#yourlordship

[racxnteur]

@yourlordship replied to your post “Events continue to conspire towards making...”:

Prodding you about this!

​shout out to you for being the onLY ONE TO ACTUALLY PROD ME... MVP award. thank you i have now stressed myself into working one up the best i can tbp

[focsle]

Oh gosh, thank you for looking! I actually hadn't heard of Blackwell's before. If you'd earn a lot more through hosting yourself I'm happy to wait (there isn't a particular deadline), but if it's negligible when the effort is considered then I'm happy to buy from there or Waterstones.

Sure thing! I’d say go on ahead and get them through a vendor. I’m hoping to have the shop set up again by sometime in November but my timelines are a little…wobbly haha.

[focsle]

Hello!

I am in the UK and looking to buy a physical copy of Lacrimore, from a recent post it looks like my only option might be amazon, but I think I saw a while ago now that you had some physical copies to hand. If so, I'd much rather you got as much money for your work as possible! Is that the case?

Thank you!

Thanks so much for your interest! The hardcover should be available in international markets outside of just Amazon—I did a cursory look on Waterstones as a UK vendor and it’s available for purchase through them. The paperback and hardcover are also available to buy through Blackwell’s. If there’s a particular indie bookstore you want to support that has an online market, I’d search for it there just to see (or you could also request if a store might carry them in a brick and mortar capacity!).

The only copies I have on hand right now are all hardcovers (I have three). I could also mail one of those to you for $25 USD + whatever s&h ends up being. I’d prefer to set them up in my shop though, so if that’s your interest I can do so, so you could purchase them through gumroad…but it’ll take me a bit of time because I gotta dust off that shop. If you’d prefer a paperback I could do that too, but as I don’t have any copies on hand it’d take some time for me to order them. When they arrive though, I could sell it for $9 USD + whatever s&h is. Do let me know your preference, and if it’s the latter I can reach out once I have the stock.

[racxnteur]

@yourlordship replied to your post “tagged by @two-of-swords-621 to post the last sentence/paragraph of...”

Holy crap that's a good couple lines

thank you! c: i’m seeing how far i can get on this chapter today since i’m like, a month behind on posting due to finals. 

[dramandafaith]

Super charming and funny. @natefillion #dragoncon2017 #yourlordship

[adhdronanlynch-archived]

replies to family death stuff under the cut

i love you and i hope you're okay <3

thank you love i love you too and appreciate your thoughts as always <3 

@yourlordship a réagi à votre billet “[[MOR] update: my grandpa probably won’t last more than a couple...”

<3 <3 <3

back atchu friend <3

@deniigisukarnoart a réagi à votre billet “[[MOR] update: my grandpa probably won’t last more than a couple...”

I'm sorry to hear this I recently lost a family member of my own so if you need an understanding ear im here

thank you i appreciate the kindness and im sorry for your loss as well, thats never easy

@mamzellecombeferre a réagi à votre billet “[[MOR] update: my grandpa probably won’t last more than a couple...”

I'm so sorry Chain. :(

thank you hun i love you <3

@xxxtenchittaphon a réagi à votre billet “[[MOR] update: my grandpa probably won’t last more than a couple...”

I'm really sorry. You're in my thoughts ):

i appreciate that a lot thank you 

[thecitysmith]

yourlordship replied to your post “yourlordship answered your question “I love Wolf 359 so much but I...”

I can imagine that being able to create cities could have some horrific implications? Like you say, just create a new one! But I can't imagine cities would take kindly to that kind of thing -but also, does that mean each ship has the city creation trifecta? What about when there's a new brain but no new body as it were? Do they do it again (do mutated plants count as a person?) and! would the space cities manifest a human body as well, or does the station erase the need?

Well Planned Cities are already kind of a thing, so Station!Cities are kind of the next step in that? Like maybe the first couple occurred naturally (yep all kinds of Cities need the trifecta of death, but it’s a little different for each. Traditional Cities need willing deaths+nature, Planned Cities need City deaths+nature, Station!Cities...death and something to do with stars? Death from workers to bind them closer to the companies?? Death of those who physically built them?) anyway the first station!Cities turn up and it’s cool and they’re really good at their jobs and people are pleased n its cute, astronauts as a family! 

but then a bunch of companies were like ‘this is a good idea. a City we can put a barcode on!’ and because they’re so out of the way– in space, barely any contact with earth, millions of miles away from each other– who’s going to know?? I bet not many Cities actually know they’re there, or are treated the way they are, until you get a couple like Maxwell who are travelling for their own reasons and find out The Truth and blow the whole conspiracy wide open & it causes a shitstorm back on Earth.

As for the body thing. Well Cities as a concept are always evolving, so I don’t think they’d have human bodies, seeing as their ‘station’ bodies are so important & tied up with who they are and how they survive (Paris loses a wall, eh, annoying, he lives. A station loses a wall all the oxygen leaves and everyone dies horrifically) also Hera has obvious issues about how she *wants* to have a body/be more human (remember Memoria’s opening? Remember all of Memoria? I do. *weeps*) so I think it’s important to keep that. Their brains probably count as their...baby bodies. Not-Yet-City-Stations?

You know, overall, I think Station!Cities are probably much more vulnerable and easy to kill than traditional Cities, like it’s all about the physical forms. Fire? You die. Meteor? You die. Slight tear in the hull that rips open? You die. Your body just naturally breaking down over age without repairs? You die. And while they can travel as far as they like, it’s really difficult to remove their “”brain”” from their station without killing them ala the Long Walk (see: Hera being stuck in the Hephaestus station which is in fact Rhea’s body which is Not Okay or Normal. And also Lovelace being like ‘we can’t take her with us’ while trying to escape which. Oh God Why)

[thecitysmith]

yourlordship answered your question “I love Wolf 359 so much but I basically can’t write anything for it...”

I have like. nothing to say city-wise but YES IT'S SO GOOD (actually, implications of the brain messing wrt the station or visevera?)

yeah I wonder if station-Cities aren’t so much more vulnerable because with them, it’s more than metaphor. I mean a traditional City can be like ‘the streets are my heart and lungs and brain’ but a station is like ‘that exact part of me genuinely functions as a brain and this is the air supply and this is my skin which is actually pretty thin when you think about how it’s the only thing keeping out the swirling frozen oblivion of space’

ALSO. The Rhea/Hera thing. Like, Rhea is dead isn’t she? Even though that’s kind of horrible to think about, here’s something worse: Hera isn’t a New!Rhea. She wasn’t naturally born into the station as the next humanisation. She’s a completely new person who had her own life on earth before then, and then was boxed and sent up to be pasted over the hole that Rhea left, taking over what amounts to Rhea’s corpse. 

(though interesting implications. That means that humans on earth have basically streamlined the process of creating Planned Cities in the form of stations– because what could better control such a complicated system while having natural empathy for its inhabitants. Think about it, a smart space station that wants to help humans? Who needs AIs? – and also that humans are still nasty enough to consider said station-cities interchangeable. One dies? Send up a new consciousness! Who cares about how it’ll deal with taking over another’s body! This one old or defunct? Scrap it and use its parts! Though that might just be Mr. Cutter...)