andie, she/her, 26, united states. this blog is full of Tolkien. also other art, photos, fandoms, and big-eyes-emoji stuff, but mostly Tolkien. i tag! my girlfriend is bright ivanaskye, who is a lot, but not too much
implying that their very attractive parents were not also mushroom
gnomes??? I am insulted. also imagine a lil mushroom gnome with a
silmaril on his brow sailing the wide ocean that’s the cutest thing ever
YES THIS IS A CORRECT CONCEPT SOMEBODY DRAW THIS
I’m just saying… if tolkien wants to call the noldor gnomes he can let us draw them in wee mushroom hats!!!
ohhhh this is why earendil was a smol in the BOLT……elwing/earendil looking like jessica and roger rabbit…..
The “Uglies” series is kind of in the same vein as “aren’t the
Youths and the Internet and Culture so Vapid and we’re all being Kept
Stupid By The Powers That Be”
omg i have a vague recollection of reading the blurbs of this series while haunting my high school library and they looked dumb as shit even then when i was a super snobbish I’m Not Like Other Teenagers type of kid
ALSO OBVIOUSLY how could I forget siddhartha by herman hesse. Most
orientalist imaginable take on Buddhism. I swear half my totally
inaccurate impressions of Buddhism I had before u corrected me came from
that one book SPECIFICALLY
O MY JESUS i have thankfully not even attempted to expose myself to hesse’s take hhhhhhh burn down european intellectuals’ hot takes on religions
I think Malka Older’s Infomacracy books are good enough hot takes on
the Internet by actually being excellent hot takes on democracy and
super specific classical-IR conceptions of interdependency in a
multi-state anarchic arena. It’s like political scientist porn with
Internet shenanigans thrown in for good measure. Interesting enough to
excuse the cardboard characters!
omffffggggg i am a poly sci major……classical-IR hot takes sound hilarious are there any realism burns
Canticle for Liebowitz was written in 1959. The one on-screen woman
may in fact be two named female characters rather than one? She
certainly thinks she is. 90% of other characters are monks. It’s an odd
book. (I love it but recognise there are a lot of reasons Not To)
ALSO Canticle for Leibovitz which in addition to assuming that
obviously in the inevitable apocalyptic future we will have medieval
Catholicism 2: electric boogaloo….. manages to, as a sweeping SF epic,
have exactly no female characters. I think there is only one named woman
in the story at all and she’s some disfigured woman who gives prophecy
and is vaguely motherly I think. Yup.
Oh you PERSONALLY would hate the Samaria series by Sharon Shinn bc
the big reveal is that Actually, all the angels and abrahamic coded
stuff now is due to genetic modification and “God” is actually a
spaceship and it’s in the far future. However mostly it is just a cute
series abt angels falling in love with humans so I was ok w it
IUHEFHERFUJEHEFJED [elrond voice] CAST THIS CONCEPT INTO THE FIIIIIIIRE…..DESTROOOOOOOYYYY IIIIIITTT…..
OH. Speaking of magical realism YA HOW ABOUT MAGONIA, the one where
the character’s chronic lung disease is bc she’s actually supposed to be
a bird person (yup) with a bird living in her lungs (uh huh) and
there’s a secret society of air ship bird people in the sky who actually
cause sunsets when they have funerals. Yup, that’s what sunsets are.
Not a feature of the world being round or anything
hfhfhjfjfjfd AND ON THE FLIP SIDE OF UR ABOVE ANTI-REC…..THIS SOUNDS CUTE AS FUCK TO ME……TOTALLY MY JAM…..especially the sunset thing ^_^
Also, Dawn Song, which is utterly joyless all the way through, and
even disregarding that one scene which very directly states that all
diagnoses of what is now called dissociative identity disorder are false
and due to lying psychiatrists (yikes), it strongly STRONGLY implies
that one of the main character’s suicides at the end was a good thing bc
the world Just Sucks That Much.
ok this sounds like Some Extreme Bullshit what author was this by?
Also also Feed by M T Anderson is the MOST sour grapes abt like,
internet implants in ppl’s heads… this is bad terrible bad bc uhhhh
Technology Corrupts. Gotta love conflating the concept of a technology
with its worst possible manipulation under capitalism.
hey bab…..what percentage of the books u have read in ur life have u LIKED…..anyway hot takes on the internet age have all been embarrassing so far as far as i have heard….if there are any good ones they’ve never crossed my path
I was ENTRANCED by Many Waters as a child, but I am terrified to
look at it again now, twelve years since my last reading. I think it’s
because the twins are most relatable as projection screens for clueless
baby gays
gSJHDFBSHDFDJH okay first THANK YOU “entranced” is exactly the right description of the effect of many waters, second oh my fucking god that makes way too much sense……i was not a kid when i read it tho, so i don’t think i would be hugely let down by the twins…..i should read it again sometime
And Mary Doria Russell’s The Children of God, in a prime example of
sequels destroying everything that was good about the first book. Way to
make your Jewish protag the bad guy in a heavy-handed Holocaust
metaphor from which she must be saved by the uber-enlightened Catholic,
Mary
OTOH, magical realism can be bad too, as demonstrated by The
Mistress of Spices, which avoids all the interesting cooking magic
which could have been expanded upon in favor of a) sexualizing ~exotic~
Native Americans and b) destroying the Bay Area
Reprehensibly representing YA, we have The Strange and Beautiful
Sorrows of Ava Lavender, which is so freaking predictably rapey, boring,
and sexist, and also, IF YOU CAN’T WRITE GOOD MAGICAL REALISM MAYBE
DON’T RIP IT OFF. Leave it to Anna Marie McLemore, you hack
The Regional Office is Under Attack! – Fanboy version Black Widow
thinks about how hot she is for 400 pages, oh yeah, and technically
there’s a heist happening. Worldbuilding? what’s that?
I AM REALIZING REGRETTABLY THAT I REALLY “DON’T” “KNOW” ANY FANTASY OR SCI FI BOOKS BASICALLY EVERYTHING HERE IS UNHEARD OF TO ME
ephal ephalak idon hi-akallabeth 