Iron Widow • Xiran Jay Zhao (@/xiranjayzhao) ⭐️⭐️

i think. i think i hauve covid

i’ve been known to think about wei “marshal steel” chen fhr. on occasion. to dwell upon, even

kettricken :)

The Paris Review

Feminize Your Canon: Eliot Bliss

The lesbian author of a radically anti-colonialist precursor to Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" was only just barely rescued from complete o

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Who’s doing it like her

simply not having heard of something isn’t like a personal moral failing that u need to get defensive about. but also, an intellectual comfort zone in which Black women’s work is never recommended to you & you never seek it out—that isn’t cultivated in a cultural vacuum. its not innocent. and if you’ve been through school i guarantee you’ve had Black women’s work assigned to you before so like what gives

soooo, on a vacation trip a week ago, I stumbled over @xiranjayzhao's Iron Widow in a book shop in Copenhagen and devoured it last weekend. It was quite the fun read. (And I am not that inclined to mechs 😄 but the rage filled female power fantasy and the setting felt rather refreshing to me) And after finishing the book I had to get at least some art out of my system. As usual it didn't end up what I really intended it to be in my head initially, but also, as usual it has to suffice for now or I'll never post it.

The Rangers (2010)

| Sunstream | Sentinel | Anathema | Steel | Charge |

✨ that’s a wrap! ✨ my goal was to read 1 book per month so this year was more than successful (ㅅ´ ˘ `)♡ and so many 4-5 starrers!

Invisible Cities • Italo Calvino 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Severance • Ling Ma ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Tombs of Atuan • Ursula LeGuin 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔁 Fallen Hero: Rebirth (IF) • Malin Rydén @fallenhero-rebirth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fallen Hero: Retribution (IF) • Malin Rydén @fallenhero-rebirth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🔁 The Amulet of Samarkand • Jonathan Stroud ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

The Golden Compass • Phillip Pullman 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Powers • Ursula LeGuin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gideon the Ninth • Tamsyn Muir 💀 DNF.

The Subtle Knife • Phillip Pullman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Here There Be Dragons (Webcomic) • Steve Horton & co-creators @htbdcomic 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Farthest Shore • Ursula LeGuin ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nimona • Nate Stevenson 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Moon of the Crusted Snow • Waubgeshig Rice 💀 DNF.

Ain’t I A Woman • Bell Hooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ship of Magic • Robin Hobb 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Empress of Salt & Fortune • Nghi Vo 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Pillars of the Earth • Ken Follett 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Braiding Sweetgrass • Robin Wall Kimmerer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

🔁 Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone • JK Rowling ⭐️⭐️

Mad Ship • Robin Hobb 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

got a new pen! am I doing the meme right