So I was reading Malinda Lo's
Big Idea over at Scalzi's blog for her new book Ash and the book looks cool (Lesbian Cinderella set in a fantasy world) but one line struck me as odd.
I had never read a single fantasy novel in which there were any queer characters."Umm...I'm pretty sure I spent my teenage years reading gay fantasy. Immediately Mercedes Lackey's Last Herald Mage series came to mind. Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy was another. Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series. The simultaneously awful and addictive and totally Marysueish Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop (and I know it was awful and totally Mary Sue like, but I
adored those books when I was 14/15 and read them many times) had tons of homosexual overtones not to mention all the incest. And I'm sure I read plenty of others although I also tend to just ship people so some of them may not have
actually had queer characters. (ETA and ohmigosh I can't believe I forgot Steven Harper's Silent Empire series. Those books are awesome! For about 2 years I'd reread them every 4 months or so and now I'm thinking it's time for another reread.)
Luckily other people took exception to that and started listing off books in the comments including
this link which I'd seen and probably bookmarked before but had forgotten about it so I'll probably be making my way through some of those once my schedule gets less hectic. (The book that is my name is on that list!
Adams, Richard. Maia
(bisexual woman in a decadent Nero-esque society) I think that's how I found it in the first place although like a failure I still haven't ordered a copy to read.) Anyway, if you have a rec for queer sci-fi or fantasy do share!
Whee my drabble won first place for creativity over at
wholand! ANDANDAND
kefira won second place for creativity because she is just that
awesome. Three guesses on the pairing of my drabble and the first two don't count.
School is getting better. I've had to do some reteaching in bio and physics and regular chem we're moving through conversions at snails pace, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. I'm at least getting most of the kids' names down. Advanced chem is my savior because we can move at the pace I like (for now since it's review) and it's material that I
know but it's not so instinctual that I have a hard time explaining it (like in regular chem where it's conversions and scientific notation and in physics where it's vectors, both of which are really simple once everything clicks but before that it's hard to think in that way).
I'm
so excited that I get a three day weekend. Like honestly I can't remember ever being so excited for weekends before. I think my mind just needs that mental holiday for a bit.