#not even bones

[gen-reads-tournament]

Round 1 Match 31

Pick your favorite gen read:

Time to Orbit: Unknown by Derin Edala

Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters Series) by Rebecca Schaeffer

Remaining time: 4 days 13 hours

Book summaries below:

Time to Orbit: Unknown by Derin Edala

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI.

Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.

science fiction

Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters Series) by Rebecca Schaeffer

Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market — until she’s betrayed. Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet—her mother does that. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” But when her mom brings home a live specimen, Nita decides she wants out — dissecting living people is a step too far. But when she tries to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold on the black market in his place — because Nita herself is a supernatural being. Now Nita is on the other side of the bars, and there is no line she won’t cross to escape and make sure no one can ever capture her again. Nita did a good deed, and it cost her everything. Now she’s going to do a lot of bad deeds to get it all back.

fantasy, horror

Propaganda:

Main character is implied to be aromatic and her partner is implied to be asexual

[aro-ace-culture-is]

Aro ace culture is reading "Not even Bones" on webtoon.

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[froggos-are-superior]

Honestly I think that sometimes the best shows or movies or books are the ones where when it really comes down to it, it's like damn you all actually morally suck. Like yeah I'm invested in this but if all of you died you would probably deserve it

[doublecounter]

!!!!! MOOT gimme WEBTOON RECS

though my all time favs are NOT EVEN BONES and BEASTLY THINGS

[lueddegen]

Sooo I read the Market of Monsters series by Rebecca Schaeffer and have been going insane about it for the past two weeks.

Mainly because I absolutely love the series’ characters, but also because of how grounded the worldbuilding feels inspite of the supernatural elements.

For example, I’ve been thinking about Zannies and their relationship to pain. The more pain they eat, the less pain they feel. The hungrier they are, the stronger they feel pain to the point they begin feeling the pains they last ate in increasing intensity. At the same time their blood contains a strong analgesic that works almost instantly to relieve pain.

Now how would that work on a biochemical level? This for some reason is what my biochemistry loving brain latched onto and I’ve come up with a theory: Since their blood seems to always have the same effect (at least the story doesn’t state otherwise), the analgesic concentration would remain the same regardless of hunger. So maybe Zannies are just as receptive to their own analgesic as others. When they’re well fed they rarely feel pain at all- the analgesic is taking full effect.

But pain is important for monitoring bodily functions and completely inactivating it doesn’t seem sensible, so what if they, alongside the analgesic produce a competitive inhibitor that blocks the analgesic’s effect. The longer they go without eating pain, the longer the inhibitor accumulates, until they reach a pain level that would be assumed normal. 

This also means that the body must be adapted to a base presence of analgesic and tune the pain receptors’ sensitivity accordingly.

Now if the Zannie starves? Inhibitor accumulates further, dropping analgesic activity below the baseline and the pain worsens until every single neuron is firing.

This would also go in accordance with Zannie’s ability to feel the pain of those surrounding them. If they’re hyperreceptive, is the analgesic a way to dampen the external sensations? That would explain why they produce such a substance in the first place.

Soooo maybe I’ve been working in the pharmaceutical area for too long, but I love thinking about this concept and the mechanics. If this theory even makes sense at all. 

Anyways, I’m losing my mind. Help.

[lapileaf]

Oh….

Why was the description so accurate 😭

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[naeiya]

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace books: complete YA trilogies

The Butterfly Assassin - dystopia/thriller, aroace girl MC, aroace and aro bi SCs (book 2/3)

Not Even Bones - paranormal/urban fantasy, MC and not-LI figure out they're aroace in book 3

Little Thieves - high fantasy, demisexual girl MC, demisexual boy LI

Sãoni Cycle - high fantasy, arospec girl MC, acespec boy MC, QPR/polyam

Little Black Bird - urban fantasy, questioning aroacespec MC & SCs

Fourth World - sci-fi, ace girl MC, demisexual boy MC, aro SC

Black Wings Beating - high fantasy, secondary MC is aroace coded (later in series, not extensive)

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