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...
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aardwyrm
Sep 294 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Jul 315 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Jul 124 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Dec 12, 20231 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Jun 16, 20236 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Jun 12, 20234 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
May 13, 20234 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Aug 29, 20224 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Jun 19, 20225 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Jun 6, 20224 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Apr 10, 20224 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Mar 26, 20228 min read
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...
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aardwyrm
Sep 27, 20201 min read
Want to see some critters?
You're on the internet. Might as well get some cute animals out of it.
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aardwyrm
Sep 27, 20201 min read
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....
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