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Reblogged smols-darklighter
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me, every single time i see people (especially women) talking about the divine feminine energy, or the sacredness of the womb or whatever it is now:

[image description: a two-panel photo of a person dialling a number and then placing the phone to their ear. the contact is saved as ‘Ursula K. Le Guin’ /end ID]

context is this quote by her:

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
#ursula k le guin#feminism
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oh i never know how to explain this properly but i looooooooooooooooove when a story just absolutely TELLS you something and it’s so obvious it goes right by you. like the equivalent of hiding in plain sight. i’m thinking in the original cut(?) of alien where they showed the full xenomorph, crouched and ready to pounce, but because we’ve never seen it before, we can’t tell what it is and interpret it as part of the spaceship. or it’s a detail that seems so out of place or wildly insane that you automatically ignore it and assume you misinterpreted until that exact detail comes back in a big way? (like when noah the raven boy flat out tells everyone he’s a ghost and they take it as a joke, so the reader does too) is there a tvtropes name for this i’m obsessed with it

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I think that this is known as “delayed decoding” in literary analysis. The term was coined by Ian Watt in the ‘70s, don’t remember the exact year, to describe a technique used by Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, but a lot of writers picked it up. It’s basically what you described: you present a detailed image but don’t make its moral and psychological relevance obvious. You give facts but not their meaning, not until later, and the revelation can come directly from the characters who suddenly realize what they have observed or it can also be left in the text, to be understood by the reader. You can see why Modernists loved it!

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It’s also really, really fun as an author.

#tropes
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Reblogged smols-darklighter
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This may shock some folk but I like it when villains are irredeemably unflinchingly evil but I also occasionally like to explore fanworks where they are redeemed or where they feel a varying level of remorse even if redemption doesn’t occur. My brain is capable of holding multiple thoughts and many of them are on a plate at my villain stan buffet table.

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For some reason my original post is picking up steam again and I really need to reblog this addition because these tags are great!

Every time I see “let villains but villains!” and woobifying discourse I get 12 more grey hairs.

These accusations have been going on all my years in fandom and I’ve had enough!

Gonna keep enjoying my villain buffet in all the ways I love, thank you.

#villains
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i guess i’ll just have to give a quick sparknotes edition of the Gregor :D and Gregor :( moments i Experienced but that tumblr Cruelly Prevented me from throwing out into the void in real time because so much of gregor’s part in this book is just lois mcmaster bujold taking me gently by the hand and saying “i see your love for ‘character who is perhaps not widely considered to be incapable but whose achievements tend to be overshadowed or undersold or whatever is shown to be genuinely competent and has that competence explicitly acknowledged and appreciated’. i see you.”

not unlike how i felt in this moment

Oh, Gregor

probably wise

so many of these are my emotions being torn between :D Gregor you beautiful competent bastard and :( part of Gregor will always be that little boy asking Cordelia at his mother’s funeral if they’re going to kill him too

THIS IS THE GREGOR I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 

:)

:D

:DDDD

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Oh, Gregor :(

Oh, Gregor :( :( :( :(

this is like the 10th time miles has said this, gregor. at some point you’re going to have to accept you are actually a competent person who knows what he is doing. or perhaps more accurately, that even if fate has dealt you a hand that keeps you out of the action your peers are involved in, that doesn’t mean you couldn’t do it. you could, probably a lot better than many of them, but you can do this better, and it’s what is needed of you. be glad, you could have ended up in a job you weren’t good at, or capable of getting good at. also, don’t compare yourself to miles vorkosigan. just. don’t.

#yessss the bluffing scene#vorkosigan saga#books
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