drkarenlord.bsky.social
Author of THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Home: Barbados, West Indies 🇧🇧. More info on me and my books at karenlord.wordpress.com
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BLOCKBUSTER in We Will Rise Again, We Will Rise Again, Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, ed. @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social, & @annaleen.bsky.social
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Congrats!
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😁🙏🏾
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thank you!
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ah, signature Gratton move!
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But Tobias, what's your theory of everything?
The closest thing I've found is to look at choice. Choice, what a character chooses to do, and how they're torn by those choices and dilemmas, is where I can usually find a commonality in many more forms of literature (though *not all*).
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of course! Great to see you!
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it’s like a little reinforcing reminder that you’re located in a special/significant bit of spacetime!
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notable that when I finished reading the review and got up to do a little dance of happiness, I spied a LARGE godhorse in the corner of my ceiling. I gently and carefully carried it outside on the end of a broomstick. (A godhorse appears in Redemption in Indigo; they’re very rare here in real life.)
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🤣 enjoy your cosy stranding!
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I have a hardcover edition here. Your essay is pp. 39-43. Connolly & Yoachim are at 17-22, Kress is 23-28, Delaney is 29-37.
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🤣 I remember the first time I had those! Now I use them at the start of a migraine. The caffeine kick reduces the oncoming pain.
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Happy birthday!
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And they were saying they felt like prima donnas, but when was the last time thy showed up for a paid travel gig and weren't exhausted from a million things they had to do that used to be handled?
It's fascinating. There's less capacity/slack/everything.
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And I think about a conversation recently with authors where authors were asking each other "when was the last time you traveled for pay, and all you had to focus on was the gig? Not driving there, buying tickets, fighting for reimbursement, making sure you were fed? etc"
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Posted my recs in the slack!
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IMO, when asking why something is the way it is, we shouldn't just fall back on easy answers like "culture" or the "character of the people." Such answers are often just the first go-to when someone doesn't know very much about a subject. Culture variables also don't explain change.
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I’ve found sometimes discussing a poem with another earnest reader is a great way to find symbols, layers, and meanings that you didn’t see the first time. Also, googling for the more famous ones, to get historical or cultural background!
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🤗❤️