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Book the Eighth: Everyone is Still Mad About Outcast of Redwall
Been a minute, huh? My conscious mind forgot that Outcast was up next, but maybe some part of me knew, and that, not spacing out on this...
aardwyrm
Mar 84 min read
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2024 Awards Eligibility
This year was quieter than the last one, but that's time for savoring, right? In February, "Of Flowing Stone, of Liquid Gold, of Justice,...
aardwyrm
Dec 14, 20241 min read
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Book the Seventh: The Bellmaker Slaps
Full disclosure, this one is definitely in my top three, beaten outright only by the Long Patrol, which is mostly about hares, and maybe...
aardwyrm
Oct 26, 20247 min read
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Book the Sixth: Martin the Warrior is how I learned to mistrust prequels
So Mossflower had issues as a prequel that even fourth grade me regarded with some contempt. There were continuity errors. Now, the...
aardwyrm
Sep 29, 20244 min read
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Book the Fifth: Salamandastron is really fun to say
Confession, I accidentally cheated a little bit. I was talking Redwall with a friend on account of this series, wanted examples of some...
aardwyrm
Jul 31, 20245 min read
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Book the Fourth: Mariel is Redwall for GIRLS
Guess who decided to return to this series after an entire calendar year? Yeah so but anyway. Redwall had a pronounced case of Gender...
aardwyrm
Jul 12, 20244 min read
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2023 Awards Eligibility
I published a lot in 2023! Like a lot more than I ever have! Benchmarks are arbitary, but lots of arbitrary things are pleasant. Like...
aardwyrm
Dec 12, 20231 min read
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Book the Third: Mattimeo is a goofy name
Before I launch into this book, I am announcing a slight amendment to the challenge. I said I wouldn’t look at any summaries or character...
aardwyrm
Jun 16, 20236 min read
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Book the Second: It's Mossflower and I'm already struggling
Okay, book two in meaningless human years, the prequel that will later be drowned in other prequels to the prequel, the one where it all...
aardwyrm
Jun 12, 20234 min read
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Book the First: This one's just called Redwall
The rules of this series: I cannot reread any of the books or access any summaries. I will not be checking character names, but if I do...
aardwyrm
May 13, 20234 min read
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Begum Rokeya and “Sultana’s Dream”
Today’s warnings: Gender essentialism, and for once that’s it! I should have found a way out of the whiteness of this series much earlier...
aardwyrm
Aug 29, 20224 min read
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Dorothy Gertrude Quick and “Strange Orchids”
Today’s warnings: Weird old timey racism (no slurs, just stupidity), wild classism, transphobia weirdly enough. I’ve decided to just tag...
aardwyrm
Jun 19, 20225 min read
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Judith Merril and “That Only a Mother”
Warning: Today’s story uses the r-slur in what was at the time an approximately medical context, but not really, we all know what it...
aardwyrm
Jun 6, 20224 min read
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Dorothy Louise Les Tina and “When You Think That… Smile!”
Warning: This story seethes with racism! It’s frankly fairly weird racism by modern standards, a burst of minstrel pseudo-dialect from a...
aardwyrm
Apr 10, 20224 min read
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Clare Winger Harris and “The Evolutionary Monstrosity”
I’ve found myself missing longform blogging from the weird old days of the internet. I hate my own recorded voice and don’t really bother...
aardwyrm
Mar 26, 20228 min read
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Want to see some critters?
You're on the internet. Might as well get some cute animals out of it.
aardwyrm
Sep 27, 20201 min read
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The litany of the menial
My father is a highly principled poet who insists that all the genre work he devours is by definition trash because it isn't Literature....
aardwyrm
Sep 27, 20201 min read
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