#Ursula K Le Guin

[brechtian]

It’s an Ursula k le Guin free your mind from the idea of deserving kind of day

#ursula k le guin #quotes

[ringneckedpheasant]

watercolors by trans artist tuesday smilie

#ursula k le guin #the left hand of darkness #marc.txt #tlhod #lhod

[mourningmaybells]

Ursula K. Le Guin would do numbers on tumblr

#tlhod #ursula k. le guin #ursula k le guin #the left hand of darkness

[eleanor-arroway]

times, places, and practices that I want to learn from to imagine a hopeful future for humanity 🍃

the three sisters (squash, beans, maize) stock photo - alamy // anecdote by Ira Byock about Margaret Mead // art by Amanda Key // always coming home by Ursula K. Le Guin // Yup'ik basket weaver Lucille Westlock photographed by John Rowley // the left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin // photo by Jacob Klassen // the carrier bag theory of fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin // article in national geographic // the dawn of everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow // braiding sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer // the birchbark house by Louise Erdrich // photo by John Noltner

I'm looking for more content and book recs in this vein, so please send them my way!

#solarpunk #hopepunk #braiding sweetgrass #just a collection of books and pictures that make me hopeful for the future #margaret mead #robin wall kimmerer #nature #ursula k le guin #ursula k. le guin #the left hand of darkness #the carrier bag theory of fiction #the dawn of everything #anthropology #future #hopecore #native plants #biodiversity #sustainability #eco #eco friendly #louise erdrich #civilization

[facts-i-just-made-up]

What is the difference between a witch and a wizard

Both could generally refer to any gender of mage, but certain authors of recent infamy decided that one is female and one is male. Hence this scene from a movie that I can't believe is over 20 years old:

#cw harry potter #cw jk rowling #cisnormative bullshit #ursula k le guin #a wizard of earthsea #check it out #unreality

[jellyghostspace]

Sparrowhawk and the shadow

#tales from earthsea #earthsea #ursula k le guin #sparrowhawk #fantasy illustration #fantasy art

[anarchistin]

When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed.

"Do they expect students not to be anarchists?" he said. "What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up."

— Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

#ursula k le guin #anarchism #youth liberation #quote

[hermitmoss]

Illustrations by David Lupton from the Folio Society edition of The Left Hand of Darkness.

#tlhod #ursula k le guin #uklg #the left hand of darkness #genly ai #therem harth rem ir estraven #*

[radiofreederry]

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."

#birthdays #ursula k le guin

[alicearmageddon]

"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

#anarchism #writing #quotes #ursula k le guin #the dispossessed

[yesandor]

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness //The X-Files, 1x17

#the x-files #txf #dana scully #fox mulder #msr #x files #tlhod #the left hand of darkness #ursula k le guin

[brechtian]

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.

#ursula k le guin #the dispossessed #the left hand of darkness #all her books feel like such a clear message to all of speculative fiction and that message is: YOU ARE ASKING THE WRONG QUESTIONS

[captainsvscaptains]

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

#battle of the captains #tournament polls #round 2 #ged earthsea #sparrowhawk earthsea #earthsea series #a wizard of earthsea #earthsea cycle #earthsea #sparrowhawk #bookblr #ursula k le guin #ursula k. le guin #ursula le guin #jonny dville #jonny d'ville #the mechs #the mechanisms #songblr #bandblr #musicblr

[slowtides]

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”

#Mary Oliver #ursula k le guin #Fiona Apple #I think they call this #web weaving #alive with the glory of love #quotations

[jewishdainix]

Pov you quoted the left hand of darkness when argueing about politics (again)

#ursula k. le guin #ursula k le guin

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Who even invented Vegans?

They took their inspiration from the ethical parable "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes" by Ursula K. Egguin.

#ursula k le guin #vegan #vegans #veganism #literature #unreality