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when an ancient roman statue appears to be plain white marble but then you see a reconstruction of what it looked like when it was painted

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On a job application: “What is your preferred name and gender, we value diversity, so be honest.” Me: 

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Things a sphinx can ask instead of riddles

- Complex maths problems

-Advice on basic housekeeping

- Impenetrable deep fandom references that 10 people, none of whom were involved with the work in question, understand

-Internet Captchas

-highly personal dating site questions

-Bank Identity verification questions

-just requests for reassurance, the sphinx isn’t feeling so hot today

-Christmas Cracker jokes

-one question, which is “when is the GM’s birthday”, and also the answer is today and you all forgot :(

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Discourse: Willy Wonka is Old Testament God

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Scotland has created an official tartan for Scottish Muslims: blue for the Scottish flag, green for Islam, w/ five white lines representing the five pillars of Islam, six gold lines representing the six articles of faith, and a black square representing the Holy Kabah. 

If you’re not Scottish, you might not know how big of a deal this is. Quoting Attire’s Mind: “This is a signal that they are not only just a full part of Scotland now, but family. Clans, as defined by tartans, are large scale families, and the totality of them encompass the family of the Scottish people. “ 

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my dad always tells me that when he’s with people bragging about their kids’ accomplishments and such he goes “yeah but are they like ....cool?” and the parents always give him a confused look and he goes “are they cool? my kids are so cool. i love hanging out with them.” and it always throws people off and i think that’s so funny and sweet like i may be a fucking idiot with just about zero accomplishments but at least my dad thinks i’m cool

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Science fiction and fantasy books by Asian authors! Because not all SFF is by white men, and I want to shout about some awesome books by authors of color. I cannot stress enough that this is only a small sample of the books out there! I didn’t have nearly enough space to include all the marvelous Asian authors writing either in the English language or who have books translated into English. 

Actually, speaking of translation, Ken Liu (whose short story collection is above) does a lot of work translating Chinese science fiction into English. Also, Clarkesworld is particularly good about publishing translated stories from China.

Obviously, most of the authors featured here have more than one book! I was sticking to one book per author so that I can fit as many people in as possible.  

You can add more authors in the reblogs and replies! However, please only suggest Asian authors, not white authors writing Asian characters. 

If you like this post, I have another that’s for queer SFF by authors of color. 

Below the cut you will find:

A list of all the books included above with links to Goodreads

A list of some free short stories you can read legally online 

Information on trigger warnings for some select titles

Keep reading

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i couldn’t rest until i made this

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I always imagined Lup and Barry would be like Wash and Zoe 

Buy me a coffee? 

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having cash is like having secret money. like whos gonna find out i’m buying tacos with this crisp $20 bill??? not my bank account, that’s for sure

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Most shows with overpowered supernatural characters always try to come up with elaborate excuses to explain why the characters can’t just magic themselves out of every situation. Good Omens doesn’t really do that, but you don’t really question it because you completely buy that these morons are so unequivocally incompetent that they straight up forget that they have the powers of fucking demigods. They’re like high-level d&d characters who only use the same three moves and have completely forgotten about the 73 magic items sitting in their inventory.