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Jane Yolen was a Jewish-American children’s author, poet, and young adult novelist. Yolen wrote more than 400 books for children and adults,
If you didn’t become acquainted with the work of Jane Yolen as a student being assigned her famous, award-winning Holocaust time travel nove
If you didn’t become acquainted with the work of Jane Yolen as a student being assigned her famous, award-winning Holocaust time travel novella “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” it’s likely you will once you become a parent, reading one of her many, many, many books for kids. My young boys are especially partial to her “How Do Dinosaurs?” series with its captivating, realistic dinosaur illustrations and snappy, funny text (and yes, there’s a Hanukkah “How Do Dinosaurs” book).
The prolific children’s book author, who was the recipient of multiple children’s book awards and six honorary doctorates, passed away this week at age 87. She was just about to release her 450th book. “Monsters of Fife: Terror Birds” will come out posthumously on July 14.
Yolen wasn’t raised particularly Jewish, and her exposure to religion was mostly at relatives’ homes, she recounted in a piece for the Jewish Book Council. As a teen, she did become fascinated with Jewish texts and traditions, getting confirmed at her local Reform synagogue; she was one of the first girls to read from the Torah on the bimah at that temple. And she minored in religious studies at Smith College.
But it took a while for Judaism to become part of her children’s book-writing career. In fact, she was two decades into her career when she got “noodged” into writing Jewish tales.
It all happened in the 1980s, she wrote in her essay for the Jewish Book Council: “One of my editors, who happened to be a rabbi’s wife, asked me why I had never written a Jewish book. And I had to think long and hard about that. And she noodged. Boy! Was she an expert noodge. The result was ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic.’ And then the Jewish stories began to tumble out.”
The books that came tumbling out were as gripping and wonderful and magical as the rest of her oeuvre.
There came magical stories about Jews and dragons and golems (co-written with her son, Adam Stemple).
She published illustrated books about Miriam and other biblical women (and even the children’s book adaptation of the famous “Prince of Egypt”).
She came up with her own twist on the tales of the Wise Men of Chelm.
She perhaps became most known for her three young adult tomes that tackle the Holocaust in novel ways. She wrote the “Sleeping Beauty” inspired “Briar Rose” and the “Hansel and Gretel”-esque “Mapping the Bones.” And of course, she penned the Nebula Prize Winning “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” about a Jewish teen who finds herself transported to 1942 Poland, which continues to be taught in schools to this very day, even as one Texas school district pulled it out of the curriculum for AI-detected “DEI content.” The book was famously turned into a 1999 film starring Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Paul Freeman and Mimi Rogers.
Yolen also wrote books about Jewish holidays: “Milk and Honey,” and the lovely “Jewish Tale Feasts” (with her daughter, author Heidi Stemple), a book that my Jewish food-loving family adores.
Heidi, Adam and their brother Jason were all by their mother’s side when she “passed gently with no pain or stress,” Heidi shared on Instagram. Adam was playing his music while Heidi read from her mother’s book “Owl Moon.”
“As you all probably know, she had one of the most brilliant creative minds of our time,” Heidi wrote of her mother. “She has mentored, inspired and nurtured so many authors and illustrators through her words both on the page and off. But, beyond that, she was our mother and grandmother.”
May Jane Yolen’s memory be for a blessing; her books will certainly remain part of our lives for a long, long time.
I technically finished Farscape close to a year ago but I'm trying to clean up some of my drafts so here's what I wrote down soon after:
I really didn't get invested in the Scarrans as villains. The problem wasn't that I didn't like them, it's that by the time they were around I was kind of checking out from the series and I didn't really much care. Part of this might be that we spent so long with the Peacekeepers as a threat that I had a hard time reeling from the guys we've been fleeing from all series suddenly being the lesser of two evils.
My headcanon for how Grayza can do the pheromone thing is that she's part Delvian.
I think it's really funny that the S4 finale cliffhanger gets undone within the first fifteen minutes of PKW1. They really just used it as revival bait because they knew ending the series like that would be super dissatisfying.
It felt like Moya basically disappeared from S4. Like, they were still *on* her, but I swear there were some episodes where she's not mentioned at all, and probably more where the only stuff we get from her is "Moya's frightened / having trouble." I feel like this is especially weird, considering S4 is coming right off the death of her son. At least in S1 when Moya's characterization consisted of "Moya's frightened / having trouble" it gave the characters a bit more of a challenge to work around.
I feel weird about how Chiana's arc progressed. It feels like by late S3 the writers were running out of ideas for what to do with her, hence the future vision stuff. While I get that a lot of the characters leaving was actually determined by the actors, I feel like it would've been more interesting for Chiana to leave the crew for a while rather than just be there, the writers throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. This also ties in to something I've seen pointed out: they forgot about the Nebari. Yeah, at the end of PKWars the Peacekeepers and Scarrans are gonna play nice, but what's gonna happen when the Nebari launches their attempt to take over the galaxy? Maybe she could reunite with Nerri / the Nebari Underground and go with them?
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TL;DR: Many post-apocalyptic dystopian stories are direct imitations of the Western genre, most significantly through the way classic Westerns depict 'pre-society' while post-apoc dystopians depict 'post-society', but I think when you compare the two most influential works in these genres (The Dollars Trilogy and Mad Max, respectively), you can pick out a more nuanced understanding of what really relates the two genres and how they exist in relationship to each other.
Many post-apocalyptic works act as purposeful imitations or adaptions of the Western genre, sometimes super-imposed with a sci-fi or dystopian bent. I could give a long list - Cormac McCarthy's the Road, the Walking Dead, Fallout: New Vegas, Trigun, Mandalorian etc. Notably, in many instances the apocalypse is through nuclear warfare (the most common reason for any apocalypse!), although many give a more simple environmentalist bent or a 'Rat Utopia' situation.
A unifying factor between all of these works, and that they purposefully draw from Westerns, is the idea of a society without civilization. Lawless wastelands, ruled by violence, where people act purely out of self-interest and in which the cruel powerful rule over the powerless. If there is kindness in the wasteland, then it's found within these powerless, but as a result kindness can be ineffectual or doomed. The continuity here is from how Westerns can be viewed as 'pre-society' and how dystopians are 'post-society'. Westerns have no civilization because Mexico owned it it just hasn't been invented yet, while dystopians have no civilization because mankind squandered it in hubris and self-destruction. You can see two very different viewpoints of humanity from this, which is highly indicative of the different ways humanity viewed itself in the 1950s and in the 1980s (Modern day postapoc westerns are drawn from the '80s. Mad Max, basically, which I'll get to).
This isn't a very novel reading, and you can draw a great deal from both genres regarding their relatively pessimistic view of human nature and probably bring some deeper analysis of the connection between the two there. So I'll just draw out two (semi) trilogies that are the foundational works in both genres and bring up why I find them both interesting specifically in context to each other.
Mad Max vs Dollars Trilogy: Who's More Insane? The Answer Is Always That Psychopath Clint Eastwood under the cut.
Imagine the Western I just described up there. There's a Mexican standoff. There's a one street town and a cantina. A lone cowboy wanders the desert. If you like Red Dead Redemption just imagine that. Congratulations, that's the Dollars Trilogy: a trilogy of 1960s movies starring Clint Eastwood that started the Spaghetti Western genre. Made of A Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, and a movie you probably know called The Good The Bad and The Ugly. Notably, and somewhat difficult to understand today, it is a deconstruction of the OG Western genre, and thus redefined how we think of a Western. Original Westerns had good guys and bad guys, white hats and black hats - Dollars trilogy suggests that, in a lawless wasteland, maybe good and bad wouldn't even exist, and maybe everything would come down to who was quickest with a gun.
Imagine the post-apoc Western I just described. If you're a Fallout: New Vegas fan just do that. Great, you just imagined Mad Max. You're probably familiar with Mad Max: Fury Road, the greatest movie of all time bar none, but I'm talking about the first 1979 movie.
The Mad Max series is, I believe, a direct reaction to the Dollars Trilogy. Mad Max: Road Warrior is literally just A Fistful of Dollars, both in visuals and imagery and worldbuilding and the role of the main character and in the important story beats. Road Warrior is the same as a Fistful of Dollars in a lot of ways, but honestly the 1979 movie I think enters into a conversation with the Dollars trilogy.
The 1979 movie is basically about a society that doesn't realize it's been destroyed. It is unique from every apoc movie I listed up there in the fact that the degradation was slow. The characters don't even realize it. The world is functioning, the police exist, but everything's degraded and shambling. The government is desperately trying to prop up a painted curtain of civilization and heroes (including cop Max, their propaganda classical hero...a White Hat, if you will...) but there is nothing behind the curtain. By the end of the movie, even the symbol of civilization Max had gone...Mad, losing all civility to the call of violence and insanity. The second, third, and fourth Mad Max movies are purely classic postapoc dystopia craziness! But the first movie is about the slow death of a society kept artificially alive - as Max says when he sees the burned body of his friend kept alive only by life support, "Whatever that is, it's not my friend."
Max self-ejects from society, tortures and kills a guy, and turns into the amoral psychopath that Clint Eastwood plays, who I'll call Blondie (imagine the Mandalorian, except if he was a terrible person). Blondie is an insane asshole and does maybe two nice things over 3 movies he's a nut he's insane I love him I hate him. Blondie is a self-insert, cool guy, don't-give-a-damn figure who every 10 year old in the 1960s and also your dad wants to be - and it is a very sad thing that Max turned into that, because society makes people like Max and Blondie and they are products of their lawless and violent environment. Max, in the first movie, is basically scared that he's turning into the amoral psychopath Blondie - and by the end of it, he has become Blondie, he's become the Western cowboy, the cool post-apoc wandering hero, and it's incredibly tragic. They both posit that a nonsocietal world is cruel, violent, and short in the exact same way, showing that this apocalypse turns Maxes into Blondies.
Any Western is about, essentially, the slow death of the West. Trains encroach. The Civil War begins, or continues, or ends. Towns pop up, large businesses start, someone builds a WalMart. The West always dies, and the romanticism lies within its inevitable end and the beginning of what we understand as society. Mad Max is about the slow death of society, the withdrawal of technology, and there are probably no WalMarts. It's slow. It changes people. There is an inevitable death, either at the beginning or the end. Like Max is changed, like the Civil War eventually encroaches into Blondie's life, there is a strong sense of impermanence.
But that's why I consider Mad Max 1979 kind of the greatest example of the postapoc Western, and why it's oft imitated but never matched. Mad Max 1979 understands that the world doesn't end with a bang, but with a whimper. And maybe it's ended already, and we just haven't admitted it to ourselves. And I think it has a perfect understanding of of the Western in a way that the media I listed above doesn't have, and why I think it's a pretty affecting continuation, reaction, and response to these Westerns and the Dollars trilogy especially.
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People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.
weird phenomenon where a writer is generally good enough that they don't just phone it in on any major characters but they also have a lot of unexamined prejudices (particularly racism and misogyny) so they do end up write interesting, multifaceted female and of color characters but just. fumble them in strange and unusual ways. like they've done the legwork to write someone fun and layered but care a lot less about them than others and clearly don't expect any audience members to really be pulling for them. it's difficult to explain but it's such a distinct flavor of Problem.
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif
An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.
Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.
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Some stuff in there that looks very timeless, unfortunately. One thing I quickly learned to pay attention to was the medium, as that's sometimes a clue.
I am challenging myself to something frankly insane. I am going to try and watch every film in the National Film Registry, which is run by the Library of Congress and collects American films deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." There are 925 in there at the moment, they add new ones (up to 25) each year.
The things that make this at least a little easier than it could be: Some of these films are shorts, some are only a few seconds long (mostly these are early films). Additionally, a lot of these films are well beloved by mass media, so I have given myself an out: If I watched the film prior to the start of this challenge at all, I do not have to watch it again. This means I don't have to do a repeat watch through of, say, Toy Story or the og Star Wars Films. Also, there's no time limit I'm giving myself. I expect this to take several years or maybe even a decade. Whatever. The time will pass anyway. I'm not as insane as a person one of my sorority friends know about who's trying to watch the entire Criterion Collection.
Current standing: 47/925 (5%)
The two ones I'm reccing that I don't think are very well known are Hester Street and The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, both of which I watched in a women's history class.
Hester Street is a drama focusing on Jewish immigrants in early 1910s NYC, with particular focus being put on Gitl (Carol Kane), who's immigrated to be with her husband Yankel "Jake" and has a hard time assimilating to the same extent he has.
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is a documentary interview of five women --three Black, two white-- who worked in manufacturing jobs during WWII. Their recounting of their experiences are intercut and contrasted with popular media about the titular Rosie.
Under the cut: Every film I've Watched so far (ordered in reverse chrono by induction year). All the films under the cut. I've marked my favorites with a ⭐.
The Incredibles ⭐ -- Childhood watch and favorite
Spy Kids ⭐ -- Childhood watch and favorite
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan -- Childhood watch, ok
The Nightmare Before Christmas ⭐ -- Watched recently, was pretty good but I'm not Christian so I don't really "get" it. Loved the animation tho
Iron Man -- watched a few years back w/ Dad, pretty good
The Little Mermaid -- childhood watch. liked it well enough
When Harry Met Sally -- Watched with sorority. Not my favorite but had some good laughs
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Read Fellowship for a book project in 7th or 8th grade and watched the film afterwards. I liked it a lot :)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi ⭐ -- Childhood watch, lifelong SW fan :)
Shrek ⭐ -- Childhood watch, really funny
Sleeping Beauty ⭐ -- Childhood watch. Aurora was one of my favorite Disney princesses (along with Mulan and unforch, Pocahontas)
Cinderella -- childhood watch
The Goonies -- Watched with family during pandemic. ok.
The Lion King ⭐ -- Childhood favorite
The Princess Bride ⭐ -- Watched first while staying with family for Thanksgiving, had initial reaction to the title "Princess Bride" like the boy in the film. Now an all time favorite!
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze -- :/
Ghostbusters -- Watched for halloween one year, a lot less ghostbusting than you'd think. meh :/
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- Childhood watch, ok.
Mary Poppins ⭐ -- Childhood favorite
A Christmas Story -- Watched recently around Christmas, ok, but I'm not Christian so I don't really "get" it
Forrest Gump ⭐ -- Watched w/ 10th grade APUSH class. Loved the music
Hester Street ⭐ -- Watched w/ college women's history class. really liked it.
Airplane! ⭐ -- Lots of laughs
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back ⭐ -- Lifelong SW fan :), this one's my favorite SW film
Newark Athlete -- :/
The Muppet Movie -- Childhood watch, ok. Was a muppets fan.
Michael Jackson's Thriller -- Watched when my college band did a Michael Jackson show and danced thriller. Liked it alright.
Back to the Future -- I don't like it.
Toy Story -- Childhood watch. Pretty good
Enter the Dragon -- Watched summer of 2025. Pretty good.
Dickson Experimental Sound Film -- :/
Alien ⭐ -- Watched Winter 2024-5. Liked it well enough.
Demolishing and Building Up the Star Threatre -- :/
Jaws ⭐ -- Liked it a whole lot!
The Kiss ⭐ -- very sweet
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark -- Watched one year after coming home from Disneyworld. Was fine.
The Ten Commandments -- Childhood watch. was fine.
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage ⭐ -- Sought this out on my own. not the kind of thing you "enjoy" per se but very historically significant. Where the phrase "Oh the humanity!" comes from
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter ⭐ -- Watched in the same class as Hester Street, really liked it.
Blacksmith Scene -- :/
Pinocchio -- Childhood watch, not my favorite.
The Godfather Part II -- Watched Fall 2025, was very good but not as good as Part I, I liked the parts with young Vito.
2001: A Space Odyssey -- Watched 2024 I think? I like Hal and hate all the slander he gets for the film.
The Godfather ⭐ -- Watched Fall 2025. The hype is real.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- Childhood watch, was ok.
Star Wars: A New Hope ⭐ -- Lifelong SW fan :)
The Wizard of Oz -- Watched with family at some point. Pretty good but didn't see it early enough for it to be particularly nostalgic. Saw it first via school play.
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concept: gas station with those pneumatic tubes they have at banks so they can deliver your little treats straight to the pump without having to go inside. all of the drinks explode immediately upon opening from the force of going through the tubes but it's a small price to pay for convenience.
Type of thing a professional historian WOULD say, admittedly, but part of why I care about historical accuracy in fiction is that I think it’s kind of disrespectful to assume everyone has the same experiences you have. Which of course leads to the second part, that is, I think it’s good to practice thinking about people who do not experience the world the way you do
at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you
at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.
at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly
at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.
at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.
At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.
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