Notices by Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág (tarkabarkaholgy@ohai.social)

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#books #romance #WTF

The gods have blessed me with a House Cleaning Convergence

The landlord is coming over AND I have a book deadline

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@dzm Overloading also works for making you doubt everything you read and everything anyone says. The goal is not to believe "immigrants are eating dogs". The goal is to doubt everything everywhere until you give up.

"It's not the end of the world" is such a strange thing to say.

(I heard it a lot today.)

Obviously not. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. I can still be distressed about A NUMBER of people facing very hard times.

It is still valid to be worried and angry as a person with empathy, even if is not, in fact, the end of the world.

I wonder if people who say this are really very chill all the time right up until an apocalypse.

Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:

The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.

Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.

Well... fuck.

Happy #AceWeek to all my ace, demi, aro, grey ace etc. peeps out there! :ace: :blobcatace:

Also a shout out to The Secret Loves of Geek Girls anthology that taught me #demisexual was a thing and made me cry.

And another shout out to the Asexual Fairy Tales series by Elizabeth Hopkinson!

#AceWeek2023 #RepresentationMatters #LGBTQIA #bookstodon #books #DiverseReads

It is an incredibly cool feeling to walk into your favorite café and ask for a latte named after your book 🥰 🥰
Pompeii Latte Art Caffe is running a promotion with a custom made Silent Goddess hazelnut-brownie latte ☕️

#coffee #latte #mythology #bookstodon #books #GreekMythology #RomanMythology

@ochaos Florida at least has manatees. I could hug some manatees right about now.

So, I showed up to my book launch at the literary festival today. Telling Greek and Roman myths, appropriately dressed because why not :)

Then I was told 3 minutes before stage time that... my #mythology book is not being sold at the festival.

Because... by Hungarian law, you can't sell #lgbtq content within 200 meters of a school.

So 8pm, at an adult literary event, I couldn't actually sign. Greek mythology. Because there is a school building nearby.

#books #bookstodon #Hungary

We are fast approaching the holidays, probably the most lucrative time in the book publishing business.

The market is about to be flooded with Christmas books with AI generated images.

Don't buy Christmas books with AI generated images.

#AI #books #bookstodon #art

What are some Friday hashtags worth following?

(Also, what happened to #FungiFriday?)

Hello Transylvania! Starting my week-long #storytelling tour organized by the Holnemvolt Storytelling Festival in Sepsiszentgyörgy. I love returning to this part of the world. People are warm and friendly, the audiences are lively and amazing, and the scenery is gorgeous. 🥰

#Transylvania #Székelyföld #storyteller #travel #image #Romania

Completely Useless Legislation, Exhibit A:

Hungary has a new law that students have to surrender their phones at school. The phones have to be locked up, hauled around in safety boxes by teachers etc. Students get them back at the end of the day.

A friend of mine teaches high school. He noticed that when students get their phones back, they don't even turn them on, just toss them in their bag.

Decoy phones.

Seriously, no one thought about this?...

19th century British folktale translators be like

*Native bird name* = Pidgeon
*Native songbird name* = Blackbird
*Native raptor name* = Eagle
*Native antelope name* = Deer
*Native name for jackal* = Clever Fox
*Native name for any feline* = Tiger

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#folklore #folktales #storytelling #translation

This feeling never gets old 🥰 My new book is out in the world today! The Mute Goddess: Forgotten Greek and Roman Myths. And yes, it has that new book smell!

I am very excited, and very nervous. I put my heart and soul into researching these myths. Maybe because I am an archaeologist, but this one makes me more nervous about what people will think than any of my previous books 😬

#mythology #MythologyMonday #storytelling #archaeology #Classics #bookstodon

New rule:

Any person who asks a parent "are you planning on having more kids soon?" automatically owes one full day of babysitting the existing offspring.

Make this a thing.

#parenting

Yass, publishing milestone:

My Forgotten Greek and Roman Myths book is advertised with the CW "Non-traditional content." 😂

(Context: According to a new Hungarian law, any book containing LGBT+ content has to be labeled as "non-traditional". Including the famously traditionally straight Ancient Greeks, apparently.)

#books #queer #LGBTQ #mythology #myths

Happy #WorldFolkloreDay !

This is your seasonal reminder that you are Folk.

Folklore did not stop evolving 100 years ago. Or with books. Or with television. Or with the internet.

Your own culture's folklore is yours to cherish, preserve, update, reimagine, play, live, and pass on better than you found it.

#folklore

People: "I don't read old stories to my daughters because they are outdated and sexist and women are all passive princesses waiting to be saved."

Me: I set out to read 26 traditional epics about woman heroes, and so far I have found 32.

#epics #folklore #women #storytelling #representation #WomensEpics #folktales