Due to recent reader discussions, a selection of Solaris Fantasy Books written by women that are NOT Romantasy. Not that we don't love a good romantasy too, but there are women writers in all subgenres, from dark to eco, comic to epic, indigenous dragonriders to goblin emperors, something for all!
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Lena Brassard
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Feeling entitled to another person's time and attention after being told it will not be on offer is always, ALWAYS the tip of the fucking iceberg, I assure you.
Never let someone tell you that you must excuse owning enslaved people or participating in killing Native people because someone was "of their time". Silas Soule was of the same time.
Patrick McCrayRemembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...
Mary Shelley: this all is too much Shelley: i'm gonna start stabbing Poe: mary! there's too many of them! Poe: you can't stab them all! Shelley: just fuckin watch me
it's not just that means testing unfairly gatekeeps care from people on the edges of the economic goldilocks zone. the logic ripples out through culture and influences how we talk about poverty, race, and disability. we do not talk about helping people without first talking about who not to help.
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
It's the most basic of litmus tests you're being asked to do nothing to not buy a book or a game or a piece of merch to live your life exactly the same way you did before that thing became available for purchase if NOTHING is too big an ask, you can't be counted on when it's time to do SOMEthing
Zoe Tunnell ➡️ FlameCon E-09The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives