That weird little “I’m going to kill this thing” butt wiggle dance. Captured forever.
The only gif you’ll ever need.
Books I Have Read (That You May Like)
I do not have the patience to do one of those “lookee what I read in the 2011” lists, so here instead are some books I have read over the past few weeks.
The Prospect of My Arrival by Dwight Okita — I got this during one of my frequent free Kindle books search and I am infinitely glad. Okita is a poet and you can feel it. His sentences have a perfect balance of poetic imagery and flow. While I had some misgivings about the world/background setting details that originally spurred the plot (the whole CyberSavant thing in the womb), it was a wonderful read. Some of Okita’s turns of phrase took my breath away. (That dream in the water.)
The Soulkeepers by G. P. Ching — I don’t know why I got this book oh wait it was free. At first, I was like, okay, kinda stereotypical set-up, but hey, the protagonist is an atheist Chinese-American. Intriguing enough to keep my interest. But then it just like brought God into the story and hell and heaven and blargh. I finished it but it wasn’t good. Decent writing and a solid grasp of characterization however.
The Guild of the Cowry Catchers, Books 1 & 2 by Abigail Hilton — These are almost guilty pleasure material. Once you get past the need to still have humanoid characters in a sea-faring, animal-based world, things get better. I adore the three main characters/OT3 (I have no defenses against characters like Silveo gah). I didn’t continue past book 2 because I have to save my money.
The Emperor’s Edge by Lindsay Buroker — If I could transfer to you the delightful squealing that happened during this book, you might just go deaf. This book is brilliant! I read it all the way through in under 4 hours (with football on—I was fixated). A capable protagonist that doesn’t lose her head in tough situations and always finds a way out? YES PLEASE CAN I HAVE SOME MORE. It was an entertaining and invigorating read and I can’t wait to finish the 2nd book.
The majority of these books are free! I highly recommend Okita’s and Buroker’s. What are you waiting for?
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When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?
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Sandi Toksvig WILL ALWAYS AND FOREVER REBLOG THIS QUOTE (via the-madame-hatter) (via catladysoul) I’m taking a class called The Archaeology of Sex and Gender (I’m an anthropology and art history major), and we were studying female figurines from the Neolithic era. Some girl in my class brought up the point that when male figurines with giant phalli were discovered, they were interpreted by academics as symbols of power. When female figures with giant vulvas were discovered, they were interpreted by academics as symbols of fertility. “Why can’t the giant vulva be a symbol of power too?” she asked. It blew my mind and reaffirmed my decision to study anthropology and art history. (via strugglingtobeheard) Always seek knowledge (via newwavefeminism, learninglog) Always reblog. This is so awesome. (via sanityscraps) (via poptartslutzz) (via your-nibs) (via collectingapples) (via storybook) Such a good quote. (via edman) This quote gives me chills every time I read it. Also, awesome story, strugglingtobeheard! (via miss-education) This reminds me of a conversation a friend and I had recently about our work. She’s in the very early stages of writing her dissertation on scribes in early medieval England, specifically female scribes. One of the things we vented about was the universal assumption that men copied the vast majority of manuscripts in the period, when there’s actually very, very little evidence to suggest that level of exclusivity. There are very few manuscripts we know for a fact were copied by men, and most are anonymous. And if you look at the nature of religious institutions in England and the status of women between 700-1000ish, 1.) quite a few monasteries were founded by aristocratic women; 2.) many were dual houses, which housed both male and female religious, and some of those houses were politically influential—and also headed by women—and thus were likely to have access to good libraries; 3.) there is evidence that women in important institutions were reading and writing correspondence in Latin; and 4.) there is also evidence that noble women were patrons of book production and literate themselves (in the vernacular if not in Latin), because wills from the period survive in which women bequeath their libraries to various people. None of this is concrete, but I don’t think it’s a leap to argue that it’s almost just as likely any given anonymous copyist could as easily be a woman as a man. But in manuscript studies, the assumption is always that, unless the text might have some “obvious” interest to women, the copyist is a man. Which is pretty damn ridiculous, and just another reminder that the effacement of women’s contributions to civilization and the transmission (and generation!) of knowledge is an ongoing process of willful forgetting, as well as ignorance. (via dr-wtfox) (via meatandsarcasm) I can relate to the statues of women with giant reproductive parts being labeled as “degrading” or “fertility” when I thought it represented power. Basically not everything revolves around 1950’s middle class/Victorian period gender roles people. (via sandwichocracy) (via zumie-monster) The same thing goes in my field (Theology and Biblical Studies) except maybe even more so, because the Bible openly acknowledges women who held a great deal of social and economic power in both the Old and New Testaments- and yet they are routinely glossed over by scholarship and indeed erased in official translations*. We know so comparatively little about Ancient Israel that there’s no overwhelmingly compelling reason to suggest women could not have played a role in the composition of the Tanakh, and the New Testament itself makes explicit the importance of women within the early Christian movement, especially older, educated and wealthy women- so what’s to stop a woman being behind some of the New Testament writings (especially given that so many are disputed in authorship)? *Easy way to detect if the Bible translation you own has a sexist bias: look up Romans 16:1 and 1 Timothy 3:8. If the former calls Phoebe a “servant” of the church but the latter refers to regulations for “deacons”, congratulations! The translators of your Bible deliberately chose to erase evidence of the ordination of women in the early church! Both verses in fact feature exactly the same word, diakonos, which certainly can mean servant, but is also the word for deacon, an order of Christian ministry that exists to this day. (via thesixpennybook) (via roxanneritchi) (via mangotea) (via marthur) (via brsis) (via puelhathnofury) (via odieodie) (via thelastdogfighter) |
MAGNETIC BABY DAVE CLINGING TO METAL THINGS GIVEAWAY
(THANK YOU FOR 150+ FOLLOWERS)So basically
Thank you for over 150 followers
this is really exciting!And since Anon ships me with the babydaveclingingontothings tumblr, I decided to make Baby Dave Clinging To Things magnets! And then give them away!
They are kind of shitty magnets. But they are ironically shitty. (the Hetalia figurines show you the scale). But they will hold up your grocery list.
I will be giving away three magnets to two people, one of each size!
So the rules are:
1. You can blog this twice! And you can like it! But that’s it.
2. You don’t have to follow me because whatever.
3. I will ship internationally but you gotta be willing to give me your address or I can’t send you shit!
4. I will select the winners via the random number generator at random.org on DECEMBER 15th because I will be completely shocked if this giveaway goes around that long.
Basically you are all beautiful and thanks for being cool. I hope this is marginally worthwhile!
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
“Can we look forward to more stories involving Howl in the future?
I hope we can look forward to more Howl stories. There is already one I keep trying to write and which, so far, will not come out right. But I hope I can crack it in the end.”— Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 - 26 March, 2011), interview published in Greenwillow’s 2008 Howl’s Moving Castle
I need some help spreading the word about the Chester 5000 book!
If you’d like to help you could also win a copy of the book! Just reblog this post and leave a reply with your email address so I can contact you. On September 28th I’ll randomly choose a winner!What you get:
-A brand new signed copy of Chester 5000 XYV with your choice of character sketched inside
-A Chester paper doll
-A signed printYou can also read all of Chester 5000 XYV online (NSFW, 18+)
The only difference between the online version and the book is that the art in the book has been re-scanned at a higher resolution and re-cleaned. Some of the art has been redone for the sake of consistency and I can assure that it’s a very handsome volume.
Thanks, I love you! :D
