It’s an Ursula k le Guin free your mind from the idea of deserving kind of day
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Ursula K. Le Guin would do numbers on tumblr
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Sparrowhawk and the shadow
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Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! (October 21, 1929)
An acclaimed author of science fiction and fantasy, Ursula K. Le Guin was born to an academic family in Berkeley, California. She began reading at a young age, and was particularly enchanted by genre fiction, including science fiction and fantasy, as well as myth and legend. Her writing career began in the 1950s, and she would write continuously throughout the rest of her life. Her best-known works include the Earthsea series of novels, The Lathe of Heaven, The Left Hand of Darkness, a science fiction exploration of gender, and The Dispossessed. A writer in the anarchist tradition, Le Guin's work often explored themes of society, gender, sexuality, and revolution. She received numerous awards for her work, including many Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. She died in 2018.
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
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Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness //The X-Files, 1x17
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"For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think."
-Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossesed
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Round 2 Part 4 Poll 4
Propaganda
Ged's a wizard he's bisexual and he loves his boat so much. He's sailed around the world on his beloved little boat and learned everything about sailing even though he could've just used magic because it brought him joy. I just like him a lot. Also he talks to dragons
Jonny is an immortal (die and come back, regenerative immortality) pirate who commandeered the Aurora for himself and the woman who made him immortal. She proceeded to make several other people immortal, who all joined the crew, until they threw her out the airlock (several times. She left of her own free will as a result of this). Jonny declared that, as the original member, he was captain now. Everyone decided to ignore him. He introduces himself as ""your humble captain"" every performance, and every performance Tim (another crew member) and usually the entire audience yells "first mate!" He once said "so she came to the closest thing we have to a captain: myself" only for it to cut to the situation in question to show that he had no control at all. Even the starship doesn't see him as the captain (she's sentient. Also a lesbian! I love her). Captain struggles aside, he's so fun. He once committed every single crime on a planet (except the sex crimes). He had an arrest warrant out with the reason "just arrest the fucker". He has a whole post-patricide harmonica solo. He's fantastic
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when mary oliver said “you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” and when ursula k le guin said “love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new” and when fiona apple said “love is love, and there will never be too much”
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ursula k le guin said sci fi/fantasy does not have to be about giant wars or battles of good and evil or galactic disaster; it is best served as a lens through which to examine what is actually intrinsic to the human condition and what, once removed a few layers from our own perceptions & assumptions, begins to fall apart. and she was correct.
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Pov you quoted the left hand of darkness when argueing about politics (again)
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Illustrations by David Lupton from the Folio Society edition of The Left Hand of Darkness.
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Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function.
What’s the function of a galaxy? I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters.
What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are.
What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
— Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
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[ID: A picture of a page in a book. Its contents show a poem titled "Doggerel for My Cat" accompanied by a small illustration of a black-and-white tuxedo cat standing below the poem's text. The cat stands facing the reader with a pleasant smile, his tail curled slightly. The text of the poem reads: "His paws are white, his ears are black. / When he isn't around I feel the lack. / His purr is loud, his fur is soft. / He always carries his tail aloft. / His gait is easy, his gaze intense. / He wears a tuxedo to all events. / His toes are prickly, his nose is pink. / I like to watch him sit and think. / His breed is Alley, his name is Pard. / Life without him would be hard." /End ID]
"Doggerel for My Cat" by Ursula K. Le Guin from page 154 of her collection No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
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