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Arcasian @arcasian.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thoughts on camping?

Artwork of three green frogs out camping. There are tree stumps, hollow logs, teal tens, and rocks all around them.

Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 1d

I'd love to see this book adapted for the screen—a miniseries would probably do it the most justice—through a more modern, queernormative lens. Expanding the assumed binary dominance to a wider nonbinary reality, and applying it to the discussed philosophical principles, would be fascinating.

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Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 1d

Finished!

Finished it a few hours ago, but I needed to sit with this one a while. When I picked it up, I wasn't expecting a story about Taoism, among many other things, and I feel Le Guin is far too clever for me to grasp in one read. This was extraordinairy; I can't wait to read it again.

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Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 3d

Today's book: "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

First book with the new library card! This was recommended to me as a feminist alternative to Heinlein. Judging by the introduction, Le Guin was intimidatingly intelligent. I am here for it.

💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

A photo of a paperback library book open in a reader's lap; a green bookmark lies across the lower righthand corner, hiding the words there. The visible page is the first chapter of Ursula K. Le Guin's novel "The Left Hand of Darkness", the chapter itself entitled "A Parade in Erhenrang".

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 2d

Hey it’s #AceWeek! 🖤🩶🤍💜

More people should realize that asexual advocacy isn’t just “people trying so hard to be oppressed becauss they’re loudly single.”

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Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 1d

"I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination."

—Genly Ai, from Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness"

💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence

The cover of Ursula K. Le Guin's novel "The Left Hand of Darkness": tall letters stand dark upon a white field, through the center of which lies a photograph of the sworling, frosted crag of a glacier frozen forever in its slow progress through dark waters beneath a steely sky.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 2d

For #Peachtober prompt "critter" my friend @leoniejonk.bsky.social and I did a lil collab of critters!! yay!!! We did about half the animals each!!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing with little drawn animals and critters scattered on a page, as well as some flowers and leaves. There's a dog, a cat, araccoon, a hedgehog, a lizard and so on.

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Lynne Perednia @perednia.bsky.social · 8d

"And I can only hope that you will take away a sound belief that--if you're searching for where you belong--you always have a home within yourself."

-- Tim Curry
VAGABOND
#SundaySentence

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alicia @justliketheweather.bsky.social · 2d

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art the art of words. - Ursula K. Le Guin
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#nokings

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 3d

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A drawing of a bird sitting on a branch surrounded by maple leaves. The caption reads, "I can embrace uncertainty. I can handle my life."

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Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 3d

Today's book: "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

First book with the new library card! This was recommended to me as a feminist alternative to Heinlein. Judging by the introduction, Le Guin was intimidatingly intelligent. I am here for it.

💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

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Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 4d

Library card acquired! It's been literal decades since I was last in a library (I know, I know...). I feel like Macaulay Culkin in "The Pagemaster".

Plus, 6 books left my shelves for new homes, and I found a secondhand copy of "The Hound of the Baskervilles"!

It's been a very good book day. 💙📚

A photo of two books stood upright on a bookshelf, obscuring most of the titles behind them, with a little ceramic turtle figurine squatting on their left. The lefthand book is a paperback Signet Classics copy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Hound of the Baskervilles", its cover deep blue and purple with whire and taupe lettering, and an image of an eerily backlit mansion on the edge of a shadowy wood. The righthand book is a paperback copy of Ursula K. Le Guinn's book "The Left Hand of Darkness", with an icy blue image of an iceberg centered on its otherwise cream-colored cover.

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Harlow 🏳️‍🌈 @readintowonderland.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Shine a Light Night, lovelies! 💬📚

Do you prefer lighter or darker covers? 💙📚✨

#QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

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Penguin Ponders @penguin-ponders.bsky.social · 5d

I like -colorful- covers. Not always appropriate for all genres, but they do catch my eye.

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makeshift 🎃👻🦇 @makeshiftwingsplush.com · 5d

a poison apple owl ☠

[ #plushart #sewingpattern #owl #halloween ]

A plush of a stylized owl shaped like an apple. It has drippy green "poison" running down its red body.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 5d

Goose on the loose!!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing of a goose sticking up its head among a bunch of flowers.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 6d

For Peachtober prompt "brush"! :)

#peachtober #art

A digital drawing of little cat characters scattered around the page, most of them doing artist things. There are also lots of flowers, a cup of coffee next to a cup of paint water, and so on.

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Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 6d

I realize I keep touting this one, but definitely "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers.

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Bob on Books @bobonbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Question of the Day: What book from this century would you consider a "must read"? #booksky

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Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 6d

I think there's room in the world for both modern reinterpretations and reimaginings as well as faithful recreations. Adaptations should respect their source material regardless, but that doesn't mean Sherlock Holmes can't hound Moriarty in the 21st century, nor garden gnomes reenact Romeo & Juliet.

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Bob on Books @bobonbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Question of the Day: When classic books or plays are staged or adapted to the screen, should they be updated or should they reflect the original context? #booksky

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Fox Brassing | SFFH Author Musician @foxbrassing.bsky.social · 6d

Has social media ruined long-form books? Discuss. 👇
#booksky 📚💙

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Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 6d

I wouldn't say so, although it tends to be more difficult to hold a nuanced discussion on social media as compared to less limiting avenues of communication.

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Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, and "The Thing on the Doorstep" is a short I'd recommend. I genuinely enjoyed that one, for whatever reason.

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Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 6d

If you can compartmentalize enough to analyze his work separate from his racism, sexism, ableism, etc. (I couldn't), some of his work is worth at least one read; he's a pillar of horror for a reason. I liked the atmosphere of "The Shadow over Innsmouth". "At the Mountains of Madness" dragged for me.

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RunicWren @runicwren.bsky.social · 7d

All love triangles would be improved by being poly instead

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 7d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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