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  1. Earlier today:
    My emotions are ragged, my intellect is worn, I have a thousand books and nothing to re—
    *picks up a collection of Peter S. Beagle stories that snuck onto the wrong shelf*
    *Some time later, intellect restored, imagination quickened*
    Thank you, Peter.

    #PeterSBeagle #GoodBooks

  2. Estrenan «Las olas del Rey», experiencia escénica inspirada en «El último unicornio»

    Inspirado en la novela El último unicornio, de Peter S. Beagle, la propuesta fusiona danza neoclásica y contemporánea en una experiencia escénica única

    Por Adriana López | Reportera                                      

    La Secretaría de Cultura y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), a través de la Compañía Nacional de Danza (CND), y la agrupación Danza Visual estrenaron Las olas del Rey, un montaje inspirado en la novela El último unicornio, de Peter S. Beagle, que fusiona la danza neoclásica y contemporánea en una experiencia escénica que sumerge al público a un territorio onírico. 

    La secretaria de Cultura, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, destacó que la apertura a estos espacios garantiza el acceso a todas las personas, “al convertir el teatro en un lugar de encuentro para diversas audiencias, donde puedan socializar y construir vínculos.

    «Con estas acciones, el Estado materializa su compromiso de garantizar el derecho a la cultura, generar condiciones reales de accesibilidad y construir espacios incluyentes para que todas y todos puedan participar, reconocerse y formar parte de la experiencia artística”.

    El montaje dancístico promueve el arte independiente y enriquece el repertorio de artes escénicas para las infancias, a través de una propuesta que explora un universo en el que lo mágico resulta invisible solo para quien ha olvidado cómo mirar.  –sn–

    Danza

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  3. CW: Spoilers for RoboCop (1986) and The Last Unicorn (1982), cw for gender dysphoria, a little incoherent

    There's a fair amount of media about trans people, some by trans folks, some by cis folks. There's a fair amount of media about gender bending, for that matter. And media by trans folks (egg or hatched) that isn't about trans folks but has vibes.

    Still, RoboCop and The Last Unicorn are two pieces of media not particularly by, for, or about trans folks, that merit IMO a content warning for gender dysphoria.

    In RoboCop, Murphy is stripped of his personhood. His memories of his wife and child are deleted, his memories of having a selfhood are deleted. He has to investigate who he was from the evidence of someone who recognized his body language, and someone who had murdered him. When he learns who he had been, and what had been taken away, the executive who he is trying to arrest deactivates parts of him and tells him he's a faulty product, not a real cop. His colleagues are split on the matter, but many of them follow the order to execute "it," not him but it. His triumph at the end of the film is reclaiming the name of a person he has no real memory of being, because those memories became someone else's property and were destroyed, but a man nevertheless.
    Yes he's a cop, this is a common problem in cyberpunk. I have other thoughts about that, and about the interesting absurdities generated by OCP running the cop shops like McDonaldses, and (more germane to this subject) "what your boss really means when he says he wants you to bring your authentic self to work today." Morton claimed ownership of all that Murphy had been. He discards precious memories with the same reckless abandon as he does a functioning arm. That gun twirl? That makes it through the process, a skill learned to impress a child and on a personal whim, a charming trait that's good for marketing. (And, ultimately, the RoboCop initiative could only be a marketing device, a mascot. It can't possibly be the product OCP is really going for, better represented by the ED-209, with its mass producibility, larger margin, easier parts to source and produce, and ability to be sold to other markets.) If you go to work, and your boss says to bring your authentic self to work today, that means they want those traits that work for the company. Your boss doesn't want all those inconvenient things that make us people, and doesn't want to train you to seem warm and human. Training takes time and money, after all.

    Amalthea is in a rather different situation, with rather different consequences. She isn't human, but is turned human by a spell intended to keep her safe from something that is going after unicorns. Her body language is… different. Interestingly, I think one can even see her briefly walking on her toes. When she turns to threaten someone, she does so as if she still had a horn. However, over the course of the story, she is succumbing to the spell and becoming more and more human, and less and less what she had been, which (among other things) is placing a rather soft but dire time limit on how long they have to do what they've come to do. In this case, becoming the mask as a result of that curse has longterm consequences, and there is, for some, no happy ending. (In no small part because nothing ever truly ends, as both this film -- and the book it's adapted from -- is not uniquely quick to point out.) In regards to the experience of an immortal unicorn in a human body, when the notion is first broached in the novel, she says, “The magician did him no service, but great ill… how terrible it would be if all my people had been turned human by well-meaning wizards—exiled, trapped in burning houses. I would sooner find that the Red Bull had killed them all.”

    Bee Tee Double-U, Beagle is a peculiarly wonderful person. Shapeshiftersvt@tumblr said,
    "I think Peter Beagle might have been the first person to imply to me that my transition is a gift to others. That living my life fully and honestly is a way of gifting others with something precious and good, something that they can appreciate and remember for decades later."
    And, interestingly but fairly unrelatedly, RoboCop was written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Edward Neumeier's offspring is a Shaun Neumeier, a nonbinary autism rights activist. I just find that interesting.

    Two rather different problems, that would cause surely two different kinds of pain to those of us who know what it is to live in a body that is not our own.


    #robocop-1986 #the-last-unicorn-1982 #robocop #the-last-unicorn #peter-s.-beagle
  4. Oh gosh, this edition of "The Last Unicorn" is beautiful. When I think about the money I could drop at Folio Society if the budget allowed, it's almost embarrassing. Gimme all the gorgeous books!

    foliosociety.com/uk/the-last-u

    #Books #Bibliophile #PeterSBeagle #Fantasy

  5. Oh gosh, this edition of "The Last Unicorn" is beautiful. When I think about the money I could drop at Folio Society if the budget allowed, it's almost embarrassing. Gimme all the gorgeous books!

    foliosociety.com/uk/the-last-u

    #Books #Bibliophile #PeterSBeagle #Fantasy

  6. Oh gosh, this edition of "The Last Unicorn" is beautiful. When I think about the money I could drop at Folio Society if the budget allowed, it's almost embarrassing. Gimme all the gorgeous books!

    foliosociety.com/uk/the-last-u

    #Books #Bibliophile #PeterSBeagle #Fantasy

  7. Oh gosh, this edition of "The Last Unicorn" is beautiful. When I think about the money I could drop at Folio Society if the budget allowed, it's almost embarrassing. Gimme all the gorgeous books!

    foliosociety.com/uk/the-last-u

    #Books #Bibliophile #PeterSBeagle #Fantasy

  8. Oh gosh, this edition of "The Last Unicorn" is beautiful. When I think about the money I could drop at Folio Society if the budget allowed, it's almost embarrassing. Gimme all the gorgeous books!

    foliosociety.com/uk/the-last-u

    #Books #Bibliophile #PeterSBeagle #Fantasy

  9. @Furthering #PeterSBeagle #fairytale

    An early reading of The Last Unicorn provided a solid backdrop for all the stories I read. Re-reading it years later brought tears to my eyes as each element of fairytales was paraded out gently.

    This book should be required reading for everyone who needs fairytale foundation.

    Thanks to Dr. Elizabeth Pope.

  10. @Furthering #PeterSBeagle #fairytale

    An early reading of The Last Unicorn provided a solid backdrop for all the stories I read. Re-reading it years later brought tears to my eyes as each element of fairytales was paraded out gently.

    This book should be required reading for everyone who needs fairytale foundation.

    Thanks to Dr. Elizabeth Pope.

  11. @Furthering #PeterSBeagle #fairytale

    An early reading of The Last Unicorn provided a solid backdrop for all the stories I read. Re-reading it years later brought tears to my eyes as each element of fairytales was paraded out gently.

    This book should be required reading for everyone who needs fairytale foundation.

    Thanks to Dr. Elizabeth Pope.

  12. @Furthering #PeterSBeagle #fairytale

    An early reading of The Last Unicorn provided a solid backdrop for all the stories I read. Re-reading it years later brought tears to my eyes as each element of fairytales was paraded out gently.

    This book should be required reading for everyone who needs fairytale foundation.

    Thanks to Dr. Elizabeth Pope.

  13. @Furthering #PeterSBeagle #fairytale

    An early reading of The Last Unicorn provided a solid backdrop for all the stories I read. Re-reading it years later brought tears to my eyes as each element of fairytales was paraded out gently.

    This book should be required reading for everyone who needs fairytale foundation.

    Thanks to Dr. Elizabeth Pope.

  14. Found out just the other day that Peter S. Beagle, author of the beautiful novel "The Last Unicorn", was also responsible for quite possibly the most moving episode of #startrek The Next Generation "Sarek".

    The episode centred, as the title suggests, around Sarek, father of Spock (played with devastating skill by the late Mark Lenard) who was slowly losing his Vulcan grip on his emotions, with Picard stepping in to act as an anchor for Sareks mind.

    #petersbeagle #TNG #writing

  15. Found out just the other day that Peter S. Beagle, author of the beautiful novel "The Last Unicorn", was also responsible for quite possibly the most moving episode of #startrek The Next Generation "Sarek".

    The episode centred, as the title suggests, around Sarek, father of Spock (played with devastating skill by the late Mark Lenard) who was slowly losing his Vulcan grip on his emotions, with Picard stepping in to act as an anchor for Sareks mind.

    #petersbeagle #TNG #writing

  16. Found out just the other day that Peter S. Beagle, author of the beautiful novel "The Last Unicorn", was also responsible for quite possibly the most moving episode of #startrek The Next Generation "Sarek".

    The episode centred, as the title suggests, around Sarek, father of Spock (played with devastating skill by the late Mark Lenard) who was slowly losing his Vulcan grip on his emotions, with Picard stepping in to act as an anchor for Sareks mind.

    #petersbeagle #TNG #writing

  17. Found out just the other day that Peter S. Beagle, author of the beautiful novel "The Last Unicorn", was also responsible for quite possibly the most moving episode of #startrek The Next Generation "Sarek".

    The episode centred, as the title suggests, around Sarek, father of Spock (played with devastating skill by the late Mark Lenard) who was slowly losing his Vulcan grip on his emotions, with Picard stepping in to act as an anchor for Sareks mind.

    #petersbeagle #TNG #writing

  18. This book turned up at work the other day, and somehow ended up at my place.
    It's been ages since I last read so I'll probably reread that first.

  19. This book turned up at work the other day, and somehow ended up at my place.
    It's been ages since I last read #TheLastUnicorn so I'll probably reread that first.
    #PeterSBeagle #TheWayHome
    #books #literature #bookstodon

  20. This book turned up at work the other day, and somehow ended up at my place.
    It's been ages since I last read #TheLastUnicorn so I'll probably reread that first.
    #PeterSBeagle #TheWayHome
    #books #literature #bookstodon

  21. This book turned up at work the other day, and somehow ended up at my place.
    It's been ages since I last read #TheLastUnicorn so I'll probably reread that first.
    #PeterSBeagle #TheWayHome
    #books #literature #bookstodon

  22. I've pre-ordered #PeterSBeagle's upcoming book "I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons" and I hope many, many people do likewise. And I also hope that the dirtbag ex-manager still harassing him gets a big stinkin' dose of karma soon.

    reactormag.com/cover-reveal-im

    #Books #Bookstodon

  23. I've pre-ordered #PeterSBeagle's upcoming book "I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons" and I hope many, many people do likewise. And I also hope that the dirtbag ex-manager still harassing him gets a big stinkin' dose of karma soon.

    reactormag.com/cover-reveal-im

    #Books #Bookstodon

  24. I've pre-ordered #PeterSBeagle's upcoming book "I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons" and I hope many, many people do likewise. And I also hope that the dirtbag ex-manager still harassing him gets a big stinkin' dose of karma soon.

    reactormag.com/cover-reveal-im

    #Books #Bookstodon

  25. I've pre-ordered #PeterSBeagle's upcoming book "I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons" and I hope many, many people do likewise. And I also hope that the dirtbag ex-manager still harassing him gets a big stinkin' dose of karma soon.

    reactormag.com/cover-reveal-im

    #Books #Bookstodon

  26. I've pre-ordered #PeterSBeagle's upcoming book "I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons" and I hope many, many people do likewise. And I also hope that the dirtbag ex-manager still harassing him gets a big stinkin' dose of karma soon.

    reactormag.com/cover-reveal-im

    #Books #Bookstodon

  27. Happy #UnicornDay! It's #NationalUnicornDay in the US, so what better day to take our collection's 2 versions of #PeterSBeagle's
    #LastUnicorn on a walk to meet a fellow unicorn? 🦄

    I spotted one here in Göttingen, at the Universitätsapotheke!

    #Unicorns

  28. Happy #UnicornDay! It's #NationalUnicornDay in the US, so what better day to take our collection's 2 versions of #PeterSBeagle's
    #LastUnicorn on a walk to meet a fellow unicorn? 🦄

    I spotted one here in Göttingen, at the Universitätsapotheke!

    #Unicorns

  29. Happy #UnicornDay! It's #NationalUnicornDay in the US, so what better day to take our collection's 2 versions of #PeterSBeagle's
    #LastUnicorn on a walk to meet a fellow unicorn? 🦄

    I spotted one here in Göttingen, at the Universitätsapotheke!

    #Unicorns

  30. Happy #UnicornDay! It's #NationalUnicornDay in the US, so what better day to take our collection's 2 versions of #PeterSBeagle's
    #LastUnicorn on a walk to meet a fellow unicorn? 🦄

    I spotted one here in Göttingen, at the Universitätsapotheke!

    #Unicorns

  31. "A dragon hunter, a princess, and a lovable cast of characters must come together to take their fates into their own hands…

    We’re thrilled to share the cover and preview an excerpt from I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons a whimsical new fantasy novel from beloved author Peter S. Beagle—available from Saga Press on May 14, 2024."

    tor.com/2023/11/21/cover-revea

    #Books #SFF #PeterSBeagle

  32. "A dragon hunter, a princess, and a lovable cast of characters must come together to take their fates into their own hands…

    We’re thrilled to share the cover and preview an excerpt from I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons a whimsical new fantasy novel from beloved author Peter S. Beagle—available from Saga Press on May 14, 2024."

    tor.com/2023/11/21/cover-revea

    #Books #SFF #PeterSBeagle

  33. "A dragon hunter, a princess, and a lovable cast of characters must come together to take their fates into their own hands…

    We’re thrilled to share the cover and preview an excerpt from I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons a whimsical new fantasy novel from beloved author Peter S. Beagle—available from Saga Press on May 14, 2024."

    tor.com/2023/11/21/cover-revea

    #Books #SFF #PeterSBeagle

  34. "A dragon hunter, a princess, and a lovable cast of characters must come together to take their fates into their own hands…

    We’re thrilled to share the cover and preview an excerpt from I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons a whimsical new fantasy novel from beloved author Peter S. Beagle—available from Saga Press on May 14, 2024."

    tor.com/2023/11/21/cover-revea

    #Books #SFF #PeterSBeagle

  35. "A dragon hunter, a princess, and a lovable cast of characters must come together to take their fates into their own hands…

    We’re thrilled to share the cover and preview an excerpt from I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons a whimsical new fantasy novel from beloved author Peter S. Beagle—available from Saga Press on May 14, 2024."

    tor.com/2023/11/21/cover-revea

    #Books #SFF #PeterSBeagle

  36. #TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

    The Very Nasty Aquarium by #PeterSBeagle

    Guppies and duppies—this was no garden variety fin rot. “She had taught junior high school English and feared nothing.”

  37. #TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FavoriteStories #FandSF Jul/Aug 2023

    The Very Nasty Aquarium by #PeterSBeagle

    Guppies and duppies—this was no garden variety fin rot. “She had taught junior high school English and feared nothing.”