A little bit of the Patternist series by Octavia Butler is told from Doro’s perspective - and he’s definitely the villain playing god
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We should do that thing in the Patternist series where we ship them off to be raised for us by sl... AI
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What is your proposal, then, for safeguarding children?
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could call myself patternist but i make no claims about the analytic tractability of the pattern
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obligatory patternist tweet: same outcome = same consciousness. electrons do not have labels. also we know from hypothermia cases that the brain can be almost completely shut down and come back up with no loss of personality. are those people copies too?
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During Lamento I keep wanting to be like “maybe if you like Lamento you’d like this book👀👀👀”
Book is parable of the novel btw. I love Octavia butler but my favorite series by her is the patternist one btw
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2025: parent losing his shit upon hearing that his child has been transitioning without his knowledge (he thinks gender transition is demonic)
2045: parent losing his shit upon hearing that his child has digitized without his knowledge (he's a continuitist instead of a patternist
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Also important to note that the series was not published chronologically. The first Patternist book of the series, Wild Seed (the most elegantly written imo) was the last one she wrote
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Ethics of releasing authors' works posthumously aside....I'm curious. Just started Patternist this year and liked it a lot. But I feel it could be tough if not written as well or not something she was satisfied with..
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Octavia Butler is great on this in her unparalleled Patternist series
Patriarchy predates racism and that's why gender analysis be whooping so many people's ass in racially marginalized communities.
Yess, you can experience racism and still engage in (cishetero)patriarchal violence. You can be oppressed AND an oppressor.
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octavia butler hated the fourth book of the patternist series so much she refused to reprint it and it’s only now being re-released in september of this year!
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Slightly controversial opinion, but I do think authors are allowed to change their minds about what they've written. Sometimes, you just realize that maybe something could've been handled better or done differently. The only issue is it's harder to retcon books unlike comics.
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the patternist novels by octavia butler
If magic was real, Harry Potter, and all of his magical friends, would be systematically bred on farms by the united states government , and hooked up to milking machines
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Por primera vez en castellano La Saga del Tejido (Patternist), cuya traducción corre a cargo de
@ArrateHidalgo
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theres a bisexual main character in the fourth patternist novel?
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my ranking of butler novels is like. kindred > dawn > parables > these novels but i like reading the patternist ones better than parables
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up to the fourth and final patternist novel which is gonna be insane to read bc this was written first
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Jessie Fauset and though he's quite degenerate, Samuel Delany's early and midperiod sci-fi is not race allegory and really, Octavia Butler's psychic Patternist series isn't a race allegory, though race comes up, it's mostly about the nature of power and keeping it.
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