[darthraven213]

Nothing says found family like a nerdy military veteran, his ex-girlfriend’s talking cat, and their pet dinosaur all killing monsters together to survive an alien death trap

[aeshnacyanea2000]

People were strange like that. Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.

-- Terry Pratchett - Going Postal

[la-niolue]

He was not going to be found wanting when duty called. He did not intend to be found at all.

The Last Continent

[hatosyscurls]

- Project Hail Mary, chapter 22

had me cackling out loud

[c-dragon-art]

Yapper and listener duo

[wherehumorcomestodie]

“That’s the problem with hitting the elites financially. Every time you hurt one, all it does is make another richer. That won’t stop until the baskets overflow with their godsdamned heads.”

-Matt "I'm not a political writer" Dinniman

[elecktrum]

Only in a Dungeon Crawler Carl book could you read the sentence, "I used up all my good corpses on the last floor," and it makes perfect, reasonable sense.

[randombookquotes]

a parade of horribles- matt dinniman

[bludsheep2]

😭

[kakyoins-roblox-gf]

Do u think after the dungeon Carl has the same problem as Tony Hawk where nobody recognizes him unless he's got his equivalent of a skateboard?

[sunderwight]

sometimes you just gotta ask yourself, what would murderbot do?

likeliest answers:

-pirate media

-bribe someone (with pirated media)

-sit in a small confined space and watch media

-internally lament the stupidity of mankind

-help out

-repress some stuff

-begrudgingly stop repressing that stuff in order to unpack it

-complain the entire time

[unidentifiedspoon]

my turn at this one. ART is the feed? no. ART is the frame

[razielim]

debates i didn't know existed + a very humorous distinction

hostiles = antagonists that Murderbot is worried about 😳

targets = antagonists that need to worry about Murderbot :)c

[random-bookquotes]

Rae believed if you were lucky your favourite story got told in a dozen different ways, so you could choose your favourite flavour. None of the musical’s stars were hot enough, but nobody could ever be as hot as characters in your imagination. Book characters were dangerously attractive in the safest way. You didn’t even know what they looked like, but you knew you liked it.

Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

[random-bookquotes]

“Everyone who thinks books will make women date assholes underestimates us. If stories hypnotize people, why isn’t everybody terrified movies will turn boys into drag-racing assassins? I don’t want to fix the guy, I want to watch the murder show.”

Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

[gffa]

I need more people to read the Time Of Iron series with me (Long Live Evil and All Hail Chaos so far) because I started them for a silly, light-hearted humor story about a girl being isekai'd into a horrible Game of Thrones-style alternate world where she has to get the Flower of Life to save herself from her cancer in the real world and she's a delightful bitch about, but suddenly I have FEELINGS ABOUT RAE??? She wasn't just delightful, she was positively burning with rage under the surface of her character because of everything that got fucked up in her life. She has humor about it, she is slowly growing to character about the characters in the story as real people, she is an absolute hot mess, she has to deal with so much shit that's not her fault (being vaulted into a villainous character who was cruel to everyone around her, so nobody in this world trusts her), and it's all just a scream. I can't count how often the comedic timing of the story has gotten an irl laugh out of me (the audiobook is really good!)! I'm so curious to see where this is going! The other characters are charming their way into my heart! There's a side pairing that I'm hoping isn't just subtext but may actually go there! There's gently poking fun at the tropes of the genre, but in a way that never feels mean to me, but instead done with love and joy for them! If you enjoy women getting to be hot messes, if you enjoy murder gremlins being utterly unhinged and falling in love with the hot mess lady because she's so fucking unhinged that his freak is ready to get down on his knees for her freak, if you enjoy laughing through a book that will eventually snare your feelings, then you should read Long Live Evil (by Sarah Rees Brennan) and let me yell at you about all of it.

[sarahreesbrennan]

this is so exciting to me, because I know this blog as ‘cool person who has great Star Wars thoughts, devoted to Obi-Wan Kenobi’ from when I was reading tons of meta to think about different types of fannish devotion for Long Live Evil…

… and now she likes my book! Appreciates Rae and coined the phrase ‘his freak is ready to get down on his knees for her freak.’ Fannish love is an ouroboros. And indeed it is always love and joy for me.

[timballisto]

obsessed with the way martha wells refuses to write an overarching plot for murderbot. every new book you think okay this is the one where she introduces the grand corporate conspiracy and recurring cast of corporate villains that set the premise of her next few books and instead she's like no actually i think i'll just put secunit in a Situation again