Another sketch inspired by the talk with Lou.

If anyone wants to read something like this, take a look »here«. Here the themes of wedding au and barbarians au are combined into one. (The sketch is not related to the thread.)

HEY SO today I spent most of the day reading Tiger Tiger by @pepurika instead of writing Book Three and YOU SHOULD TOO*!!

It's about a runaway noblewoman-turned-captain who is extremely into sea sponges, the eldritch-horror-god who she's accidentally made into a pet, her brother who is Trying His Best while being terribly in love with his First Mate, and the First Mate who is very large and beautiful and foolish.

IT'S GREAT.

Go read it, the characters are awesome, the art is gorgeous, and the worldbuilding is extremely cool.

So, you wanna get into public Vandalism?

anon of course! and I'm opening this ask up to any feminists who've done more reading than I have. My current Big Recommendation is Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins. Writing wise, it's super accessible (stay away from the voice that academics use when talking about theory). She talks extensively about Black women as a people, culture, and political force. Her second edition, the one I'm reading now, is inclusive of queer sexuality and gender as other axes in the matrix of domination that Black women must contend with. I haven't reached that section yet, though.

There's a free PDF available online if you just Google it. I'd say this is my first time really reading feminist theory--everything else I've read both online and off, in class and outside class, has touched on feminism in bits and pieces or just mentioned gender and sexuality relations without talking about feminism in particular. I'm using Black Feminist Thought as a jumping off point to read other feminist works by other (largely) Black women, since Collins cites so many.

Another good book is Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell. This one isn't feminist-based, but I do recall gender and gendered relations/expectations being part of the core text. If I'm also recalling correctly, there was an issue of class reductionism at the end, but the great thing about reading theory is that you don't have to accept everything the author says as the Gospel truth, especially when we have evidence to the contrary.

Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y. Davis is one that looks at the prison system as a reform to previous systems of punishment, and then focuses on how women are affected by the current prison system and gendered expectations both within and outside that system.

A book that isn't explicitly feminist but definitely brings up issues for those feminists who care about the intersections of reproduction, medicine, and culture is Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States by Brigitte Jordan, Robbie Davis-Floyd. I loved it.

Most of my education on feminism was in bits and pieces. I'd read through portions of feminists works here, or read through threads and debates on social media talking about different types of feminism. I have the very online upbringing in feminist thought, like many feminists. I also learned what I could in college, but I genuinely don't remember those readings and I don't know if i could find them now, sorry 😭. Part of my learning to critique capitalism was reading anti-capitalist works by men and training myself to see the gaps in their knowledge. Their statistics, their theories, their hypotheses, etc, frequently failed to include women. So I'd ask myself -- if women were included in this analysis of the division of labor, how would it change? Which women? Poor women, Black women, immigrant women? What are their lives and histories like now that would influence the outcome of this work?

Also don't be scared not to just take everything at face value. Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay was originally going to go on this list, but I don't recall much of it outside her scrabble chronicles, her acknowledgement that she still listens to music with misogynistic lyrics, and her disagreement that trigger warnings are that good of an idea. I take issue with the second and disagree with the third.

And thank you for all the forms of art your making !

Hi anon, I actually read TNotW when it first came out (twenty-odd years ago…….help) and while I don’t remember all that much of it, I do recall having enjoyed it - so I’m glad my writing reminds you of something I think I was otherwise fond of. 

Ty for the rec; here is a recent doodle of one of my OCs, Egg, as thanks •⩊•

transcendence (245063 words) by chuuyasporkie Chapters: 20/? Fandom: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs), Akutagawa Ryuunosuke/Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs), Akutagawa Ryuunosuke & Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs), Minor or Background Relationship(s), Nakahara Chuuya & Paul Verlaine (Bungou Stray Dogs) Characters: Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs), Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs), Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (Bungou Stray Dogs), Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs), Sakaguchi Ango (Bungou Stray Dogs), Port Mafia Ensemble (Bungou Stray Dogs), Armed Detective Agency Ensemble (Bungou Stray Dogs), Paul Verlaine (Bungou Stray Dogs), The Guild Ensemble (Bungou Stray Dogs), Decay of Angels Ensemble (Bungou Stray Dogs), Hunting Dogs Ensemble (Bungou Stray Dogs), Louisa May Alcott (Bungou Stray Dogs) Additional Tags: Do Not Repost or Reupload Anywhere, Soukoku | Double Black (Bungou Stray Dogs), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Decay of Angels Arc (Bungou Stray Dogs), Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Oda Sakunosuke Lives (Bungou Stray Dogs), Dazai Osamu Lives (Bungou Stray Dogs), Nakahara Chuuya-centric (Bungou Stray Dogs), Nakahara Chuuya is So Done (Bungou Stray Dogs), Nakahara Chuuya Uses Corruption (Bungou Stray Dogs), BAMF Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs), It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Canon-Typical Violence, Mutual Pining, Parallel Universes, Mirrored Realities, Hurt/Comfort, chuuya's out here saving lives and kicking ass and not getting paid nearly enough, Blood and Injury, Blood and Violence, Chronic Illness, Mind Control, Mental Health Issues, Psychological Torture, (will not be as bad as it sounds but still), Minor Character Death, Espionage, Plot Twists, and despite all that, Fluff and Humor, Romance, (the slowburn kind that will eventually kill us all), Platonic Relationships, Found Family, Banter, excessive yearning from all parties involved, i cannot stress enough on how unserious and dramatic this fic is., but love exists in its every crevice. the love will conquer in the end., every and all kinds of love, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke is Bad at Feelings (Bungou Stray Dogs), Dazai Osamu Needs a Hug (Bungou Stray Dogs), (they all get one eventually), Fluff, all characters will appear and most will play a crucial role, i am cradling them in my hands very gently and promise to do them justice, Additional warnings in every chapter, however, Additional Tags May Be Added, Angst with a Happy Ending, I promise, let's hope we get there in one piece, Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued, this fic will no longer be finished due to the author's passing. Summary:

If you could redo it all, what would you change?