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[centralprelude]

A zionist just reblogged one of my artworks, and I wanted to say that this PAGE IS NOT A SAFE SPACE FOR YOU. Don't get it twisted. I do not tolerate any of your violence or your ninny ass, racist ass liberal rhetoric.

It's free Palestine from Mexico, to LA, to Gaza. FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE.

[sangji-3]

How can you guys just choose one

[yelenhol]

[meikuree]

something else I’ve occasionally turned around for baru cormorant is the idea that the construct of consent falls apart once you try to apply it to colonised subjects. I haven’t reread the series in ages and am probably tragically wrong about all this, but two points:

1) baru spends book 1 trying to weasel her way into masquerade echelons, playing their game and all, and she justifies it to herself as though this is a conscious and purposeful choice she's making - i.e., she's consenting to partake in the masquerade's machinations - but that consent itself may be suspect insofar as it's been manufactured because the masquerade (colonial powers) still get to set the rules of the game and the parameters of consent

2) acts of 'reconciliation' or recognition (ripping off Glen Coulthard here), i.e., baru working with the masquerade, baru rising up the masquerade ranks, are also still a means by which the masquerade exerts power and control and buys her subservience

this is all laid out very explicitly by seth in book 1 as it is, but what book 1 is missing or at least has less airtime for is the other side of the equation: counterweight, refusal, where that pretense of consent/reconciliation isn't extended to forgotten peoples, because their subservience doesn't have to be bought that way, it's much uglier and overt. except, based on what friends have told me, books 2 & 3 do go deeper into this, and have good explorations of the subjectivity of being colonized subject(s) and the epistemic self-harm that one engages in in that situation

[centralprelude]

definitely read books 2 & 3 if you havent yet! i agree with what your friends said. you get a wider view of dickinson's world and the mechanisms behind the masquerade and it's very interesting. baru goes from a scheming, headstrong young woman to someone who now has to deal with the weight of her decisions, and boy are they heavy. the lines between her taranoki heritage vs her incrastic upbringing become blurrier. wish i had a better way to describe it but def worth the read lol

[cutetanuki-chan]

Baru trying to hide Aminata from Tain Shir seeing her is so precious to me

from now on every woman around Baru should wear armor as strong as Aminata's

they are literally like that one meme of two people bending over each other to protect from a gunshot

I'm still not finished third book but if something happens with Aminata I'm gonna revolt

[themonstrousother]

I think one of the best things The Masquerade does is how it, rather than completely disengaging with any sort of gender politics or at least diminishing them to allow its female character mobility across what are or have been considered in the past, masculine domains, approaches and repurposes real world gender politics in this fictional world with different understandings of gender. The Falcresti domains of gender and how they’re influenced by Incrasticism. The matriarchal structure of the navy. The Stakhi construct where gendered role is dependent on how one adheres to a gendered sphere. how Baru’s own gender is mutable, taking different meanings and implications depending on the context she is currently residing within. As a Falcresti agent and product, a lot of who she is, is shaped within that structure; her presentation and role is socially feminine, she keeps her appearance relatively plain and is someone who works behind the scenes in logistics. But her identity as a lesbian and a Taranoki woman complicates this, and the role of Incrasticism, which dictates her as needing to overcome ‘the deficiencies of her race’, which assigns her as a ‘sexually provocative, excessive and indulgent’, and means there’s this constant sexually charged threat of violence in her periphery, that sexually corrective therapy, to break her down and reconstruct her. This isn’t conclusive and I’m not quite sure where I’m going with it, but it’s so fascinating.

[blazemalefica]

[blazemalefica]

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[sanctus-ingenium]

VERSE OF THE SILKWORM - MVF BOOK 3 - sanctus ingenium's Ko-fi Shop

This is the sequel to THE VIPER MOURNED (https://ko-fi.com/s/bc41a719de) and is the final book in the MOTH VIPER FOAL trilogy <3 Shop page

My trilogy is done, you can buy the third book now (link above). Thanks for being patient and enjoy the book

[athetos]

My Baru Cormorant Companion Guide

A 20k word document describing the characters, locations, cultures, history, ships, qualms, and so much more of The Masquerade/Baru Cormorant series. Includes a timeline and some speculation for B4ru as well!

I highly recommend reading the notes on the first page before you dive in, it should hopefully answer any questions you may have.

Good luck comrades 🫡

[athetos]

I love the meme that is essentially “if you brought [insert historical figure or fictional character from a fantasy novel here] to present day United States they would not talk theory with you or start a revolution they would just sit in front of a microwave in awe for 5 hours”

However it does not apply to Baru Cormorant. I firmly believe if you let her loose on Wall Street you would get substantial results within 24 hours.

[centralprelude]

she would inflate the price of micron, open, nvidia, and all these other tech giants and then tank the price of ram just like she did in aurdwynn. the common nerd would sing her praises all over reddit for making pc parts affordable again

[nonas-third-tantrum]

reading baru cormorant is like. I’m at a party where the most insufferable people I know are playing settlers of catan. they invite me to join I say no thank you. they say oh come on you’ll pick it up quickly. I say that’s fine I’ll just watch. I try to focus but there are three beautiful women attempting to seduce one of the players and this is so much more interesting. and yet she ignores them and continues to play settlers of catan

[centralprelude]

sometimes i think im having a bad day and then realize that baru cormorant is probably having a worse one. and it makes me smile cus she deserves it

[ouiouhie]

the council 🩸

keeping this series going while working on a larger project. took a ton of focus to finish this one!

[hylltonart]

Finally finished painting this water nymph

timelapse + WIP images

[90377]

秋芒魚路古道-擎天崗 by KC2013