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[yokowan]

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[wizardshark]

FUCK I'M SORRY

[animentality]

[nicolodigenovas]

Teixcalaan Duology: Here is a world. It’s complicated and faceted and beautifully developed in art, politics, and societal values

Me: nice

Teixcalaan Duology: Here is a bunch of characters who are 75% lesbians and politicians and will have you stressed out of your mind reading people talk. Or recite poetry. Not even around a table

Me: Damn, sounds great

Teixcalaan Duology: A bisexual man with too much heart and one too many highly powerful lovers haunts the narrative via futuristic brain surgery, a trope you love. The whole series deals with language, exile, colonisation, memory, and how these things interact with each other

Me: sounds too good to be true, not going to lie

Teixcalaan Duology: are these lesbians doomed because there is no true love under colonial structures?

Me: I sure hope not. Where’s the catch, come on

Teixcalaan Duology: the world and characters are so layered that each book is almost 500 pages but tells the events of not more than a week, leaving you forever begging for more once they’re over

Me: …. That explains the unfunny tumblr posting to cope

Teixcalaan Duology: your favourite character will be called ✨Twenty Cicada✨

[gaysalads]

reading A Memory Called Empire, got to chapter 17 and this was one of my first thoughts

[chainmail-butch]

69 Mpreg is a valid teixcalaanli name

[cronchy-dumbass]

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine p. 85

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine p. 476

[shrike-dyke]

420 blaze would be a valid teixcalaanli name

[nicolodigenovas]

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

[geekynerfherder]

'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.

[forlorngarden]

my recent sci-fi escapades

[butchhorse]

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

[everywaythatmatters]

Rereading A Memory Called Empire and I have arrived at the most relatable line in here. I have thought about this at least once a week for the past several years

[number-one-castiel-apologist]

“Why are you watching it again? You already know what happens.” Because The Character is in there, bro. THE CHARACTER

[beardedmrbean]

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real: Nature.com

I'm a bit frightened for the time when someone less ethical than the person that did this decides to repeat the experiment but leave out the part where they come in later and announce that it was fake and people wind up diagnosed with the fake condition and all kinds of wacky hi jinks ensues.

[youngerfrankenstein]

To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

[maxmorkson]

Happy Pride, bite a transphobe today 💙

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