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3 ships: (for wildly atypical definitions of 'ship') - Blake/Green Eyes (Pact), Gideon/"Dulcinea" (The Locked Tomb), Jedao2/Kujen (Machinaries of Empire)
First ever ship: First one I can remember actually being, like, invested in? Root/Shaw from Person of Interest.
Last song: Bloodlust by aeseaes
Last movie: Ah. Hm. Lord Of the Rings rewatch back in August?
Currently reading: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, finishing off the Hugo nominations for novel finally.
Currently watching: Very very slowly watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with friends, 30 years after everyone else.
Currently consuming: half price stale grocery store lemon danish
Currently craving: chicken cacciatore I am hopefully making tonight
tagging uhh @wings-liker @self-loving-vampire @apollo-cackling @lifeattomsdiner @yaoist @metamatar @fipindustries @fallowhearth @toasthaste (no pressure whatsoever, of course!)
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@felgueirosa tagged me to post the first 10 songs that came up on shuffle for my on repeat playlist, thank you!!!
1. Hold Yr Terror Close by The Go! Team
2. Window by Fiona Apple
3. EXO by Magdalena Bay
4. Haunted by Laura Les
5. 미쳐 by 4MINUTE
6. Kumohashiru by Chatmonchy
7. The Mother We Share by CHVRCHES
8. Constant Repeat by Charli XCX
9. What Once Was by Hers
10. 外は戦場だよ by Ichiko Aoba and Cornelius
tagging @nycorix @layahimalaya @r2d2communism @injustice-of-toren @spacecrows @sendme-2hell and anyone else who wants to do this if they want to!!
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tag 9 people to get to know better
tagged by @sendme-2hell
3 ships: Catherine/Akua (PGTE), Baru/Tain Hu (The Traitor Baru Cormorant), Eugenides/Attolia (The Queen's Thief)
First ever ship: huh, hard to say? The first time I can remember watching something, getting really invested in a certain pairing (beyond just enjoying main canon ships) and seeking out more material for them was konosetsu from negima, so lets go with that
Last song: I've been using a playlist of anime openings as background music while working, so the opening to Kageki Shoujo
Last movie: Akira
Currently reading: I've annoyingly been in a bit of a reading slump lately, so I'm now trying something completely different and reading Frankenstein
Currently watching: Just started a new round of shows with my seasonal anime watch group, so I'm in Love With the Villainess, Shy, and The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really REALLY Love You
Currently consuming: teriyaki meatballs! picture below the cut because I am very pleased with how they turned out
Currently craving: apple cider donuts, I have ones from a supermarket but they Do Not Compare with proper ones from an orchard
Tagging: @apollo-cackling @burn-throughout-eternity @wearethekat @coraniaid @queerhummingbird @lesbibimbap @aeondusk @aeondeug
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tag 9 people to get to know better
Tagged by @arianwells , thank you!
3 ships: I'm not that shippy most of the time, so it's hard to think of three. Rhaenicent definitely, because the shipping angle increases by enjoyment of thet show immensely. I have to put Bumbleby don't I (slowest burn of my life, goddammit). And uhh Moiraine/Siuan is on my mind
First ever ship: Korrasami maybe?
Last song: Eat Your Young from the latest Hozier album
Last movie: Bodies Bodies Bodies on a flight that was just long enough for it
Currently reading: The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri. Do recommend!
Currently watching: The Wheel of Time season 2. The costume department put their whole pussy into it. I need that one outfit Moiraine wears so bad...
Currently consuming: I am so full mate I will not consume any food soon
Currently craving: the temperature drop finally made it feel like fall. Also, I am cold. So a good chai latte
tagging @queer-chnospinci @obeetlebeetle @slughotel @sendme-2hell @hangsawoman that's almost 9 right
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tag 9 people to get to know better
tagged by @sendme-2hell <3
3 ships: (it's Transformers, you know it's Transformers, Transformers all the way down), Genly/Estraven, Elijah Baley/R. Daneel Olivaw
First ever ship: something Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru and... I really can't remember for the life of me.
Last song: Any Given Sunday by Royal Republic
Last movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Currently reading: The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu
Currently watching: What We Do in the Shadows
Currently consuming: coffee
Currently craving: more coffee
Tagging whoever wants to do it!
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While we’re on the subject of fantasy and science fiction, and since I just finished Nona the Ninth, here’s a wonderful diagram from @sendme-2hell and @fenderrbenderr.
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So I finally finished season 1 of Yellowjackets and this post is mostly for @sendme-2hell 😅 Spoilers ahead!!!!
I enjoyed the show though IMO from a narrative point of view it was kind of over the place. But I like the exploration of more nuanced characters and at the same time all the stuff that happens when you're a teenage girl. The soundtrack was also extremely cool.
And about our girls! The series was a very insightful approach into the Lenù-type character and what she might be able to do, but I felt it was a more superficial take on the Lila-type (which poses a question to me - Lila is loved to death by the fans in Italy, but I have the feeling that she's not always the fan favorite outside?).
Pretty sure that the staff doesn't know about all the nuances of their relationship but they got the gist of it pretty well. At some point I even wondered if the actresses had watched the MBF series because they imitated a few of their mannerisms! Also, the plot never got into sapphic territory with them, which I find a REAL LOSS considering some of the directors involved and that the series was already +18 so who cares. They got close though. Like in the original 🥲
Love Tai and Van but I wonder why Van was hurt twice of the same side of the face? The first time I really thought that Van was going to lead some kind of horrible grudge against Jackie.
And regarding the ending - I guess that's it, though they can always bring back Jackie in flashbacks or as a ghost. Obviously she could also be back in the same eery way that Van was back. That's also a possibility, though I'm not sure that the writers would take that road.
Anyway I had a good time and I'll probably be watching in S2! Thanks for the rec!
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hi! I don't have any coherent thoughts about Baru Cormorant except that she's a terrible person and I love her. I can't believe how you can just read all them straight in a row like that. I took six months between reading Traitor and reading Monster, and I still don't think I'm up for reading Tyrant, I'm still dead inside from reading the last book.
but! are you going to read the other books in the Lesbians with Dead People in their Heads genre? That's Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit and A Memory Called Empire. I believe someone on here (@sendme-2hell, possibly) has done this chart cataloguing the thematic overlaps. they're both really good books, I strongly recommend them!
Hi! She absolutely is, I love that conniving arithmetic ghoul so very much. Without spoiling too much, she does get a little bit better over the course of Tyrant, and I'm proud of her.
As for reading them all in a row - it was not a good idea. That much emotional turmoil over the course of a week was probably not the best choice in retrospect. Will I learn from this experience? Probably not. (I certainly didn't learn from reading The Locked Tomb books one after another a few months ago.)
And I'm definitely intrigued by A Memory Called Empire! I'll have to check it out sometime. :)
#thanks for the ask!#i honestly adore baru as a character. i vibe with the cunning mastermind archetype a lot#and the moments of genuine emotion that she shows behind the mask are all super compelling#all the fan art of her looking super sharp in a waistcoat may have also swayed my opinion a bit as well#asks
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November Book Reviews: The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
This was good. I had been vaguely avoiding this one because it looked too milSF, but @sendme-2hell rec’d this one and they’re so right, this is a great book. Also, it’s intensely grabby. I read just about the whole thing in one sitting.
Started out fairly standard military science fiction, but then fifty pages in, it dove into some really fascinating Time Shenanigans. This book is almost in the Lesbian Atrocities Genre. It has a wlw protagonist, space, and atrocities. But somehow I think it doesn’t really fit in? Possibly because it’s enmeshed in a Conversation with milSF: the way Hurley determinedly refuses to glamorize war, the faceless “antagonists”, the carefully unpronouned protagonist.
I think this one won a Hugo and it absolutely deserved it. The one reservation I had was that it is not subtle with the moralizing, especially near the end. But still, a fantastic read.
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rules: name seven comfort movies and tag seven people!
Oooh, super duper late, I was tagged by @vera-dauriac. Comfort movies....
1) Ladyhawke. YES. Cheesy 80′s soundtrack and all. LET THE SYNTHS FLOW THROUGH YOU LIKE THE MAJESTY OF RUTGER HAUER’S CLOAK
2) The Twilight movies. Yes, for real, they’re dumb but everyone’s just so pretty and when I’m sick I enjoy laying back with my tissues and sniffling my way through watching Kristen Stewart wear everyone down and get the superpowers and perpetual hot boning she’s always wanted.
3) Cyrano de Bergerac: the 1950 version with Jose Ferrer. Which I have on VHS, because I’m old.
huh. I don’t watch a lot of movies, it turns out. this is hard!
4) Sense and Sensibility, with Emma Thompson. I love Emma Thompson.
5) Much Ado about Nothing, with Emma Thompson. I really do love Emma Thompson. And also period films! This really is a delightful one though.
6) The Nightmare Before Christmas, which remains an animation tour de force.
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7) Ghostbusters 2016, which was honestly better than the original. And I liked the original!
Thanks Vera! I’ma tag, umm..... @sh00t, @glitterdrawer, @sendme-2hell, @badwolfbadwolf, @crimson-flamez, @maculategiraffe, and @quietnighty. Only if y’all feel like it!
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So have now watched the first two episodes of the new Game of Thrones show (partially due to peer pressure form a friend and party due to @sendme-2hell describing it as 'Succession with dragons' one time).
-The only way I can describe my impression of the king is that he's like one of those sad old dogs with droopy jowls who just wants to sleep by the fire all day.
-Rhaenyra/Allicent Real
-Taking Mat Smith seriously as, like, a brutal scheming vaguely predatory prince is a bit of a rough adjustment. The wig doesn't help.
-Okay I very much get what they're going for with the whole 'tourney knight' thing but, like, these are ostensibly proper undomesticated feudal military aristocrats, no? You'd assume a baseline level of, like, private violence and feuding and bandit-hunting would keep on going no matter how peaceful the big picture was.
-The whole Gold Cloak Knight of Terror scene has me kind of curious how the legal system in Westeros actually works. Does every noble just have the right to dispense every sort of justice in their domains? How does that work in cities? (This is extremely 'What's Gondor's tax policy' I know but tbf Martin literally asked for it)
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tagged by @iztopher in nine people you’d like to know better!! (im anonymphae, this is my sideblog i do fandom stuff/tag games on :3)
Three ships (mostly friendships in my case)!
I don’t ship much stuff either but some I’ve been into recently are~
1. Nikaido & Kaiman from Dorohedoro! Their friendship is so. AND there’s a second season coming out AUGHHH
2. Murderbot & ART from The Murderbot Diaries. I just got the new book last week and I am so excited to read it. Their qpr/friendship thing makes me want to pull my hair out (affectionate)
3. Farcille (Falin/Marcille) from Dungeon Meshi. I Am Not Immune To Women Who Are Freaks
Most recent song: Tomorrow by Kate Malanaphy!
First ship: Percabeth LOL
Currently reading: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin! It’s really good so far :) I’m also reading The Lonely Castle In The Mirror/かがみの孤城 (slowly. very slowly)
Last watched: Episode 2 of Dungeon Meshi!
Currently craving: I’m in Texas rn and I want kolaches sooo bad 0_0
tagging @nycorix @layahimalaya @injustice-of-toren @felgueirosa @spacecrows @sendme-2hell @live-long-and-pasta and anyone else who wants to do this!!!
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Semi-coherent Thoughts on the Unspoken Name
So, honestly only picked up the book (or even knew it existed) because @sendme-2hell put it in a meme with the Baru Cormorant and Locked Tomb series. Which, like, absolutely isn’t wrong, but I had been mentally preparing myself for waaaay more heartbreak and tragedy to go with the angst. The ending’s downright happy and hopeful! (I also feel like I was promised a dragon that never appeared, but that’s probably on me misreading).
But anyway, yes, just a really fun book. The setting had the fun sort of High Fantasy vibe where the actual inspirations are less specific cultures or historical periods and more outdated D&D lore, prog rock and metal album art, and whatever weirdly specific ideas have been rattling around the author’s head since she was a teenager. To be clear, I mean this as incredibly high praise. If I can’t convince anyone else to read this I’ll probably just steal half the setting when/if I next run a D&D game.
Names I can never pronounce or remember how to spell aside, it also just had an incredibly enjoyable cast of characters. Not, like, likeable – most of them are utter garbage – but aside from the inquisitors everyone was just reliably entertaining to have on screen. I’m sure I mentioned it before, but Csorwe and Tal really did give me strong Baru and Svir vibes. Just, like, 60% less evil. And they deal with their problems with violence instead of convoluted plots involving coups and forced marriages.
Sethennai I’m honestly pretty fond of, just because I kind of like the whole trope of the clearly villainous (villain-coded? Idk, beyond being an emotionally negligent surrogate dad did he really do anything that evil?) father-figures who, like, actually seem like they’re trying their best. Like, giving Csorwe apartments in a palace and a golden prosthetic tusk and praising her as his sharpest sword and trusting her implicitly as his agent, and just legitimately not understanding that she wanted anything more than that. And being like that with everyone. It’s psychologically interesting, if nothing else. Also, I find it kind of funny that given how much Tal thirsts for him he almost certainly got more word count devoted to how hot he is than any other character.
Honestly, it’s not really a complaint, but as far as the book’s sold by it’s central romance, Csorwe’s relationship with Shuthmili never actually felt that, well, central? She’s the last major character introduced, and compared to Csorwe’s dynamics with Tal, Sethennai, even Orrana, the relationship with Shuthmili felt kind of...simple? Like, for most of her time on screen we only get hints of her personality through all the repression, and half of the time Csorwe’s almost consciously acting on behalf of the imagined version of her constructed in her head, and just hoping the real one will feel the same (not a bad thing, when rescuing someone from getting assimilated into a hivemind so her body can spent the rest of its life being a nuclear deterrent, but still).
Admittedly, part of that is that, psychologically, Csorwe is reasonably close to just being, like, a normal person. I mean, relative to everyone else in her life, who are without exception comic book villains. So it makes sense that her interactions with the devoted priestess of the death god which is convinced it owns her soul, and the melodramatic and incredibly insecure assassin, and the archmage/lich/boytoy-of-the-goddess-of-magic all feel more, idk, colourful?
It’s also kind of interesting how the book doesn’t really have a central villain. Like, Oranna and Sethennai are both too ambiguous in narrative roll to really fit – the former switches sides somewhere in act 2 and the latter never actually lifts a finger to oppose Csorwe until the last like 20 pages, and then instantly cuts a deal. Shuthmili’s aunt, probably, but she’s just not a real narrative presence for big stretches of the book, or even slightly relevant for the whole first act.
But anyway, does this have sequels yet? Because, like, that last scene was the most obvious sequel hook I’ve seen in a long while.
#books#the unspoken name#a. k. larkwood#in this essay I will#book review#this is theoretically a writing blog#sendme-2hell#TRYING to start writing regularly more again
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So I’m starting The Unspoken Name (s/o to @sendme-2hell for the recommendation).
And just like ten pages in, and have to say, when introducing what I presume the big plot device magical artifact that’s gonna drive that plot, ‘[it] marks its passage in the world, in the sense a scythe marks its passage through the grass’ is just a hell of a line.
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Books I Read In March
12. The Jasmine Throne, by Tasha Suri
Pretty sure I originally saw this mentioned in one of @sendme-2hell’s big saphic SFF rec posts, though honestly it’s been floating around the edges of my awareness as something I should get around around to reading for a while now (without ever actually retaining a single thing about the story, so I did get the rare pleasure of going in entirely blind). And hey, it actually lived up to all the buzz!
I mean, Priya’s a bit too, how to put this, protagonist-y for my tastes. In terms of, like, role in the narrative, both her siblings’ positions are more compelling imo, insofar as they’re more committed and morally/politically compromised and bloody-handed. Psychologically she’s a pretty interesting character to spend time in the head of though – call it, like, a reflexive anti-moralism, but I always really appreciate it when a protagonist/POV character have some deeply held belief that’s horribly maladaptive or unhealthy or just counter to the contemporary common wisdom and it’s not, like, their Fatal Flaw or the central struggle of their arc to overcome or lectured about/shouted down by other characters when it comes up but just, like, how they are. So Priya was great for that.
(Did really appreciate that finding her birth mother was basically an accident, and Priya in no way forgave her for the whole mass murder of all the other temple children thing).
Malini, on the other hand, was absolutely great. Top-tier deuteragonist. We love us a vengeance-obsessed manipulator increasingly annoyed with anyone who argues against a plan for something as useless as ‘morality’ but occasionally remembers to be horrified with herself about that. Also a very enjoyable irony of legitimizing her claim to rule by cloaking herself in religious symbolism and imagery despite being thoroughly disillusioned with it all, while raising a rebellion against her brother the sincere zealot (though tbf going off my extremely unscientific collection of remembered examples, leaning into religious devotion is actually a fairly common strategy for women trying to maintain political power in patriarchal societies. Aelia Pulcheria &c. So points for realism?)
There’s a certain like, emotional beat, that I mostly associate with the ending of Dune (since I read it at what was probably far too young an age), where the ending’s a glorious triumph for the protagonist and simultaneously a tragedy, either the culmination of one or just the point where it becomes unavoidable. And Malini’s final chapter hit that note perfectly.
The Yaksha are very cool in terms of imagery, as is the aesthetics of the magic/superpowers. Also do the thing I’m told supernatural elements are supposed to, making the metaphors literal and such – to gain power all you need is to very literally hollow out your heart and soul to make room for something cold and alien to whatever your goals were, and to come to that final point and hesitate will very literally kill you. (I’m like 60% on the whole ‘cuckoo’ analogy being more literal than Ahsoka realized, and when Priya inevitably goes through the waters a fourth time in the sequels the yasha will try to consume her entirely and take her place in the mortal world).
But yeah, good book.
13. Circe, by Madeline Miller
Miller seriously needs to write more books. She might legitimately have the best prose of anyone I’ve read whose still writing (subjectively anyway, no accounting for taste, etc, etc). It really manages the trick of having a sort of archaic weight to it that sells the mythic setting. Also just beautifully poetic.
It’s, okay, so it’s not gothic, in any meaningful sense of the word. But you know that one viral post where it gives the pithy definitions of emo, goth, punk and then ska with a trumpet? And goth’s is ‘the world is broken, but there’s an odd beauty to the broken parts’? That’s it, the world is fundamentally bleak and tragic and unjust, but there’s real beauty in the brokenness.
Alternatively, the Richard Siken quote that is permanently etched into my brain
Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their back against the wall, where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don’t, they’ll die. Imagine a story, not of good against evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame.
(Though that’s not quite right. Hermes has no needs, Athena feels no pain, Helios will never die. So the highest gods, at least, can be cleanly despised for everyone who suffers for their whims)
But okay, so aside from just general tone and themes, so, I really appreciate how the book isn’t a heroic narrative? Or, well, maybe heroic isn’t the right word, and possibly blame all the terribly woo-ey kinda-second-wave-feminist mythologically retellings I read as a kid, but – with books that sell themselves as retellings of fables or myths centred around a maligned woman and/or antagonist, the stories get entirely rewritten around them, to make them the grand protagonist and everyone else villains or supporting cast. And Circe absolutely does not do that. It actually ends up being kind of pleasantly episodic as a result, the narrative floating through the centuries between different myths where she plays some meaningful but minor part. The book only gets to Odysseus in, like, the last quarter?
So it ends up being one part travel log through Miller’s spin on different Greek myths (the punishment of Prometheus, Scylla, Jason and Medea, the Minotaur, etc) and one part biography and character study of Circe herself, as a titan-blooded witch who spends the great part of her life exiled to a single island and who is absolutely not the sort of hero the Olympians would favour.
Anyways, absolutely beautiful, would recommend, if you can stomach the...you know what writing out a full content note would take paragraphs, so just if there’s something whose mention in a book can ruin it for you, probably assume it appears. (But also specifically there’s like four(?) men in the book with any amount of word count devoted to them who aren’t either rapists or abusers. Bronze age patriarchy and all).
And yeah that’s it, not a great month for reading. Well, technically 2/3 of the Faded Sun trilogy, but that really deserves to be analyzed as a single piece imo. Hoping to do better in April, now that my brain’s being a bit less useless and I can hopefully get back into a routine.
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