I am rereading Lloyd Alexander's Westmark (followed by The Kestrel and The Beggar Queen). They are honestly the only fantasy* novels I can think of which are about common people bringing down the monarchy. (They're short YA novels, and I recommend them if you haven't read them.)

*They are fantasy in that they are set in a fictional country; there ( Read more... )

This is me closing a bunch of tabs. A lot of these have to do with International Blog Against Racism Week--I haven't read everything linked at ibarw yet, and I don't necessarily recommend everything linked there (there are definitely some...really racist posts linked, written by people who probably think they're not racist but are missing some major ( Read more... )