i keep thinking about this russ and delany joint interview i found last night where they both immediately start being as annoying as possible... ❤️
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i'd personally describe my taste in old SF as "dykey" but funnily enough the people i find online that are hugely obsessed with the same (almost all women/lesbian) authors as me are predominantly bisexual men... a welcome discovery but it's interesting!
i've been annoyed by people acting like buffy single-handedly invented Long Form Serialized Storytelling On TV since forever but it becomes especially hilarious when you learn about babylon 5 which was years earlier and ACTUALLY doing some pretty unprecedented stuff in that regard...
geneshaft, though it did make me laugh so hard i puked a little at the start... unfortunately after the novelty of the lingo wore off it just became so so so boring and despite the setting that women are now 90% of the population it manages to barely be about them
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i'm so grateful that years of needing to be able to read my mother's atrocious handwriting has prepared me for my true calling: reading 50 year old lesbian porno scribbled on yellow legal pad pages
finallyyyyy get to go back to the dorothy allison archives today after being cruelly kept away for 2 months cuz they started closing on saturdays for the summer right as i made my discoveries...
i got to the part halfway through b5 where they CAST OFF their old uniforms and go through a REBIRTH CEREMONY after delenn ALMOST DIES and they all must reveal an UNSAID SECRET and, wait! delenn has got them all new outfits! and then they reveal them and they're ugly. such an im@s moment honestly...
omggg, E.B.'s actor just showed up in babylon 5... didn't realize the accent he had in deadwood was his real one
belvera@belvera.bsky.social · last yr.i don't know if there is anyone else on earth that has seen both mewkledreamy and deadwood but... these are literally the same character
i mentioned delany to my sister (poetry lesbian) and she went "oh yeah, marilyn hacker's husband" and i suddenly felt like a misogynist because as a weird sci-fi lesbian who knows zilch about poetry i mainly know of acclaimed lesbian poet marilyn hacker as "samuel delany's wife"... i'm sorry women
actual jimoto saikou anime... never expected it to get more than like those voiced still frame webisode things www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAHQ...
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ranka was telling me they're gonna try to get their friend who reads a ton of isekai into ASH because when you think about it, ash DOES have an isekai-esque cheat skill (can get relevant tactical advice from the art of war beamed into her brain on command)
got so excited by the mary gentle discussion on the lastest critical friends... that's what i've been fucking sayinggg my bestie has been slowly reading their way through ASH: A Secret History and it's been delightful to finally get to discuss that crazyass book THAT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT ANYMORE...
you know the part in simoun where dominura looks into the simoun and (implicitly) sees all that was/will be wrought and goes catatonic? that's how i felt last night reading jack vance's first dying earth story and it slowly dawning on me that this was where DND magic system bullshit got taken from
i have a fondness for even most jankier aspects of 90s graphic design but this may be the ugliest cover... ever? someone went fuck it's science fiction essays and i don't have any space assets okayyy big circle for planet and uh, some squares ah well... i can finally learn if "smashing" is erotic...
this podcast is incredible... my non-SF fiction interests/background are very different from his but i love all the thought he puts into talking about weird obscure SF(?) books (so happy finding someone else who actually goes and reads criticism from the time like i do!) www.patreon.com/cw/SFULTRA
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their dresses have hearts with hands holding a 🫀 and jewel in each other's color because... they hold each other's hearts, heh...
me and ranka just watched the commus for this on call and they're literally done like a "your mom and dad have sold you to the 283 mafia to avoid paying off their debts" otome game...
went to my fav used everything store to check if they had any new cherryh paperbacks in and lo and behold there was a gate of ivrel! feels sorta special finding her debut soon after she announced her retirement... 🥹 (i have the omnibus already 🤫 but it's fun to have the OG michael whelan cover/art)
finally have all my shiny OTPs as their future versions... along with miichan's future sister-in-law
last night i discovered this rare!? joanna russ interview from 2007, a few years before she died and after she'd become a semi recluse, where she let two young academics into her home to interview her about slash and THEY BROUGHT HER PRINTED OUT SMALLVILLE YAOI TO READ jprstudies.org/wp-content/u...
so funny that i've started checking facebook daily for the first time in a decade to... look at [acclaimed sci-fi author] c. j. cherryh's good posts... it's always just stuff about crafting, gardening/DIY, cooking, science/history fun facts, and top tier #WifePosting plzzz let that be me when i'm 83
this (totally official! not bootleg!) pochacco masking tape i have spells it as pachacca in some places and i kinda love it. pachacca... that's what we used to call her in bella napoli...
ranka sent this to me LAST easter but didn't post it and i thought it would never see the light of day but i see now, that they were simply waiting until it was easter again... 🥹 so happy everyone else gets to experience it now as well!!! 🐰🐇👯♀️🐺🦊🦾
@rankarana.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew fic SUNDAY?! Why not celebrate Easter with what the season's all about - silly Girls' Frontline f/f smut where Ange, for once in her life, actually has something good happen to her?! (Said good thing is RPK-16 having herself and AK-12 wear bunny suits, natch.) archiveofourown.org/works/82552011
funny experience of being like grrr there's all this recent popular queer SFF that's heavily influenced by cherryh but none of it seems to be doing the specific cherryh stuff i'm into 😠 and then realizing there IS a series of books doing exactly that, they're just books i've already read and loved
david k. stone's wrap-around cover illustrations for the initial hardcovers of cherryh's faded sun trilogy are sooo crazy good... the second one is my favorite the watercolor and stylization give them a mythic quality that suit the books really well
happy ides of march A.K.A. xena and gabrielle dying on the cross together day to all my followers
okay i just finished my fourth CJC novel this is fucking crazy... like i know cherryh is influential and well known *within genre* but it STILL feels like she needs to be talked about way more i'm reading her morgaine books from the 70s and they're just as sophisticated and insane as her later SF 🫠
belvera@belvera.bsky.social · 6mo ago*reads one c. j. cherryh novel* yeah i'm a total cherryhpig
