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[babanasaur]

djano gift

Little Bday gift from a bit ago for Djano!

[charlytenista]

Laver Cup, 2025 | Clive Brunskill

[hyperlightsniffer]

On Neuromancer

Something I'm not seeing as I look up old reddit threads on Neuromancer is that the book is about becoming a person, like a real, fully actualized person. A lot of posts explain the literal facts of the end, which is fine. It's emotional. It's good. But the thing I loved was the journey that Case and all the other characters go through.

Case starts out a petty thief, with his ability to hack, his identity, stripped away from him, and he's lost. He does the job out of curiosity, because he can hack again, even under threat of death. He doesn't know what the fuck is going on, but he's right in the fuckin' slot. He's back at it, peering through another's eyes, or stalking through networks. He's just responding to what's happening, getting to the next point and the next. Then, as it all builds up, as Case is right at the end, he flatlines during a hack. He wakes up on a beach. His ex is there. Guilt ridden and still holding on to whatever kind of love they had, he looks around and has to make a choice. He can stay here with her and live a life in peace that he never could've had, or he can choose to struggle, but he has to make the choice. He can't just react.

Later, back in reality, peering through Molly's eye, he sees himself and, for a moment, he doesn't recognize himself. At the end, he's not hacking for money or anything else anymore. He's doing it because he wants to. He needs to know what's happening. He's pissed off about not knowing, he hates Armitage, and he hates the TA family, and he hates Wintermute, and most of all he hates that he's been pushed and pulled in every other -fucking- direction but his own, and now it's his turn. He navigates the neural net of the Tessier Ashpool estate and binds the AI, just to see what the fuck will happen. And in that moment, he finally gets it. He knows how he ended up where he is. He knows why his ex died. He knows why he could never catch a goddamn break. He wasn't truly alive.

[apollofart]

Thinking about them. a. Normal amount.

[saintmusemp3]

<3

[astral-icecream]

hello there! You can call me Astral or Aree (are-e), but astral is most recent and common! ( @literallyidontwannadothis thought of it theyre cool like that and also we’re besties)

Ao3

I do art and write fic sometimes!

Recent fandoms: Tma, fight club, mission impossible, stranger things, iron lung, project Hail Mary, probably more ahhdodnjdncnwjf

Pfp and banner by me :)

[panydas]

[bigtreefest]

Work update: Tomorrow will be my first drug synthesis observation!!! They’re making Copper64!! I know you probs don’t know what that means, and neither do I, but we’ll find out together!! Call time is 5am😬🤭🫣