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“Onironautas: El peso de tu ausencia” necesita tu ayuda
Se trata de la historia de dos hermanos, dos puntos de vista y una enfermedad. La saga de Onironautas celebra su 5to año con un nuevo tomo autoconclusivo. ¿Te lo vas a perder? ¡Más info en el vídeo!
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Vuelvo a la carga con una breve reseña o artículo de opinión o como gustéis de llamarlo. Esta vez le ha tocado el turno a una novela que me ha marcado bastante este año y que leí por recomendación de Laurielle Maven. Se trata de “The long way to a small angry planet”, de Becky Chambers.
Título: The long way to a small, angry planet (Wayfarers #1) Autora: Becky Chambers Medio: novela Formato: ~500 páginas, disponible en eBook, libro, audiolibro y audioCD Género: Ciencia ficción, Space opera Precio: eBook a 1,19$ Amazon: link Goodreads: link Editorial: Hodder & Stoughton
«She had once read a paper by an Aeluon historian who suggested that the Harmagians’ physical frailty was exactly what had helped them develop a technological edge over other species. “Want and intelligence,” the historian had written, “is a dangerous combination.” — Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Esta novela (a la que a partir de ahora me referiré como Wayfarers para abreviar) se trata de una space opera muy peculiar y que no siento que pueda comparar con nada que haya visto antes. Reconozco que mi conocimiento sobre la ciencia ficción a nivel literario se restringe bastante a Asimov y alguna que otra novela suelta, pero sí que me he nutrido mucho de este género con otros medios como son el cine, las series de televisión, los cómics y los videojuegos. Aunque en general es un género que me ha satisfecho mucho, siempre me ha faltado algo en él. Wayfarers, aún sin ser una obra perfecta, ha entrado en ese hueco que tenía y se ha expandido llenando el vacío hasta llegar a unos límites que ni siquiera concebía que estuvieran ahí.
«The bug was nightmarish to look at, but it smelled incredible, and Rosemary was hungry enough to try anything. There was just one problem. She didn’t know how to eat it. Sissix must’ve seen her hesitancy, for the Aandrisk woman caught her eyes across the table. Sissix slowly, deliberately raised her knife and fork with her four-fingered hands, and began removing the shell in a practiced manner, popping off the legs first, then working open the underbelly at the seams. Rosemary mirrored her actions, trying not to appear too obvious in her lack of expertise. She appreciated Sissix’s subtlety, but she could not ignore the irony of an Aandrisk teaching her how to eat a Human dish.» — Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
La novela trata sobre la tripulación de una nave (la Wayfarer) que se encarga de hacer agujeros de gusanos como quien crea autopistas por el espacio. Mi impresión al terminar de leerla fue que cualquier otra obra de ciencia ficción se habría centrado en los emocionantes peligros que entraña ese “planeta furioso” al cual son enviados a trabajar. En cambio, Wayfarers es una novela intimista que no se enfoca en narrar esa gran aventura, sino que, como su título indica, se centra en el largo viaje que la tripulación debe recorrer hasta llegar hasta allí. Wayfarers es, literalmente, un camino de descubrimiento y exploración, tanto exterior como interior. Te presenta un universo de posibilidades, con una diversidad tan amplia que deja en ridículo a cualquiera de las tímidas inclusiones tanto de razas alienígenas como de temas Queer que alguna vez aparecen en el género. Un género que, de por sí, debería tener una predilección especial a acoger y explorar esto con los brazos abiertos. Y, sin embargo, no es lo habitual.
«Do not judge other species by your own social norms» — Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Además, por primera vez sentí que shipeaba dos personajes y, contra todo pronóstico, ese shipeo se volvió canon. No entraré en detalles por evitar spoilers, pero para mí fue en cierto modo liberador. No porque fuera “mi ship”, ni mucho menos, sino porque estoy cansada de que todas las obras que había visto/leído hasta la fecha jamás habrían contemplado siquiera la posibilidad de que una relación entre dos personajes así pudiera existir más allá de un sentimiento de “amor familiar”. Tanto es así, que yo misma daba ya por hecho que ese ship era algo imposible, que no tenía cabida a desarrollarse. Así que sí, cuando vi que daba ese paso, me emocioné. Mucho.
«Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.» — Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Para finalizar, ¿a quienes recomiendo la obra? Pues a cualquiera que busque en la literatura una temática space opera, con componentes LGBTQ y una gran diversidad de vida alienígena.
“I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder.” ― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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the Holy Trinity of my favorite dads
I’m not ace myself, so I’m coming at the whole acephobia thing from an outsider’s perspective, and as such, it’s not my place to speak to the experience of those on the receiving end of it.
However, as a bisexual dude, I can observe that many of the arguments that are employed to establish that ace folks have no place in the queer community are strikingly similar - indeed, at times practically word-for-word identical - to the arguments that were for many years (and in some circles still are) employed to establish that bisexual folks have no place in the queer community.
It’s enough to make a guy suspicious on general principle, you know?
I’ve gotten a few messages asking for (well, in some cases more “demanding”) elaboration, so: here are a few of the primary areas in which I’ve observed that arguments against bi inclusion and arguments against ace inclusion tend to exhibit significant overlap. There may well be others - these are simply the ones I’ve run into most frequently.
The Passing Argument
It has been argued that bisexual folks don’t have any grounds to complain about discrimination and violence suffered in relation to their orientation, because a bisexual person is able to pass as straight simply by choosing partners of the appropriate gender. Therefore, any discrimination and violence that a bisexual person does experience must be construed as voluntarily undertaken, since they could have passed, and freely chose not to.
This argument is similarly applied to ace folks via the assertion that being ace poses no particular barrier to seeking a partner of a socially acceptable gender, so any failure to do so must likewise be construed as voluntary.
The Performativity Argument
It has been argued that bisexual folks ought to be excluded from queer communities because sexual orientation is purely performative; i.e., being gay is defined in terms of currently having a sexual partner of the same gender. A bisexual person who has a partner of a different gender is functionally indistinguishable from a straight person, and must therefore be regarded as straight. Conversely, a bisexual person whose current partner is of the same gender must nonetheless be regarded with suspicion, because they could “turn straight” at any time simply by leaving that partner.
This argument is similarly applied to ace folks via the assertion that their orientation has no discernible performative component; an ace person is functionally indistinguishable from a straight person who simply isn’t involved in a sexual relationship at that particular moment, so ace folks must therefore be regarded as straight by default.
(An astute reader may notice that the passing argument dovetails neatly into the performativity argument: those who choose not to seek partners of a socially acceptable gender may be dismissed because any violence and discrimination they experience is a consequence of their voluntary failure to pass, while those who do seek such partners are performatively straight and therefore to be shunned. It’s a neat little system.)
The Mistaken Identity Argument
It has been argued that, while bisexual folks may suffer discrimination and physical and sexual violence, they’re not targeted by such acts because they’re bisexual. Any discrimination and violence a bisexual person suffers in relation to their orientation is suffered because they were mistaken for a gay person. Any effort on their part to discuss such experiences is therefore to be regarded as appropriative, in spite of the fact that they personally experienced it. In short, a bisexual person’s own experience of violence and discrimination doesn’t truly “belong” to them: it “belongs” to the purely hypothetical gay person their persecutors allegedly mistook them for.
This argument is applied to ace folks practically verbatim - no particular adaptation is necessary.
I’ll add The Contribution Argument, which involves one of these gatekeeping behaviors:
1) rewriting history to erase bisexual and asexual contributions to political LGBTQ rights movements, and then claiming that bisexuals and asexuals have never done anything for the community at large
2) arguing that modernday bisexuals and asexuals should be excluded from current political movements because our goals are distinct from, or even contradictory to the goals of the LGBTQ rights movement at large
3) interpreting any attempt on the part of bi/asexuals to make safe spaces for ourselves within the community as an attack on LG safe spaces, generally by reframing bi/ace pride as homo/lesbophobia, or by dismissing accusations of bi/acephobia as inherently homo/lesbophobic
In other words, arguing that bisexuals and asexuals, rather than being contributing members of the community, are parasites on the community, leeching from, and undermining the community and its goals.
The Contribution Argument is an interesting one because it goes way beyond popular biphobia.
It’s often been asserted that bisexual folks ought to be excluded from the LG community because that community is specifically for folks who experience homophobia, and bisexual folks don’t experience homophobia, save by misidentification. (See the Mistaken Identity Argument, above.)
However, anybody who’s over the age of 30 can tell you that the positioning of the experience of homophobia as the community’s great unifier is, itself, a relatively novel development.
Up until quite recently (and by “recently” I mean as recently as the mid 1980s), even lesbians were routinely characterised by the leaders of mainstream gay rights activism as unwelcome parasites, riding on the movement’s coattails and contributing nothing in return.
Not only is identifying the experience of homophobia - defined narrowly as discrimination against those who are actively involved in sexual relationships with persons of the same gender - as the sole qualifier for inclusion a totally arbitrary place to draw the line, it’s baldly ahistorical.
Historically, a great many folks who do experience this type of homophobia have routinely been left out in the cold by mainstream activism for gender and sexual minorities - and the Contribution Argument, as you’ve outlined it here, is one of the primary tools that’s been used to justify that exclusion.
Young Elliot & Rae.
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Elliot, Rae and Mael
I love this little big family <3

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I’d like to believe that the reason that the Amazons have the most EXTRA fighting style in existence is because they’re a warrior people with no war to fight so instead of just doing basic training like normal people, Antiope is like, “And now I’m going to teach you how to BACKFLIP off of a MOVING HORSE,” because they have to fill their time somehow.
#diana: why won’t you let me train as a warrior if we’re never going to go to war anyway? #antiope in the distance: LET’S TRY THAT AGAIN BUT THIS TIME ON FIRE #hippolyta: …i have my reasons (via @yesokayiknow)
Some of the avatar commissions I’ve been doing these past few months!
Look, mom, that’s me!
Yenay, teaching her daugther Helena archery.
A drawing of one of my favourite rpg characters ♥
“Onironautas: Conversaciones nocturnas” ya a la venta
Sí, aquí está, ¡por fin! ¡El recopilatorio de “Onironautas: Conversaciones nocturnas” ya está en papel! Muchas gracias a todos aquellos que habéis contribuido en este segundo preorder. Sin vosotros no sería posible ♥
Una vez realizados los envíos y asistido a los últimos eventos preveraniegos, he podido actualizar la tienda web. Así pues, si aún no tenéis vuestro ejemplar, ya podéis haceros con uno a traves de ella:
What You Say About Mental Illness vs What You Actually Mean.

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Las gafas de Randt: Ladronzuela
Hoy voy a dar comienzo a lo que espero que sean una serie de micro-reseñas de corte totalmente personal.
He elegido para la ocasión el cómic de “Ladronzuela”, de Michael Cho.
Título: Ladronzuela Autor: Michael Cho Medio: cómic Formato: A5, duotono, tapa blanda con solapas, 98 páginas Precio: 12,50€ Editorial: La Cúpula
No conocía a este autor antes de dar con Ladronzuela en la Fnac, por pura casualidad, pero su estilo de dibujo me capturó nada más verlo y tuve que hacerme con un ejemplar. Reconozco que no soy objetiva con esto, tengo cierta perdición por las tintas apinceladas y los duotonos. Y creo que Michael Cho lo usa de un modo singular. Me gusta especialmente el uso que hace del blanco y la ausencia de un lineart cerrado, lo cual deja a menudo a la imaginación las formas de las cosas con un efecto de sobrexposición casi fotográfico.
Una vez con el cómic en mi poder pude sumergirme en la trama. En Ladronzuela, Michael Cho nos muestra la vida de Corina Park. Una mujer como tantas otras que ha llegado a una vida adulta que está lejos de ser la soñada.
Su gran sueño de juventud de llegar a ser novelista se ha visto aparcado por la necesidad de encontrar un trabajo, un piso, una estabilidad, y posteriormente enterrado por el miedo de perder todo esto que ahora la sustenta. Se ve pues viviendo una rutina que no le satisface, sintiéndose ajena y alejada de una sociedad que parece resultarle disonante.
Personalmente, me resulta difícil no sentirme identificada con Corina. No porque me encuentre en esa misma situación; apenas he salido de la Universidad. Pero siempre he sido un poco “vieja de corazón” y a menudo temo verme arrastrada por ese mismo problema.
“Ladronzuela” es, mi opinión, una pequeña ventana a la insatisfacción ante la rutina del mundo moderno. Y es, en conclusión, una obra ligera que he disfrutado en muchos sentidos. Os la recomiendo.
Mi segundo nombre es tentación.—Angus || Angustias de la Tentación... AHORA TODO TIENE SENTIDO (no me mates Angus, porfaplis, no me eches del foro que me gusta muchooo x'DD)
¿Y qué pasa si mi madre quería que fuera niña cuando nací y toda su ilusión era que me convirtiera en monja?
—Angus