#ammonite nicola griffith

[spiritintheinkwell]

Happy Pride! Featuring my nine favorite wlw books.

Mahit/Three Seagrass from the Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine

Catherine/Lucy from The Lady's Guide To Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Kath/Lily from Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Zanja/Karis from the Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks

Jude/Síle from Landing by Emma Donoghue

Ead/Sabran from The Priory Of The Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Emi/Ava from Everything Leads To You by Nina LaCour

Thenike/Marghe from Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Red/Blue from This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Ordered by theme, not by preference.

#wlw art #wlw book fanart #teixcalaan #the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #last night at the telegraph club #elemental logic #landing emma donoghue #the priory of the orange tree #everything leads to you #ammonite nicola griffith #this is how you lose the time war #pride art #gilbert baker diversity pride flag #lesbian #bisexual #queer

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I just finished "Ammonite" by Nicola Griffith and I can't yet properly put into words how much I loved it. (It has nothing to do with the movie "Ammonite" btw)

It's a sci fi story set on a planet where all men died of a strange virus. The women who survived are altered by the virus and somehow still managed to reproduce and form different tribes. The main character is an anthropologist who is sent by a capitalist company from earth but she changes quite a lot during the story. The story is a speculative study of a society, it's an adventure and a journey, it's about trauma, about colonisation, it's about being human and female and it broke and healed something inside of me.

There are only female characters, only lesbian relationships (obviously) and the author is a lesbian herself. But I somehow "forgot" that all the characters were female in the sense that it isn't really a main theme that is discussed politically or ideologically. It's the setting for the story instead of being the story. This isn't a feminist think piece (nothing against them, in fact this was my little break from the feminist think pieces I read way too much lol), it's just a story with all kinds of people. These people just happen to be all women. But the fact that they are women isn't tossed asids either and as a woman I found myself and the women I know in so many details and gestures and relationships. It made me realize how unrealistic most media is. How much it ignores that we are 50% of the population and that we are human.

The women in this book are brutal and aggressive, gentle and wise, caring and stoic, smart and nervous, angry and bitter, stupid and funny. War mongering women, healers, mothers, hunters and murderers.

This would make such a fantastic movie or show but I hope nobody ever wants to make it into a movie because I fear that they'd make it a netflix-esque male-gaze-y shit show. And I love the pictures in my own head way too much for that.

I highly recommend this book to every woman who reads this post

#nicola griffith #lesbian literature #science fiction #ammonite #this will end up in the tag for that stupid movie but idc #mp

[avibus-libri]

took charge of the work twitter to do daily pride recommends posts and its sooooo stressful I have to tag the authors and they. are retweeting. my shitty little pride posts??????? absurd

#twitter is a curse but the retweets are flattering at least #im specifically trying to do non tiktok books #but i had to do iron widow bc i loved it and got an INSANE amount of interaction #but lbr. everyone knows about iron widow. how many tiktokers or twitterers know about ammonite by nicola griffith

[arijensineink]

Author Ask Tag Game

@axl-ul put up an open tag for this and I love these questions so I'm going to do it. Make sure to go read their answers because they were truly beautiful and inspiring <3333 Here's the linky.

And I will of course, use The Wolfena to answer these since it's my. most developed WIP.

What is the main lesson of your story (e.g. kindness, diversity, anti-war), and why did you choose it? I'm not into preachy stories, but The Wolfena has a very blatant anti-slavery, pro-autonomy message woven into it. Autonomy is all. This story is about finding your autonomy even in situations where you feel trapped or have no control over the world around you. I didn't choose it at all, but I once spoke to a highly accomplished author (sadly it was so long ago and I actually disliked the conversation a lot at the time, so I don't have her name). But she basically asked me "Why doesn't your book address slavery?" And I was so annoyed, because I was working on a different book that had little to do with the subject. But that question festered in my mind, and a few years later The Wolfena were born.

What did you use as inspiration for your worldbuilding (like real-life cultures, animals, famous media, websites, etc.)? I've said this before, but The Hundred tv show and Ammonite by Nicola Griffith were highly formative to writing The Wolfena. I drew a huge amount of inspiration from all of the New England winters I've survived, as all of the characters grew up in a total ice-age. I really tried to capture both the wonder of spring and the barren hopelessness of winter.

What is your MC trying to achieve, and what are you, the writer, trying to achieve with them? Do you want to inspire others, teach forgiveness, help readers grow as a person? Naxia wants to free all of the enslaved people in her nation even if she dies trying; Lariette just wants to free herself; Jimian wants to learn to be human again. I wouldn't say I'm trying to achieve anything with them, as they were all strong muses who guided me through the story, at times with minimal effort on my part. But, I do hope they help others understand that we are full of far more strength than we could ever imagine.

How many chapters is your story going to have? This is my shame. The Wolfena has a whopping 70+ chapters.

Is it fanfiction or original content? Where do you plan to post it? The Wolfena is a totally original story, at least I hope, hehe. My ultimate goal is to traditionally publish it, but we'll see where all the pieces fall.

When and why did you start writing? (Assuming this is in regards only to The Wolfena) I think I started writing this story somewhere around 2016? I had to write it to address that festering question about slavery, and also to work through my feelings about womanhood and gender as I became an adult.

Do you have any words of engagement for fellow writers of Writeblr? What other writers of Tumblr do you follow? Well, I used up a lot of typing energy on these questions, so you can find engagement and encouragement over on Fighting For Writing <3

I follow mostly writers, so I'll tag to the best of my ability and leave it open as well for anyone who wants to participate! Firstly my goblins: @angelsofprey @regret-breathing @coffeewritesfiction @incorrectgoddessgang @minutiaewriter @sindellaos and @soupy8lowfish . Other people I see in my feed a lot are as follows: @quinnharperwrites @nanashi23 @readrenard @words-after-midnight and @marmeegle !!!! Of course there are many more, but I think I'm at my typing quota XD It's time for me to stretch and go drink some water!

Much love, bbys <3333 Please take care of yourselves!

#writers of tumblr #writing community #taggies #The Wolfena #writeblr #creative writing #writing advice #fantasy writer #queer writers #writing #queer fantasy #queer fiction #lesbian romance #sapphic romance #writing encouragement

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith was born in 1960 in Yorkshire, England. Griffith published her first novel, Ammonite, in 1993. She is best known for her historical novel, Hild, as well as her novels featuring lesbian PI Aud Torvingen. Griffith has won six Lambda Literary Awards, the Washington State Book Award, a Nebula Award, and a World Fantasy Award. She has also been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the BSFA Award.

#writers #woman writers #lgbt #lesbian #lesbian writers #lgbt writers #women with disabilities #writers with disabilities #Youtube

[cantsayidont]

September 2020. Not to be confused with the Nicola Griffith sci-fi novel, the Francis Lee film AMMONITE is a slow-moving, grey drama, positing a romantic and sexual relationship between paleontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan), who later became a noted geologist. (They were friends in real life, although the movie's depiction of their relationship is speculative.)

Like the very similar PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE, the story wants to make a feminist statement about the social and professional marginalization of women (Anning is frustrated that the members of the Royal Geological Society — which she isn't eligible to join — are getting great mileage out of her work without compensation or credit, as she lives hand to mouth selling fossils and shells in a little shop), but it's also determined to separate its feminist thesis from socioeconomic class in a way that ultimately feels very uneasy.

Winslet is quite good, but the script doesn't ever really get into Anning's head, so her two main modes are prickliness and repressed wlw "I am, regrettably, attracted to you, so I must ask that you immediately go far away and never speak of this again." A subplot about Anning having previously had a fling with an older woman (Fiona Shaw) feels underdeveloped, and while the film centers on a particularly vivid sex scene, its version of the Anning-Murchison relationship isn't really convincing. It also ends on an odd note that doesn't seem to jibe with the fact that the real women remained friends for most of their lives, if more in correspondence than in person. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Indeed. VERDICT: If you're not just watching for that scene, it's typical underwhelming bourgeoisie art house filmmaking.

#movies #hateration holleration #ammonite #ammonite film #francis lee #fiona shaw #kate winslet #saoirse ronan #mary anning #charlotte murchison #wlw #lesbian movies #i was extremely unimpressed with portrait of a lady on fire #which is so willfully disinterested in the obvious class divide between the characters #that i kept wanting to throw something at the screen #this and mare of eassttown do at least reassure me #that winslet *can* in fact act and the regime was just a weird lapse #that the film could have also included a sex scene #between kate winslet and fiona shaw #and chose not to do so #should also be counted against it tbh

[the-rad-menace]

#radfems do interact

[b-a-pigeon]

I'm making a rec list of queer SFF books on Bookshop - it's still a work in progress, but feel free to check it out! (The list is also available under the read-more link.)

I'd also love some recs to flesh this out a bit if anyone has any other suggestions. I'm looking for adult books only, prioritizing not-MM-romance & underrated / less popular / weirder stuff, and trying to keep the balance shifted toward POC authors & protagonists 😌

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

The Membranes by Ta-Wei Chi

The Seep by Chana Porter

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany

The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

Mirrored in Evergreen by me :)

#queer fantasy #queer sci fi #queer sff #lgbt sff #lgbt sci fi #lgbt fantasy #book recs #book recommendations #book rec list #queer books #lgbt books #trans books #queer poc #bookblr #writers on tumblr #writeblr #writblr #writeblr community #is it annoying to put my own book on here ? oh well #also btw i'm an ~affiliate~ so i do get paid a tiny bit if u buy any of these books off my list #like. not very much money at all but yknow

[aeide-thea]

my dad's funny bc like. is he reflexively conservative in certain ways? yeah, for sure. but also have i gotten him to the point where he's now vociferously aghast in his own right at all these republican attempts to control women and trans people's choices? startlingly, yes. did i particularly hesitate before getting him gideon the ninth for xmas a few years back? not really (and iirc he liked it)! did he give me nicola griffith's ammonite to read when i was, like, a preteen? also yes. so like. really a mixed bag!

#the thing about ammonite is that it's a really interesting book! that also iirc entirely defines women by their chromosomes #which. you know. rough for those of us who take issue with that. #and god knows how the like. Heroine from Technologically Advanced Culture Encounters Mystical Native Wisdom aspect would read to me now #but like. gotta give him credit for hooking me up with the lesbian SFF of the day!

[librinaut]

books that made me happy this year so far! All of them are women-centric (you know.. centering women the same way most of literature centers men) and three of them with a lesbian protagonist (the childrens book doesn't have a lesbian protagonist but let's be real, there are only women in these books so what else is she going to turn out to be when she grows up).

The luminous dead by Caitlin Starling: sci-fi exploration/psychological horror and toxic lesbians. I love cave exploration, I love exploration of unknown environments, I love women, I love when all of this goes wrong. Book of the year 10/10. I can't really say more without spoiling a lot but it's such a good book and I didn't expect to like it that much.

Das große Buch der kleinen Hexe (the little witch series by Lieve Baeten): childrens books with very little text but the most beautiful and detailed illustrations. Follows a little witch, her cat and sometimes her friends around various adventures in a world that seems to only consist of witches. Honestly the life I want to live. Sadly Lieve Beaten died very young so this is all we will ever get of the little witch series. So I cherish these stories like a treasure.

When Women were Warriors by Catherine M. Wilson: or: how to create a book title that's horrible to pronounce for germans while the rest of the conversation is in german. A story set in the past but with some very very mild hints at fantasy elements and no real claim on historical accuracy. Follows a young lesbian protagonist on her way to become a warrior. But that way isn't really that straightforward and it's more about interactions with other people than it is about fighting. The series kind of lost me in the third (and last) book because I was suddenly supposed to care about a bunch of men that never appeared before but the series is absolutely worth reading nontheless.

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith: not to be confused with that "Ammonite" movie, this couldn't be more far away from it. Except that it also has a lesbian protagonist. Set in the future, an anthropologist is sent by a capitalist company to go to a planet where almost all visitors mysteriously die of an illness. Men will definitely die and women sometimes survive. The (former colonialist) population of the planet consists entirely of women and has (also mysteriously) sustained/reproduced itself for several generations without any men. Our protagonist has to find out what's going on and is also testing a vaccine that would make it possible to exploit the planet for its resources. There is also a small colony of female soldiers at an outpost we sometimes follow. This story is quite gritty and brutal at times. Women are portrayed as the entire spectrum of humanity, including everything wonderful and awful humans are capable of. The world Jeep is harsh but I found myself really wanting to explore it, it's so beautifully written. Honestly probably my favourite book ever.

[tsunflowers]

I finally finished reading about planet jeep. the book is actually called ammonite, by nicola griffith. I had a good time with it. it had themes and messages but it didn’t feel too cerebral or preachy

basically hundreds of years ago some space colonists landed on the planet jeep and just stayed there with no contact with anyone else. but then just before the book starts the evil corporation that runs everyone’s lives finds the planet again and realizes there’s some rare earth minerals there and is like hellooo! they send down a force but oops, there’s a virus endemic to the planet jeep that kills all the men and some of the women. now there’s a bunch of military women stuck there having tension with the natives who are somehow reproducing through parthenogenesis. enter our heroine marghe who is an anthropologist so desperate to study the native women of planet jeep that she agrees to take an experimental vaccine and go down there. marghe quickly gets tired of sitting around at the base and insists on setting out into the wilds of the planet where she gets kidnapped by natives pretty fast. but she escapes and meets a different group and gets married to a woman there and ends up a key figure in settling the conflict between soldiers and natives

I worried at some points that it was edging close to noble savage shit and people who are more sensitive to that than me might see it but for the most part I think she avoided it. the important native characters seem to have their own internal lives and there are women who get in fights or are generally shitty people as well as smiling hardy women who live in harmony with the land. it also helps that both the soldiers and natives have a range of ethnic backgrounds and skin tones, and the native names are either full fantasy or Gaelic. like Bright Moon is a soldier while Aoife is a native

it was published in 92 and I think it would be a different book if written today. not that it aged particularly poorly but I think the colonization dynamic might be different. but also there’s no indication in the book that it’s possible for someone to be neither a man nor a woman. the author obviously just wanted to write about a society of all women which is fair but I think she would have to grapple with gender in a slightly different way today

back to things that are actually in the book as written. I really liked the commander of the soldiers. she didn’t expect to be the commander but all the men who outranked her died. she’s aware that they’re stuck on this planet bc the evil company is not going to rescue people who could be vectors for an unknown disease so she wants to integrate with the natives to survive but has no idea how. she was an interesting character and I was always happy to return to her pov. also there was an ambiguously sapient species already on the planet before the first human colonists came and they were named “the goth” and I couldn’t deal with it. ms griffith why didn’t you name them literally anything else. there’s this one woman who likes to hunt goth bc she’s a real sicko and I’m like come on. just bc they wear black and have unusual piercings you don’t have to build spike traps for killing goths

#my book review corner

[spiritintheinkwell]

After Marghe and Thenike left the courtyard, they walked for a while quietly, both wrapped under the same cloak. Marghe watched the stars, listening to the far-off hiss and drag of waves on the shore and slapping up against the wharf. She was a viajera. For the rest of her life she would travel and tell stories and judge disputes. It would rarely be as easy as it had been today, she knew, but she found she did not mind. She had found what it was she had been looking for; she had a place in the world, a place she had made. She touched the suke resting against her breast. She was Marghe Amun. The complete one. She felt at peace.

(Ammonite by Nicola Griffith @nicolagriffith, p. 271)

Femslash February 2 of probably not 50

More Femslash February More WLW Book Fanart

#femslash february #femslashfeb2023 #ammonite #nicola griffith #wlw book fanart #diversebookfanart #wlw art #I have distilled my love of this book into an image

[profiterole-reads]

Spear by Nicola Griffith

The novella Spear by Nicola Griffith (Ammonite) was lovely. A woman dressed as a man wants to join King Arthur's Companions.

I like that this is a retelling that follows one of the knights rather than the royals. The writing style is almost poetic and a few illustrations accompany the text.

There's major f/f, minor m/m/f, as well as POC and physical disability representation. For more LGBT Quick Reads, check out my rec list.

#lgbt sff #lgbt books #sff books #gender #wlw #f/f #fantasy

[honeysuckle-venom]

19, 24 and 33 for the lesbian ask game?

Thank you so very much for the questions Mika!

19. Favorite lesbian novel/story?

Okay so I have a feeling my answer to this may change once I've finished the Locked Tomb series, but right now I'm only at the very beginning of Gideon the Ninth so that can't be my answer. So I'm going to go with Ammonite by Nicola Griffith. I read it this summer and it was really good and really interesting. It's sci-fi and takes place on a planet of all women.

24. If a woman wanted to woo you, what would a surefire way to accomplish that?

Oh goodness. It wouldn't be hard. I'm very much a sappy romantic. Classic things like flowers and telling me I'm pretty would go a very long way. But the biggest thing would be being willing to take things at my pace and not pushing for things I'm uncomfortable with.

33. Do you love easily or does it take time for you to warm up to someone?

Answered :)

#answers #thank you again for asking #about me

[arijensineink]

OC Questions Tag

Thank you bestie @axl-ul for the tag <3 I'm excited about this one.

I've had Naxia Ilarion on the brain lately so I'll choose her for this one. She's also the OC I intrinsically know the most about so ~hopefully~ this'll be easy peasy.

5 words to physically describe your OC (do you have a drawing? even better!) I do have drawings of Naxia but I don't know where any of them are right now 😭 So, 5 words: vicious, loving, quiet, flame, vengeance.

Who inspired your OC? (can be your mum to a very famous fungi) Anya/Lexa from The 100 were definitely formative to Naxia's inception; Aoife from Ammonite by Nicola Griffith, as well as Mara from When Women Were Warriors by Catherine Wilson are the character who really solidified both her aesthetic and inner world as I've gone through various edits of the book.

Give me a song to define your OC (I will listen to it to enter in your WIP mood!) "Lover. Fighter." by SVRCINA is literally Naxia's anthem. Like. My jaw dropped the first time I heard it. It was written for her (and Lariette.)

If I met your OC on the street, how would they greet me? She wouldn't talk to someone without reason, so, probably something like "Hey numbskull, you dropped your wallet. Here."

Can your OC be your best friend? Why? Yes, but I would much rather marry her ok bye. She is literally my dream woman you didn't see this.

1 adjective and 1 noun to describe your OC (bue soul) Passionate Strongarm. Taggies~! @minutiaewriter @rbbess110 @marmeegle and @words-after-midnight

#taggies #The Wolfena #writing community #writers of tumblr #queer writers

[linearao3]

What books are on your tbr list these days?

Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge, A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft, and Please Miss by Grace Lavery. Assuming by “what’s on your TBR list” you mean “what do you own and keep ignoring in favor of listening The Murderbot Diaries and The Locked Tomb for the fourth time.” I also need to finish Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (which is quite good, and just a victim of my scattered brains).

#asks #anonymous