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⌈ Secret Post #4814 ⌋

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Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[(Anonymous)]

Tell us about it and What do you like about it?

Re: Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[(Anonymous)]

I really like the work of Ursula Vernon, who is an American author and artist - mostly fantasy, but she will also tell you a great deal about swamp ecology if you let her, or if she manages to get between you and the door.
I got acquainted with her work years ago on deviantart, then I followed her on livejournal, then I started reading her webcomic "Digger" - then I showed a few pages to my mother and SHE became a fan, and now between us we have nine of her books in physical form, half a dozen more on Kindle, the six individual volumes of "Digger", and the "Digger" omnibus.
I hope she comes to Australia some day.

Re: Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[philstar22]

Anything by N.K. Jemisin. The Earthsea books. Any of Bujold's fantasy books (for some reason her fantasy works for me in a way her scifi doesn't). Howl's Moving Castle.

The Mirror Empire books (awesome worldbuilding). The first 6 books of the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey (I haven't read much past those 6, but the first 6 are fun with a great villain, plus the hero in the second set of 3 is gay).

Children of Blood and Bone. City of Brass. Throne of Glass. Godspeaker trilogy (evil religions are a trope I'm drawn to, plus an awesome female villain who is pretty sympathetic).

Re: Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[(Anonymous)]

Jane Austen, cause sass. To be honest though, I think most of my books are female authors? Even the mystery ones (ie not just the romance ones).

That said, I buy books based on recommendations or just the blurbs, I've never really looked at the author unless it's in a "Hey I have a book by this author and I love it" sort of way.

Re: Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of fics.

The youtubers – Lindsay Ellis, Antonella Inserra, Jenny Nicholson, Natalie Wynn. So much of film and ideology analysis is some dude explaining the world to me, it's nice to have female voices in there. In particular, Lindsay makes sure I never feel shame to like vaguely girly stuff (as in, un-manly stuff like Disney movies), Nella is unapologetically enthusiastic about random things, Jenny makes salty and informative videos on aspects of male nerd-dominated fandoms that maaaaybe weren't made for them (Star Wars dolls, My Little Pony), and Natalie gives me a glimpse of a world I'm not part of but want to be informed about.

Re: Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[(Anonymous)]

Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold. Historically based romantic fantasy that's perfectly executed, every character is great, all the emotional beats are spot on, all the fantastic concepts are well done, just a deeply lovable book.

Collected short stories of James Tiptree. I don't think there's another writer in existence like James Tiptree (aka Alice Sheldon aka Racoons Sheldon). Her stories are these weird little jewels imbued with a really deep profound awareness of and obsession with human mortality and the desire for death and sexual obsession and the weirdness of human gender and to put as much as she did in her short stories blows me away. Absolute genius writer.

Point Break directed by Kathryn Bigelow. For my money the best action movie of all time. An incredibly stupid premise that completely leans into its stupidity, that centers the whole movie on the emotional relationship between Swayze and Reeves in a way that makes it work anyway. And gorgeously directed.

Birds of Prey directed by Cathy Yang. Just a shockingly fun, well-made movie. What I love most about it is the 70s vibe of it all and I think Yang did an amazing job to carry that off without letting it become pastiche while also making a really good action movie.

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Collins. Huge influence on me as a kid, really great evocative use of myth, great characters, really well done moral complexity and emotional maturity, and just soaking in atmosphere.

Semper Femina by Laura Marling. I love every Laura Marling album but this is her most recent one and I think it bespeaks a real maturity for her as a singer-songwriter. Sprawling and conversational and using melody and allusive, fragmentary lyrics to create a really effective overall texture more than telling any single particular story for me. It took a while for me to come around on it but I love it.

Re: Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[(Anonymous)]

I get very wary of reading Star Trek books in general, but I absolutely love the ones written by Una McCormack. My favourite so far is a DS9 book 'The Never-Ending Sacrifice' because I feel like she did an amazing job with world-building and writing the characters of the story in her own way.

Also I have an eternal soft spot for Jacqueline Wilson's books. I only read her books outside of school as a kid up until my mid-teens, and even then I find myself re-reading some of those books from time to time - like The Illustrated Mum and Lizzie Zipmouth. Even though I had a witch phase as a kid I was the one kid in my class that refused to read Harry Potter because the main character wasn't a girl and I didn't think any girl characters in the HP would be interesting in the same way as Wilson's characters (although I did end up getting into HP when I was older, around the time Goblet of Fire was published so I didn't miss out lol).

Re: Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[kaijinscendre]

I like the singing of Florence and the Machine, Kendra Morris, Lorde, and Adele.

I loved the writing of Amy Tan and Jane Yolen.

I love the videos of Jenny Nicholson. She is so funny and relaxing.

Re: Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[(Anonymous)]

Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke was my favourite book for many years as a kid.

Harry Potter was a big part of my teenage years.

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones is still a favourite, and I kinda like how in most of Jones' books, the main character is unlikeable. idk why, it's just amusing to me.

Re: Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[(Anonymous)]

Who would I be without Naoko Takeuchi? Sailor Moon is such a classic of the magical girl genre, not to mention shojo as a whole. Female friendships, courage, sacrifice, trauma, loyalty, bonds that withstand the weight of millennia - what didn't it have? ❤

Similarly, Hiromu Arakawa. Fullmetal Alchemist is a fantastic series and I love it to bits. Family, war, the laws of nature, life in a military dictatorship, disability and chronic pain, forgiveness and redemption - and the bit where the whole mess was kicked off by a creature created from the blood of a slave, and that wanted to be free.
(also Silver Spoon is pretty great, jsyk)

I used to follow D.Gray-man by Katsura Hoshino very closely, but I lost track of it a few years ago. I'm still very fond of the characters and the art.

Re: Inspired by 8 your favorite female created content!

[(Anonymous)]

There's a mix of men and women writers, but one of my favorite shows right now is All Rise. There's only one straight white male in the main cast, the rest are women/POC/LGBT+, and it's awesome.

Vent thread

[philstar22]

For things that are bugging you this week.

Re: Vent thread

[philstar22]

Of the 3 parking lots right near the immigration courthouse, 1 only takes cash and the other 2 were closed. The street parking was closed for construction. Because I didn't have cash (was asked at the last minute to cover the hearing after my dentist appointment this morning), I had to drive several blocks to find a place to park and then walk.

Also, turns out that my dentist thinks my jaw pain is from teeth grinding/jaw clenching given there is some wear on my teeth. Not surprising given how stressed I've been honestly. We're going to do a mouth guard for the night, but I don't know how to deal with the fact that I do it during the day too.

Finally, I really don't like Biden. And it looks like I'm going to have to vote for him. I think he's a step backwards. I think he's wrong for this country. I think people are voting for him because he was Obama's VP even though Obama picked him to pick to the more conservative side of the party. And I also think he's kind of sexist (not Trump level, but he's just an older man who has not updated himself and isn't really aware) and even a bit racist. He's not what this country needs and I don't know if people can get excited enough for him for him to beat Trump. Ugh.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Coworker who came to work sick. We work in a hospital. We have vulnerable patients. We HAVE COVID-19 PATIENTS!

We also have pretty much unlimited sick time (you'll get put on an 'attendance watch list' if they think you're abusing it) but basically as long as you're full time, if you're sick, fucking don't come to work.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I've turned 30 a month ago and friends the same age are acting like they're still teenagers having really dumb fights that don't need to happen. Its worse when they try and drag me into it to take a side and I'm just too damn old to be dealing with this right now.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I plan to send one last private message to an artist I commissioned over two and a half years ago and who has ignored me (and a lot of other people) since then. I'll give her one last chance to refund me or I'm going to publicly post about her scamming me. I'm just so fucking done with this. She just opened commissions again a few days ago and seeing people falling all over themselves to get a spot and throwing money at her really made my patience snap. The only reason I didn't ask her directly under that commissions tweet "So does that mean you'll finally be able to refund me?" is because I don't fancy being mobbed by her fans for "bullying" her.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I'm grateful that my job is making us work from home because I know it's the right safety measure, and I'd much rather be inconvenienced and bored than sick... but FUCK this is inconvenient and boring. I work so much better when I can communicate in person and don't have all the distractions of being at home. And I'm sick of being cooped up inside. I want to be able to go out and do things again. I feel selfish for being so grouchy about it, but I was on the verge of tears the other day.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I tend to be the person who "goes with the flow" but the older I get, I realize I never grew out of being a coward who doesn't like conflict. I'm disgusted by it. I don't stand up to friends when I hear them saying what sounds like crazy privileged or fake woke shit, even after the stunned feeling wears off. It takes me forever to report an obviously abusive home situation to CPS (not mine) and even when I get told "nothing we can do about it" I just accept it and stop. I have no power and no influence for good positive things. My gauge is fucked when it comes to personal space and people bulldozing over me with whatever runaway thought they have at the moment, no matter how offensive or misinformed. I know a lot of this is due to my own abusive upbringing, but I've tried my damnedest to break out of it and be normal (or as normal as I can possibly be). I know I can't change the world by myself (because that would be unrealistic) but I at least want to be able to stand up for something or even myself and be actually fucking proud that I did. I can have a bajillion fantasies where I'm the hero, but it doesn't reflect reality. I'm just a coward.

Also related to 8--

[(Anonymous)]

What are your "excuses" for not enjoying some female heavy content?

For me, with youtube I mainly follow guys, and it's because of the voices. There are just some pitches (and I don't know if it's affected or how they THINK they should speak to appeal) that just... are nails on a chalkboard to me.

I don't seem to have this same problem in TV or Movies, but even in heavily female youtube genres that I follow (baking, cooking, crafts) I will stop a video partway and not watch any of their other content even if I LIKE the content if I cannot stand their voice.

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