You! Off my planet!!

~ Too many books, too little time. ♤ Go vegan! ~

[seerya]

Need another book to read. Which one should I pick?

Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie)

The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Seth Dickinson)

Seasons of Glass and Iron (Amal El-Mohtar)

Beholder (Ryan La Sala)

The Given Day (Dennis Lehane)

The Ladies of Grace Adieu (Susanna Clarke)

Remaining time: 6 days 4 hours

[watercolor-writer]

Shakespeare as TMA content warning parody

[seerya]

Every time they give me a closeup shot of the king it looks like he has googly eyes stitched onto the shoulders of his royal robe. 😅

[seerya]

[seerya]

I have never been one of those people—I know you aren’t, either—who feels that the love one has for a child is somehow a superior love, one more meaningful, more significant, and grander than any other. I didn’t feel that before Jacob, and I didn’t feel that after. But it is a singular love, because it is a love whose foundation is not physical attraction, or pleasure, or intellect, but fear. You have never known fear until you have a child, and maybe that is what tricks us into thinking that it is more magnificent, because the fear itself is more magnificent.

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

[seerya]

They didn't have to open The East Palace with Kwak Deong Yeon bleeding in the pouring rain but they did it just for me.

[mrabraxas]

gay is okay!

okay look. does this look like grace? not really. is this the ugliest rocky you have ever seen? possibly. do i still think it‘s funny? yes.

[wowwforever]

I hate that ‘bad dream’ just means ‘nightmare’ instead of ‘shitty quality dream.’ I had a bad dream last night. It wasn’t scary it just didn’t make a lot of narrative sense

[shhawwww]

The Number Two!

[c4ndyc41n]

thinking about a previously foul-mouthed grace having to completely overwrite his vocab once he started teaching

[seerya]

Artemis characters vibe check

aka me hitting most of the characters with the Aro and/or Ace Beam(TM):

Jazz Bashara: aromantic bisexual

Martin Svoboda: aromantic asexual

Trond Landvik: asexual (money > sex); I mean he did get married but I feel like that was purely accidental

Fidelis Ngugi: aroace (has no time for this bullshit. Prefers scheming, ily never change you awful and talented woman)

Dale Shapiro: gay (canon)

Bob Lewis: gay (canon)

Rudy DuBois: aroace (law > sex; also has no time for this bullshit)

Loretta Sanchez: asexual but would probably hatefuck Jazz if she had the time for this bullshit

Lene Landvik: actual minor, shut up, let her be rich in peace

Ammar Bashara: on the aro side and the only straight person on the team (but that's okay, we love you nonetheless) but also doesn't have the time because his daughter a) keeps burning down buildings in closed lunar domes which could easily kill everyone and b) occasionally chloroforms whole cities

[seerya]

"The only way through is through forgiveness."

Actually, sometimes it's murder. Wish I had your privilege to be able to afford forgiveness but I'm indebted.

[kaomojiloser]

they never let each other work in peace.

[drowninginmyblues]

I have never felt so betrayed

[seerya]

Fairness is a concept taught to nice children: it is the governing principle of kindergartens and summer camps and playgrounds and soccer fields. Jacob, back when he was able to go to school and learn things and think and speak, knew what fairness was and that it was important, something to be valued. Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities. Right and wrong, however, are for—well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.

Hanya Yanagihara - A little Life

[seerya]

Yeah, that's such a JB thing actually

The funniest part is that Edie found it so hilarious that she instantly went "Girls, come here, you need to hear this!"

[seerya]

Okay, I know Yao and Ilyukhina died so we could have a touching story about Grace and Rocky becoming friends and saving their planets. But consider the comedic potential of "Yao and Ilyukhina are fine but their coma pods were hidden so well that Grace never figured out there were other ppl on the Hail Mary and Rocky could hear them breathing but he never said shit because he thought Grace must have had his reasons to keep them asleep and it was probably too touchy a subject to bring up".

We still get the whole story of Grace meeting Rocky and both of them working together, and it's only when they finally arrive on Erid that Rocky wants to know if they should add extra rooms in Grace's biodome for the other two or if they should get their own biodomes. And Grace is like WHAT?

And then they become roommates.