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December 2013

real-life-dipper-pines:

roachpatrol:

i’ve been reading a book of award winning literary short stories and a book of kinda trashy post-apocalyptic speculative fiction short stories and guess which book displays more jaded contempt for humanity hint it’s not the one with all the nuclear fallout

#how do people survive without sci fi#i have no fucking idea#seriously all these lit shorts are so weirdly cruel and cold#people living and dying and loving each other and apparently that’s meaningless and absurd#all the great machinations and dreams of human beings and the lives they build with one another amount to nothing#meanwhile in the wasteland people are reinventing love#dancing in the acid rain and diving for the scrap metal prayers of a distant age#and learning over and over again how to live#those are stories worth reading#those are stories worth telling#sigh

Dec 25, 2013 3,267 notes
#literary #science fiction #writing #prose #genre
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My 5-year-old insists that Bilbo Baggins is a girl.

The first time she made this claim, I protested. Part of the fun of reading to your kids, after all, is in sharing the stories you loved as a child. And in the story I knew, Bilbo was a boy. A boy hobbit. (Whatever that entails.)

But my daughter was determined. She liked the story pretty well so far, but Bilbo was definitely a girl. So would I please start reading the book the right way? I hesitated. I imagined Tolkien spinning in his grave. I imagined mean letters from his testy estate. I imagined the story getting as lost in gender distinctions as dwarves in the Mirkwood.

Then I thought: What the hell, it’s just a pronoun. My daughter wants Bilbo to be a girl, so a girl she will be. And you know what? The switch was easy. Bilbo, it turns out, makes a terrific heroine. She’s tough, resourceful, humble, funny, and uses her wits to make off with a spectacular piece of jewelry. Perhaps most importantly, she never makes an issue of her gender—and neither does anyone else.

”
—Bilbo Baggins is a girl: Until children’s books catch up to our daughters, rewrite them. (via sashimigrade)
Dec 24, 2013 106,909 notes
#the hobbit #tolkien #gender #feminism #fiction #prose #books #children
Dec 23, 2013 23,960 notes
#Pacific Rim #I don't understand #how anyone #could not love this movie at this point
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