#things to read

It became a tradition to gather on the beach, when they could, to play dogfight football. Mav invented it to make them into a team, and they kept it up after they’d become even closer than that.

Bradley was flat on his back, hot and sandy.

Nat had shoulder-checked him down into the sand—nothing stood in the way of her urge to win, not even friendship—but it was Jake’s face he saw against the big blue sky.

It was Jake’s hand, pulling him up, and Jake’s mouth on his, an easy kiss.

This was a new tradition, too: them. Together.

I'm still rotating the whole concept of Mori in my head two weeks later. I don't think I've ever run across a character with a power quite like this one? Isolated future vision, sure, but nothing so comprehensive. Makes it impossible not to play god, because even if he did nothing whatsoever, it would still be choosing that future over other possibilities. There is no future where nobody dies and everybody is always happy, so every choice he makes becomes choosing who lives and who dies and knowing who those people are (at least until that branch evaporates). And knowing that a certain number of people will want him dead for this, to boot.

One of the characters in The Last Unicorn says something about there being a limit to how much one man can make or mar, even a very powerful wizard.

Chill if not im gonna call my library tomorrow either way.

I just started Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

(Sorry if ur not the person to ask for this i may have you confused for a different blog. I know theres an anthropologist and someone who works as a historian(?) sociologist(?) in the public sector(?) in a capacity that relates to indigenous people in america. I don’t know if they’re the same person)

Lol, I've never explicitly stated my job, but that's not necessarily an incorrect list of what I do. My job title and description doesn't technically include history, sociology, or anthropology, but I end up doing a lot of history research anyway and there's no way to turn off the anthropology brain. I do do work with Native American Tribal organizations.

(I won't lie, I'm frequently torn between wanting to talk about the specifics of my job but also I don't want to dox myself)

Unfortunately I know basically nothing about Texas-specific Indigenous history. Most of my work has focused on the Upper Midwest, and most of the books I've read have been more ethnographies rather than histories - most of my history knowledge on the topic has come from primary source documents, working with community members, and just generally accumulating information over the years. So I don't even really have history book recs. The closest I got on my bookshelf right now is an ethnography in the Arizona region: The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'odham Country by Gary Paul Nabhan.

-That title is really sad now that I finished

-They are so stupid about each other I adore them

- Much as I like “delicately arranging events for decades to get what he wants” Mori I also enjoy “Will fucking cut you if you touch his man” Mori