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the most important thing a fictional woman can be is terrible

They should make hollow, fragile sugar candies exactly the size and shape of a lightbulb to safely satisfy the body’s natural need to eat lightbulbs whole

ao3commentoftheday

me when I see my new blorbo

rosenkranz-isnt-dead

one thing that sets Baru Cormorant apart from all the other doomed romance havers is she's fully responsible for dooming it but still acts like it's not her fault. she's like, ooh they're gonna pay for what they did to my beloved wife. Baru my sweetie pie. care to tell us who exactly killed your wife

inked-ir1s

adult misty is the goat idc

challengerblue

When you understand what the world is, you have two choices: Become a part of that world and perpetuate that system forever and ever, unto the next generation. Or fight it, and break it, and build something new.

— Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion

Finished The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley yesterday and greatly enjoyed it. It has its technical flaws in areas like pacing, but it more than makes up for it (for me, at least) in pure originality. The premise is so fascinating and unique, and I am glad I came across this book given that the blurb doesn't even mention the two aspects I enjoyed the most, namely that the cast is made up entirely of women (like, ENTIRELY. Men literally aren't even a thing in this universe, to the point that it's unclear whether this is an extremely far-future version of humanity or simply a complete alternate fantasy universe) and that they all live in Cronenberg world (as in the world itself is just...entirely made of Cronenbergian flesh technology, all of which has been gestated and birthed by its inhabitants). Lots and lots to discuss but little discussion out there due to its obscurity. 10/10 recommend to all feminist body horror appreciators.

#dreaming of a ducournau/cronenberg collaboration film #ducournau as director #cronenberg as art director #screenplay by Hurley #the stars are legion #kameron hurley #body horror #weird fiction #feminist sci-fi

linnielemon

if your girl gives you a stolen conquest she pilfered from a dying planet, that’s not your girl, that’s a colonizer

#the stars are legion

st-just

“Like me, Rashida has shown herself to be a master in the art of deception. In part, I think it’s because she absolutely believes the things she’s telling me are true as she says them. She is nurturing reality into being as she speaks.”

— Jayd

#the stars are legion

thefiresontheheight

Sometimes in life you have to be insane for a weird as fuck gay as hell gross as shit fucked up space book that no one else has read and accept that no one else is gonna care.

#the stars are legion

carnationhes

at the end of the day she is babygirl.

commiefaggoth

so embarrassing to watch yourself become obsessed with a character that feels tailor made for you specifically to become obsessed with. feels like i fell into a trap made just for me. like damn they got me. those are all the things i like and go crazy for

anonvmouse

st-just

So 100 pages into The Stars Are Legion now, and gotta say, I’m really…(enjoying? appreciating? something like that) how many layers of disgusting/horrifying/just generally fucked up body horror Hurley’s manage to fit into the book.

Like, on the one level all technology, from worldships on down, is derived from human bodies, and whenever something (tool, vehicle, weapon, spacecraft) needs replacing someone is chosen/forced to carry the pregnancy to term to create it. Everything broken or defective - people included - is given to the recyclers to be pulled apart and decomposed, but the worldship might just choose to reincarnate you and choose someone to give birth to you again. That’s if everything’s working as intended.

But then the worldships of the setting are decaying and dying, the inhabitants tearing each other’s worlds apart to repair their own as cosmic radiation leaves all but the elite and protected mutated, cancerous, crippled and starving.

And also the warlords ruling the worldships all seem to be brutal tyrants who, for example, tear out the tongues of their household servants to ensure their secrets aren’t spread, and likewise demote and mutilate their daughters who annoy them to that position.

It’s just all really impressively horribly dystopian. And I’m not even a third of the way through!