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btw her entire speech here is excellent i recommend taking a listen. this video also has the speech by neil gaiman presenting her the award if you're interested in that

https://invidio.us/watch?v=5PI1xwT2-74

"we live in capitalism; its power seems inescapable. so did the divine right of kings."
—ursula k. le guin, in her acceptance speech for the national book foundation’s medal for distinguished contribution to american letters, 2014

"i'm guessing the skunk wife marriages end a lot faster", red says. and then apparently decides to illustrate it

You spend the next thousand years or so shackled to a legion of fellow spirits, mumbling the same words over and over again. It's a story of some kind, though you repeat it so often that it loses all meaning. Occasionally Librosteus will call you up, and listen to you tell your tale. But most of your time is spent in darkness, whispering, and listening to the whispering of the thousand other ghosts around you.

"A deeply unwise decision," says Librosteus. He flips over one of the black cards, but it actually has a suit now. You recognize your own face, mirrored in two corners. The Fool.

Librosteus raises a bony talon, and you are yanked violently from your flesh. Your emptied corpse falls limply to the floor behind you, and Librosteus opens his cloak. You spiral into the yawning darkness, spinning, falling...

so this is the only screen i could find from the card game against librosteus. and it doesn't tell you anything much about the game itself. but it sure does get the stakes across

librosteus is a fun deity

and yes i do in fact have no idea why there is a nonbinary fantasy person in this setting named fred

also their immediate neighbours don't have gendered pronouns at all which makes negotiations between the two groups very entertaining

you get both:
"hello i go by they/them" "everybody does, fred, those are the only pronouns"
"hello i go by they/them" "fred you told me this two minutes ago it's still the only pronouns"

"hello i go by he/him" "wtf is a he/him"

the best part about making ur own fantasy worlds is being able to be like "in this culture, fluid genders have been normalised to such a degree that it's customary to give someone your pronouns each time you meet them"

"this is so clunky" i say, making clunk noises

....this is a villainsona thing now. mostly because "charity justice philautia" is such a great obviously-not-a-villain name and i like messing with expectations

i may substitute a different type of love but philautia sounds close enough to philia people should at least make that connection

naming urself philautia so u have to love urself now