#nominated for a Lambda

[wakingfromthewater]

When I was sixteen I was in a summer program where all the other girls were obsessed with whether or not one of our male teachers shaved his legs or not. If he didn't shave his legs, this would mean he was naturally hairless, which would be very interesting apparently. If he did shave his legs, this would mean he was gay.

I did not understand any of this. I had scrutinized his legs and other people's legs and decided I couldn't really tell who was or wasn't shaving. Also I (gay) did not understand why shaving his legs meant he was gay. Furthermore, I had taken an adult education class with the same teacher and he had mentioned having a girlfriend once, so I knew he wasn't gay as such. (I had been let into the adult education class because I was such a special girl and been told not to let the other kids know about this because technically the class was for adults).

So one time we were all sitting around at lunch discussing this apparently fascinating topic and I offered up, "Well, I don't know if [D]'s gay, but [N] is gay." Everybody started screaming and asked why I thought this, and I explained it was because I read one of the local underground papers where our other teacher wrote columns where he talked about being gay. After a long silence someone said thoughtfully, "Well, he did wear a tight t-shirt once..." at which I felt like I was back to square one. What did the t-shirt have to do with anything?!?

Anyway although my adult self is a lot more clued in than my teenage self, somehow I run into situations that remind me of this – being trapped in a web of mutually-agreed on assumptions that I find totally confusing, and often having outside information that other people find totally strange – about once or twice a year.

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Hugo Drama

Hugo Gernsback: hey everyone its me, hugo gernsback Gernsback: editor of Amazing Stories and namesake of the hugo awards Gernsback: perhaps you've heard of them? Clive Barker: oh buddy Barker: buddy Barker: we've heard all about them ha ha

Stephen King: they're named after you? i thought they were named after victor hugo Gernsback: ha ha a common mistake Gernsback: but that's fine Gernsback: i'm not mad at all that victor hugo keeps getting the credit Gernsback: i think its funny Gernsback: in fact i'm laughing

Gernsback: ah yes my precious hugo awards! Gernsback: the most prestigious award in science fiction and fantasy! Gernsback: a place for serious business Gernsback: certainly no room for shenanigans here Gernsback: no room for tomfoolery Gernsback: no room for clownish buffoonery

Gernsback: The Hugo -- an award whose very name rings with integrity & honor!   Gernsback: it is no mere nebula! no paltry clarke! Gernback: the stoker, the howard, the lambda - none can compare! Gernsback: the L Ron hubbard writers of the future award? pah! dust before the hugo!

Gernsback: only the choicest cuts of science fiction and fantasy would ever achieve the lofty hugo award Gernsback: an award forever untainted by shenanigans or hijinks! Gernsback: now to take a big sip of coffee and read this  file 770 report!

Gernsback: what the--?! Gernsback: my beautiful hugos!!! tainted by the foul stench of corruption!!! Clive Barker: yeah boy i bet victor hugo's just sick about it Gernsback: Barker: just sick about what they did to his award Gernsback: Barker: ha ha Poe: clive leave him alone

Gernsback: my hugo!!! you were supposed to be a thing of beauty... not this monstrosity! Dean Koontz: gosh he's so sad about his award Koontz: do you think it would cheer him up if i gave him my nickelodean kids choice award? Poe: i think that would be a very nice gesture dean

Chris M Barkley: [thrusting microphone] Mr gernsback! mr gernsback! a statement for the press? Jason Sanford: [thrusting microphone] how do you respond to the allegations about your award mr gernsback? Gernsback: confound these intrepid newshounds of the 4th estate!

Gernsback: [wiping brow] don't worry, we will be taking measures to fix this Barkley: what are you going to do mr gernsback? Sanford: the people demand an answer mr gernsback! Gernsback: we'll uh Gernsback: we'll nominate an essay called 'Dave McCarty Can Fuck Off Into the Sun'

Gernsback: what a debacle! i cannot believe my good name will now forever be associated with such shady practices! HP Lovecraft: hey when are you gonna pay me for my story you ran? Gernsback: new phone, who dis?

Gernsback: you know who this really hurts? Gernsback: worse than the nominees secretly disqualified for politics? Gernsback: worse than the entirety of Chinese science fiction secretly disqualified for being Chinese? Gernsback: worse than the winners whose awards are now tainted?

Gernsback: the person that this hurts most of all Gernsback: is clearly bitter karella Gernsback: for reasons i can't articulate Gernsback: everyone should immediately go and heap conciliatory praise on bitter karella Gernsback: truly the most wronged person of all

Bitter Karella: [bravely holding back tears] no no it's not about me Bitter Karella: [voice cracking] my only thought is for the hugo community who has been through... so much... Bitter Karella: [stoically gazing into distance] they're the REAL heroes

Gernsback: look how bitter karella keeps a brave face... for our sake! King: god bitter karella is so brave... and so modest! Poe: truly a great goblin Poe: possibly the greatest Koontz: why? what did they do? Poe: dean! show some respect!

[lubchansky]

Mattie Lubchansky is a cartoonist and illustrator living in beautiful Queens, NY. She is the former Associate Editor of Ignatz and Eisner award-winning magazine and website The Nib. Her work has appeared in The Nib, VICE’s science fiction vertical Motherboard, Eater, Mad Magazine, Gothamist, The Toast, The Hairpin, Brooklyn Magazine, New York Magazine, Food and Wine, Current Affairs, and her long-running webcomic Please Listen to Me.

Mattie is the author of Simplicity (Pantheon, 2025), Boys Weekend (Pantheon, 2023), The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook (Silver Sprocket, 2021), the co-author of Dad Magazine (Quirk, 2016), author of Skeleton Party (self-published, 2016), , co-editor and contributor to The Nib’s anthology Be Gay Do Comics (IDW, 2020) , contributor to the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology 2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious Journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies (Girl Dad Press, 2023), and co-editor and contributor to the Eisner-nominated anthology Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows (Abrams, 2021). She was the Herblock Prize finalist in 2020.

mattie@mattielubchansky.com

[whitestopper]

Bisexual media

Note: This should not be taken as a declaration of quality or my personal likings - I haven’t consumed all the media below. Not all of the shows focus on a bi protagonist but all do have at least one bi main character; a summary of main initial plot is provided. I will edit this post with updates intermittently.

TV Series

The Bisexual (2018) - Leila explores her attraction to men after identifying as a lesbian alongside her girlfriend and friends for the past decade, while her new roommate tries to get a grip on his relationship with a younger woman.

Black Mirror’s San Junipero - Yorkie meets Kelly in the strange setting of San Junipero. What’s the deal with this place, and what can make them stay?

Bob and Rose - Bob is gay. Rose has a boyfriend. Can I make it any more obvious? (I can - they find that they’re attracted to each other and deal with the implications and expectations of that.)

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Rebecca pursues her ex-boyfriend in the hopes of finding happiness. With a drastic move to West Covina, will she learn what happy feels like?

Cucumber - Henry’s life is upturned in one evening, then another, and then some more, while boyfriend Lance and new acquaintance Freddie come to terms with the present and the past.

Everything Now - Newly out of recovery from anorexia, Y11 student Mia is determined to complete her bucket list and be seen as normal.

Feel Good - Mae and Charlotte navigate a relationship challenged by Mae's drug addiction and Charlotte's new sexual discovery.

High Fidelity - Young record store owner Rob revisits her past relationships in order to sort out her singledom.

Kieta Hatsukoi - Aoki lies about having feelings for classmate Ida to protect the feelings of his crush Hashimoto. But misunderstandings and revelations cause a hullabaloo.

Orange Is The New Black - Piper is a 30-something year old who carried a suitcase of her ex-girlfriend's drug money. Once. A decade ago. And now she's been sentenced to 15 months in jail because of it.

Torchwood - this Doctor Who spin-off features a collection of characters solving alien crimes.

Movies

Appropriate Behaviour - Brooklyn dweller Shirin deals with her ex-girlfriend, family expectations, job struggles and more.

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant - in one of the few films with an all-female cast, the titular fashion designer navigates her relationships with her family, her live-in servant, and her cousin's attractive acquaintance.

City of Lost Souls - a German musical exploring the experiences of LGBT people, black people, Jewish people and immigrants in post-WW2 Berlin.

Disobedience - Ronit returns to her old Orthodox Jewish community after her father passes away, having been shunned for not adhering to cultural expectations.

Je, Tu, Il, Elle - A woman struggles in dealing with her break-up.

Shiva Baby - While at a Jewish funeral service with her family and community, college student Danielle navigates an awkward situation with her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend.

Books

@the-bi-library has an extensive collection of books, with specific collections based on genre, romantic endgame, intersecting identities (ie. protagonists of colour or disabled protagonists), etc.

The Literary Bisexual offers a smaller but thoroughly-reviewed collection of books from around the world.

I also recommend winners/noted entries for the Lambda Literary Award's Bisexual categories - there are other categories not specific to identity for which bisexual books can be nominated.

Fiction

You Could Be So Pretty (Holly Bourne) - In a world not too unlike our own, where girls and women can be Pretties or Objectionables, what will schoolgirls Belle and Joni make of their lives under the Doctrine after an incident brings them together?

Your Driver Is Waiting (Priya Guns) - Damani, a RideShare driver, falls hard for a white upper-class girl, but she's been grieving her father, caring for her mother and dealing with the ever-growing tension from protesters across the city. When Jolene acts with massive consequences, what will Damani be pushed to do for herself and her community?

Natural Beauty (Ling Ling Huang) - Our protagonist, a former piano prodigy, has had to abandon her potential in order to provide for her parents following a car crash. A job at a famous salon seems to fall into her lap as the solution, but there's always a price to pay for beauty.

Non-fiction

In The Dream House (Carmen Maria Machado) - Machado goes through her volatile relationship with The Woman From The Dreamhouse, intercut with musings on pop culture and history.

Strong Female Character (Fern Brady) - famous in British comedy circles, this autobiography follows Brady's life growing up in Scotland as an autistic woman.

You're Embarrassing Yourself (Desiree Akhavan) - from the Creator of The Bisexual and Appropriate Behaviour, this autobiography covers Akhavan's life as a bisexual Iranian in America.

Bisexuality research/history/essays

Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality

The Bi-ble Volumes 1 and 2

Claiming the B in LGBT - Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative

Go the Way Your Blood Beats - On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire

A History of Bisexuality

Purple Prose - Bisexuality in Britain

Music (This is for songs which are outright bisexual, not just songs inspired by bi experiences or by bi artists. Also, no Sweater Weather.)

Alicia Champion - Bi

Amber Fornoles - A Very Bisexual Song

Ana Carolina - Homens e Mulheres

Ani DiFranco- In or Out

Anne Marie - Perfect to Me

Bali Bandits - Girls & Boys

Book Of Love - Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls

Cariño - Bisexual

Chappell Roan - After Midnight

Christina Aguilera - Not Myself Tonight

Delli Boe - Bisexual Problems, Bisexual Problems 2

Demi Lovato - The Kind Of Lover I Am

dodie - In The Middle

Domo Wilson - Becoming Myself, Bi Pride, Bisexual Anthem

Halsey - Alanis' Interlude, Bad At Love

HOUSE OF SAY - Boys Girls

Janet Jackson - Tonight's The Night

Jão - Meninos e Meninas

Jesse - Girls & Boys

Jessie Paege, Lucy & La Mer - Not a Phase

King Kitty - Bisexual

Mad Tsai - Boy Bi

Megan Thee Stallion - Captain Hook

MIKA - Billy Brown, Blame It On The Girls

Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky, She's Not Him

Missy Higgins - Scar

Mitski - Cop Car

Peaches - I U She

Peter Allen - Bi-Coastal

Poppy - Girls In Bikinis

Torrey Mercer - Boys / Girls

The Veronicas - Take Me On The Floor

will.i.am, Pia Mia - Boys & Girls

Ysa Ferrer - To bi or not to bi

[intersexbookclub]

Discussion Summary: The Trans Space Octopus Congregation

We met on April 26, 2024 to talk about the 2019 short story collection The Trans Space Octopus Congregation by intersex author Bogi Takács. We selected this book after we read eir more recent book, Power to Yield, because we loved Power to Yield and wanted more! 😀

Overall reactions:

Vigo: I read the first seventeen (out of 23) stories, and enjoyed them all. 

Cirdore: it was interesting. I’m used to anthologies being different authors, rather than one author. I liked the story at the beginning with the octopuses I would rate the book favourably, but didn't finish it so don't feel I can rate it.

Elizabeth: this feels like a pretty typical short story collection. It’s a genre that isn’t my cup of tea, I find it very jarring to stop/start each story: it breaks my immersion. For me, the book felt standard for its genre. I didn’t finish the book and was overwhelmed by the number of stories. Of what I read, I actively disliked some stories and didn’t love any. Would rate as 3 stars: fine but not great.

Michelle: I got about 70% through it, it had a grimier and more pessimistic vibe than Bogi’s other work. I’d rate it 3.75 out of 5, it was pretty good, but it didn't hit as hard as Power to Yield, which I’d give a 5/5.

Intersex content

Though we went hunting for explicit intersex representation, there wasn’t any. There was some implicit intersex representation, but we were disappointed at how rare it was.

The story “To rebalance the body” seemed to have intersex stuff, whereas “Three Partitions” was more implied. The doctor scene in “To rebalance the body” had a medical gaze that felt very familiar to us. We appreciated that the doctor didn’t ask prurient questions about the character's gender/sex.

We joked about how we should have a bingo chart for “intersex people like sea creatures” and “intersex people like plants”.

Everyone in the call who had read Takács’ more recent book Power To Yield kept comparing this book to it. The consensus was that Power to Yield was a much stronger work, which also has very clear and powerful intersex theming. Michelle pointed out Power to Yield had more connective themes, and more of a hopeful vibe.

Elizabeth was annoyed that this book won a Lambda Literary Award while Power to Yield didn’t even get a nomination. Ze wondered if depressing books are more likely to get awards.

Our consensus was that if you’re looking for a book with intersex representation/themes, this book will disappoint you. You might still want to get it as a way to support an intersex author, but don’t expect it to be an “intersex book”.

What we liked

We all agreed the disability theming was well done. The explicit BDSM theming was also appreciated: presenting aftercare as cookies was really cute. Michelle pointed out Takacs is good at depicting alternate relationship styles. BDSM gets sensationalized a lot so it's nice to see a warm approach! Also strong ace vibes!

Michelle liked the blending of magic and science in a way that was casual and intriguing, such as the use of AI/ML in the story “Forestspirit, forestspirit”. Xe liked they were so inspired by actual science articles, and reminded of how tumblr people are talking about treating AI like the fae. Xe noted a theme of characters with excessive magic.

Elizabeth and Vigo liked when there were connections to the book Power To Yield. Elizabeth also liked the greeting “may you fill your niche”.

Cirdore appreciated the author had a content warning list, and noted how it was interesting to see the CW list as a way to see the themes e.g. colonialism.

Michelle pointed out that, compared to golden/silver age sci-fi, Bogi’s writing is a lot more postmodern & postcolonial. It’s invigorating to see how much representation ey packed into eir books. For xem: “even when story didn't land at least I'm getting a really vibrant cast”.

Michelle also liked how the idea of transcending gender was played with. Overall, xe preferred the stories with more gender joy, which often had gender as a more incidental part of the story, such as “Subordinate set of principles”.

Favourite stories

"To rebalance the body". It was one of Michelle’s favourites, as well as Cirdore’s.

“Good people in a small space” was Cirdore’s favourite and Michelle also praised it. Per Michelle: “ I think everybody here has done the look around a room and being like "where's the nearest queer person?"” Vigo said they didn’t really follow the story but they really dug the characters.

“Toward the Luminous Towers”. Michelle brought up that it “was heartbreaking, it was brutal, reminds me of Isabel Fall's Attack Helicopter story but arguably a better version of it. This story was making a comment about disability being weaponized, here the disability was turned literally into a weapon and it was interesting.” Cirdore was reminded of All Quiet on the Western Front.

“Given Sufficient Desperation” - Elizabeth and Vigo noted it as a prequel to the story “The First Interspecies Solidarity Parade And Fair” from Power to Yield, and liked the connection to that story, even if this story was really sad.

“Forestspirit, forestspirit” - Michelle and Vigo praised the blend of hard sci-fi with fantasy themes.

"Subordinate set of principles" were also mentioned positively. Vigo praised it as a fun story that was full of vivid descriptions of things were pretty yucky, and made for a fun reversal/play on early sci-fi!

The bone motorcycle story (“Wind-Lashed Vehicles of Bone”) was also praised by Michelle.

What we struggled with

We all agreed the book would have benefited from a better ordering of the stories. Michelle wanted the stories to have been clustered or setting. Elizabeth and Cirdore both complained a lack of flow from story to story. Michelle pointed out that stories in an anthology should feel like a playlist: they should echo each other. We all agreed this book didn’t pull that off.

We don’t expect people to finish the books we pick for the book club, but normally at least some people manage to finish a given reading. This book was unusual in that nobody finished it, and the lack of flow and momentum in the story order was seen as a contributing factor.

The darker tone of the book (especially compared to Power to Yield) made it harder for Michelle and Elizabeth to engage with it. Michelle didn’t like how pessimistic it was.

Michelle brought up the “For Your Optimal Hookboarding Experience” story as a “a real nothingburger story”. Cirdore thought the point had been the more recent trauma, but wasn’t sure.

Mixed reactions

The story “To rebalance the body” had a line about slavery that Cirdore had a negative reaction to. Michelle interpreted it as a consensual BDSM thing, and we talked about how vital it is to have clear consent in a BDSM slavery fantasy.

The Jewish content got mixed reactions. Some of it was hard for us as non-Jews to follow. Cirdore couldn’t reliably tell when an unfamiliar term was a Jewish thing vs a sci-fi creation. Elizabeth found “This Secular Technology” really hard to follow. Michelle found it interesting to see actual kabbalah represented by a Jew in scifi, since it tends to get exoticized.

While Michelle liked “Unifications”, Cirdore felt it ended abruptly. The two talked about the occult themes in the story. Michelle pointed out “it's an inversion of the thing about blood libel. Occult stuff tends to follow Christianity really strongly and can be really antisemitic, I think it's an inversion of stealing and eating Christian children.”

Michelle wanted more Lovecraftian horror. Building-based horror appeals to xer, and found it compelling but didn't go as far as it could have. Elizabeth is not a horror fan, so was not as enthused on this.

Cirdore did not like "Increasing Policy Visibility", sharing that “I know what ey was trying to say but I still didn't like it. I’m not a fan of the police.” Michelle said it didn’t hit for xer either, didn’t like the police collaboration, but was more forgiving in that “I get it, we all gotta survive.” Vigo liked the story: it had neopronouns, frustration, and a sardonic wit that they dug.

Michelle, Cirdore, and Elizabeth all agreed that “Oracle of DARPA” was hard to follow and didn't really land. But it landed for Vigo! For Vigo, it was a short and funny story.

Overall thoughts

Our reactions to the book were mixed. This book may not be everybody’s cup of tea: it’s the kind of short story collection that is best appreciated by people who like short story collections. The pessimistic, grimy, horror-adjacent feel will appeal to people who dig that atmosphere. There is not much intersex theming, and it’s rather implicit when it does show up. Overall, we felt that Takács’ more recent book, Power to Yield, was a stronger work which will appeal to a wider audience while also providing exemplary intersex theming.

[kvothes]

omg the lambda literary finalists are out… if you wanna build your reading list of queer books, go check out who’s nominated! they have categories for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, romance, comics, memoir, YA—take a look

[zestirial]

WHO IS THE BEST DAD RESULTS !!!

( 3 MONTHS LATER...)

AND THE WINNER IISSSS...KING HARROW !!

A king who, compared to some, takes care of his people! A lovely father, who tried to be a real father to Callum. A husband with a thirst for revenge against a haughty dragon who took his wife away from him, while they were on a mission to save two peoples...

A king with a human heart who recognizes his strengths and weaknesses.

First place is rightfully his!

AND SECOND PLACE GOES TO... ALL FOR ONE !!

Although its existence is still only theoretical, that hasn't stopped DFO from achieving a promising second place haha!!!

The love between father and son in this relationship is just wooah, and I think you've noticed it too from all those votes...

Why did you move from a traditional apartment to a lambda one?

Why did you make Izuku look like a no-alter to the garaki doctor?

Does All for One love Izuku possessively, like his brother ?

Is this why he grew up with Inko? Has Inko ever suspected anything???

How did All for one react when he realized that Izuku had the One For All?

Answer on December 4 for the 60 mystery pages... :)

FOR THIRD PLACE... ISHIGAMI BYAKUYA !!

This father truly dedicated the rest of his life to helping his son, whose awakening was not even certain!

He had an unshakeable faith, but above all a mind of steel.

He built a village, counted 1,000 accounts so that knowledge wouldn't be lost, and searched for granite...!

In short, a dazzling father, shining like one of those many stars in space.

FOURTH PLACE GOES TO AARAVOS!

The most beautiful? The most magnificent? The most admirable to look at? Who knows?

But he's the biggest evil manipulator and destroyer I've ever seen.

Although it's justified, it's still a hot revenge...

But never mind...WE SAID NOT CHILDREN 🫵

His daughter was just...purity incarnate, too sweet for this world of bullies (eh dragons?!).

( +Bonus...)

FIFTH PLACE GOES TO FUJITAKA KINOMOTO!

So this is the biggest greenflag I've ever seen.

He knows how to cook, he goes to work, he gives an incredible amount of love to his children, and still bears the heavy weight of losing his wife.

And he's so cute too-

My hat's off to him!

A surprising sixth place goes to him...I nominate Todoroki Enji.

Well, he's neither my favorite character, nor one I hate.

But he's got good development, even if it took him a long time to come to terms with himself.

It's easy to say I'm sorry and forgive me, but he took it too far.

Unfortunately for him, his past mistakes have caught up with him.

SEVENTH PLACE GOES TO VIREN!

This character took us through all kinds of emotions, but mostly negative ones.

Over a hundred people died because of him, and he pushed Claudia to the other side...but.

This is one person who managed to make us cry at the very end.

From the reason that pushed him down the path of black magic, to his last regrets and thoughts...but most of all, his last heroic salute.

It has, for me, one of the best development and awareness.

Soren couldn't forgive him, and we all understand his choice.

He wasn't a good father, and nothing can take that away.

Urhhmm.... Tucker haha...

I'm not even going to explain why it reached the last place-

Right.

In short, he mixed up his own DAUGHTER and his dog to make a chimera. ( Pardonnn)

SOOOOO Are you happy with this ranking? Have the characters earned their places?

I would have liked to see Viren instead of Endeavor, to be honest. 🫠

At least he didn't beat them and leave INDEED marks.

I'M TOO HAPPY WITH THE DFO PLACE HAHAHAHAH 😆✨✨❤️

[nowjumpinthewater]

Chapter 1

The greek alphabet:

α - alpha, the letter a

β - beta, the letter b

γ - gamma, g

δ - delta, d

ε - epsilon, short e

ζ - zeta, z

η - eta, long e

θ - theta, th

ι - iota, i

κ - kappa, k

λ - lambda, l

μ - mu, m

ν - nu, n

ξ - xi, x

ο - omicron, short o

π - pi, p

ρ - rho, r

σ - sigma, s

ς - sigma, s (but only at the end of letters)

τ - tau, t

υ - upsilon, u/y

φ - phi, f

χ - chi, ch (like in the word loch)

ψ - psi, ps (like in eclipse)

ω - omega, long o

Greek doesn't have the letter h, so when words start with a vowel, there is an accent to show either smooth breathing or rough breathing.

for example :

ó - rough breathing

ò - smooth breathing

when a word starts with rough breathing, it means it has a h in front of it.

when iota follows a long alpha, eta or omega, then it is written in miniature form underneath. This is called iota subscript

Present tense:

I - ω

you - εις

he/she/it - ει

we - ομεν

you pl - ετε

they - ουσι(ν)

The 3rd person plural form has a moveable nu at the end. This means that when the word after the verb starts with a vowel or if the verb is at the end of the sentence, then it has a nu at the end. If not, the ending is just ουσι.

Declensions

In greek, a nouns ending reflects its role in the sentence, or its case.

There are 4 cases in greek

nominative - the subject

Accusative - the object (also used for expressing time, and certain prepositions)

Genitive - possession and some prepositions

Dative - to or for and also for some prepositions

The (main) endings for first declension are as follows

sg

nom - η

acc - ην

gen - ης

dat -  ῃ

pl

nom - αι

acc -  ας

gen - ων

dat - αις

And the endings for second declension are:

sg

nom - ος (or ον if neuter)

acc - ον

gen - ου

dat -   ῳ

pl

nom - οι (or α if neuter)

acc -  ους (or α if neuter)

gen - ων

dat - οις

Articles

Greek also has the definite article (translated as "the") which must agree to the noun it is describing in case, gender and number.

Here is the definite article in greek:

sg m f n

nom - ό ή το

acc - τον την το

gen - του της του

dat - τῳ τῃ τῳ

pl m f n

nom - όι άι τα

acc - τους τας τα

gen - των των των

dat - τoις ταις τoις

These are extremely similar to the declension endings but with a tau at the beginning

Negatives

Negatives are formed with the word ου, which changes to ουκ before a vowel with smooth breathing and ουχ before a vowel with rough breathing

ooooh thank you!!

this is all very interesting.... the declinations are super cool glad there doesn't seem to be that many!!!

thanks for writing all this out :O

[lboogie1906]

Cheslie Corrinne Kryst (April 28, 1991 – January 30, 2022) was a television correspondent, model, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 2019. She was an attorney and a correspondent for Extra (2009-22). She was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards.

She was born in Jackson, Michigan, to an African American mother and a Polish-American father. She had four brothers and a sister. Her mother, April Simpkins, competed in pageantry and was crowned Mrs. North Carolina US when she was a child. The family moved from Michigan to Charlotte, North Carolina, when she was young and settled in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where attended Northwestern High School. The family moved to Fort Mill, South Carolina, after transferring to Fort Mill High School.

After high school, she moved to Columbia, South Carolina, and attended the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. She graduated cum laude from the Darla Moore School of Business with a BS in Marketing and Human Resource Management. She was a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta honor society, the Gamecocks women’s track and field team, and the mock trial.

She enrolled in Wake Forest University School of Law, graduating with a JD/MBA.

She was licensed to practice law in both North Carolina and South Carolina and began working as an attorney in civil litigation at Poyner Spruill LLP. She worked pro bono not only for clients who were low-level drug offenders but with Brittany K. Barnett of the Buried Alive Project, to free a client sentenced to life imprisonment. She was the founder of the fashion blog White Collar Glam, dedicated to helping women dress professionally in white-collar jobs.

She interviewed actor Terrence Howard and broke the news that he was retiring from acting after the final season of Empire. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Cheryl Clarke

Writer and activist Cheryl Clarke was born in 1947 in Washington, DC. Clarke is the author of five poetry collections, as well as influential essays such as "The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community", and "Lesbianism: an Act of Resistance". Her poetry collection Experimental Love was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. She has been active in many Black, feminist, and LGBT organizations, and is a founder and organizer of the Hobart Festival of Women Writers. In 2021, Clarke was honored with the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle, an association of LGBTQ people in publishing.

[transbookoftheday]

Trans-Galactic Bike Ride by Lydia Rogue and Elly Blue

What would the future look like if we weren't so hung up on putting people into boxes and instead empowered each other to reach for the stars? Take a ride with us as we explore a future where trans and nonbinary people are the heroes.

In worlds where bicycle rides bring luck, a minotaur needs a bicycle, and werewolves stalk the post-apocalyptic landscape, nobody has time to question gender. Whatever your identity you'll enjoy these stories that are both thought-provoking and fun adventures.

Featuring brand-new stories from Hugo, Nebula, and Lambda Literary Award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders, Ava Kelly, Juliet Kemp, Rafi Kleiman, Tucker Lieberman, Nathan Alling Long, Ether Nepenthes, and Nebula-nominated M. Darusha Wehm. Also featuring debut stories from Diana Lane and Marcus Woodman.

[rasheednewsonauthor]

The 2024 Lambda Literary award nominations came out yesterday, and these are some of my favorite books from the illustrious list of nominees.

Congrats to all of these talented writers!

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 1/5

Book Blurb:

A newly single queer woman moves to New Orleans and sets off on a mission to find her most compatible match by going on a date with someone of each astrological sign in this rom-com from the Lambda Literary Award–nominated author of Queerly Beloved.

Reeling from a breakup with her long-term partner, Gray—an optimistic lesbian Aries—relocates to New Orleans for a new job. Gray wants to meet someone, settle down, and build the loving, accepting family she’s always wanted, but having been out of the dating scene for a decade, she has no idea where to start. After visiting an iconic astrologer, Gray and her best friend, Cherry, draw up a dramatic scheme: Gray will go on a date with someone of each zodiac sign to test their compatibility and get a jump start on creating the queer family of her dreams—all before her twenty-ninth birthday, when Saturn will usher in a major turning point in her life.

Gray’s got her hands full getting to know her new city, proving herself at her new job, wooing twelve new paramours—cue bathroom hookups, ghosts, getting ghosted, incredible macchiatos, and celesbians—and making some surprising discoveries about her needs and desires. Even when the dating challenge throws a few curveballs that make Gray question what she believes that she’s destined for, she’s determined to finish what she’s started while the planets are still on her side.

Review:

Whats a girl yo do when being freshly dumped and looking for her new perfect match but to go on dates with people based off of their astrological sign. Gray has just gotten out of a relationship with her long time partner and decides to move to New Orleans for a new job. Gray is determined to find her soulmate and finally get the family she's always wanted... the only problem is that going back to dating after being in a long time relationship isn't so easy. Gray visits an iconic astrologer with her best friend, and they come up with a plan: Gray will go on dates with people from each of the zodiac signs to see how compatible she is with them. While trying to find the perfect partner she is also dealing with a new job, the dating scene, and trying to find if the stars align for her. While this sounded like a cute read it just fell so completely flat for me. I love queer rom coms and this sounded like so much fun, however the execution of the actual book felt lackluster at best. I really didn't find myself all that invested in Gray's dates, and thats the whole point of the the story, to get to know Gray's fun rom com shenanigans. Instead of feeling like I was having a fun time I felt like the date that just couldn't escape the dinner table and was counting down the seconds until the bill could come. The romance interest for Gray didn't even really feel like a romance interest. Sadly this one was a miss from me, however if you want a sapphic rom com then give it a go, maybe you'll have better luck with it than I did.

Release Date: June 11, 2024

Publication/Blog: Ash and Books (ash-and-books.tumblr.com)

*Thanks Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group - Random House | Dial Press Trade Paperback for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

[solarpowerlesbian]

oh the book ask game is SO cool!! 15, 17, and 20!

(also i know hardly anybody using storygraph! do you want to be friends?)

15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them? yes!!! i read last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo which won the national book award, as well as the stonewall book award and a few others, and it was one of my 5 star reads of the year!! that time period of lgbt history is really interesting to me, and this was such a unique perspective into that time. i read the long way to a small angry planet by becky chambers which won the hugo award for best series. that one was a lot of fun, i'm planning on eventually getting the other books in the series! i also read sea of tranquility by emily st. john mandel, which was a very good & quick read and which was nominated for the andrew carnegie medal of excellence. i also read our wives under the sea which was another quick read and which was apparently a finalist for the lambda literary award. kind of surprised how many i read that were nominated or won awards!!

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were? yes the ballad of songbirds and snakes like obviously i should have known. it's literally suzanne collins. but i was like ohh idk it's about president snow i don't know how i feel about that-- and then i read it. i was so gripped by it and so enthralled by the story that the second i finished i started rereading the hunger games. anyway need to go see the movie asap

20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations? to be honest. it was probably percy jackson and the chalice of the gods like sure i was looking forward to like the new tj klune book and whatnot but. i was counting down the days until the new percy jackson book came out. and it was good enough. some of the cultural references didn't quite work but it was fun and i enjoyed it :)

and YES!!!! my storygraph is here i love adding people on storygraph. need more storygraph friends asap!!!

[intersexbookclub]

July book pick: The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Our book pick for July is The Deep by intersex author Rivers Solomon! It was inspired by the song "The Deep" by Clipping, and is a fantasy novella set in a society of mermaids descended from African slaves.

We will be meeting online to discuss The Deep on Friday July 28 at: - 11:30am Pacific (Vancouver, San Francisco, etc) - 2:30pm Eastern (Toronto, New York, etc) - 8:30pm Central European (Paris, Berlin, etc) The meeting will be held on our discord, which you can join here: https://discord.gg/wmMQUQxEK4 (See our code of conduct)

As a reminder we'll be meeting to discuss our June book pick, The Fortunate Fall on Weds June 28. But if you're looking to get started on the next book, we hope you enjoy the Deep! We chose The Deep because: - We've heard good things about it! Most recently we heard it praised for its autistic representation. - It's been critically praised, and it's always great to see ownvoices getting recognition. It's a Lambda Literary Award recipient and was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. - It's a novella, increasing the chance people can finish the book. Though finishing a book is not expected for the book club we know most people prefer to finish books for book clubs. - The book deals with heavy themes such as the trans-Atlantic slave trade and inter-generational trauma, and a novella gives us a gentler entry to talking about heavy content. (List of trigger warnings for the book here.)

Disccussion questions we’ll be using to facilitate the conversation (you don’t need to finish the book!):

What did you like about it?

What did you struggle with?

What other works did it make you think of? Why?

What connections do you see between this book and our last pick (The Fortunate Fall)?    

This book grapples with how can we hold the truths of the violence in our personal/communal histories whilst also being able to move forward. What did you get out this facet of the book?

This is an atmosphere-oriented book rather than a plot-oriented book. Thoughts on the atmosphere?

We hope to see you at the meeting! If you have thoughts on the book feel free to share them as reblogs/replies!

And if The Deep isn't in the cards for you and you want to start on our August pick, it will be The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin.

[paranatellonta]

Paranatellonta is 10 years old!

10! Can you believe it?

To celebrate, we have invited guest author and photographer Ava Kelly again, as we loved this same collaboration for our fifth anniversary.

Ava Kelly is a nonbinary speculative writer and engineer. Secretly a pile of cats in a trenchcoat, Ava’s goal is to bring into the world more tales of friendship and compassion, dedicated to trope subversion, stories that give the void a voice. Romanian living in Norway, Ava is an avid explorer of culture and its reflection upon life and creativity, both in art and in tech design. Among their works are the award-winning novel Havesskadi, the short story A Sudden Displacement of Matter (part of the Lambda-nominated anthology Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers), and the illustrated dual language book of nonbinary fairy tales Alia Terra – Stories from the Dragon Realm.

This is what the celebratory edition will look like: in our next post, there will be one photo taken by Fie, for which Ava has written a ten-sentence story—the usual size for a Paranatellonta story. Ava has also taken a photo which will be shown in a second post, accompanied by a ten-sentence story by Minerva. So you’ll be getting two Paranatellonta combinations at once. A third star rises with us today!

We hope you’ll enjoy this special anniversary edition. As always, feel free to leave us a comment through asks, reblogs or any other way you like!

The banners for this post were also designed by Ava. Thank you for joining us again, @avakellyfiction!

More about Ava Kelly: [website] – [tumblr] – [instagram] – [twitter] – [mastodon]

More about Minerva Cerridwen: [website] – [tumblr] – [instagram] – [twitter] – [mastodon]

More about Fie: [tumblr]