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Led By Fools<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zeroes.ca/@hannu_ikonen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hannu_ikonen</span></a></span> How did you miss Octavia Butler's book Parable of the Sower in this list?</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParableOfTheTalents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheTalents</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a></p>
Ohmymanycats<p>"All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change". <br>-Octavia E. Butler<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/parableofthesower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parableofthesower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>change</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/octaviabutler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>octaviabutler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>read</span></a></p>
Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline<p>I'm reading "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler", included at the end of of "Parable of the Sower", Grand Central pubs, 2023 paperback edition.</p><p>It is an excellent read. She muses about where our current trends might take us. I wanted to share this one sentence - and bear in mind, Butler died in 2006. </p><p>"I imagined the United States becoming, slowly, through the combined effects of lack of foresight and short-term unenlightened self-interest, a third world country."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a></p>
Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline<p>My gods, this book!</p><p>"Embrace diversity. <br>Unite--<br>Or be divided, <br>robbed,<br>ruled,<br>killed<br>By those who see you as prey.<br>Embrace diversity <br>Or be destroyed."</p><p>Chapter preface, Chapter 17<br>Parable of the Sower<br>by Octavia E. Butler</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OctaviaEButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaEButler</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IAmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAmReading</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Booksadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Booksadon</span></a></p>
Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline<p>"I've noticed that people who have a little bit of power tend to use it."</p><p>The Parable of the Sower, pg 122.<br>Octavia Butler</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IAmLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAmLearning</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OctaviaEButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaEButler</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IAmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAmReading</span></a></p>
Ericka Simone<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a>:</p><p>So. Yesterday was the day legendary Auntie <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a> wrote in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a> that her characters home caught on fire: The first of many due to climate change as a direct result of a leader who used the slogan “Make America Great Again” to gain power. February 1st, 2025. </p><p>Her grave, inside the fire line of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EatonFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EatonFire</span></a>, was lightly singed in the fire she predicted down to a 3 week accuracy. Ahead of her time.</p><p>I feel compelled to take a short drive.</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>HT <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@susurros" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>susurros</span></a></span> <br>What <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a> saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades ago</p><p>by Russell Contreras</p><p>Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a>" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fires</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>violence</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>addiction</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, social <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a> and an authoritarian "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PresidentDonner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentDonner</span></a>."</p><p> That day is today.</p><p>The big picture: This Black History Month, which begins this year on a day of Butler's dystopian vision, Axios will examine what the next 25 years may hold for Black Americans based on the progress in the first quarter of this century.</p><p> Through her fiction, Butler foresaw U.S. society's direction and the potential for civil societies to collapse thanks to the weight of economic disparities and climate change — with blueprints for hope.<br> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Afrofuturist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afrofuturist</span></a> writers today interpret Butler's work as metaphorical warnings that appear to be coming true and a call to action.</p><p>State of play: This year, the month-long celebration of Black American accomplishments and perseverance will be commemorated amid uncertainty after the Trump administration ordered government agencies to end DEI policies.</p><p> The move is confusing some agencies on whether Black history can even be acknowledged this year while the nation deals with rising hate crimes, the aftermath of California wildfires, a fentanyl epidemic and a new president who blames the country's ills on workforce diversity.<br> Meanwhile, states like Alabama have passed bills limiting the discussion of race and Black history in public schools. </p><p>Zoom in: In "Parable of the Sower," the novel's 15-year-old protagonist, Lauren Olamina, writes a simple journal entry: Saturday, February 1, 2025: "We had a fire today. People worry so much about fire."</p><p> What unfolds in the pages that follow is a dystopian world surrounding the gated, racially mixed, fictional community of Robledo, California.<br> A new drug forces addicts to set fires to communities, who then rob and rape victims. Unhoused people roam the streets and are forced to steal to survive. Hurricanes, fires and violence push Americans to flee north to Canada.<br> President Donner, like President Trump, promises to restore the country to its former glory.<br> Racially mixed couples, like Olamina's Black/Chicano family, are vulnerable to attacks, and her parents, both PhD holders, have limited job opportunities. </p><p>Yes, but: Black, white, Latino and Asian Americans fall in love despite the racism outside the walls.</p><p> They arm themselves and protect each other.<br> They share history and books in defiance of attempted erasure.</p><p>What they're saying: "She was trying to warn us of a possible future that she saw coming if we did not change," Jesse Holland, editor of the anthology, "Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson," tells Axios.</p><p><a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-butler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-b</span><span class="invisible">utler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>Axios: What Octavia Butler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades ago <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-butler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-b</span><span class="invisible">utler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a></p>
Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline<p>I am on page 21 of Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler), and I am stunned.</p><p>It's like she's right here talking about today's political personalities mismanaging todays problems.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/iamreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iamreading</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IAmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAmReading</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ParableoftheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableoftheSower</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>From <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParableoftheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableoftheSower</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VforVendetta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VforVendetta</span></a>, A Succinct <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syllabus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syllabus</span></a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a></p><p>A short list of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> to foster <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> in the face of extreme <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opposition</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.them.us/story/parable-of-the-sower-v-for-vendetta-radical-syllabus-books-movies-games" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">them.us/story/parable-of-the-s</span><span class="invisible">ower-v-for-vendetta-radical-syllabus-books-movies-games</span></a></p>
DemLabs<p>PARABLE OF THE SOWER: Predicted LA fires, billionaire owned media and the rise of White Christian Nationalism — Book review podcast<br><a href="https://thedemlabs.org/2025/01/16/parable-of-the-sower-octavia-butler-la-fires-billionaire-owned-media-book-review-podcast/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedemlabs.org/2025/01/16/para</span><span class="invisible">ble-of-the-sower-octavia-butler-la-fires-billionaire-owned-media-book-review-podcast/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/parableofthesower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parableofthesower</span></a></p>
Jason William Karpf<p>Octavia Butler and her Olivetti—Smithsonian Magazine</p><p>Butler’s prescience in the Parable duology has been cited during the SoCal wildfires. Her Olivetti Studio 46 manual typewriter is now a museum piece, literally.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@books" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>books</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/religion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>religion</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristianSciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianSciFi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmWritingSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWritingSF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/secretscifinetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secretscifinetwork</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProfessorK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProfessorK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParableOfTheTalents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheTalents</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/inventive-prescient-stories-octavia-butler-wrote-herself-into-science-fiction-canon-180985642/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian</span><span class="invisible">-institution/inventive-prescient-stories-octavia-butler-wrote-herself-into-science-fiction-canon-180985642/</span></a></p>
Stephie<p>Please read my blog post about Octavia Butler & the LA Fires....</p><p><a href="https://newstephie.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/octavia-butler-climate-change-the-la-fires/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newstephie.wordpress.com/2025/</span><span class="invisible">01/14/octavia-butler-climate-change-the-la-fires/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LAFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LAFires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParableOfTheTalents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheTalents</span></a></p>
Flipboard Culture Desk<p>Octavia Butler's 1993 novel, "Parable of the Sower" describes a fictional suburb of Los Angeles as "a struggling walled suburb... besieged by severe drought; class wars; violent, fire-setting scavengers; and a long-embattled population seized by political apathy.” In its 1998 sequel, "Parable of the Talents," a candidate runs using the slogan "Make America Great Again." Butler, who died in 2006, wasn't clairvoyant and pooh-poohed that idea. She was a student of history. Here's <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@TeenVogue" class="u-url mention">@<span>TeenVogue</span></a></span>'s story about the prescience of her writings and those of Marxist historian Mike Davis.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/p6U3GU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/p6U3GU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Books</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Burning down Octavia Butler's house was really on the nose. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LAWildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LAWildfires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EatonFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EatonFire</span></a></p>
Miss Gayle<p>If you haven't read this social commentary on America's likely future, disguised as a novel, you should.</p><p>Get it from Bookshop.org: <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/parable-of-the-sower-octavia-e-butler/19767724" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookshop.org/p/books/parable-o</span><span class="invisible">f-the-sower-octavia-e-butler/19767724</span></a></p><p>Read the article: <a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-01-08/working-from-first-principles-parable-of-the-sower-octavia-e-butler-1993/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">resilience.org/stories/2025-01</span><span class="invisible">-08/working-from-first-principles-parable-of-the-sower-octavia-e-butler-1993/</span></a></p><p>"...it takes first principles—effectively social emotions—and develops them into a new politics for the challenges of the world the novel presents..."</p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/OctaviaButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaButler</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a></p>
Valerie Roney<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@SnowshadowII" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SnowshadowII</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@aprilfollies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aprilfollies</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@BruceMirken" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BruceMirken</span></a></span> I accidentally read that this year and wow, it is disturbingly on the nose. <br>But my favourite part was the main character, demonstrating what we'll need to get through this: </p><p>Embrace change. <br>Be strong, <br>but gather kindness. <br>Carry seeds, <br>until you can plant them again. </p><p><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/parableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parableOfTheSower</span></a></p>
CDCastillo<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@noiseician" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>noiseician</span></a></span> at times it seems they are convinced <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ParableOfTheSower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheSower</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ParableOfTheTalents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParableOfTheTalents</span></a> are not <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Dystopic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopic</span></a> novels, but a blueprint for making America great again. </p><p>After all, it was <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/OctaviaEButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctaviaEButler</span></a> who coined the phrase <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> back in the 1990s</p>
Jay Africa<p>The L.A. Public Library commissioned me and a writing team to adapt Octavia E. Butler's the Parable of the Sower into a Fate RPG. We're running portions of it at the Octavia Lab at the LAPL Central Branch in DTLA on 12/14! If you're a fan of the novel or Fate, sign up and roll dice with us!</p><p>Learn more at <a href="https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/journey-earthseed-tabletop-roleplay-campaign-octavia-e-butlers-parable-universe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lapl.org/whats-on/events/journ</span><span class="invisible">ey-earthseed-tabletop-roleplay-campaign-octavia-e-butlers-parable-universe</span></a></p><p>RSVP to rsvpoctavialab@lapl.org</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/octaviaebutler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>octaviaebutler</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/parableofthesower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parableofthesower</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/lapl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lapl</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/losangelespubliclibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>losangelespubliclibrary</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/fate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fate</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/evilhatproductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evilhatproductions</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/gamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamer</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/dmlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dmlife</span></a></p>
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