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Also the whole idea behind Trump Derangement Syndrome. Unsurprisingly, those fuckers can’t even be original in their awfulness.

Ancilliary is not 2019 though, and I don’t know if it’s lesbian enough. The rest of it fits though, I have to admit.

Gideon the Ninth. Very different, very fun.

I didn’t like Ancillary Justice that much. I loved some of the themes and how the world works, but narratively it felt like it was always pushing too hard to be dramatic. I think I’ll finish the rest of the series at some point, but it’s not quite for me.

I sort of do. It’s half mangled version of the name, half an abstract identifier of the character, and there’s a bit of “shape” of the name as a whole too, I suppose. But when I want to say the name aloud, I realise it’s pretty far from what the actual name sounds like.

We were actually talking about A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. Can’t recommend it enough. It’s narrowly my favourite lesbian science fiction debut novel-turned-series about a galactic empire of 2019.

I often start talking about a book I’m reading only to realise I have zero idea how to pronouce the names of half of the characters.

My sister recently blew my mind when she straight up pronounced “the Teixcalaanli Empire”, presumably correctly and without any hesitation. I haven’t heard it out loud before then. Hell, I didn’t even know it was possible to pronounce it in the first place.

Macabre moment

This is a plot point in one of the Witcher short stories.

Especially Ayn Rand.

And “they” means the characters, not the writer.

We spread no extents!

Yeah, it kinda ruined the Borg for me. I get that having a faceless decentralised collective as an antagonist is a challenge to write, but giving them a face is the laziest possible way to get out of it.

Fuck yeah, Velvet Revolution!

No work for me tomorrow either.

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Are you saying the cretaceous was an inside job?

So I said, blue M&M, red M&M, they all wind up the same colour in the end.

- Homer Simpson

A festival or the festival?

Wait, you don’t know about The Festival? The one with all the girls? Wow, you’re missing out!

Just look in any mirror. What you see is also you in the past.

“Father, I want to kill you…”