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Check out this pecan pie i made | Trans Megathread for the Week 2025-12-01 to 2025-12-07 (hexbear.net)
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Link to the recipe, it's vegan im-vegan

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[–] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The earthsea series as a whole is insanely good. The growth of recurring characters over the books, as Le Guin herself went through decades of her life and was able to approach femininity and masculinity through a different lens later, is really special as well.

I would love to have your thoughts on each book, and on the series! I can never have enough thoughts about Earthsea.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Well still need to get to the rest of the series but I loved this first book. My first intro to legion was from a collection of short stories of magic and I loved her style then. The way she handles magic felt special the power of names really bring to mind the power of language of how we try to understand the world around us one that existed before us. I did feel with it being written 50+ years back it probably set the stage for a lot of other magic stories so I was anticipating some twists and turns but just the way she writes personal horror and trauma really spoke to me. When I get around to the rest of the series I'll @ you but so far I liked it

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Despite it being less mature and falling into the trope of the standard masculine protag that goes to magic school and is kinda the chosen one, already at the time she was putting a lot of tropes on their heads and deconstructing a lot, but it only gets better!

    Like yea I didn't mind the tropey nature of the protag by the end because the story isn't what you expect. He fucks up in a major way and has to heal himself to fix things, his internal feelings are very well described. From what I remember I didn't like the position/writing of women in the first one but the second one is literally centered around women and I found it incredible

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Looking forward to the next one then, honestly I kinda like tropes to a degree so I didn't mind so much. When you can feel the feelings it goes beyond described for me and I felt vicarious, real rollercoaster for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Yea! As I said, i don't mind the tropes in themselves, but I felt like Le Guin was just starting to play with them in the first book, and having the first book along with all the others makes it so much better to me, because of how it evolves later.

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