felididasephophatase

as a little boy i fell into the cat ear enzyme cooking pot

[winter-wise]

Breq is so good at observation but also sometimes so utterly terrible at it. Breq voice "Mercy of Kalr said that it and Seivarden have a surprise for me so I went to my quarters. Rose petals were scattered on the floor and Seivarden was reclining on the bed with her tunic undone and a rose clenched between her teeth. I wonder what this could mean."

[felididasephophatase]

"Of course, I had observed young lieutenаnts in their love games, which they usually practiced until they were old enough to be more serious. It was nothing, however, that a ship would participate in. An ancillary was above such uncontrolled desire."

"Why do you have a boner, fleet captain?" asked one of the local citizens we picked up along the way.

[themirokai]

I’m feeling very called out by this paragraph of Ann Leckie’s Radiant Star:

I greatly fear that if I spent the next paragraphs detailing the operation of Ooioiaa's water treatment and reclamation facility (or, more accurately, facilities-there were of course three separate systems, one for each precinct), you would find it tedious. And even if you, specifically, were to say to me, "But no! I am fascinated by water treatment systems and would in fact appreciate the information," I would strongly suspect that you were something of an outlier.

Because I read the first sentence and thought almost verbatim the second sentence.

[dreamyvixen]

vextape on ig

[andmaybegayer]

Radchaai has a base-20 counting system, right?

[andmaybegayer]

@memoryisaneventhorizon said:

because a decade is made of of 20 soldiers? that’s super interesting, i never picked up on that!

There's a lot of twenties in this book, although some of that is just that a major event happened twenty years prior. People say "almost twenty" a lot. Decades have 20 lieutenants, and One Esk consists of 20 ancillaries, not sure about the other ancillary units, they aren't mentioned as much. People use "twenty" as a round number, I think you see more "tens" when someone is speaking a non-Radchaai language. There was a particularly weird one that caught my eye here:

For the next twenty to forty seconds we had nothing to do but wait, and fall.

twenty to forty seconds? that's not very naturalistic, unless you're in vigesimal!

[themansionsofscience]

Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, and it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul; give up geometry and you will have this marvelous machine. - M. F. Atiyah Accurate?!

[enki2]

[shiftycryptid]

[imamagicmuffin]

[b1rd1e]

tmi doesn't exist to me. I love information

[wigglybunfish]

breq playing that stringed instrument at strigan's!! picturing it as something alike to the himalayan dramyin. (not pictured: seivarden half dead in the bg)

“A wooden box sat on a table in a corner, a long oval with a carved, pierced lid and three strings stretched tight across. The wood was pale gold, with a waving, curling grain. The holes cut in the flat top were as uneven and intricate as the grain of the wood. It was a beautiful thing. I plucked a string and it rang softly.”

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[sergle]

u good?

girl obviously not

[animentality]

[pangur-and-grim]

[64mpg]

thinking about developing a social skill soon

[grimark]

seivarden "weird coping mechanisms" vendaai is like "i'm having trouble processing my emotions right now so i'm going to engage in service roleplay for the person (ship?) i'm in love with, while the ship (person?) that i'm a lieutenant on board steers me around and speaks through me like a puppet. i find this soothing and reassuring for normal reasons don't worry about it."

[dambiex]

the problem with parents is that they are undiagnosed

[spiribia]

i like when you're petting an animal on the head and then remove your hand and then the animal puts their snout under your hand and flips your hand back onto the top of their head like they're a spatula with a burger patty. so far i have evidence that cats do this and that dogs do this. what else can i learn about this world...?

[spiribia]

[fluff-e-boy]

Don’t worry I’m vaccinated and neutered

[fluff-e-boy]

And those nice ladies at the front desk will put me in a funny cardboard box if you don’t have a carrier to take me home in