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Llinos Cathryn Thomas

@llincathryn.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿♾️🥄 Book recs, writing chat, occasional opinions. (she/her)

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Felicia Davin@feliciadavin.com · 6mo ago

My novel Thornfruit, the first of a queer fantasy trilogy about discovering that your mom is maybe doing kind of a lot of murders, and (in books 2-3) that you are in love with 2 people, is on sale for 99¢. Memory magic, secret letters, sea monsters, bisexual pining & 280+ SFFH ebooks indiebook.sale

A quote from Smart Bitch, Trashy Books that says "The world-building is excellent, the prose is gorgeous, and the characters and their relationships are phenomenal." Next to it is an image of an ereader displaying a book cover with the title Thornfruit. The cover has a red background and an illustration of white flowers.indie book sale fantasy, sci-fi, & horror 11-13 April the background image is a grid of book covers
Narratess@narratess.com · 6mo ago

The Narratess Indie Sale starts today! For the next three days, 280+ books will be on sale, available for $1.99 or less. Even if you're on a budget or book buying ban, you can still grab the free ebooks (those don't count for your buying ban, because you're spending money!) indiebook.sale

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text. Text: Indie Book Sale indiebook.sale Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror 11 - 13 April
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel. I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this. This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

A long, skinny map titled: "Life and Travels of the European Eel" with a subtitle reading: "From the Eel's Perspective." A label at the bottom of the map reads: "Begin Here." The map top half of the map is an mirror copy of the bottom half. I will put the full text of the column in the alt text in an image in the next post in the thread. The map goes from the bottom of the page up, starting in the Sargasso Sea. An set of arrows show the eels paths to shore, then up a river and into a marshland. The arrows continue up the page to show the eel leaving the marshland and heading back downstream, and out to sea. The land is green and verdant at the bottom of the map, because the eels migrate upstream in the spring. The land is brown and dry at the top of the map, because eels migrate downstream in the autumn. A column of text on the side tells about the eels' journeys and changes. It is more text than I can relate in the space allowed here. Each paragraph has an arrow pointing up to the next one, and they are designed to be read from the bottom of the page going upwards.
Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In just FOUR DAYS, @nionwomen.bsky.social gained 1,000 signatures to take them to 96,000. Guess what’s next? 97,000!! If you haven’t signed this, and are appalled by the now open hatred and lawfare towards trans women and girls, please go to notinourname.org.uk Then tell your friends and family.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@nionwomen.bsky.social have bust through 95,000 signatures! 🎉🎉 Now let’s get this to 96,000. If you are disgusted at what the Girl Guides have done to young trans girls, or how the Women’s Institute are turning their back on their inclusion of trans women, then you need to sign notinourname.org.uk

Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Castor Semenya: "I have carried this weight. So have other women of colour who deserved better from sport. Reintroducing genetic screening is not progress — it is walking backwards. Women’s sport does not need this. It needs to be abuse-free... This is just exclusion with a new name."

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 7mo ago

So if you (like me) are incredibly sad / mad / furious about Kansas stripping trans people of rights with no notice, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Trans Continental Pipeline-Donate to help queer relocation!

At TCP, our mission is to help Queer and 2SLGBTQIA+ people move from unsafe environments to Colorado and provide connections and resources through our relocation program.Every Cent you donate will go ...

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Naomi Kritzer@naomikritzer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

HEY, I AM DOING ANOTHER FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS! AND GIVING AWAY ANOTHER SIGNED ARC (Advance Review Copy) OF OBSTETRIX!!! YOU COULD GET TO READ IT EARLY (it doesn't come out until June) AND HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES STAY HOUSED!!!!

A stack of thin pink books that say OBSTETRIX * Naomi Kritzer on the spine.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

"I am the farm worker going home at evening": gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women's Land Army

Archivist Lottie Wood explores gender and landscapes in E. M. Barraud's reflections on her time in the Women's Land Army.

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Andrea Kaston Tange@aktange.bsky.social · last yr.

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment? 1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!) 2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc. 3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read 4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting) 5. read aloud a chapter to someone else 6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid 7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through 8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener 9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story 10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you 11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first 12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip 13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term [writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]
Andrea Kaston Tange@aktange.bsky.social · last yr.

Yes. 25 years on, I teach differently: I read to them, we read silently together, we have weekly experiments week of setting different situations to read (with/out food, company, music; in/outdoors; varying light; &c) & discuss them. It's made ALL the difference to foreground reading as a process.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last yr.

I've been teaching at Princeton over the same period and the drop-off in reading stamina has been staggering. I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.