and purple.

Of course there's a Frumpkin (or two)

And while I didn't have a bead that said "hot boi", I did have...

are we the baddies: SFF subgenre focused on agents of an imperial power realizing that and grappling with what to do next, in contrast to stories focusing on the scrappy rebels resisting said imperial power

I could fix him (the empire): SFF subgenre where the colonized subject being nice and/or sexy enough Ends Colonialism, frequently tied to the John President of Racism problem

librarian bait: books centered on the transformative life-changing power of books and libraries, cousin to books focused on the transformative life-changing power of storytelling and narrative in general

college brochure fiction: stories where the protagonist has an artfully arranged group of diverse friends who are as flat as paper and whose cultural backgrounds never come up meaningfully

It hails from an immortal tumblr post by penultimate-step, except not immortal apparently because I get 'not found' when I try to go back to the original. So here's the text:

The bad news: Alecto is not finished. It will hopefully come out "soon" and will likely be fast tracked with few ARCs when it's finished.

The news you may take differently depending on your preferences: It is not being split.

The good news: It is not all written in Ye Olde Alecto speak (it sounds like Harrow's POV will be fairly major, but there will apparently be several narrators).

A slightly random selection of things I frantically scribbled down:

The protagonists of TLT would make an "absolutely shit" D&D party ("Palamedes and Camilla would be fine")

We could have had horse plinko and begone thot, but for the anti-meme ministrations of her editor. She would love an edition that puts all of the memes back in.

On Catholic imagery and lesbianism: "you ain't seen nothing yet"

"Harrow is now a believer without a church"

She said that while John and Alecto's relationship is not meant to be a 1:1 analogue to Humbert Humbert and Lolita, there is the idea of a man fashioning (something he thinks is) a girl into a perfect partner (the question of whether that is a sexual partner apparently may be relevant to ATN)

She does not have a favourite House and would just be a regular person in the world of TLT (though she would last about 0.5 seconds)

The tension between the Houses' ostensible gender equality and the misogyny that still persists is apparently also relevant to ATN. "John has set out to make a society on values he holds dear and cherishes and in some ways he has done really well... And in some way he has fucked it up beyond comprehension" (Maybe not an exact quote. My auditory processing is questionable.)

The backstory in NTN was planned right from the beginning

Lyctors "are not truly human any more. They've crystallised themselves" and "They have lost themselves and the only thing they've been able to hold on to is what other people make of them". She said she would have liked to make the Lyctors more alien but had to balance that with them being relatable narratively.

“The widely circulated timeline created by @Zerflin does a great job in showing how recently slavery & segregation occurred & that they lasted longer than the modern era. 

“I'd like to offer this timeline as another way of viewing the same period of history to show the constancy of both Black resistance in US & efforts of the white power structure to maintain racial caste since 1619.”

the leg pose is a luttle akward but that's just to show how the joints kinda just, yknow

without text:

only thing that really stays 100% the same is her wings. though i kinda draw them based on which i think would look better whenever drawing her, so it can vary. only important thing is that they should be big

Me: Oh? I am intrigued

Anyone ever: It is made with VEGAN LEATHER

Things that are perfect are dead things. Empty things. A silence beyond change or challenge. An endpoint. A blank page.

Which is to say, that now that I have a baby of my own, I understand so much better the common cultural practice in which unmarried women wear their hair loose and uncovered, while married women have their hair covered and/or bound back.