#uklg

[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 #*

[isleofgont]

The Tombs of Atuan (1970) by Ursula K. Le Guin

#earthsea #the tombs of atuan #ursula k. le guin #uklg #moshe's thoughts #book excerpt

[aurpiment]

I didn’t want to sillypost on @eternityboxes’ earthsea quotes post but i immediately need to share this mental image of a fantasy SPCA sticker that came to me fully formed. Completely different vibe than Tenar’s line, sorry

#mt #earthsea #uklg #tehanu #tenar doesn’t have a minivan so it has to be a boatper sticker for ged’s boat #I forgot to draw therru so let’s pretend she took the photo #also if anyone knows how to rig a catboat sail correctly DON’T tell me #pretend the boat strings are not stressing you out

[lefthandofscaevola]

argaven, tibe

#original content #tlhod #uklg #left hand of darkness

[viiridiangreen]

this thumbnail is like catnip genetically engineered for me specifically

#& i should perhaps be concerned bc of whatever that says abt me but i'm not in the mood for that lol #gaymer content #viitalks #you're telling me you're gonna drag todd using auntie ursula's work'????????? #ADN IT'S TWO HOURS LONG???? #uklg

[nicolagriffith]

Talking about Ursula Le Guin for the British Library

Event: 7:00 pm UK/11:00 am Pacific “The Realms of Ursula K Le Guin,” a public conversation between me, Julie Phillips (Ursula’s biographer) and Theo Downes-Le Guin (her son), moderated by Sarah Shin, held as part of the British Library's Fantasy exhibit.

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 — London, UK and Virtual — The British Library Event: 7:00 pm UK/11:00 am Pacific “The Realms of Ursula K Le Guin,” a public conversation between me, Julie Phillips (Ursula’s biographer) and Theo Downes-Le Guin (her son), moderated by Sarah Shin (editor of Space Crone). Held as part of the British Library’s flagship exhibition on Fantasy Tickets are £6.50, or £3.25…

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#british library #events #julie phillips #online event #sarah shin #theo downes-le guin #UKLG #ursula le guin #virtual event

[broomsticks]

Everyone—even the poor, even the lazy, even the undesirable—can matter. Do you see how just the idea of this provokes utter rage in some? That is the infection defending itself . . . because if enough of us believe a thing is possible, then it becomes so. And then? Who knows. War, maybe. The fire of fever and the purging scourge. No one wants that, but is not the alternative to lie helpless, spotty and blistered and heaving, until we all die? So don’t walk away. The child needs you, too, don’t you see? You also have to fight for her, now that you know she exists, or walking away is meaningless.

#the ones who walk away from omelas #a sequel #uklg #n k jemisin #words to live by

[virtuissimo]

Steering the Craft by UKLG: Being Gorgeous

I'm only posting the ones i think came out ok or at least cute. This one is meant to sound childish and playful, messing around with aural quality.

Exercise 1: Write a paragraph to a page of narrative that's meant to be read aloud. Use onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition, rhythmic effects, made-up words or names, dialect-- any kind of sound effect you like-- but NOT rhyme or meter.

The tiny fishbowl world is glittery and glows with the gluberring bubbler, pockets of pretty diamond air bathing us up and up till we’ve all breathed our share. With water all around, streams of upward oxygen, it is the inverted waterfall which keeps us iridescent and incandescent and resplendent, except for the one who is pale and fades, the one who is convalescent.

She was once a bulbous lady, yellow like goldenrod or goldilocks or marigolds or goldfinch or canaries or butterflies or buttercups, but her belly is stopped up full of worms, green and black ones that hang out of her butt and make her swell up like a yeast roll, and now even the bubbler can’t make her colors sing. She is cranky and mean, swiping and swirling up a slurry of tears. She makes us hide in our castles and temples; we duck into the caves and hope she doesn’t see us!

She slithers through the water, casts a wide circumference on the rocks and grasses, the penumbra of our despair! When she finds us, we will flee! We will go so far as the walls of our fishbowl world! We will crash smack ping into our glass mirror borders! We will feel her on our tails, the trail of her worms like flags hanging off of bike handles. We will turn and turn, twist and twist, flip and flip, until she tires and floats near the inverted waterfall, hoping to catch some diamonds on her back.

#uklg #creative writing #steering the craft

[fearofmusic1979]

when scholar laurence davis said in his essay about open-ended utopian politics that If the dominant form of utopian narrative is a timeless monument to euclidean reason then the dispossessed is a mighty wave of imagination in the ocean of time, on the crest of which we are all buoyed up and provided with a glimpse of the farther shore

#uklg #the dispossessed

[isleofgont]

Tales from Earthsea (2001) by Ursula K. Le Guin

#earthsea #tales from earthsea #ursula k. le guin #uklg #book excerpt #moshe's thoughts

[aurpiment]

I think in a filmed adaptation of The Dispossessed you’d have to make some concessions to ‘uncomfortable to act through a face full of spirit glue’ but I wouldn’t want to do this. Hairy Cetians forever.

#mt #sideburns on every Anarresti regardless of gender #you know that facial hair pattern #many of our simian cousins have? hair on the cheeks and chin but not between nose and mouth? like that. #uklg #the dispossessed

[lefthandofscaevola]

The fabled hypothetical offspring

#can't stop won't stop #tlhod #original content #uklg

[viiridiangreen]

THE AWOKEN HAVE ANSIBLES???????????

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyLore/comments/9gcjjp/pilgrimage_patrol_lore/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

#this ain't new lol i just wasn't around for Forsaken #about destiny #uklg #viitalks

[heliological]

omelas writing masterpost

accepting that I will be thinking really hard about omelas approximately once per year for the rest of my life so here's a bunch of links for future me next time I go down this rabbithole

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)

Omelas, Je T’Aime, Kurt Schiller (2022)

The Ones Who Stay and Fight, N.K. Jemisin (2018)

The Ones Who Yell at Omelas, Rite Gud podcast (2022) [links a bunch of other responses]

tumblr post by shedoesnotcomprehend (2018)

After We Walked Away, Erica L. Satifka (2016)

Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole, Isabel J. Kim (2024)

and bc I always forget, the BTS music video that references it is Spring Day

@ myself read another story jfc

#le guin #omelas #hmu if you've got other stuff that's interesting #always want to talk about uklg #also I want to see some older interpretations since all of these are from the past 10 years

[terramythos]

absolutely insane thumbnail but with zero context I'm inclined to agree

#to be fair anything can be improved with some uklg #my posts