problematic woman enjoyer

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[natequarter]

the most important thing a fictional woman can be is terrible

[mobiusstripper]

Gerey Hartmand is literally the same character as Gavin Belson from Silicon Valley. The whole Pancreator saga could be a spinoff. From the second he was introduced, I could only picture him as Matt Ross.

[mobiusstripper]

Adrian Tchaikovsky has really taken animal parables to the next level.

[spideronamountain]

[mobiusstripper]

YouTube video titled “We gave 200,000 mantis shrimp advanced technology and a solar system, and they all killed each other.”

[bayta-darell]

maybe strife should be higher in my ranking because several weeks later I am still so enamored with Redina Kott in a way that I don't think I've ever been really into Tchaikovsky's characters, like they're usually just the means to explore his worlds but there's something about her where like maybe I should reread the earlier ones where Kern is more prominent but even liking her as a character I don't think I was captivated by her the way I am with Kott idkkkk there's something about her!!!

[mobiusstripper]

It is the fact that she is The Worst. Redina Kott saw everyone stanning over amoral jerkass girlfailure Avrana Kern and said “Hold my beer.” Then she smacked the cup up into our faces, spilling beer all over our new cardigan, and laughed.

[mobiusstripper]

Kott is Silicon Valley trash: confirmed

[mobiusstripper]

All he wants in life is to punch God, but all the Gods are made of data and thus remain infuriatingly unpunchable.

[mobiusstripper]

[testingcheats0n]

"Cato continues to give little haikus of foreboding, and she tries to tune him out. He intimates that the entire planet is actively calling him out."

Mind you, there's not a single haiku in the entire book.

[mobiusstripper]

Cato’s “speech” is actually probably closer to classical Chinese prose (文言 - Wényán) than any kind of metric verse. Basically, he talks like Sun Tzu.

[mobiusstripper]

Ha. No sooner than I had been wondering if there was a Stomatopod translation of The Art of War floating (pun intended) around, it is confirmed that there, in fact, is not. Just convergent evolution at work.

[mobiusstripper]

I need a Magic Schoolbus/Children of Time crossover where the bus is actually a Portiid ship controlled by a Kern instance that is constantly delivering a stream of acerbic commentary that only Ms. Frizzle can hear but also blithely ignores.

[mobiusstripper]

I think “Children of Bad Decisions” is the name we should all use to refer to the entire series from now on.

[testingcheats0n]

"Cato continues to give little haikus of foreboding, and she tries to tune him out. He intimates that the entire planet is actively calling him out."

Mind you, there's not a single haiku in the entire book.

[mobiusstripper]

Cato’s “speech” is actually probably closer to classical Chinese prose (文言 - Wényán) than any kind of metric verse. Basically, he talks like Sun Tzu.

[winekita]

I think Cato has become my new favorite character in this series. I love this bigass mantis shrimp and his bigass ego.

[testingcheats0n]

portia will always be my star of the show but the sentient shimp has swag

[dryococelas01]

Reading Children of Strife I do find it amusing how much of a theme wrestling with ones nature is (Mira, Cato, you could argue Kott etc)

Meanwhile the colonists are literally wrestling with 'nature'

[thelonghairedone]

Cato from Children of Strife

[souplife]

Cato is described as having a virtual Captain's hat, two cannons, and a hover skirt (my rendition above)

but the word skirt puts this image in my mind so this is how I've been imagining him

[mobiusstripper]

All he wants in life is to punch God, but all the Gods are made of data and thus remain infuriatingly unpunchable.