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Great reminders from @positivelypresent

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#four horsemen of the apocalypse: relatable version

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Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.

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What kind of person are you when dealing with problems?

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person: hey are you okay?

me: *actually decomposing* yeah why

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my favorite thing about brooklyn 99 is that my favorite character is literally whichever character happens to be speaking at any given moment they’re all so good

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I’ve never been so satisfied watching a bearded dragon eat blueberries. 12/10 must watch!

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aight fuckers I’m doing it I’m spending a full $4 to watch the first lotr movie, for the first time

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So my boss once robbed a museum to prove a point and honestly, I think she is my new role model. 

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“What happens at the beginning of Ragnarok is so destabilizing for both Thor and Loki. They are all they have; as in, there’s nothing left. Everyone’s gone—Odin’s gone, Frigga’s gone, the Warriors Three are gone, Asgard is basically gone. And so Thor and Loki turn to each other and say, you’re all I have left. And actually, that’s enough.” - Tom Hiddleston [Empire Podcast]

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This woman confronts racism in the funniest way possible.

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Uncitizens,

An Unkindness of Ghosts, my debut novel about a young (disabled, intersex, lesbian/queer) Black woman living in the slums of a generation ship, came out October 2017.

I’ve been really honored by the overwhelmingly positive response; however, I wanted to do a little bit of book-related outreach, to make sure anyone who might be interested in Unkindness has at least heard of it! So this is my little masterlist post of all the reasons you might want to buy this book or pick it up from your library! tl;dr, it’s gay as shit. 

1) Okay, so it feels decidedly notgood to me to simplify complex social locations into a laundry list of identities, but I do think Unkindness will speak to folks looking for books exploring the following topics & experiences: 

- being trans, nonbinary, genderweird, genderantagonistic, gendertraumatized - being a dyke, dykegender, loving women, wanting women - being autistic, adhd, psychotic, “not otherwise specified,” borderline, PTSD - being a descendant of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, a refugee, & diasporan

2) A lot of folks have had nothing but kind things to say, and here’s a little blurb that gives you a better idea about what An Unkindness of Ghosts is actually about.

“Solomon’s big, unflinching and poetically detailed sci-fi debut tells the story of Aster Grey, an orphan raised on the slavery deck of a starship called the HSS Matilda as she searches for answers to her mother’s death and the mystery of the forces who control the starship. Aster is both neuroatypical and queer, and these elements of her characterization work seamlessly and nonexploitatively into a plot that mirrors so many of our own world’s greatest injustices, probing at our ideas about classism, racism, abuse and tyranny. A stunning first novel by a writer I can’t wait to see more from.”

Amal El-Mohtar’s stellar review in NPR said of the book:

What Solomon achieves with this debut — the sharpness, the depth, the precision — puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars. I want to say about this book, its only imperfection is that it ended.

It’s been favorably reviewed on several blogs and other venues as well!

3) It made more end-of-year lists that I can count, including  NPR’s Best Books of 2017,  Publisher’s Weekly Best Books of 2017, The Guardian’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017, & Them’s Best Queer Books of 2017. It’s also been featured as a part of Paste Magazine’s Best Audiobooks 2017, Buzzfeed, Elle UK, Shondaland, and Bustle, among others.

You can read an interview with me, the author (Rivers Solomon) about the book at The Rumpus: Magical Systems and Fusion Reactors, and you  can read an excerpt in the Rumpus here.

ANYWAY, my cat almost deleted this whole ass post so I think that’s a sign I should quit while I’m ahead. Thanks for your support. Please reblog if you feel up to it.

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You have to remind men that they don’t have power over you and you don’t owe them attention, emotional investment, love, time, or consideration just because they like you or because he’s a “nice guy”.

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No offense but I want to fall in love with someone who wants to fall in love with me

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