An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Shuos Jedao, Ajewen Cheris, Nirai Kujen
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, Dyscalculia, Suicidal Thoughts, Eventual Happy Ending
Summary:
Sometimes Jedao learns from his anchors, instead of the other way around.
Bookmarker’s Notes:
Stayed up til 4am for Yuletide reveals and it was the best decision. Look at this FANTASTIC PIECE OF WRITING!!!!!
This is tone-perfect to the book series from the themes to the math references, and exactly what I wanted, thank you thank you thank you thank you kind anon.
tiny….Killua experiencing Gay Emotions pt 2: lineart. aaaaaaaaaa this is lots of fun but so difficult
(he’s a usually a GIF but i wanna upload him to Insta too)
Another @cocoa-bop recommendation, I ordered this from Moon Palace Books to support them after the first wave of Minneapolis protests and I guess they got slammed, because I only got this in the mail yesterday XD.
Now I’m kicking myself for not also ordering the next two books in the series because omg WHAT HAPPENS NEXT I MUST KNOW!!!!!
Ahem. Anyway, this book is kind of a cross between Ursula LeGuin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - the social/political order is more or less stable, but it requires some people to be tortured to maintain it - and Legend of Galactic Heroes, about a genius space strategist who has never once lost a battle.
There’s also a bit of …. please don’t kill me, but that questionable part of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game series where there was an entire planet of Chinese people who all had OCD…
Because in the universe of the book, observing a ritualistic calendar and following “remembrances” (connected to torture) on various days actually creates a kind of physical force field that alters reality within its sphere of influence…
And it’s reality that is altered, not just people’s minds, because a weapon that can distinguish (supposedly) between which calendar you follow and only kill heretics who follow a different calendar, also kills all the animals in the area too… the ships actually travel through space using so called “exotic” effects… and so on… if it turns out that all of this was mental all along it’ll be a twist.
And then there’s also a focus on mathematics and number systems… so all the warfare is based on establishing your own calendar, and infantry memorizing different formations and being brainwashed (with something called “formation instinct”) into following the orders of generals who put them into different patterns on the battle field for the different magical effects this will give them…
Besides the link to mental illness, there’s an obvious link to religion too and especially mystic religions like the Kabbalah, Sufism, etc, where through remembrance, focus, meditation, ritual and abstract number theory you can change reality… though instead of using numbers to understand God, you create your own number system that creates its own physical laws. And the degree to which a physical space conforms to one belief system or another can be measured and quantified, because this is science fiction LMAO and not fantasy.
…Anyway this book is great - it creates an entire new world and vocabulary to describe that world that none of the characters can think their way out of, and the characters are super fun too… Without spoiling too much it’s basically about a military siege of a fortress with a twist at the end, so yeah if you like military sci fi and weird brain stuff you should read this. @cocoa-bop never disappoints.
I absolutely love these picrew tags going around and i wanna start one too because this is too cute ;;
So I’m tagging: @yeolville, @heartcravings, @starchild–27, @neocitizennies, @xiuhunsoo & @delhyun
Here’s the link ♥ Can’t wait to see your versions!!
this might be my favourite picrew ever 🥺 pwhease the little eribong ♡ thank you so much @pupchanyeol for the loveliest tag!
i’ll tag @thedeviousdo @diamozi @starchild–27 @delhyun @byunfirstlady @bacon-notbaekhyun-jaehyun-mingyu @byuns-coco @yeolville @bikeryeollie if you guys want to ♡
I don’t get the bandaids but I honestly do hurt myself constantly.
Tagging last few in my activity @mctheshawol @vivapolos @springmourning6 @ksooquishy @the-sexuality-of-do-kyungsoo of course you don’t have to do it, and anyone can as well.
I decided to get in on the picrew thing. I like how mine came out
I’m tagging @heartcravings @bacon-notbaekhyun-jaehyun-mingyu @yeoliesbabygirl @xiusmybeautifulnightmare @vivapolos @byuns-coco @cocoa-bop @your-sophie18 and anyone else who wants to do it
After weeks of waiting, shipping woes (of the postal variety LOL), and screaming about this fic with my friends in their DMs in the wee hours of the morning, I’m so happy to have finished my first case-bound book!
Here is On Stranger Tides by @theroyalsavage, one of my all-time favorite HQ fics!! The writing is gorgeous, the characters are portrayed with so much love and care, and there are pirates!!! Boats!! Magic!! An ensemble cast!! Pining!! If you haven’t already, you can read it here. I cannot recommend it enough.
more under the cut about bookbinding, fic, and of course glamour shots :D
Now that I think about it, it’s kind of weird that some people see “I like this character” and immediately translate that to “I condone everything this character has done and agree with their views”.
GEN gen: 1 (Author 23) Pairings: Gen Rating : T/M Content warnings : Slight gore, mentions of violence Additional tags: Found Family, Idiots all of them Summary: The Phantom Troupe - evil, cold-blooded murderers who will eliminate anyone in their way without hesitation. But that doesn't mean t...
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3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?
To be honest, I really can’t handle soulmate AUs or domestic fluff, because I am a terrible cranky person who hates happiness? Also mpreg, but because it’s domestic-adjacent.
4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
I’m sort of monogamous when it comes to WIPs, but I can share one fic idea that I will make happen someday. It’s a historical AU set during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War era for NCT where YuWin fall in love over the radio despite being on opposite sides of the war. I’ve been reading about short-wave radio technology because I’m a NERD.
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