#*approves*

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i was just thinking about the series again recently, and man, his dark materials is so aesthetic. like, one of the major characters literally forms an army to invade and overthrow heaven. and they pretty much win, to boot. is that not the most beautiful thing you’ve ever heard

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Just As, After a Point, Job Cried Out

By K. A. Hays

The soil froze, cursing the weather. It turned a stoic face to winter’s switchblade and ­brass knuckles

so that when the warm rain came, the soil said, Go on, there's no room for you now. Let the backyards

pool up, and the river pitch to the bridges, dragging the bridges down. Now the billboards will become great

silent rafts so anyone can climb on them and look out, saying, I would have done the same.

When the water covered the tree trunks and crept up, the ground shrugged. See, it said. Now,

weather, do you understand? Soon, there will be no resting place.

[ameasureofpower]

It appears I have gained some followers in my absence. Welcome. I am sure to have good uses for your services.

[d-i-r-k-s-t-r-i-d-e-r]

more songs and poems about cancer 2k16

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the thing where particularly amusing bad things are mocked in multiple places, so that, as you scroll through some or other website dedicated to mockery of the subpar, you encounter something the saga of which you are already familiar with, but this time presented from a different angle, and you think rather smugly to yourself, “i know all about this.”

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Is there anything in particular you liked most about Blindsight—the rational!vampires, the aliens, the theories about consciousness? Have you read the sequel, Echopraxia? (I follow the author's blog, it's a good source of marine biology, hard SF concepts, and occasional Canadian politics.)

i’ve not read echopraxia, yet. i loved the aliens, and the theories about consciousness, and the way the theories were sort of foreshadowed and integrated into the story, and i wasn’t quite able to get a handle on the physical environment it takes place in but that wasn’t unpleasant the way it usually is, and i liked the prose, and the citations, and the worldbuilding was so detailed. the author’s blog is really good. i’ve also read his story the things and it’s amazing.

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Omg Geek out with me about Blindsight. :D Scramblers! Touring Tests! That ending was so confusing, though? Ugh but it's sooooo good! Why haven't more people read it???

Yes! The foreshadowing! The worldbuilding! OMG the worldbuilding. There were citations! The thing with the electromagnetic fields! It’s so cool and Siri is so fun, possibly naming him Siri was not the best choice considering that the iOS thing vastly eclipses blindsight in popularity, but he is just a character I enjoy a lot and he’s competent at social interaction but also built that competence in a sort of cargo-culting way, in that he was more imitating social norms than actually understanding interactions, and I think that’s really cool and interesting, and holy shit the way the thesis got revealed, wow, blew my mind, and the thing with the ai and the vampire, and the characters had backstories, and the way it used, like arc words/repeated phrases, yes