i'm a comedically slow reader and awful at even picking up books to begin with
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Sabrina Ramet: Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures (Hardcover, 1996, Routledge)
"Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures" is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross-cultural and cross-historical look at the …
The discussion of homosexuality and inter-gendered sexual activity covers mostly mammals and birds. A large number of zoological studies are …
The Last Unicorn is a fantasy novel by American author Peter S. Beagle and published in 1968, by Viking Press …
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination …
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination …
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two …
only 1 more day left on my library loan and i'm not able to renew it because there's THIRTY people waiting to borrow it next, i think i'm gonna have to make note of my place and send it back before i'm done. do note that the library has 73 copies so it's not like they're in any short supply like they often are for other books i have in my holds atm
the copy i added to my shelves here is different from the one i acc borrowed (the one i'm borrowing uses the same ISBN as the original printing, despite clearly not being the original, so i just picked a listed copy with matching coverart) and is actually 844 pages long, and i'm currently @ 411, so uhhhhh
John Muir Laws: The Laws guide to nature drawing and journaling (2016, Heyday)
In straightforward text complemented by step-by-step illustrations, dozens of exercises lead the hand and mind through creating accurate reproductions of …
okay, but unironically i do think "isekai" is a term we should absolutely be applying to media outside of japan/the broader east. i think calling this a "time travel story" gives a different impression as to the amount of control there is in the time travel happening, and "science fiction" makes it sound like the time travelling is technological, when it's instead, at least thus far, functionally magical/supernatural (even if not explicitly described as such). i would definitely categorize it as both of those things, but it is first and foremost an isekai in my mind.
frankly i just don't get the disgust i've seen when i dare to call things like jumaji (the new one with the videogame) "isekais" especially when this disgust often comes from the same people who call random western animation "anime". i guess it's because the people who i see react negatively like that have …
okay, but unironically i do think "isekai" is a term we should absolutely be applying to media outside of japan/the broader east. i think calling this a "time travel story" gives a different impression as to the amount of control there is in the time travel happening, and "science fiction" makes it sound like the time travelling is technological, when it's instead, at least thus far, functionally magical/supernatural (even if not explicitly described as such). i would definitely categorize it as both of those things, but it is first and foremost an isekai in my mind.
frankly i just don't get the disgust i've seen when i dare to call things like jumaji (the new one with the videogame) "isekais" especially when this disgust often comes from the same people who call random western animation "anime". i guess it's because the people who i see react negatively like that have only ever interacted with shitty japanese isekais like sword art online or whatever, ones which rely heavily on a certain set of tropes not even inherently unique to isekais, so they think of isekais less as the "often-unwillingly whisked away to another world" narrative that to me binds them together most strongly, and more... sword art online, lmfao
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a …
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John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the …
Briefly put, the thesis of this trend in scholarship is that Lot was violating the custom of Sodom (where he was himself not a citizen but only a "sojourner") by entertaining unknown guests within the city walls at night without obtaining the permission of the elders of the city. When the men of Sodom gathered around to demand that the strangers be brought out to them, "that they might know them," they meant no more than to "know" who they were, and the city was consequently destroyed not for sexual immorality but for the sin of inhospitality to strangers.
— Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of …
another non-japanese piece of media i can call an "isekai", making everyone around me scrunch their faces up in confusion as to whether they agree or whether they want to tell me to shut the fuck up
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination …
