Books (General)

[long sorrel]

I will give it a go

[alpine drum]

The thing about nambla seemingly being treated as equivilent to those other groups is pretty gross

[zinc flicker]

Noooo should I?

[long sorrel]

Yeees

It doesn't have smut but I think you'll like the romance in it. And I think you'll certainly like the fmc

and the mmc

I have a picture of the mmc hold on

[ripe tide]

Emily Wilde is great

[long sorrel]

Minor spoilers Emily Wilde.

[versed agate]

||oh, I didn't know the bee movie was based on a book||

[long sorrel]

Actual art, by Kudriaken 👀

[long sorrel]

I had sent this in #books-archive and it took me a while to find it in between all the, not cruel prince art and not kingfisher covers that I've spammed over the months

[alpine drum]

... til that Emily Wilde wasnt a contemporary to the Bronte Sisters or Jane Austen

I guess i was mixing it up with Oscar Wilde and Emily Dickenson or something

[long sorrel]

the first book is from 2023

and I think the author, Heather Fawcett, started publishing about a decade ago

She has a new book coming out in 2026 that seems to be also adult 👀

Seems cozy fantasy

[royal carbon]

My brother got me into the Ring of Fire series, just annoyed that the library doesn't have many of them on Libby.

[zinc flicker]

Ooooh I like the vibe

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns 88 ||If I had a dollar for every time characters in this book got brain damage, I'd have 3 dollars, which isn't a lot but my guys, maybe it's time to start wearing helmets?||

[long sorrel]

I got Half a Soul

[ivory cypress]

oooooh

[long sorrel]

I am curious! Reading other stuff first though

[minor sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/you-may-have-a-concussion-hit-head-hurt-be-careful-youre-concussed-gif-15594057

Every character in that novel

[deft stream]

I love what I have read of that book

[jagged lake]

I finished The Nameless Land and [end] ||that pivot right at the end was brutal. I'm really hoping the "duology" is just part 1 of a series rather than this book being the final word in this setting. This ending feels good as the end of this particular two-book arc, but, especially with that abrupt bait-and-switch, it really feels like there's a bigger story that was just finding its feet in these books.||

[long sorrel]

hmmmm

delicious Nameless Land reactions (since Grey is putting it off til later) 👀

[ivory cypress]

not on purpose 😭

the urge to click was so powerful but I know I mustn't

[long sorrel]

[big spoilers for Nameless Land, do not click, Grey] ||I think the last 3rd of the book, or even 25% of the book had me ANXIOUS on the edge of my chair because wtf wtf wtf. I had sort of jokingly mentally thought the solution for the Haunt and THEN IT WAS THAT. And I was so worried the ending was gonna be some bittersweet thing damn||

And yes I'd love more stories in this world I love the world

I mean, it has spore based setting that's enough but it's just so good!

[ivory cypress]

I'll start soon I prommy

[long sorrel]

spooores

delayed gratification is great too

[ivory cypress]

LOVE spores

well the longer I wait, the more I forget of Witch Roads

[long sorrel]

right it's been nearly a year for you

I was going to say "no way to forget that ending!" but I did read it consecutively lol

[ivory cypress]

I DEFINITELY don't forget the ending

the stuff that starts to go first is place names and character names

Tertiary characters, and then secondary characters...

which is separate from the names of these people

I don't even remember main character names

but I know who the people ARE

[long sorrel]

I never learnt ||the haunt's name||

like you put it in front of me and I'm like YEAH THAT ONE but god forbid i spell that out

[ivory cypress]

ha

I think I know ||Kem (is that right?) I THINK the lead is an El of some kind, the dragon haunt, then it's the prince, the prince's soldiers, and I know I've lost the distinctness between them that I need...||

[long sorrel]

yeah

||Prince's name I also can't spell and that one is said A LOT 😩 ||

[snow vessel]

Ok it looks like I won't be getting a copy of ADoW until ~December 1st

So I'll probably settle into an actual book next. I've got a few options but I'm not sure which I'll go with

[long sorrel]

what's AdoW?

[ripe tide]

Rip

[ripe tide]

A discovery of witches.

I gave into the temptation and am reading my new hardcover copy

[long sorrel]

aaah

[long sorrel]

options? 👀

[ripe tide]

And I put the audio for the other two on hold even if I have a million other books on hold too

[snow vessel]

Mmm I'm looking at Vicious, House of Leaves, the new Hunger Games, maybe Crime and punishment... or a reread

I'm really wanting to read malazan #6 but I don't have that on hand like I do the others

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns 93 ||Shen Qiao: "What if Hulugu's still alive?" Yan Wushi: "Eh, unlikely"||
||Hate to break it to you, but you are in a novel, in Shen Qiao brought this up as an option, then it means Hulugu is 100% alive and currently rapidly approaching your location for the sole purpose of kicking your ass||

[proper silo]

my vote's on House of Leaves

[long sorrel]

How are you liking Swordcrossed? (Just so I can add more Freya Marske to your tbr 😇 )

[proper silo]

(also, I had to read Crime and Punishment for school and I do not know why one would do so willingly )

[snow vessel]

I'm enjoying it for sure!

[minor sleet]

Aw cmon it’s not his fault he doesn’t know genre conventions. And if he did know them, Yan Wushi wouldn’t care

[proper silo]

i feel like he's smart enough to know genre conventions

[snow vessel]

I think right now what I want to read is like... either something light (I do have a vampire romance I could read) or something challenging/big by way of the structure or writing moreso than the book itself

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns ||but yeah, one of them is 100% fighting hulugu before the book is done, I'm just not sure who will be fighting||

[snow vessel]

I want to stay away from wotm-style super hyped big books

[proper silo]

i was gonna say, none of those books you've listed seem light 😅

[snow vessel]

-# unless it's bonehunters which I might read next...

Yeah light is maybe the wrong word

[long sorrel]

I vote Vicious ofc

[minor sleet]

||Give. The man a break, he just got over being concussed so hard he had manners ||

[snow vessel]

I want something i can go into without feeling the... weight of how crazy and good the book supposedly is

[long sorrel]

but I'm sure it'll be a last minute decision

the no pressure

[snow vessel]

I don't want to be going in with this expectation of life changing peak fiction

[proper silo]

well, my House of Leaves suggestion seems rather wrong here considering it is one of the most famous novels ever 😅

[snow vessel]

Oh HoL is fine

At least so far as I know I've seen it mainly being talked about for the format tricks

That's not really what I'm worried about

It's more I just don't want the "oh when is this going to get good, am I enjoying this enough/right" sort of experience I sometimes have right now

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns ||true, bro got like the triple brain damage of magic concussion, being outed from power, and realizing he's in ~looove~||

||which, by the way, there is a phrase in Polish, "horse flirting", and I'm pretty sure that's exactly what Yan Wushi is doing to Shen Qiao right now Unfortunately for him, I don't think Shen Qiao's gonna catch on any time soon, given Yan Wushi's normal behavior already looks like horse flirting||

||I KNEW messing around with Shen Qiao early on was gonna backfire on him||

[minor sleet]

Serves him right

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[deft stream]

Last chance to vote

[snow vessel]

Ok this is none of the options I mentioned but I think I might start this lighter vampire romance novel I've had for a while, and then try to get my hands on Bonehunters

[proper silo]

out of curiosity, which vampire romance?

[snow vessel]

"My Roommate Is a Vampire" by Jenna Levine

[proper silo]

huh, i never heard of that one before

opening the description and I'm hit in the face with "True love is at stake"

[snow vessel]

Exactly

It seems fun

[long sorrel]

lol

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns 95 (+ language) ||Yan Wushi before and after falling in love with the guy he'd picked up for the explicit purpose of tormenting for the funsies:||

[spring turtle]

I'm reading through the Misewa Saga and I never realized that (The Great Bear) ||of course when the portal fantasy involves time dilation you can get a full night's sleep in like 10 minutes||

Very handy

[void notch]

I'm reading Lord of Mysteries.

[jagged lake]

The main reasons I feel like there needs to be a sequel are (some speculation) [Nameless Land megaspoilers] ||(1) We're still playing coy with Ellen's nature. (2) I really think there actually is a sorcerer and the Pall is a red herring for the haunt's mission. (3) What's up with Ipis?! (4) Desolation map! (5) Why establish another Warden by name right at the end with little payoff? Sure, there's nothing wrong with leaving some mysteries to the reader, but this goes beyond that.||

[proven token]

American Elsewhere 18 ||I love how the eldritch horrors beyond the ken of mortal man are themselves being preyed on by a separate eldritch horror beyond the ken of mortal man and the first group of eldritch horrors
The book somehow manages to work in a serial killer picking people off one by one as a villain targeting the people who we assumed were the antagonists in addition to the very Annihilation coded setting and mysteries and it totally works, great horror novel||

Once I finish I'm gonna make the billboard from the first chapter and hang it in my room

[long sorrel]

Said by an elf queen in my current book: “You may call me Argent, if you like.”

[long sorrel]

Yes yes yes ||We only resolve 2 threads: who was betraying the prince and how, and how to get the haunt. Everything else is soooo open 👀 ||

[torpid kiln]

I can ask for book recommendations in here right?

[wraith lynx]

You can! What are you looking for?

prepares my arguemenr for eragon regardless of the answer

[somber timber]

Reset the clock from 0 days since you’ve mentioned it back to 0 days

[wraith lynx]

Yes! I need to get my numbers up 😔

[snow vessel]

What sort of book are you looking for?

[untold leaf]

Ever heard of fantasy author Brandon Sanderson?

[somber timber]

The guy who wrote game of thrones? I love that show

[merry galleon]

twilight is good

[merry galleon]

I really need to start reading lol

I can't get myself to start!

[winter fern]

Lord of the Rings ||is Gandalf the White supposed to be in some sense a different being/person than Gandalf the Grey? Or was his acting puzzled after hearing his name again just him being enigmatic for the sake of drama||?

[analog geode]

||Too much of the halflings’ leaf||

[snow vessel]

Swordcrossed 33% ||Ooh, we've uncovered some plotting||

[long sorrel]

Okay, Half a Soul next

Yes, I think i will like the character work after all.
1 ||“Apologize for what?” Dora murmured absently. “For impacting your chances with my cousin, or for acting the bore?” Sir Albus’ eyes widened in shocked fury. Oh, Dora thought with a sigh. That was not the sort of thing that normal, frightened women say, I suppose.||

[deft stream]

She is so autistic coded (confirmed by the author)

[jagged lake]

Lord of the Rings ||Yesn't? It's the same animating spirit but a new incarnation. He's basically trying to remember a past life. Notionally he's an ineffable being that has been shoved into a corporeal form. What would those corporeal experiences mean to his incorporeal self? When he's reincarnated, he kind of needs to reintegrate what his prior incarnation knew within the framework that being incarnated gives him to understand it, which he temporarily lost. It's a bit like picking up a book where you left off after putting it down for a while, or perhaps more like picking up a TTRPG campaign after an extended hiatus.||

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns 104 ||Obviously Hulugu is still alive 😌 ||

||tho ngl, at this point I think I've lost track of who's working with who among the sects 🤔 Like, are Hehuan working with the Gokturks (and Hulugu), or are they just taking advantage of Hulugu sweeping in???||

||Dunno, the political plotting in this book is leaving me a little confused||

[minor sleet]

You should read Peerless after this book

It shares a setting and is a decade or two later

[proper silo]

oh, i definitely will

[minor sleet]

It won’t clarify any of those questions but it’s very good

It’s jerk4jerk too, no more Shen Qiao the untouchable saint who lets everything roll off his back

[proper silo]

ooo 👀

Thousand Autumns 104 ||Lowkey, looking at the way this story arc has progressed, it's really funny how it's a perpetual stream of people interrupting the people who are interrupting the conference. Like first, surprise, Gu Hengbo is at the conference! Surprise, Hehuan are the conference! Surprise, Huanyue are at the conference! Surprise, Hulugu's at the conference!||

||If Yan Wushi doesn't show within the next few chapters I'll eat a shoe||

[proven token]

If you like hard magic systems, Foundryside. Soft magic systems, The Tainted Cup. If you like space operas (Books in the same vein as Dune), my go-tos are A Memory Called Empire and Leviathan Wakes. If you want sci-fi with lower stakes and cozier moments, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is for you.

[ripe tide]

What kind of recs are you looking for?

[somber timber]

Nods in RJB

[proven token]

I mean, I am currently binge-reading everything he wrote while I wait for Shadow of the Leviathan 3

[somber timber]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-evil-headnod-jack-nicholson-gif-8019533

[long sorrel]

One day

I will finish divine cities

But today, I'm reading Half A Soul

I should start closing up all the books I've midway tho

[proven token]

I actually never read the sequels to City of Stairs because I didn't know it was a trilogy 💀

[long sorrel]

Starting by Flight of Magpies, followed by Raven Scholar

[long sorrel]

Oh... I didn't love book 2. It's a good book, just something about it didn't click with me

[somber timber]

I did though

[long sorrel]

And so I think I'll like book 3 more but i keep pushing it in favour of other books

[proven token]

Honestly, I'm glad that I didn't invest super heavily in Divine Cities when I read City of Stairs, Founders trilogy resonated way more with me

[long sorrel]

So far Ana and Din are my favourite books no question, from RJB

I've not read any standalone though

[proven token]

Valid

I guess I'm just a sucker for hard magic systems and [Foundryside minor] ||lesbian women in STEM||

The standalones are not as good as the series, although American Elsewhere might be an exception to that rule

[long sorrel]

Maybe I'll cycle back to them some day

[proven token]

Genuinely some of the best horror I've read

[long sorrel]

Uh oh

[versed agate]

TBF, it didn't start as one

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns 105 ||Ah, and there's Yan Wushi 😌 My footwear is safe from eating||

||I kinda wanna someone else to rush into the scene next just to continue the running gag, but I feel like we've ran out of impressive enough characters||

[proper silo]

108 ||"In the end, Yan Wushi had brought this misfortune upon himself." I love that even the author is making fun of Yan Wushi for fumbling Shen Qiao ||

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns 120 ||...you know, I feel like this plot twist with who the "real" villain on the mountain is would work better if this guy had been mentioned more than once before this current arc🤔||

[idle trellis]

Leviathan Wakes chapter 20
|| So far the book is really good, super intriguing but I'm still waiting for that moment that completely locks me in
I really like how the two povs stories interact with one another in very indirect ways, what Holden does in his chapters has repercussions in Millers||

[ivory cypress]

some of T Kingfisher's older stuff i've only been able to find on Kindle, alas, but it did lead to this

this is...... so funny

[long sorrel]

I think kindle might think you might perhaps like Kingfisher, it's just a hunch though

[ivory cypress]

i've been given a list of older queer science fiction and with older books it's extremely hit or miss where it's even available 😩 but anyway, got Mission Child by Maureen McHugh on its way, and an ebook of Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany is alos next on the list

[snow vessel]

Swordcrossed 9 ||God these two are disasters||

[long sorrel]

9!?

[snow vessel]

9?

[minor sleet]

Kingfisher and Tor seem to be gleefully rereleasing her backcatalog

You might get the remaining ones more easily inthe future

[long sorrel]

last time you commented you said a later chapter

oh, you said a %, am dumb

[snow vessel]

Yup

[ivory cypress]

her back catalog is ENORMOUS, i'm not necessarily holding my breath as i chase em down

[minor sleet]

@proper silo did you know there’s a cartoon adapting thousand autumns up to the part where Yan Wushi gets his concussion

https://www.tumblr.com/godofthestupid/800381397015625728/have-started-watching-thousand-autumns-yan-wushi

God am I stupid

have started watching Thousand Autumns, Yan Wushi is really just aura farming every other scene

But also,frenchkisses for the environment artist(s) and cameraman,some scenes look like intricate paintings

-# #I will in fact do art studies on this series #thousand autumns #danmei #godoframbles #cdrama

Tumblr · Nov 16, 2025, 2:26 PM

[vital ibex]

Assassins Apprentice ch12 ||So Regal is the bastard of the 2nd Queen and Galen right?||

[proper silo]

I have seen screenshots of it; not sure if I'm interested in watching, though, when it's incomplete

[long sorrel]

Im enjoying the characters of Half A Soul as much as I expected

Ch 8 ||Howeveeeeer, I don't believe Elias to be wholly human hmm||

[ivory cypress]

you really really like them?

[long sorrel]

The fmc is absolute ||i think she would be this blunt and forward even if she had her soul tbh||

||Elias is a bit more cliche but still very enjoyable||

||Albert seems pretty normal but he's fun and nice||

8 ||I was about to say Elias would be perfect with a hint of mischief and he just sent her flowers which i do think are a hint of mischief given the situation ||

||Dora realising Vanessa is kind of gross in the way shes so selfish and uncaring is being delightful||

[junior dew]

Do you want a yes/no answer?

[long sorrel]

Half A Soul 11 ||I think Dora must have found an ally in Lady Carroway 👀 ||

[deft stream]

I should re start half a soul

[long sorrel]

Half a Soul 16 ||okay, i was right about Elias, but also, Dora 1 is now with Dora 2 stuck in Faerie... lol||

[long sorrel]

18 ||This fae ball is utterly ridiculous ||

[long sorrel]

And done

||So I suppose they actually went back to Faerie, but idk about the rumours of her being whole again 🤔 ||

[analog geode]

@minor sleet New Honor Harrington short stories are out!

[proper silo]

Oh gods, that series is still going?

I remember reading that when I was 14 and there were already like 12 books out

[analog geode]

Always more!

[vital ibex]

No thank you

[snow vessel]

SC 9 ||I hope mattie gets to crash out by the end of this||

[minor sleet]

Oooooohhhhh

Treekitty time!!!!

[long sorrel]

I'm guessing this might be answered in future books

@zinc flicker that's another recc for you. Half A Soul.

[zinc flicker]

ooh thanks I'll add to my list

[ivory cypress]

yeah that's one of the two Olivia Atwater books I mentioned for you

[long sorrel]

Oh whoops, that is where I got her from

I blanked out on that

[junior dew]

Children of Time series is getting a fourth book next year 👀

I swear Tchaikovsky is giving Brandon a run for his money in prolific-ness

[long sorrel]

I am pretty sure he is "technically" more prolific than Sanderson

I think the only thing Sanderson has on other authors is that SA books are massive

[junior dew]

Yeah the amount of books Tchaikovsky has been announcing is kinda wild

Curious to see how that new Children of Time book goes. Books 1 and 2 were goated imo and then book 3 was interesting but definitely weaker

[long sorrel]

Children of Time is one of the 11 books I have at chapter 5 right now 😩

I think I'll try to finish one of those 11 tonight

[light drum]

Omg

[low hill]

Whereas I think each Of Time book has been better than the previous one, so I have high hopes.

[junior dew]

Ruin was my favorite personally so far

Very hyped for a fourth entry though

Children of Strife is the name

[mild lance]

https://locusmag.com/2025/11/jemisin-named-sfwa-grand-master/

[sleek jungle]

I dnfed the second one. It was one of the few times when I actually got bored with the book that initially excited me

[brazen pilot]

Cool! Love to see such a skilled author continue to get recognition

so uh what actualy is this award

[junior dew]

Wild!

[junior dew]

This is the opportunity where I take the time to say to anyone who hasn’t read her Broken Earth trilogy, please do yourself that favor. The Fifth Season is such an unbelievably good book. Execution is incredible. Cannot recommend it enough. One of the absolute best

[long sorrel]

another I have at ch5

[grim veldt]

Such a powerful book

Loved the series so much

[somber timber]

@wraith lynx

[wraith lynx]

Im working on it! 🤣

[mild lance]

I read her Dreamblood Duology this year and loved it

Book 2, The Shadowed Sun, was amazing

[white pond]

Friends and Comrades of the jury. I have an audible credit, and I don't know what to use it on. Do I use it on:

• My stormlight reread (So, Rhythm of War)
• DCC 8 (preorder, can probably wait)
• Brigands and Breadknives/Rereading Legends and Lattes with the audiobook
• Demon in White

or any other book like tainted cup/will of the many/whatever that i haven't read

i need recommendations

[long sorrel]

What kinda thing do you feel like?

like vibes/themes/genre?

I will always say Tainted Cup but maybe you're in the mood for something else

[proven token]

I wouldn't use it for a reread.

[white pond]

I'm honestly on like, a reading dry streak because of college

I don't actually know what Tainted Cup is in terms of vibes

[ivory cypress]

I would say tainted cup

[proven token]

Holmes & Watson but fantasy, more gay, and slight body horror.

[ivory cypress]

biological technology fantasy world with kaiju behind a distant sea wall and it's a murder mystery

[long sorrel]

right, it's a biopunk fantasy with investigator and assistant duo mystery, starting by them needing to solve a murder

[white pond]

"Holmes & Watson, more gay" they're gonna be EVEN MORE GAY?

Woaw.

[ivory cypress]

they are not gay together

I wouldn't lead with it

[white pond]

😔

[long sorrel]

Not that kinda gay, the mc (which is the assistant to the investigator) is bisexual

[white pond]

ahh

yeah that makes sense

[ivory cypress]

the Watson expy is the lead and the pov, the Holmes is a cranky crass older woman

[white pond]

Absolute gold.

[long sorrel]

they're both pleasantly hypercompetent too and the biopunk/slight body horror is superb

[white pond]

I did really really enjoy Legends and Lattes, some of the few books I've managed to fit into college time. 😅

[white pond]

👀 I do love Biopunk.

[long sorrel]

Also, I think Tainted Cup has like perfect pacing

And I'm not one to generally mind pacing or even prefer faster or slower (each book requires its own thing), but I don't generally think it's "perfect"

[white pond]

I have been recommended tainted cup soooo much. I've been also recommended WotM and Demon in White a lot, even if.. I don't know if I want to complete Suneater after that book 2 hellfest.

[wraith lynx]

manifests at the mention of WoTM

[long sorrel]

I don't know Demon in White, and from WotM, honestly if you're currently busy with uni, I feel Tainted Cup is like... an easier swallow?

[wraith lynx]

Yes :3

[long sorrel]

Not that book is easier but I think I'd find it easier to read if I was very busy, than WotM

[ivory cypress]

oh?? I dnfed book 2 early, I didn't get to a part I would call hellfest 👀

[white pond]

Very specific mid-ish part of book 2 (iirc, it's been like months) for suneater ||The pacing is hellishly slow to me, and also, there was a lot of very weird anti-transhumanism rhetoric using a lot of charged language which can also be seen as weird transphobia rhetoric, which isn't a dig on the author, but I felt uncomfortable listening to it. The ending is good, but does not warrant the whole thing. ||

[ivory cypress]

huhhhh

[white pond]

It's like, just, weird.

I was at work listening like 😅 😓 😰

[long sorrel]

Frick, I've been saying I'd not get Folk of the Air unless it was some special edition

and then i open my book store (don't ask why I do that to myself)

73€

[snow vessel]

What're the individual covers like?

[long sorrel]

Interally screaming rn

dunno, I was just staring and i came here screaming before daring clicking on it

It doesn't show, which is rather odd

comes out december 1st

My bday is dec 16th...

Surely I can gift this to myself...

GAH I can't find the covers anywhere

If I look the individual book I do find this

but that looks like a different edition all together?

confused noises

It does say this releases on December 1st too?

[wraith lynx]

That one is gorgeous omg

Her knife to his throat

[long sorrel]

idk if it's these covers or not

I'll take any fancy things that's not the og covers tbh

Well I've gone to the publisher site and it does seem to be that 🤔

It includes all short stories too which i only read one and didn't like it lol

end... the cover for Wicked King...

And the cover for Queen of Nothing... I... think imma spoil this...? It's probably not a spoiler until I said I'm going to spoil it but I'm going to spoil it

Queen of Nothing ALL ||Best picture of the 2 together ||

[snow vessel]

WOAH

[long sorrel]

the art is gorgeous for all of them

uuuuh, what to do, it's limited edition til it runs out, do I preorder? I hate preordering

[vital ibex]

Assassins Apprentice ch16 ||Im a little confused why Fitz is so depressed after the Galen incident, is it something Galen has done using the skill, emptiness that potentially comes after the bliss of the skill if you let it take over or due to the cult like manipulation Galen has been doing to these kids? (Or a mixture)||

||Also I guess Galen is too young to be Regal's dad? I cant remember exactly how it is but something like Regal is around 10 years older than Fitz and Galen is 2 years older than Chivalry who was around 10 years older than Regal?||

[vital ibex]

||I expect after this event btw, that Forging has something to do with the skill||

[torpid kiln]

I want to click so bad but I'm only on chapter 1 so I'll hold back

[random dome]

oh my god these are all so beautiful but (Queen of Nothing ALL, NO COSMIC) ||SNAKE CARDAN SNAKE CARDAN SNAKE CARDANNNNNN||

[wraith lynx]

Me wan touch 😔

[random dome]

thou mustnt

[snow vessel]

Do not

That's a big one

[analog geode]

No touchy

Bad

[wraith lynx]

Ill behave, dont worry~

[random dome]

here i'll give you a gift in media to make up for it

[cloud socket]

Assassin's Apprentice 16 ||you are definitely picking up on some kind of affiliation between Galen and Regal, though!||

[quaint tendon]

This inevitable ruin 77

https://tenor.com/view/stress-gif-7029812576270411915

[long sorrel]

I did cave in, bought the pack 😩

[tulip crater]

Inevitable ruin 77 || Li Na definitely shot up my favourite list this book, I say let her cook ||

[snow vessel]

So, I know I said I wanted a light read next... but I'm going to start malazan #6

[quaint tendon]

This inevitable ruin 81 || I literally said Epitome Tag was performing Perfect Cell BS 5 minutes before the book literally confirmed him as a cyborg and therefore basically Perfect Cell.||

[long sorrel]

Very light

[snow vessel]

Exactly!

Short and easy

[low hill]

Certainly easier than the books I read right before it. :P

[snow vessel]

Oh?

[low hill]

Well, that is to say Memories of Ice anyway. But I struggled through the Green Bone Saga books, and Memories of Ice is much easier to read in comparison.

[quaint tendon]

This inevitable ruin 85 || the…pickaxe…. Oh no. Brittany has been possessed by Ysalte||

[old flint]

Has anyone read the Nero Wolfe books? The Ana and Din stories are making me want to try them

[long sorrel]

storygraph down for anyone else?

[low hill]

Cloudflare is geneally having a fit, so probably.

[long sorrel]

ah, explains

[long sorrel]

I'm back to reading the Magpie Lord series and uh... Flight of Magpies 6 ||they're breaking up and damn, i feel so upset with both of them, realistically both being rather toxic in a way it's almost triggering, having lived some of this 😩 ||

Maybe I saw this coming somehow and that's why I stopped right before it

[ivory cypress]

oh dip

[long sorrel]

Im still going to finish it

This is probably the best character work in the entire series but it's making me go

https://tenor.com/view/angy-cat-cute-angry-judging-gif-5664908679004854891

[ivory cypress]

https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/799946151690371072/grab-one-now

Diane Duane

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from Diane Duane herself, there's a sale on her Young Wizards set of books!

[tight kindle]

Goddammit Grey 😭

[ivory cypress]

really liked these! would recommend! even to adult readers willing to look at this age group books again

[tight kindle]

I love those books

[quaint tendon]

Back to HWFWM

Hopefully this one picks up after the slog of the last 3 books

[minor sleet]

Game: give a book you’re currently reading or read recently the title it would have as a light novel

[snow vessel]

Like one of the really long, descriptive titles?

[long sorrel]

I was thinking on it but nothing comes to mind

[snow vessel]

Oh, memnoch the devil...

[minor sleet]

Yes

[long sorrel]

I can think of one for Memnoch better than my book

Spoilers for The Magpie Lord (I hate every word that's about to come out through my fingertips) ||When the poor Magician met the exiled Lord and didn't want to fall in love but it turns out he's the only one that can channel the Lord's power?!||

[snow vessel]

Memnoch ||"that time I went to heaven and hell because the devil and God wanted me to help them, but I accidentally did what they wanted"?||

[long sorrel]

God, I hate this too

but that sounds so Lestat

Codenames I hate this game

sadly I've played it so much due to my work that it comes too naturally 😩

[minor sleet]

What do you do for work that you have to generate light novel titles

Anyway I’m currently reading Long Live Evil and this is almost too easy

[long sorrel]

I don't, but I work at a manga publisher

[minor sleet]

“Reborn as a Low Grade Villainess in Another World! Can I Steal the Flower to Avoid Dying of Cancer???!”

[long sorrel]

we get those titles and have to generate something more appealing to the western audience

[minor sleet]

Oh yeah that would do it

[long sorrel]

Oh, Long Live Evil is one I got halfway

no particular reason I just got distracted

the evilness is so dumb it was pretty fun

I really should get to finish all my halfway books 😩

[minor sleet]

Yeah, dumb but fun describes this book very well

[long sorrel]

yeah

but this was when i kept jumping from book to book like crazy and it claimed it as its victim

i remember liking ||the one guard/merc that seems like an asshole?||

[royal carbon]

So tempting

[minor sleet]

Key

[long sorrel]

yes yes

the other woman was also great

I shall get back to it eventually

[minor sleet]

My favorite part so far is when the lead character asked him ||Are other people not real to you? And he said yes. And she thought for a second that he had also been isekai’d before realizing that no actually he’s just a sociopath ||

[minor sleet]

Lia or the maid?

[long sorrel]

the maid

[long sorrel]

I do remember this I think

[minor sleet]

The maid is the only practical and clever person in the whole story

[long sorrel]

she is very pragmatic

she's also very sleazy and weasely

in like a smart way

I've only met one more character besides those 2 but idr the chapter so hard to spoil it

[minor sleet]

🐍 ?

[long sorrel]

oh i read up to 10, Long Live Evil ||The other guy who was also isekaid is the only other one I met||

idr the name

||that is like a mafia of sorts?||

ah yes

[minor sleet]

Golden Cobra

[long sorrel]

yeah

Ironically I had the name in front of me as I was checking the ch number lol

[brazen pilot]

So I'm not gonna start it just yet (but soon!), but I got a compilation book of The Books of the South + The Silver Spike

I'm noticing that TSS is last in the order, but I thought it was supposed to be read first. What would you recommend? @ripe tide

[minor sleet]

It’s one of those prequels written decades later that assumes you’re familiar with the original work

[quaint tendon]

I am already feeling separation anxiety from Carl and donut

I relate too much to that pantless man who yells at his cat

[cloud socket]

I hear the solution is to reread and marvel at the foreshadowing despite Dinniman claiming to be a pantser not a planner (maybe he just takes very good notes of what he's done thus far so he can do good callbacks)

[quaint tendon]

Whatever his methods, he sings sweet music into my ant capitalist heart in every book. While making every character very alive and relatable

Something deverell/shirtaloon doesn’t do quite as well tbh

Side characters especially in books 4-6 really drag and shrivel into just roles for the plot

HWFWM book 7 chapter 5 || Jason your high school level scathing critique of Wolverine is silly. He doesn’t suck he’s just popular and you’re a contrarian||

Also another point for dinniman, he actually titles his damn books

HWFWM doesn’t even have subtitles

Not that HWFWM and DCC are in competition for anyone but me

I wish Munchkin was still popular

A DCC munchkin expansion would kick ass

[ripe tide]

Yeah read it first. It’s just an omnibus ordering thing.

[mild lance]

Children of Time Part 2 ||I’m loving the level of detail in the worldbuilding and science. The spiders really are fascinating, wonder if we’ll see them evolve to a point where they can actually communicate with the humans. I assume that’s where this story is heading.||

[lucid isle]

I finished Red Rising over the weekend, 3.75/5

I've heard Golden Son is better so I've got a copy coming.

[deft siren]

Can anyone recommend me spider man comics for someone who hasn't read any? Preferably from probably like the 90s or later but I'm open to whatever

[brazen pilot]

So here's the thing about the last couple decades of Spider-Man comics...

[idle trellis]

continue, dont leave us hanging pizza

[quaint tendon]

There are some that are a bit crap

But not everything post one more day is worthless

[lucid isle]

I can recommend some Batman 😄

[quaint tendon]

The Ultimate Spider-Man run is a safe bet. Ultimate comics being a semi defunct imprint of marvel where we had like modern (early 2000s) reimaginings of the marvel universe.

Not everything in that imprint is great, tbh a lot of people will probably say Spider-Man and the eventual introduction of Miles Morales are really the only worthwhile entry. But still

90s Spider-Man is a mess

And tbh I’ve never really read that main book outside of the Clone Saga cause of my being a big Scarlet Spider/Ben Reilly fan

There’s Spider-Man 2099 which again is basically the most well regarded 2099 comic.

[lusty meteor]

spider-man: blue and spider-man: life story are good short miniseries

[quaint tendon]

There’s “New Ultimate” universe comics that I’ve been hearing good things about. Long story short a villain remade the Ultimate Universe (he was originally from the OG one from the 2000s oooOooooh spooky!)
New Ultimate Spider-Man I have read some stuff

[lusty meteor]

life story is elseworlds tho

[quaint tendon]

It’s very good

Well the stuff I’ve read was. I can’t give a full review tbh

Oh yeah spider-man blue and life story. Both really fun

Well. Life story isn’t fun. But it’s a great read lmao

Anything I could really recommend is random niche stuff I have read on less than savory comic book sites. And I both won’t advocate for such things or recommend something that wasn’t interesting enough to still be available without crazy after market expense

Superior Spider-Man was fun

But given that is like a whole thing that came out after Amazing Spider-Man 900

Not the most newbie friendly thing but you can always google context

Superior Foes of Spider-Man was more fun

Uhhhmmmm

Kaine Scarlet Spider was a good run for the clone Kaine. But it’s unfinished and sadly ends on no resolution and hasn’t really been continued in any comics that I know of

I’d recommend some Venom comics. But honestly the Venom overload was part of why I gave up reading comics most recently

So for a list instead of this stupid ramble
Ultimate Spider-Man
The clone Saga for the lulz, I’d just look up a reading list.
Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Man Blue
Spider-Man Life story
New Ultimate Spider-Man
Superior Spider-Man
Superior Foes of Spider-Man
Kaine Scarlet Spider

I would say stuff like “Gwen Spider-Woman/Ghost Spider” cause of the Spiderverse movies…..but I have heard that on the whole. The movies are her best work lmao

The various “spider Gwen” comics I’ve heard reviews of are short lived and a bit boring

I wouldn’t even recommend any of the versions of the Spider-Verse event itself tbh

[cloud socket]

Got through ch 33 in Mad Ship last night, I feel very close to just finishing now that the Hobb third act thing has happened (though she could still surprise me in the last 100 pages). ||it's funny because Malta started the book on my hatelist and stayed there but ever since they launched Paragon she seems to have finally clued in that there's stranger, greater things afoot. Kennit is fascinating because he's also terrible but somehow lucks into good fortune and loyalty. Really hope poor Wintrow catches a break soon...||

[brazen pilot]

||Malta's character development is insane||

[deft siren]

This is very helpful, I appreciate it!

[quaint tendon]

Np

[quaint burrow]

I just know A Short Stay in Hell will be five stars

[quaint burrow]

Hot take: I didn't like it and think it absolutely overrated

[quaint tendon]

I liked the fifth season and the obelisk gate

But I found stone sky to be a bit of a lackluster ending

But I really liked the characters

[snow vessel]

Oh is this the one about immortality?

[quaint burrow]

Yeah

He's immortal in Hell

[snow vessel]

I've had that one on my list for a little while

[quaint burrow]

(first page spoilers)

[quaint burrow]

It's really really short

[minor sleet]

https://www.tumblr.com/retroillustrates/800675103887228928/elric-witcher-math-i-swear-if-geralt-and

Clade Mirya

Elric + Witcher math

I swear, if Geralt and Yennefer by any chance could have had a child, it would have been Elric.

-# #artists on tumblr #digital art #elric of melnibone #elric #elric of melniboné #the witcher #the witcher fanart #the witcher books #geralt of rivia #geralt z rivii #yennefer of vengerberg #yennefer z vengerbergu #yenralt

Tumblr · Nov 19, 2025, 8:14 PM

[snow vessel]

Oh two series I've been meaning to read

[valid cloud]

A Short Stay in Hell is good!

[cloud socket]

I finished Mad Ship and I've got Ship of Destiny in my library pile; I am SO ready to go. I'm enjoying Liveship Traders so much more than Farseer sorry Fitz
||I figured dragons were a central think but wowowowow that last bit with Malta going to release Tintaglia and Reyn thinking she's dead but going to finish the release and Paragon remembering that he's a dead cocoon it's alllll coming together||

[unreal dirge]

hi, do any fantasy book recs?

[cloud socket]

What are you in the mood for? Any particular tone, plot direction, etc?

[unreal dirge]

something focused on fast paced action and combats

[cloud socket]

Oh you were the one looking for anime-like Brandon books in #general earlier

I feel like Cradle is fast, and #1404905613674283041 likes seeing reactions

[snow vessel]

...ADoW came in 7 days early. And two days after I started reading a different book

This is sotf all over again

[quaint tendon]

Last horizon is by the same author as cradle

Though idk if it’s actually fast or I’m just ravenous with books…

[light drum]

Anyone notice a lot of hivemjnds in recent fiction?

[brazen pilot]

@viral fractal

[snow vessel]

Not personally, but i dont think I've been reading the right genres for that

[ancient bay]

And I have finished ReZero Volume 28. Not the most exciting volume, but it's building up.

[uncut shoal]

Project Hail Mary ||I refuse to believe that separating the ship and having it spin on cables is better than making the main part of the ship into a centrifuge||

[ripe tide]

Oh great…. I can’t wait for you to start it though.

[snow vessel]

If plans don't change, I think BH will carry me to Christmas, I'll probably read sotf straight after, maybe ADoW early jan/late Dec?

Or I'll delay sotf (again) and flip the order

[ripe tide]

Ahhhh Thats so much….

Im so used to getting books done in a few days in a lot of circumstances that I was expecting sooner.

No pressure though.

[snow vessel]

Yeahhhh

I'm not the fastest with books but these are also three big ones 😭

I'm not sure how big SOTF is but BH is a solid 1200 pages or so and those books take me like... a few weeks-a month or so, usually

If these were shorter books I could probably be onto ADOW in a week or two but nooo I had to choose three of my larger reads for the year to go at the same time

[ripe tide]

Rip

[twilit belfry]

How do agatha christie books have misogynistic undertones to them you are a woman

“Psychologically speaking i wouldnt say This is a womans crime” what are you on about

[ripe tide]

Internalized misogyny?

[twilit belfry]

Probably but its still weird to me

[long sorrel]

Misogyny isn't tied to gender

It makes me sad, but I'm not surprised

Well, i finished one of the books I had mid way. Now I'm down to 9

[grim veldt]

[RR Ch.4] ||...wow. I was expecting some dirty trick so the Gammas would get the Laurel anyway.
I was expecting some goalpost-shifting along the lines of 'Well, yes, Lambda did exceed the Quota, but they got injured in the process so Gamma gets the Laurel'
I was not expecting them to ignore Lambda's success altogether!
(And calling Mu and Chi lazy when they failed to meet quotas because people died.)

Sad thing is, this strat is proven in-text to work. Show horribly unfair preferential treatment to one group, so all the others hate that one group, rather than all the clans siding with each other to take down the common enemy.
Is it too soon for me to cheer on the rebellion?||

[snow vessel]

||not at all||

Dang I've really been not making progress on swordcrossed

Well, I've just not been reading at all outside of morning/afternoon lately

SC 37% ||A KISS???? ALREADY???||

[grim veldt]

[RR 6] || Eo...😭
These people murdered a 16-year-old girl for singing a song. I don't rusting care that it was explicitly a song about overthrowing the Golds, the fact of the matter is that it was just a song.

And they forced her loved ones to finish the job. And now her corpse will hang until it's a skeleton, in full view of everyone who knew and loved her.

And I was hoping they'd join the rebellion together.
But no, she's the Mare to his Kelsier.
Survive.||

|| It is poetically beautiful that they play her song over her death in the recording, to show what happens if you defy them, and it has the opposite effect
Because that video? That video is them brutally murdering a child just for defiance. ||

[lucid isle]

Golden Son and Morning Star are in the post! Excitement is at 100.

[grim veldt]

[RR 14] || Brr, the slow horror of being gradually turned into something so wholly different from you that your nearest and dearest wouldn't recognise you...poor Darrow.
Matteo and Mickey are interesting characters. I enjoy Matteo and Darrow's dynamic.

"You've taken everything else from me, I'm keeping the name 'Darrow'."

"...I think I preferred it when you weren't Gold."

Sorry Dancer, that's not Gold, just stubbornness!||

[vital ibex]

Assassins Apprentice all ||Not quite sure how Regal has gotten away with his life tbh||

[grim veldt]

[RR 29] || Titus is Red. Titus is Red. How the flip did he manage to get into the program?

I almost feel sorry for him. It seems like Golds inflicted on someone he loved the fate he inflicted on them. He's still a monster for how he retaliated, but...

And Darrow is...concerning. He's becoming so cruel and cold. I feel that he'll be utterly changed from the man Eo loved once this is all over.||

[long sorrel]

The book I've been looking for since july

Is finally available again

I ordered it at my local store, they'll message when it's there 😌

[wraith lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-eating-chewing-popcorn-gif-16655546

Me watching you read peak ^

[grim veldt]

Peak indeed. Just got to chapter 36.
|| Darrow's scathing view on men viewing women as prizes and trophies
And then he has Tactus whipped for attempted rape, then has Pax whip him to make the point that nobody is above the law.
Succinctly addressing Tactus' belief that he is above the law, and then showing mercy.

Bitter pill to swallow, given what Tactus is guilty of, but still...
Awe-inspiring.||

[uncut shoal]

Which series is this?

[grim veldt]

[RR 44]]|| Mustang 😭😭
Traitor😭😭||

|| Oh. ||

A tale in two parts 😂

[mild lance]

Children of Time Part 3 ||well that whole story took a turn. Love the spiders finding human influence and saying “you could make a religion out of this”||

[junior dew]

Book is so peak

[snow vessel]

Which one?

SOTF is strength of the few of the hierarchy (?) series. BH is Bonehunters from malazan, which often takes me a while

[uncut shoal]

Oh, I thought it was a new series or something, not two unrelated books. Nvm 🙂

[snow vessel]

Oh, no worries

[uncut shoal]

There was something I wanted to read but then I forgot what it was going to be

[untold leaf]

I realized the only Dan Wells book I've read was Dark One: Forgotten, which I technically didn't read because it's audio-only and it's technically not just a Dan book because he and Brandon co-wrote it. Anyway, I decided to rectify it by putting a couple of his books on hold on Libby.

"I Am Not A Serial Killer" because that's the first book I hear about in association with him, and "A Night of Blacker Darkness" because its premise sounds a little interesting.

[snow vessel]

Oh I need to finish the first Serial Killer trilogy

[grim veldt]

[Golden Son 23] ||
Sevro is with Ares
Right?
He's not a double agent. I don't want him to be a double agent.

And Quinn died 😭😭||

[grim veldt]

[RR series general up to Golden Son] || Bruh. First Cassius over Julian, now the Telemanuses over allying with the man that killed Pax. Darrow is a master at doing things that will cause his blood-brothers to want to stab him in the gut.
DARROW OF LYKOS, LISTEN TO YOUR GIRLFRIEND FOR ONCE. DON'T TRUST THE JACKAL.||

[analog geode]

||Guys with cool nicknames are always trustworthy||

[grim veldt]

|| Not when allying with them comes at the cost of making your Celtic buddy's family want to tear your head off.||

[hoary path]

RR ||I honestly hated this twist. Like sorry, but I can't really be all 'oh he was hurt too' when he is brutally SA'ing women. I felt the book was trying to say the golds turned him into that too much when in reality he was just evil.||

[craggy cargo]

Same tags, series general upto the last book ||I think in general the series is purely aesthetics and vibes over coherent logic.||

||It's like a tabletop game with op protagonists and a strict dm who keep trying to out bs each other.||

[grim veldt]

|| You know, as much as I'm enjoying the series, I do get that vibe||

[snow vessel]

RR/series themes ||i mean, this makes a lot of sense with the themes of the story. Death begets death and all. He was hurt, he caused more hurt.||

[snow vessel]

Same ||while I wouldn't say it's purely that, rule of cool will probably always win out in this series||

[somber timber]

|| you see the Mustang vision!!!!!!||

[grim veldt]

|| Lowkey shipping Reapstang||

[somber timber]

Also holy moly you’re burning through the books!

[grim veldt]

I really am, I read very fast 😅

I was going to try and pace myself till Christmas when I'll get 4 and 5, but, uh
Am already nearly at the end of Golden Son 😅

[somber timber]

Happens lol

Once I got going on basically any of the books they were difficult to put down

[wraith lynx]

Yeah i think the series as a whole took me like no time at all

RR was 4 days, IG was 6 and LB was 10

SoTF can take 12-13 if I play my cards right

Aka read all day today 😂

[untold leaf]

"Tales of Newel and Doren" is weird in that it's a fun little side adventure novella of light reading... that you have to have read the entirety of Fablehaven and Dragonwatch to understand without some major spoilers for both series.

[proper silo]

I thought I reached the end of Thousand Autumns because I hit the epilogue, and then I discovered there is epilogue part 2 right after

And then epilogue part 3

And now I turned the page and I'm seeing epilogue part 4

...I am a little scared to check how many epilogues this book has

[low hill]

How very Sanderson.

[proper silo]

Oh there is also epilogue part 5

The epilogues will continue until the romance improves, I suppose

Thousand Autumns ||five epilogues in and the alleged main couple is still not together ||

Epilogue six, give it up for epilogue six ||cause they finally kissed (like, consensually. I'm pretty sure this was a confession)||

128 chapters and 6 epilogues, talk about slow burn

[long sorrel]

Loool

Sounds awful

How many more epilogue

Did they just write another novel and named them epilogues?

[proper silo]

Seven epilogues

There were a total of seven epilogues

on which note, i am done with the main story 😌 there's still some extras, but i can leave them for later

i have thoughts

[wraith lynx]

I read this and thought you meant there were seven more 😭

[proper silo]

nope, the seventh epilogue is the final one

So overall, Thousand Autumns is good, but I wouldn't say great; it's certainly no Erha or Heaven Official's Blessings. You could make a drinking game out of all the phrases the author loves to repeat over and over (if I had a dollar for every "within moments, they exchanged hundreds of blows", I could recoup the cost of buying this book). The character work is also kinda hm. Like the main couple is great, and there's one or two memorable side characters (Bai Rong my beloved ), but there are more than 50 names characters in this book and most of them have one of three stock personalities. Like you could swap out names for half the supporting cast and I'm not sure how long it'd take me to notice. There's also an issue in that the closer we come to the book's ending, the more plots are resolved off-screen (can't believe they offscreen'd my girl Bai Rong's moment of glory...).

Which is a pity cause the plot is really good and actually interesting! I liked the political manouvering, and I liked the developing relationship between the main leads, and the character development they go through. And like I said, the main couple are both great. And I do like that unlike other books about cultivators that I've read, this one is actually about cultivation; about fighting, and learning, and improving yourself, and all that. Most of the time, cultivation is just kind of background setting, and even when characters learn, they do so off-page, but this one really gets into like... the fact that these characters are master martial artists. And it also leads to cool fight scenes (one that I'm pretty sure were inspired by games cause I swear the way the author describes everyone's abilities, their special attacks come with cutscenes)

So yeah, I think I like it, but it's certainly not the best I've read

...anyway, now that I'll no longer be bothering y'all with yapping about Thousand Autumns, Erha vol 10 comes out tomorrow so I'll be bothering y'all with yapping about Erha instead 😅

[long sorrel]

Erha 3 is one of the things I do have midway that i wanna finish before the end of the year

[proper silo]

I believe in your ability to do so 💪 (and maybe your desire to liveblog it so I can munch on popcorn 😉 )

[long sorrel]

I will if i do!

Just for you and Codenames

but also the bit I wanted to liveblog the most on book 2 was the most absolutely-can't-liveblog-in-this-channel scene

[proper silo]

well, if you do want to say something, all three of us are in you-people

[jagged lake]

Project Hail Mary ||I'm sure the main character must have explained it because it's that kind of book, but centrifugal gravity is very sensitive to the radius of your circular motion. If you make the radius of your centrifuge too small, you get very different gravity at your head than at your feet, not to mention Coriolis forces acting on your inner ear. Also, if your propulsion system is oriented along the axis of rotation of your centrifuge (hard to see where else it could go), then centrifugal gravity and linear accelerative gravity are going to be perpendicular to each other when you're under thrust, which isn't great. Your living space needs to be configurable for each mode. The cables allow you to have a much smaller spacecraft without sacrificing centrifuge radius and allow the living space to orient correctly in relation to each mode of gravitation. The biggest challenge with this arrangement is probably managing vibrations, plus the mechanical complexity of the linkage.||

[spring turtle]

mmm cover

[long sorrel]

Daaaamn

I already love book 1 cover

[uncut shoal]

Project Hail Mary ||There's at least two more efficient conformations that I can think of than swinging on cables. I'm honestly surprised that the cables didn't snap, or something else didn't break due to the insane torsion||\

[jagged lake]

Project Hail Mary ||In principle the cables aren't "swinging". They should just be under tension. Of course, when Gemini XI tried something like that, they had insane vibrations in the cable, forcing them to abort the demonstration, and I'm not aware of anyone having tried it since. A truss would probably be simpler. It wouldn't retract, but the only reason the cables retract is because you can't push on a rope.||

[uncut shoal]

||I didn't say the cables were swinging, I said they were swinging on the cables. Seriously 50k kg weights held together by two large cables, being swung in opposite directions and so many things are likely to go wrong||

[uncut shoal]

And yeah that's one of the major problems

[uncut shoal]

Oh hey, last Sun Eater book came out. That means I can read the series now

[winter fern]

Would Dresden Files be considered Urban Fantasy?

[uncut shoal]

Very much so

What makes you think otherwise?

[winter fern]

I’ve heard some people call it Low Fantasy as well

Though I suppose those aren’t really mutually exclusive

[uncut shoal]

Low Fantasy honestly sounds a little derogatory

[analog geode]

It was originally coined to mean any fantasy in this world, as opposed to high fantasy in a fictional one

[craggy cargo]

The way I read low fantasy is a world where magic or other fantastical stuff is fairly minimal or rare, but still present. Especially in the sense of, it doesn't affect daily life and while it can be an important part of the story large parts of the substance of the story aren't about magic.

I'd say game of thrones the show, but not asoiaf, fits that criteria.

Dresden doesn't at all. Him having magic is the entire point at a level.

[uncut shoal]

I know. I just haven't heard the term since I was a kid, and even then I didn't really like it

[winter fern]

I've also heard Dresden Files referred to as 'Milady Fantasy' a couple of times. I have no idea why though. I've listened to the first few books, and Dresden doesn't strike me as even slightly misogynistic.

I'm really enjoying the series though. It's really good.

Sort of Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Chicago PD

[craggy cargo]

I wouldn't say he's misogynistic in as much as he's just attracted to every woman and as soon as a woman is in scene you can be damn sure he's going into detail about how attractive she is, and this will happen a lot, even in otherwise serious moments. There's a moment in book 3 where ||I swear he compliments that vampire lady inwardly 10 times in that very serious sequence, even during the times she's threatening to kill him.||

The scenarios also always seem to be warped by a certain amount of... Hmmm... Logic that is definitely aiming to push things in a sexual direction whether or not it makes sense. Book 2 ||the werewolf scene near the end made me laugh out loud.||

I'd say they're still mostly good books and it didn't bother me too much once I got used to it, but it's definitely... Something.

[minor sleet]

https://www.tumblr.com/fuzziiwuzzii/711152379658158080/i-am-the-vampire-lestat-im-immortal-more-or

Nico

I am the vampire Lestat. I’m immortal. More or less....

Tumblr · Mar 7, 2023, 4:49 PM

[snow vessel]

I love lestat's intros

[sleek jungle]

The supernatural and pointless sexual situations get weirder and creepier. I enjoyed the series despite that, but plenty of people are uncomfortable with it for a good reason

I have an extremely specific scene in mind when saying it

but it's from somewhere between books 6 and 9

[minor sleet]

The first book was so chauvinistic I didn’t even bother finishing it

It wasn’t anything specific, just the vibes

[long sorrel]

I think this type of thing (I've not read the books) is generally taken as objectifying which in turn tends to be part of a misogynistic behaviour

[craggy cargo]

Yeah that's a very fair argument.

[minor sleet]

https://www.tumblr.com/benevolenterrancy/799699639644438528/watching-yan-wushi-try-to-make-up-for-lost-ground

my words, so many words

watching Yan Wushi try to make up for lost ground is a gift and nothing less than he deserves

-# #yanshen #thousand autumns #qian qiu #shen qiao #yan wushi #nobody's ever done it worse than you buddy! congrats! #you fumbled someone it should be basically impossible to fumble! #and now *you've* realised *you're* in love after basically telling him where he could take his affection and stick it #astounding #idiot #my art

Tumblr · Nov 9, 2025, 1:50 AM

@proper silo

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns ||watching Yan Wushi reap what he saw was definitely a highlight of the last ~40 or so chapters of the book||

||I'm pretty sure Shen Qiao fell for him despite his attempts rather than because of them||

[minor sleet]

Absolutely

[proper silo]

also

my phone just let me know that it finished downloading book 10 of Erha

and i can't read it yet

https://tenor.com/view/deku-mha-bnha-midoriya-my-hero-academia-gif-17290970

the cover is so pretty though

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91kZpEJrHiL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

I wanna hang it on my wall

[long sorrel]

omg that face

[minor sleet]

Usually if you get the special editions of the final book they come with postcards that are mini posters of the book covers

But yeah ||Taxian-Jun ||is having a Bad Time

[proper silo]

...do i wanna get volume 11 in print?

maybe

[proper silo]

[name] is having a bad time is like, the last volume and a half in a nutshell

like i'm pretty sure you could insert any name and it'd work

[minor sleet]

Hmm actually it looks like it won’t be all the covers

That sucks

[proper silo]

i wonder which ones they'll do, then 🤔

[minor sleet]

https://sevenseasentertainment.com/books/the-husky-and-his-white-cat-shizun-erha-he-ta-de-bai-mao-shizun-novel-vol-11-special-edition/

[proper silo]

feels like the sort of info that should be out there

[minor sleet]

Yes it does but they deliberately don’t show you the extras in advance

[uncut shoal]

Honestly, Dresden's male gaze never really bothered me. I found it realistic more than annoying

[minor sleet]

Which sucks because some of them are not good

[proper silo]

i suppose i'll wait till it comes out, someone's gonna post their merch haul online eventually

[uncut shoal]

Eye roll, yeah guys notice boobs, moving on

[minor sleet]

There’s always that one person on Reddit who manages to get theirs a week early via bookstore error or shipping mix up and is eager to show off

[uncut shoal]

Atticus from Iron Druid was way worse lol

[proper silo]

oh gods, now that's a memory

(atticus, i mean)

[uncut shoal]

hahah yeah

[proper silo]

i think i managed to read one and a half of those books

[uncut shoal]

The ending was pretty dumb

[proper silo]

i am

unsurprised

[uncut shoal]

For Dresden, I mean you can have no sexual interest in someone, but still appreciate their attributes

[minor sleet]

https://www.tumblr.com/hmslusitania/800855467023892480/when-youre-writing-science-fiction-the-most

I Haven’t Taken Anything Seriously Since 1915

When you’re writing science fiction, THE most important thing to ask yourself isn’t how soft or hard you want the science to be, but to ask yourself “who would Shohreh Aghdashloo play in this story” and if you do not have an answer, re-evaluate

-# #I’m only like 30% joking #the expanse #shohreh aghdashloo #see also: #Star Trek #mass effect #x-men

Tumblr · Nov 21, 2025, 8:01 PM

[versed agate]

and Destiny 2

[quaint burrow]

Iliad 5 ||Shapeshifter, do not sit with me and whine. Of all the gods who live on Mount Olympus you are the one I hate the most.
Ayo Zeus chill||

[cloud socket]

Rise of Kyoshi ~30% ||TRAUMA. I feel like Kyoshi's going to attempt to wrestle Yun from the spirit because he feels like part of her Team Avatar||

[deft stream]

Anyone has any of this books ?
The lord of the rings omnibus hardback by Houghton Mifflin
Catching fire and Mockingjay hardback by scholastic

[mortal wren]

man if you need a long (and I mean like WaT long) book to read I suggest reading The Wandering Inn, there's like 17 books and in audio book format the majority are like 50-60 hrs long.in fact I highly recommend them if you read audio books, because ngl no one I know has the time to read a physical books that long

but they're not for the faint of heart there is a lot of stuff te keep track of

[cloud socket]

Rise of Kiyoshi 55% ||👀👀👀 an airbender mother huh? Interesting.. When she had the vision of people when trying to open the box earlier I wondered if it might be Yangchen but she didn't have snake tattoos. I love the idea that it's an opera company as cover for the dao fei group||

[cloud socket]

I have the LoTR. It's very pretty.

[deft stream]

Could you weight it please

The black one

[cloud socket]

Oh haha, def thought you were asking about the illustrated one. Sure, I can do that

[deft stream]

Thank you very much

[cloud socket]

45.68 oz or 1295 grams or 2.855 lbs on my kitchen scale

[deft stream]

I am really thankful

[proven token]

Finished American Elsewhere!

Peak fiction

[idle trellis]

Hmm I wonder, are there any fantasy books with a young adult protagonist from some backwater village, which from unforeseen circumstances is forced to leave their hometown and go on an adventure unaware of their true herigate and destiny 🤔

[lusty meteor]

fewer than you think tbh

that is one of those phantom tropes that remains in the psyche

when was the last major fantasy book that played that trope straight?

[long sorrel]

I've 100% read that recently but it was certainly not a major book

[snow vessel]

I can think of quite a few examples, but not all entirely play it straight

[long sorrel]

and it is maybe by a gay smut author (although those specific aren't smutty... yet?)

There's nothing straight about this one

[snow vessel]

Ok some of them I have to ignore one of the parts, but they fit all the rest. Some of them fit entirely

[long sorrel]

No, okay the troupe is actually really straight forward in exactly what Teddy said, however it has some more twists to it

I can think of a more traditional one but it starts with the MCs being fully adult, though it still follows that troupe it's just not YA MC

[idle trellis]

I can think of a lot of books that have the trope but not any recent ones

Not from 2020 and up

[wraith lynx]

Boy do I have the fun book with a blue dragon on it for you 🥴

[snow vessel]

I feel like dune arguably hits all those points except "backwater village"

[long sorrel]

Yeah, but as Teddy said I think modern stories try to subvert those troupes

Like they're still used but they're not so so formulaic maybe?

[snow vessel]

Yeah idk about modern

[long sorrel]

oneeee day you'll read Dark Rise

you or Atrus, I think you'd be first

[snow vessel]

one day

It's on my list for next year

[long sorrel]

at this point I've hyped it enough that you're gonna be so disappointed

[ivory cypress]

Way of Edan did it 😩 it wasn't super good

[cloud socket]

Oops, ended up finishing Rise of Kiyoshi. ||Jianzhu surely has the highest body count in the Avatar series right? Because dang, so much murder going on. I saw a Goodreads review that summarized the plot as "be gay, do crimes" and yeah, pretty much. Looking forward to getting the next one at the library if it's around.||

[quaint tendon]

Would you say rise of kiyoshi is good? I’ve found most of the post series comics lackluster

[junior dew]

I liked the Kyoshi novels

And would recommend them

[cloud socket]

I've read FC Yee's other series (the Genie Lo books) and I think he writes a teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders well. I accidentally inhaled most of Rise today

I do think it being a novel gives it more weight than the comics- like we'd need to up the series rating if they animated Kiyoshi's backstory for trauma/violence

[mild lance]

Rise of Kyoshi vague ||the climax could never have worked in any medium other than text imo||

[minor sleet]

Kiyoshi’s books are good

I didn’t like the Roku novel or Yangchen novels as much

[quaint tendon]

Oh yeah

I had heard about yangchen

[mild lance]

The Yangchen books aren’t as good as the Kyoshi ones but I still like them quite a bit

Haven’t read the Roku stuff yet

[proper silo]

Erha 295 ||The very first chapter of this volume, and we already have a dramatic thunder-and-lightning reveal of a bridge made from human corpses||

||Yep, I'm definitely reading Erha 🙂‍↕️ ||

[minor sleet]

Where else in the book would you put this?

[proper silo]

it was less "it should be in a different spot" and more "yep, we're already starting this book at full sprint" 😅

[snow vessel]

Tomorrow I want to reorganise my bookshelves. Unfortunately this means I need to find new arrangements of books that are both aesthetically and logically pleasing...

[sleek jungle]

I waited for years to start the Practical Guide to Evil because the author was working on doing the audiobook. And now that I have finished the audio version of book one I learn that they decided to rewrite ??? of the series, and there's no release date for book 2.
That's just mean.

[merry galleon]

I’m at 459 pages of Stronghold by Melanie Rawn. 100 pages to go!

[idle trellis]

why do I get the feeling will of the many is super overrated without even reading it?

[snow vessel]

Well it's highly rated and popular so it's probably more likely to be over than under

[idle trellis]

so is lord of the rings

hmmm

maybe lord of the rings is overrated as well

[snow vessel]

Well. I would say lotr is more likely to be overrated than under

If a lot of people really like it, it'd have to be really good to be underrated, while it'd just have to be a bit less than the hype to be over imo

The ratings of the many...

[idle trellis]

The publishing of a few

The author of one

[uncut shoal]

I would read them, but I guess they're audio only

[uncut shoal]

26 years and counting, waiting for Captal's Tower

[merry galleon]

I got the other two books of that series.

[snow vessel]

Swordcrossed 11 ||i know there are plenty of other explanations, but I do love to headcanon that mattie's picking up dancing better than dueling purely because luca sucks at teaching||

[long sorrel]

That's probably not wrong

[mortal wren]

Dang I just looked, there isn‘t even an E-Book. So yeah

[small bloom]

Time to finally start Six of Crows, I’ve heard lots of good things

[grim veldt]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[proper silo]

Erha 299 ||I did not expect Chu Wanning being pinocchio having like... plot relevance? Beyond the backstory, I mean||

||and beyond the author's ability to make an infinite number of tree and wood metaphors about him||

[ivory cypress]

maybe i SHOULD wait on the nameless land given that there are at least two more books in the universe coming....

[long sorrel]

There are???

[ivory cypress]

oh yeah

she's working on em

[long sorrel]

Nameless Land is... general about the ending (in case you want to know) ||conclusive enough in the main plot bits||

[long sorrel]

Oooh, you make me so happy

[ivory cypress]

;)

tell me about ||the haunt........ does he come back||

||it's making me so anxious||

[long sorrel]

Answer ||he does come back||

[ivory cypress]

nameless land ||yay.... i hope it's like... a good thing 😬 ||

hehe

[long sorrel]

Hehe, I won't tell you any more 😌 (unless you want full spoilers)

Do we have any info about the next books?

[ivory cypress]

a little bit yeah

https://www.patreon.com/posts/flower-court-136269079

is this post public?

[long sorrel]

Nope

[ivory cypress]

ahhh gotcha

rip

[snow vessel]

...do I sort my bookshelves by colour...

Do I want to commit to the gradient

(No)

[minor sleet]

Only maniacs sort by color

[snow vessel]

I decided to be sensible and sort by genre

[tight kindle]

Hi

[uncut shoal]

Sun Eater 1 early on ||Okay I get the profit margins thing, but every decent businessman knows that it's important to invest in their business, and keeping your machinery working and up to date is a major factor in efficiency and profit. His profit margins are going to plummet when all his equipment fails and his mines are panned out.||

[uncut shoal]

||This whole family is stupid||

[cloud socket]

Binged A Closed and Common Orbit this weekend, have about sixty pages to go but really loving it- I think I like it more than A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

[merry galleon]

I finished Stronghold! I had a bit of time to myself and got to cracking on reading it.

And question - is the Kate Elliott you guys are talking about, the same author who wrote Crown of Stars series?

[low hill]

Yes.

[minor sleet]

Why???

What happens when books ina series have different color covers?!

[long sorrel]

193, I'm definitely reaching 200 then

[tight kindle]

that

[hoary path]

Oh man you got the OG Red Rising covers

Mine are all black except Iron Gold and Dark Age

[minor sleet]

You split them up.

https://tenor.com/view/steve-harvey-crazy-oh-you-crazy-cray-cray-cray-gif-14460985195697489342

[wraith lynx]

Irom Gold and WoTM being in the center = peak bookshelf 🤭💕

[wraith lynx]

I do too!

[long sorrel]

you did preemptively call him a maniac, you weren't wrong.

[wet belfry]

Unhinged

[tight kindle]

It looks better that way 😌

[minor sleet]

But at what cost

I am a simple person. I want my series and books by one author to be together

[wet belfry]

Does it? Having uniform editions of a book series even if they're different colors together is often more appealing

Size and shape are also relevant aspects

And like

"The spine is mostly red I guess" is also a different conversation than if you had custom dust jackets that made all the red books a uniform shade of red

(In which case you could organize them as you wanted anyway)

[long sorrel]

Yeah to me it looks like pleasing in passing but just the whole height difference accross books irks me a bit haha

[ivory cypress]

by author last name and series, they do look like they go together

[long sorrel]

That said my library is just "where it fits" but it's very tiny and humble

like 1/20th of Atrus

[cloud socket]

haha, i was just talking yesterday about how my #wheel-of-time copies are an assortment of well-loved massmarket paperbacks, hardcovers for the later editions, a trade paperback with the Tor ebook cover, and various oddities

that being said, the Tor.com logo placement on the Tensorate novellas will always be my shelf pet peeve

[minor sleet]

Evil

[wraith lynx]

I think my biggest shelf itch is the fact that all of my stormlights are mmpb and Itty bitty and then here comes WaT taking up half the shelf 😭

At least my mb era 1s are the same size, even if they dont match

[long sorrel]

I barely have any Sanderson and I've little interest in collecting the print versions for most of the books tbh

I really need to start looking into getting a slightly bigger shelf though

idk what I'll do with Folk of the Air when it gets here

[wraith lynx]

The only ones I want to fix eventually is getting a better inheritance cycle set... Brisingr is a hardback, and Inheritance is missing pages 😂

[long sorrel]

And I just got a message today saying the book I ordered last week it's at the shop so that's 4 thicc books that need to go... somewhere

[wraith lynx]

👀👀

[long sorrel]

lol

lemme see if i can clear some space and show you my mess

[wraith lynx]

This is mine so far! Its grown a bit since I last put it together

[long sorrel]

this took way longer than it should have

but I had a lot of randomly accumulated crap in front of it

oh the 2 books on the left most that aren't showing the spine are Starless Sea and Night Circus

(You can see my lone Brisingr hardcover there cosmic , nope don't look for the rest, I don't have them)

[junior dew]

This was mine back in January when I put it together. Some additions have been made since then and more need to be added + I probably need to tweak where some things are to make space for other stuff. Been avoiding that all lol

[long sorrel]

very neat

[junior dew]

Thanks! Was really pleased with it when I got it all set up.

The placement of the Sanderson books was poorly considered though. It has since overflowed. Maybe I’ll redo stuff this weekend at some point

My Cosmere RPG books I think are just chilling in my office

As are a few other books I believe

[long sorrel]

oh i also got this in a separate spot

cat was all "what you up to over here"

[wraith lynx]

Omg I havent seen Blood Lad in who knows how long 😂

[long sorrel]

me neither tbh

both of those collections of novels/manga have been built over perhaps 2 decades now, a bit more really

[wraith lynx]

Awww rhars so cool!

[long sorrel]

I started with Inuyasha when i was like 10

[royal carbon]

I have a lot of books and need more bookshelves

[tight kindle]

Yeah but I don't have uniform editions lol. I have two MMP, one large paperback, and two hardcover of Stormlight. Most of my other series are the same way.
Having a random distribution of heights bothers me way less than putting Stormlight and Mistborn all together because the disparity in their heights drives me crazy.

Also organizing by color is my favorite way to do it and that's really the only thing that matters.

[tight kindle]

Your shelf is gorgeous

This was my shelf before I organized it by color and I just don't like it as much

Sometimes I can also taste the colors when I look at them (it's a little random) and having too many different ones close together is chaotic and overwhelming. Having all the similar colors next to each other helps me focus

[long sorrel]

It has to be you that likes it at the end of the day

[royal carbon]

Oh, I need to make my book tree

[tight kindle]

Yeah the difference in sizes doesn't bother me at all but having different colors near each other does

[tight kindle]

What's a book tree?

[royal carbon]

Let me see if I have pictures from last year

I am terrible at pictures

[tight kindle]

Oh nice!

I like it

[royal carbon]

On the plus side I saw lots of Lopen pictures from when he first got adopted

It is a bit better if I make more of a pyramid shape because you can see all the spines at once

In theory I have a picture of that from one year

[tight kindle]

I do have hinges
They're just on the bottom of the door instead of the side

Works great for me and confuses the hell out of everyone else

[alpine drum]

My bookshelf

[long sorrel]

that's were most of mine is too

[alpine drum]

Since I'm at my parents I can also share actual bookshelves

Enjoy trying to figure out any sort of organization here because I sure can't

[mild lance]

Children of Time 5.2 ||I’m not clear if Arvana has actually figured out that her “monkeys” are spiders yet. If she was of sound mind I think she’d be more okay with it, but she clearly isn’t||

[long sorrel]

I do also have this at my grandma's place, which isn'e quite exactly mine but since she passed we might as well consider it mine since no one else is taking these books

they are, mostly, classics

[ivory cypress]

damn, wild

[kind steppe]

Just finished Mother of Learning. What a thrilling ride!

[sleek jungle]

-# No, I finished my last reread in August! You will not pull me back in! casts mind shield

[minor sleet]

I’m thinking about this quote from Slaughterhouse Five again

||“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”|| slaughterhouse five ch1

It’s so sad. So inevitable. Said so simply and yet so eloquently. So it goes.

||Also the fact that it’s an inversion. Orpheus failed to win back his bride because he looked back. The wife died because she disobeyed God’s commandment. But Billy loves them for failing because they were too human to believe and have faith||

[uncut shoal]

Sun eater 1||Hadrien is really not smart||

[lusty meteor]

This needs to be spoilered

[velvet umbra]

||I would say it's less that he's not smart and more that he thinks he's way smarter than he is due to comparing himself to a lot of dumbs dumbs||

[uncut shoal]

So far, ||He's impulsive, irrational, and way more arrogant than he thinks he is, and not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, as well. So many stupid things being done||

[velvet umbra]

||yeah I mean he's book smart, he just doesn't have the life experience to apply his knowledge well||

[uncut shoal]

||I'm questioning the book smart part||

[velvet umbra]

how far are you?

[uncut shoal]

Around chapter 54

[velvet umbra]

||yeah I mean if you're referring to his interactions with Valka she's obviously more knowledgeable than him he's basically like a "gifted kid" straight out of high school trying to converse with a PhD or something||

||His language skills are well above average though he knows way more on that front than people of his caste typically do||

[quaint tendon]

Hello

Weird

Discord was acting up

[uncut shoal]

Even just in general. Sun Eater up to ch 54 ||He doesn't really seem to have all that much knowledge or information. He knows a few extra languages but that's really not that impressive to me. I know 2.5 languages, hubby knew 3, at that age||

[velvet umbra]

||I mean he knows like 6 including dead ones and an alien language basically no one can speak. He's not really supposed to be like a super genius anyway, he's just a 20 year old who had a good tutor||

||It's less someone in the 2000's who can speak Spanish, English and French and more someone in like 18th century England who can speak Arabic, Latin, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese||

[uncut shoal]

||He says he knows 5 fluently, and one of them really didn't count||

[velvet umbra]

||remind me on the "one didn't count"||

[uncut shoal]

||The lord count patted her arm reassuringly. “I’ve nothing to fear from Lord Marlowe here. Not in the thirty seconds this will take you.” He pushed her gently toward the doors through which his husband had arrived. “Go on.” When she’d moved away, Balian Mataro asked, “You speak how many languages, Lord Marlowe? Four? Five?”||

||“Nearly eight, lordship,” I replied, not seeing the relevance when we’d been talking starships. “Though perhaps five fluently.” A slight exaggeration—my Durantine was good enough to fool poor kitchen servants, but I was hardly prepared to have tea with one of the consuls of that far republic.||

[velvet umbra]

oh yeah

||I don't think that one is super relevant due to just like the location of who speaks it||

||The usefulness of his linguistic capablities is kind of a RAFO thing tbh||

[uncut shoal]

||I'm just waiting for the plot to really get started right now lol||

[velvet umbra]

||This is the least plot heavy book but what it does have should kick off in the next half dozen chapters I think||

My biggest gripe with book 1 and 2 (though a lot of people disagree on 2 and just fully love the whole thing) is pacing

[uncut shoal]

||I also have words and thoughts about his carelessness with the 20k credit card||

[velvet umbra]

||oh I forgot about that lmao||

[uncut shoal]

||But like, why introduce it and spend time on it when he loses it literally right away||

||Personally I think I would have put it on a smaller card, and swallowed it||

||They can go fishing in my intestines if they want it||

[velvet umbra]

||That might have been an issue with fugue? I have to assume they purge your stomach but I can't recall if that's mentioned||

||regardless I think that's an intentionally stupid fumble on his part that whole section is classic rich kid getting into the big wide world for the first time and immediately getting swindled||

[uncut shoal]

Not that I recall

[velvet umbra]

||I don't think you do but that may just be an oversight because there's no logical way that they drain out all your blood but you can just have a full stomach||

[uncut shoal]

||They don't drain out the blood, they freeze you||

[velvet umbra]

||I'm pretty sure the blood draining is part of the process but maybe they haven't mentioned that yet||

[uncut shoal]

||The physician pushed air through his yellow teeth. “As you wish, then.” And without preamble he slapped a sensor tape to my chest, then another. A third. He barely looked at me as he did so, then pulled a self-sterilizing needle from a slot inside the crèche beside me. It hissed as it pierced my arm, and he fastened the securing strap about my biceps. “’Tis going to get cold rather fast.”||

||It already had. The freeze crept from the needle site in my arm, the blood transmuting, cells hardening without tearing. ||

[velvet umbra]

||I'm pretty sure that's what "the blood transmuting" is, they filter all the blood out akin to dialysis and replace it with a placeholder while in fugue||

I don't know how to explain the main explanation of this that I'm thinking of without spoiling

[uncut shoal]

I'll keep reading but ||the description really doesn't work with draining all the blood|| I guess I'll see

||Anyway, no mention of purging the stomach||

[velvet umbra]

||tbf the example you're pulling from is somewhat not emblematic of the typical process because it's a bunch of sketchy thieves doing it with the intention of screwing over and dumping the guy in question||

this could also just be an early book weirdness thing

[uncut shoal]

||From what I can tell, they didn't dump him. They abandoned ship, which is not indicative of doing something for profit, since the ship is the really expensive part||

[velvet umbra]

||I think it's left ambiguous||

||My memory of the book 1 stuff is kind of iffy though ||

[uncut shoal]

||The first thing he did when he woke up was puke, so no stomach purging||

[velvet umbra]

Empire of Silence||I mean technically he's puking up the fluid they're suspended in not actual vomit but regardless the stomach thing is not something ever specifically addressed, more just an assumption because it would seem weird to me since you have to not eat stuff before undergoing temporary anesthesia that it wouldn't affect this process at all||

||I also think the blood draining thing I was thinking of is at the end of the process, they freeze your blood and then do some sort of dialysis like process when they thaw you. I know something about the process requires extra or synthetic blood to be available for reasons that I can't go into specifics on||

[uncut shoal]

Sun Eater 1
||It definitely says that his ship was scrapped||
||“Ship was empty when it came in-system,” Gila said. “Crew bugged out, took the shuttles and ran, left your sorry ass in the freeze.”||
||I looked out over the tarmac where I’d once broken a man’s arm to the low line of hangars opposite. There was the one where the Eurynasir had been all those years ago.||

[velvet umbra]

||I meant why the ship is abandoned is ambiguous||

[uncut shoal]

Sun Eater 1 ||Sure, but they certainly wouldn't have done it for frivolous reasons because the ship is the really expensive thing. So they weren't planning on it, most likely. So they wouldn't have done a half assed job on putting him into fugue||

[velvet umbra]

Empire of Silence||idk between poor memory on my part and lack of him ever figuring out what their deal was I don't really know what's up with that whole segment lol||

[alpine drum]

These need labels

[uncut shoal]

It's been the same tag the whole time

[alpine drum]

Had to scroll way up to see what these spoilers are of

[alpine drum]

Seems at some point the spoiler scope changed

[uncut shoal]

Nope, I haven't read any further so it's been the same the whole time

[alpine drum]

Unless Sun Eater ch 54 and Empire of Silence is the same thing

[uncut shoal]

Sun Eater is the series name, book 1 is Empire of Silence

[velvet umbra]

it's saying "book 1" vs "title of book 1"

[uncut shoal]

So Sun Eater book 1 chapter 54 is the same as Empire of Silence chapter 54

[uncut shoal]

Sun eater 1 ch 60 ||oh for heaven's sake, really?||

[uncut shoal]

Sun Eater 1 and also The Flash tv show ||He's as bad at keeping his identity secret as Barry is||

[velvet umbra]

hilarious comparison

[uncut shoal]

True tho

[velvet umbra]

||Wait till you get to book 5 and all the side characters are like "no Hadrian, WE are the Sun Eater"||

(this is not a real spoiler to be clear lmao)

[uncut shoal]

I don't really care about spoilers anyway

[uncut shoal]

Sun Eater 1 ||It's sort of funny that Umandh is basically "human" when they're not lol||

[uncut shoal]

Sun Eater 1 ||"I'm not a child!" Oh man...||

||very much a "You're not my mother!" moment||

||It is starting to get more interesting though. What's going on with that vision, I wonder||

[untold leaf]

So far, I Am Not A Serial Killer is kind of interesting. I like Dan's writing style.

[final thicket]

@snow vessel of the ones you were talking about are there any that you would recommend?

[snow vessel]

I mean I'd recommend both wot and malazan. I've finished all but the prequel of wot and enjoyed it, and while im only 6 books into malazan I'm enjoying that as well

[final thicket]

alright thank you, thats good to know!

[snow vessel]

While I've not personally had too much trouble, it is worth knowing that malazan is quite a lot sometimes

Big series, big books, big cast/world, and also a lot of gruesome? content

Wot is also long with lots of characters, but has less of the rest I'd say

And has a narrower, clearer focus cast

But I think both are worth it!

[long sorrel]

Y'all, I went pick up my book

And now I've 3???

[snow vessel]

Strange how that happens...

[low hill]

You went into a bookshop, yes.

[long sorrel]

They also had this which is gorgeous (i didnt buy)

Tempted to turn around and go buy this 😩

[snow vessel]

Swordcrossed 11 ||man, two seconds and Maya totally figured out what's going on||

[long sorrel]

That's Wuthering Highs

[snow vessel]

-# I can't help but feel like the (Cheshire cat?) face on your arm is staring at me

Ooh, I've been meaning to read that

Before the movie comes out

[long sorrel]

It is

https://tenor.com/view/alice-in-wonderland-cheshire-cat-smile-blink-cats-gif-16630951

[snow vessel]

Is that live action????

[long sorrel]

I think?

[snow vessel]

Ive only seen the 2d animated one, so the extra detail/realism caught me off guard xD

[low hill]

Yes, that's from the Johnny Depp version.

[snow vessel]

Ahh right

Yeah I've not seen that one

[long sorrel]

I thought it was fun

[junior dew]

Pretty book

[long sorrel]

so pretty

I bought Through the Looking Glass from the same collection cause... I couldn't help myself 😔

I have found out they have a special edition of my favourite poet, too

and now I want to go back and buy that too

Even though I already have this

😩

it's so cute though

in the back the tree has been cut, and only the trunk and the blood remains

very fitting

[ripe tide]

oooo that's a nice cover for the book

Do you enjoy Lorca that much

[long sorrel]

Yep

My favourite is Romance de la luna, luna

I can't find my anthology though, I'll be pissed if I've lost it

[minor sleet]

Is he the Spanish poet killed by the fascists?

[long sorrel]

one of them, yeah

well, a lot of them run away but yeah

There's a statue near where I used to live of him releasing a dove

[minor sleet]

That sounds sweet

[long sorrel]

Mhm

You know the typical "what do you think the author meant when they said the mug is red" kinda BS?

In his case and many of his peers, they were hiding ideological messages during the civil war

[ripe tide]

You have no idea how little that narrows it down. But yeah one of the most famous.

[long sorrel]

I think he was the most influential of Generación del 27

[minor sleet]

Fascists only liked one poet and it’s Ezra Pound

[minor sleet]

Sadly Spanish poetry and literature is not typically part of an American education. It probably would’ve made me more interested in Spanish class if it had been. Poetry > See Spot Run type sentences