Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 249
June 14, 2016
warriorgays:
I bought this candle from Liber deStella on Etsy,...
I bought this candle from Liber deStella on Etsy, and seriously, SoC fans, it smells SO GOOD and just like Ketterdam. It’s hard to explain, but it’s not too fruity or fresh, it has a little bit of an edge that isn’t unpleasant but that reminds you of a city.
oooohhh I hadn’t seen this!
mrozova:
WYLAN VAN ECK, six of crows
That thought had run...
WYLAN VAN ECK, six of crows
That thought had run through Wylan’s head at least six times a day since he’d met Kaz Brekker…
WhatamIdoingherewhatamIdoinghere
- Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
I cannot resist an edit from the Crooked Kingdom excerpt and this is so lovely.
aly-naith:
9p moodboards: Nikolai Lantsov
“Princes bleed...
9p moodboards: Nikolai Lantsov
“Princes bleed just like other men. They just do it in better clothes.“
gecko-gecko-gecko:
Dirtyhands… I’m planning on doing the rest...
Dirtyhands… I’m planning on doing the rest of the crew soon!
My art! Please don’t use it anywhere without permission! Thanks
Kaz look slick.
dedalvs:
musingsofaraven:
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claudiaboleyn:
iamtheaard...
Mark: Whether I’m gay or not has no reflection –
Owen: No, it does. Just listen –
Julia: I don’t think that you have ownership of horror of this crime.
Owen: Can I just say, I find this, I find this astonishing.
Julia: I’m not Jewish and I’m not gay, I’m not French, but I still am equally horrified by these crimes.
Owen: This was a – I’m being yelled at, which is incredible.
Julia: Stop talking so [we hadn’t do].
Mark: That’s the headline: ‘Isil wages war on gays in west’. Now you share that view, that basically this was deliberately targeted on one part of the community rather than the freedom to enjoy yourself no matter what your sexual orientation is.
Owen: What are you talking about?!?
Mark: I’m talking about the coverage in the newspapers.
Owen: It’s not some abstract, kind of, he just picked a random club out of nowhere. He picked a club because it was full of people he regarded as deviants. That’s why he attacked the club.
Julia: It’s a hate crime, this is an act of terrorism, it was an attack on gay people, absolutely, it was horrific. However, my mind guesses this man probably would be as horrified by me as a gobby woman as he would – genuinely, genuinely – this is the thing. We don’t know right now. We can speculate, but we don’t know how much of this is motivated by just his homophobia.
Owen: We heard from his own father about his revulsion – why are we trying to deflect? Why are you both pick-
Mark: We are not trying to deflect. We are trying to reflect what is being said by the authorities here and –
Owen: Can I ask, what argument are you trying to pick here?
Mark: I’m now going to quote from what The Telegraph is saying…’his father said…[he] may have targeted the gay community after becoming angry when he saw two men–’
Owen: ‘May have’? He did! Why are you saying this?
Julia: ‘After seeing two men kissing in Miami some months ago’ – he may have been angered by many other things since then!
Owen: I’m sorry. I just find this the most astonishing thing I’ve ever been involved with on television. If he’d walked into a synagogue, and massacred dozens of Jewish people, you wouldn’t be saying what you’re saying now.
Owen: This bizarre attempt to deflect from this –
Mark: We are trying to draw parallels in terrorist attacks on people who are being attacked whether they are enjoying rock music in Paris, whether they are gay people in Florida enjoying a night out.
Julia: I completely accept it, as [Mark] does, that it was a homophobic attack, but for me the issue is there are going to be homophobic people, there’ll be people who hate black people, or who hate gay people, or hate Jewish people. There are going to be people, who are lunatics, who are fanatics –
Owen: Who are “lunatics”! Stop using these words, Julia!
Julia: Is it possible for me to finish one sentence?
Owen: If you stop using words like “lunatic” to talk about homophobic terrorist attacks!
Julia: Well thank you. Whoever these people are, and whatever their motivations are, the key thing is we’re always going to have mad and bad people in the world.
Owen: Mad and bad people. Okay.
Julia: And the key issue is, that they can’t do too much or any harm. When you have free access to assault weapons in a country like America, then they’re able to put their hatred of other people –
Owen: Yes! Obviously!
Julia: – into effect, and do damage. That’s the issue for me.
(discussion between Mark and Julia on gun control and the U.S. …Julia: It is absolutely absurd, if America were not going to do something about gun control after Sandy Hook in 2012, if you’re going to watch six- and seven-year-olds being massacred and you don’t think you need to act, they are never going to act.)
Mark: There’s something else here in The Telegraph coverage, which I think we need to bring up, Owen, in relation to your point. And that is, I think that we’ve got at least a call from a spokesman for Stonewall saying that people would be feeling vulnerable, and basically indicating –
Owen: Oh, you’re going to have an LGBT voice talking about it. Interesting.
Mark: Sorry?
Owen: Nothing, carry on. Go on.
Julia: Owen, seriously.
Owen: I’ve had enough of this. I’m going home. Sorry. No way.
Julia: Owen, genuinely, we’re trying to have a civilized conversation.
Owen: I know you’re having it, I don’t want it!
Julia: I know you’re upset, you’re very upset –
Owen: Yeah, I am, I’m very upset. I’m very upset.
Julia: Everyone’s upset and angry about this, but storming off a TV set –
Owen Jones, Mark Longhurst, and Julia Hartley-Brewer discuss the Pulse nightclub shootings, 12 June 2016
People need to realize that it’s important that we acknowledge this attack for what it is. Denying the homophobia behind this attack pushes queer people into invisibility.
I actually exchanged some words with Julia Hartley-Brewer (the woman in the video) shortly after this segment was aired and this is what she said:
Unfortunately after giving these examples I got no further response, but Julia has since retweeted numerous foul tweets, one of which accuses Owen Jones of throwing a ‘hissy fit’ and one which tells an understandable upset and perfectly civil member of the LGBT community to ‘get a grip’.
If this does not highlight the privilege of straight (cis) people in that they are able to refuse to see the world from the prospective of the LGBT community and remain ignorant which actively harms us, then I don’t know what does.
So many LGBT people and also those outside of the community have tried to reason with this woman and those like her, but to no avail. Privilege means you can turn your face away from the hurt you cause and paint yourself as the victim.
Shameful.
(I should add that I haven’t added this exchange to encourage any hate directed at Julia. Obviously sending vile messages is not the answer here.)
Why am I not surprised at this..
I’m really hoping this shows mainstream folks something.. e.g. That they find it near impossible to empathize with anything or anyone they don’t already fit with..
Ok, so that last post by Milo… He’s one of the people that gamer gaters, white supremacists, hate mongers, look to for guidance for who to harass, and acts as sort of a figurehead (one of them) of that whole movement. He stirs shit up. (He also crashed a White House press briefing to bitch about his Twitter verification being removed.) It’s not surprising that he’s defending Hartley-Brewer.
This is also a nice demonstration of how a sound byte or a gif can mischaracterize a longer discussion/argument. Totally irresponsible to say “her interlocutor has a hissy fit” without seeing what happened (though I’m sure that was partly Milo’s goal).
June 13, 2016
Shadowplay is on sale!
For this month (June 2016), Shadowplay is only 99p on ebook. That means you can get both Pantomime & Shadowplay in advance of Masquerade coming out next March for £3.98/$6.25.
These books feature an intersex, bisexual, genderfluid lead in a gaslight fantasy world. Book 1 features the circus and book 2 features stage magic. There’s also possibly real magic, love, adventure, clockwork objects, a woman with dragonfly wings, mystery, and more.
http://www.lauralam.co.uk/book/pantomime-micah-grey-1/
http://www.lauralam.co.uk/book/shadowplay-micah-grey-2/
Pantomime by Laura Lam took me to an exotic and detailed world, peopled by characters that I’d love to be friends with … and some I’d never want to cross paths with (Robin Hobb)
Pantomime is a fantastical, richly drawn, poignant take on a classic coming-of-age story … a vibrant tale told with surety and grace (Leigh Bardugo)
Set in a vividly imagined world with wonderful steampunk touches, Pantomime is a fable-like story as beautifully unique as its main character (Malinda Lo)
Pantomime was the winner of the Bisexual Book Award for Speculative Fiction, a Top 10 Title for the American Library Association Rainbow List, an entry on the ALA Popular Paperbacks List in the LGBTQ Category, and was awards.
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