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https://parade.com/books/best-reads/best-young-adult-books-of-all-time
My mother told me I wasn’t bragging enough about being on Parade Magazine’s 101 Best YA of all time list, so here I am again to say indeed ANGELS made the cut (with thanks to my local indie bookseller cheerleaders). Uriel and Little Ash: the GOATS
I had a dream that I won some competition for which the prize was a taxidermy weasel. Turned out it was actually a weasel taxidermy DIY kit for which they supplied the raw materials only (one live weasel).
A normal amount of nose to have
I think the impulse to identify burial customs you’re unfamiliar with as “cursed” is sort of a racist impulse even when it’s applied to Western European cultures that are too far back in the past to be recognizable. Is there really any human culture that is SO alien to us that we have to explain their behavior with Curses and Ancient Evils? Or do people have shifting cultural norms about the handling of human remains, which may lead a tomb to be a site of reverence for generations and later be sealed? Are human bones INHERENTLY CREEPY? Human bones in a grave? A grave is like the number one most statistically likely place to find human bones!
The context was a very xenophobic post about Neolithic European archaeology. Archaeologists have many discussions about the handling of human remains but human remains are located in many places, especially places inhabited by humans, so there are a myriad of reasons why they are dug up as well. Sometimes it is to build a car park. Sometimes it is for the pursuit of knowledge. Sometimes it’s to prove a political point. Some reasons are good and some are bad. Some digs are done in consultation with living descendants and some are not. Feeling Like There’s A Curse is however not a good reason to do or not do anything particularly, especially when there is no reason to believe that the culture the burial is from had any fear of contact with human remains
queer-talmid asked:
I really love your reactions and analysis of Mercedes Lackey 🩵
Thanks I’m really enjoying her books in a weird way I’ve read about seven of them now lmao
The notes on lrb are wild hey tumblr do you think there might be any kind of harmful thought patterns involved in you leaping to Educate a Black woman poet laureate and professional educator on how to critique people without hurting their feelings
during the writing process all authors should be asking themselves “does my character belong to a genre of character that exists in naruto?” and “am i executing said genre of character worse than kishimoto did?” and if the answer to both is yes they should do some revisions. this does not need to be legally or contractually mandated because the embarrassment of doing something worse than kishimoto did should be enough motivation in and of itself.
i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests
for reference.
"When I taught creative writing at Princeton, [my students] had been told all of their lives to write what they knew. I always began the course by saying, “Don’t pay any attention to that.” First, because you don’t know anything and second, because I don’t want to hear about your true love and your mama and your papa and your friends. Think of somebody you don’t know. What about a Mexican waitress in the Rio Grande who can barely speak English? Or what about a Grande Madame in Paris? Things way outside their camp. Imagine it, create it. Don’t record and editorialize on some event that you’ve already lived through. I was always amazed at how effective that was. They were always out of the box when they were given license to imagine something wholly outside their existence. I thought it was a good training for them. Even if they ended up just writing an autobiography, at least they could relate to themselves as strangers."
-Toni Morrison in an 2014 interview with NEA Arts Magazine
Dreamt about a little trash-picking huligan named Yapper (ironic nickname, he didn’t talk) who believed that Lawyers were a sort of supernatural power and had decided he was going to become a Lawyer but he didn’t know basically anything except pick up useful trash off the train tracks so he just started leaving trash gifts outside this one lawyer’s window like a tame corvid and because of this also he overheard them discussing state secrets so now he has knowledge that is essentially a bomb. And he has to decide whether or not to detonate it. But he is 13 and has no general knowledge. This is what Mags would be like if the books were good
