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yhlee is talking about Pern and I couldn't remember if I had ever posted a picture of the fire lizard I sewed and stuffed and armatured with wire from an unraveled coat hanger in ninth grade, following a pattern from an older friend who used to walk around the school with his own fire lizard on his shoulder. Her name is Sheyne Meydl.
The official remit of the FSU Museum of Fine Arts' "It's a Lot Like Falling in Love: Lesbian Publishing in the '70s, '80s, '90s, and Beyond" was what it said in the subtitle, but what
selkie and I actually got while virtually attending a roundtable with Stephanie Andrea Allen, Katherine V. Forrest, Joan Nestle, Cheryl Clarke, and Barbara Smith was more like an impassioned manifesto on behalf of small-press publishing, grassroots collectives, and radically inclusive archives, plus a masterclass in flirting on beyond seventy. It was great. Quotes of the night: "If we had a Mount Rushmore of Lesbians, you three would be on it." "An identity is not a politic." "We change the world. And then the archives remember. And we must have our remembrance in our own hands."
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Her tail will actually coil around one's shoulder or neck to facilitate riding around.
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I think it turned up in a mailing from Lambda Literary! I had just virtually attended the lecture on mummy portraits and it seemed like a good idea. It was amazing. I will make sure to send you the link to the recording as soon as I have it.
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Thank you! I used a sewing machine for the wings and the rest was stitched by hand in thread that has faded to a different shade of gold than her skin, but I still love her.
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It’s so wonderful to see another one!
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Oh, that's wonderful! Picture?
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Thank you.
My grandfather used to call me that.
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Thank you! The roundtable was recorded and the video is supposed to be made available.
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And I'm now wondering what lesbian people to include on a lesbian Mt Rushmore. I'd have to include our old friend, Lesley, who was my Maid of Honour at my wedding.
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I like the idea of everyone having their own Lesbian Mount Rushmore.
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That virtual roundtable sounds really neat!
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That virtual roundtable sounds really neat!
It was recorded; I plan to share the link if it's sent out!
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When I used to draw Menolly and the fire lizards, I modeled them on these paperback covers, which where the covers at the time I read the books. I loved the translucent wings.
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Thank you! I am still pleased with her eyes, which were a kind of mirror-backed bead.
When I used to draw Menolly and the fire lizards, I modeled them on these paperback covers, which where the covers at the time I read the books. I loved the translucent wings.
That was the edition of Dragonsong I had, too. Dragonsinger was a match for it, but Dragondrums had a different cover artist.
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That is an ADORABLE (and impressive!!!) shoulder dragon, I must say. Twelve-year-old me is very jealous. ;D
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Tell twelve-year-old you I'm honored!
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El, last night, was nonplussed: "Why are you acting like these olds are the cool kids?" I told them to text you. I had no time for their youthfulness.
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Thank you! She stays out of their reach!
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It works pretty well as a stand-alone novel about fire-lizards and music, with the Pernese backstory filled in as the protagonist herself comes to learn of it; the trouble was that when I did come to read the earlier books, which I wasn't able to get hold of for some time, they proved a bit of a disappointment compared to what I'd imagined of the events hinted at. Not "Dragonflight", which was a classic in its own right, but the follow-up books (the whole 'flight to the Red Star' episode was very underwhelming when I actually got to the original narrative).
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It's also a recognized mode of YA novel, i.e. the school story, which might make it easier to recommend and easier for readers to be attracted by. I started with Dragonflight and read the first two trilogies in more or less publication order, after which I believe I was given Dragonsdawn and finally hauled Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern off my mother's shelf, where it had been hanging out tantalizingly with that spectacular cover for years. I still don't understand, narratively-artistically, not ending the series with All the Weyrs of Pern. I didn't make it past the dolphins.
Not "Dragonflight", which was a classic in its own right, but the follow-up books (the whole 'flight to the Red Star' episode was very underwhelming when I actually got to the original narrative).
That's really interesting. I encountered them in written order, so didn't have the build-up effect, and I was also in fifth or sixth grade.
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Thank you! I have been conveying the appreciation of the internet to her all day.
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