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Medieval Bunny Washi Tape by AiriTree

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“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”

literature posters; mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf

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So we can't get a book accurate film adaptation but we can get a book accurate Dior bag

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voting "DNF'ed" in a Have You Read This Book poll because while I technically did read it I simply hated it so much

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🎉👑 Honoring a LEGEND: Happy 78th Birthday, Octavia E. Butler!

The Queen of Speculative fiction.

The Mother of Afrofuturism.

The Visionary who changed the game for Black women in sci-fi forever.

Today we celebrate her brilliance, her imagination, and her power.

“Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.”

“Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow”

“The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.”

Ms. Butler didn’t just write stories; she built futures, she cracked open possibilities, she dared to ask: What if?

Her work still shakes the table to this day.

Without her, would we have masterpieces from Ryan Coogler or Jordan Peele? 🤔🤔

We are because she was.

Her legacy is eternal. 🌌🖤

Source: Ashuka

Happy heavenly birthday, Ms. Butler. 💖👑

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obligatory post today

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murderbot & dr. mensah

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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”

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Stars in full bloom.

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In The Garden, for giant robot’s Fruit and Veggie show.

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"Director Phoebe Kemp said in a statement: “Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us. This reading is about joy, solidarity and showing what’s possible when trans and nonbinary artists are at the centre of the story.”"

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Ok so… why is 75% of the “medieval romance” (if it’s not mislabeled Regency era historical romance) on Amazon just fantasy never-really-existed faux-medieval Scotland? And another 20% is also not medieval but clearly based on the damn Tudors?

I’m not asking why this is a genre, I too read some of the Diana Gabaldon books as a teenager, I understand everyone is trying to catch that lightning in a bottle too. And I know historical romance set in Tudor times based in real people is a booming genre because of Philippa Fucking Gregory.

I’m asking why I have found so few authors who write medieval romance that feels like it takes place in a feudal society prior to the Renaissance?

I just want to read about hot knights and lusty ladies! Not… Tudor-style court politics and early modern conceptions of the centralized nation-state and absolute monarchy and supposedly medieval Scotsmen with clan tartans and conceptions of government that they absolutely did not have before the 17th century. Oh and sexual politics that are decidedly Victorian. Ugh.

(I do in fact enjoy historical romance set in the Victorian era. I highly recommend Courtney Milan for good 19th century romance that you can tell was well-researched.)

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“When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It’s only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”

literature posters; alias grace by margaret atwood

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“We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!” 

literature posters; the crucible by arthur miller