Perfect Balance
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Ursula le’guinn wrote a novel with this premise!
Ursula is okay, but here are a couple of broads who knock her for a loop.
Joanna Russ was one of the first ‘out’ science fiction writers. If you want an adventure, try ‘Picnic On Paradise.’ Or get deeper with ‘The Female Man’
Suzy Mckee Charnas. ‘Walk To the End of the World’ is ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ raised to an infinite power. After the War, the elites were locked in fallout shelters. Eventually the males decided that it was all the women’s fault. Now centuries later, all the women are slaves.
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Reminds me of William Adams the first english Samurai. He had a wife and two kids at home in England, but got stranded in Japan in the 1600s after a shipwreck. He was not allowed to leave the country for a whole decade, but gained employment and trust from the emporer as an advisor. He did send money and letters home to his family using East India merchants, but they never saw him again and his wife died in the same year as he did, thousands of miles apart
Neat! That sounded very similar to the character John Blackthorne from James Clavell’s novel Shogun, and turns out that’s who the character is based on.
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Neat! That sounded very similar to the character John Blackthorne from James Clavell’s novel Shogun, and turns out that’s who the character is based on.
The Voices from the Past youtube channel does a good job reading excerpts from his diary
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Except dwarves and elves hate each other in almost every lore
wow itd be like romeo and juliet
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Except dwarves and elves hate each other in almost every lore
So like a regular married couple?
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I remember Gimli talking about Galadriel, but who did Legolas talk about?
His legless LEGO lass
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I remember Gimli talking about Galadriel, but who did Legolas talk about?
If I recall correctly, they argue about whether Galadriel or Arwen is the more beautiful (more or less around the time of Strider’s wedding).
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Being a dwarf sounds alot like my ADHD
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Nobody ever accused Legolas and Gimli of being straight.
They spend TT planning their honeymoon, and then spend so long on it that it asks until after Aragorn and the hobbits’ kids die of old age
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Ursula is okay, but here are a couple of broads who knock her for a loop.
Joanna Russ was one of the first ‘out’ science fiction writers. If you want an adventure, try ‘Picnic On Paradise.’ Or get deeper with ‘The Female Man’
Suzy Mckee Charnas. ‘Walk To the End of the World’ is ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ raised to an infinite power. After the War, the elites were locked in fallout shelters. Eventually the males decided that it was all the women’s fault. Now centuries later, all the women are slaves.
what a weird way to respond
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If I recall correctly, they argue about whether Galadriel or Arwen is the more beautiful (more or less around the time of Strider’s wedding).
Ah, that was Gimli and Eomer. (Just read it a few weeks ago!)
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Ursula is okay, but here are a couple of broads who knock her for a loop.
Joanna Russ was one of the first ‘out’ science fiction writers. If you want an adventure, try ‘Picnic On Paradise.’ Or get deeper with ‘The Female Man’
Suzy Mckee Charnas. ‘Walk To the End of the World’ is ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ raised to an infinite power. After the War, the elites were locked in fallout shelters. Eventually the males decided that it was all the women’s fault. Now centuries later, all the women are slaves.
No I mean about this premise. It was a fairytale where all the magic was just relativity and the protagonist was too much of a dumbfuck aristocrat to understand when anyone tried to explain.
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There was a Thor comic where the young Thor meets a shield maiden who is as crazy as he is. She fights, drinks, and parties as hard as he does. They are happy together for many years, and then Loki comes along and asks Thor to go on a brief adventure. Thor and Loki go off for a few weeks and then return. But sly Loki knew that the realm they had gone to ran on a different time, and years had passed. Thor’s love had died alone, waiting for him to return.
Just Loki being a hilarious prankster, ruining two people’s love for shits and gigges.
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“My blade was forged by drwarven smiths with autism, so you know it’s good”
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Today I realized that elves and dwarves represent different locations of the neurodivergent spectrum.
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Except dwarves and elves hate each other in almost every lore
Only an abomination like Ragmar the Beardless could
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“My blade was forged by drwarven smiths with autism, so you know it’s good”
“With all the enchantments known to man”
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Ursula is okay, but here are a couple of broads who knock her for a loop.
Joanna Russ was one of the first ‘out’ science fiction writers. If you want an adventure, try ‘Picnic On Paradise.’ Or get deeper with ‘The Female Man’
Suzy Mckee Charnas. ‘Walk To the End of the World’ is ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ raised to an infinite power. After the War, the elites were locked in fallout shelters. Eventually the males decided that it was all the women’s fault. Now centuries later, all the women are slaves.
No love for Nancy Kress?
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No love for Nancy Kress?
Had to look her up. I think I might have started one of her books and noped out. I’ll check my library.
But now I’ll throw you two more.
Robyn Bennis.
Airships fighting in the Napoleonic Era. The only fantasy element is that they have access to helium. She does a magnificent job engineering her armada.
Tanith Lee.
She basically invented weird fantasy. Neil Gaiman stole all his best stuff from her.
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Had to look her up. I think I might have started one of her books and noped out. I’ll check my library.
But now I’ll throw you two more.
Robyn Bennis.
Airships fighting in the Napoleonic Era. The only fantasy element is that they have access to helium. She does a magnificent job engineering her armada.
Tanith Lee.
She basically invented weird fantasy. Neil Gaiman stole all his best stuff from her.
I think I might have started one of her books and noped out. I’ll check my library.
Beggars in Spain was my first intro to her, and Ej-Es (free to read link) sticks out in my mind.
She explores ethics/politics in sci-fi along with female sexuality, though more old school. People have said she’s got Ayn Rand vibes, but she’s not, some of her characters take on those characteristics so that she can tear them down later.
Also: Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice series is amazing. Gender/politics/individualism/collectivism all mixed together into a plot at breakneck speed where the characters are described more by what they say and do, than how many limbs and genitals they have
