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#i love making connections!!!!!!#se(ra)phic #the locked tomb #teixcalaan #a memory called empire #this is how you lose the time war

'A Memory Called Empire' by Victo Ngai.

Cover art for the Subterranean Press edition of the novel, 'A Memory Called Empire', book 1 of the 'Teixcalaan' series, written by Arkady Martine, published in 2021.

#Art Of The Day #Art #AOTD #Victo Ngai #A Memory Called Empire #Arkady Martine #Teixcalaan #Subterranean Press #Books #Book Cover #Book Cover Art #Cover Art

*taps mic* i would like to humbly request a teixcalaan short story spinoff about an aspiring teenage teixcalaanli singer named one direction

#i'm sure someone has made this joke before but i am new here and only like 60% through a memory called empire. please humour me<3 #teixcalaan #a memory called empire #also extremely amused that this is a perfectly plausible ship name for one lightning/six direction if that's something you chose to do

You start A Memory Called Empire and think ‘Damn, Yksander was too interesting and hot and bisexual, they had to kill him’, and you end the book knowing Yksander was too interesting and hot and bisexual, they had to kill him. Too bad we don’t get to see how the most powerful and politically shrewd throuple in all of Teixcalaan was when Yksander was still alive

#teixcalaan #a memory called empire #me: lyde reads books people: oh fuck not again

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine p. 85

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine p. 476

#I have been found dead on the floor of the library #everybody go read the teixcalaan duology NOW #a memory called empire #a desolation called peace #arkady martine #mahit dzmare #yskandr aghavn #teixcalaan #these books ruined me

If I had a nickel for every time I found a space opera with a masculine female lead, a lesbian romance, and motifs/character experiences so uncannily similar to DID that I need to sit the author down and ask some fucking questions, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

#i just finish a memory called empire and holy crap the entire final act just felt like pure DID experiences #the switching the internal communication the consulting alters to make decisions the phyaical memories kicking in passive influence everyth #a memory called empire #teixcalaan #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #tlt #mahit dzmare #gideon nav #dissociative identity disorder #did #tamsyn muir #arkady martine

just finished a desolation called peace and I can't stop thinking about empire. it's not about upholding the empire, it's not about tearing it down. the empire simply...lives. amnardbat and tarats are threats to Mahit, but they're not wrong. it's a vast, colonizing force that seems almost incapable of seeing anything or one other as a person; it is a direct threat to Lsel, even with their tenuous peace--to everyone outside the empire. they're not wrong to be hostile, though Mahit herself doesn't deserve it. and at the same time we see, again and again, the empire is made of people. writing poetry, sharing nicknames, getting drunk. twenty cicada gave himself to an alien hive mind for a chance--a chance at peace. nine hibiscus fired on her own legion to save that peace. eight antidote, 11 years old, used every resource he had and experienced dozens of deaths to defy the emperor and stop a genocide because he was the only one who could. but that doesn't absolve the empire, nor does it try to. it's simply a coexisting truth. and in the end, the empire still exists. not because the narrative believes in it, but because it simply does. the empire will continue to write poetry, and it will continue to devour. mahit, as an outsider, both loves the empire to the point it's painful and resents it, and there's reason for both! this story is not about blind faith and perpetuity, and it's not about revolution either. and i just find it so captivating

#teixcalaan #a memory called empire #a desolation called peace #i don't know if this makes sense at ALL i'm fresh out the novel #i just keep coming back to tarats wanting an immovable force on which to break an empire against #this is so hard to word i'm struggling so bad forgive me #because i read that and was like. that's the same rhetoric you see in revolutionary stories #but this isn't a revolution. but it's also not trying to save the empire #it's a brutal empire. the story doesn't hide that. and it's also not a revolution #i still feel like i haven't captured what i'm trying to get at but fuck it #maybe i'll figure out what i'm trying to say with a day to think on it

69 Mpreg is a valid teixcalaanli name

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