deanmarywinchester

[deanmarywinchester]

Love that for her

#no exactly thsi is her #reading tag

[deanmarywinchester]

What if your daughter committed war crimes so horrendous you disowned her? What if you got a surrogate daughter who did worse but you didn’t see it? What if they started fucking each other?

#<3 #reading tag #I mean I don’t think they count as war crimes

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ALSO HELLOOOO????? can't believe they had gay sex right in front of me..... I was blushing and sweating reading this at work 😵‍💫

#yeah also this #reading tag

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augh. I love the dualisms in this book though. sorry again for posting things Just For Me. the way Blackbird brings out the worstbest truest selves in Chaya and Aixue, Ssrin-Anna-Khaje, and Erik and Clayton and braids them together into these codependent little pairs and triplets is just. mwah. and then after all these big complicated relationships, you have Davoud whose great passion in life is Airplane.

sorry for Exordiaposting. no I’m not. read it. anyway now that I’m done and I’m reading interviews with Dickinson I feel bad that they say the main relationship is Anna-Ssrin when I mostly don’t care about Anna-Ssrin after the opening. Anna and her mother? Insanely compelling. Anna-Erik-Clayton? you’d better believe it. Ssrin-Erik? yeah sure. but I think the writing would’ve had to work harder to convince me of the importance of Anna and Ssrin’s soul bond. the narration spent so much time on clayton/erik/rosamaria because it couldn’t take the shortcut of “this relationship is important because it’s bonded by one of the Seven Great Alien Passions” and I just feel like soemthing was lost when that shortcut was taken with Anna and Ssrin

#chaya and aixue. When you’re really interested in someone and fit together so well but you know if you become a couple for real you’ll be #stuck giving too much to her and not getting nearly enough back. compelling #reading tag #my posts #I feel like I was too obsessed with Clayton reading this but it’s like. 1) I have met this man 2) the baru of it all like. #racialized person proves they can be the best most ruthless imperial mastermind of them all. AND he has TWO foils even.

[deanmarywinchester]

Hmmmmmmmmm yeah hes right

#yeah she is a faildaughter :) and she’s MY bestie #reading tag

[deanmarywinchester]

sorry for Exordiaposting. no I’m not. read it. anyway now that I’m done and I’m reading interviews with Dickinson I feel bad that they say the main relationship is Anna-Ssrin when I mostly don’t care about Anna-Ssrin after the opening. Anna and her mother? Insanely compelling. Anna-Erik-Clayton? you’d better believe it. Ssrin-Erik? yeah sure. but I think the writing would’ve had to work harder to convince me of the importance of Anna and Ssrin’s soul bond. the narration spent so much time on clayton/erik/rosamaria because it couldn’t take the shortcut of “this relationship is important because it’s bonded by one of the Seven Great Alien Passions” and I just feel like soemthing was lost when that shortcut was taken with Anna and Ssrin

#my posts #reading tag

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Two more Exordia interviews with Seth (via @eyeofanaxis), some great answers here both funny and serious. Shoutout to Grimdark magazine for using they pronouns.

The violence question in the first interview is particularly interesting - laying out a bunch of creative spec-bio off the cuff and then spelling out one of the themes in Seth's work that I find most compelling...

Underlying all this is a broader theme in my work, the question of whether violence is ultimately the Right Strategy in the universe—whether it’s possible to build a system which is cooperative, equitably helpful to all its contributors, resistant to outside attacks and proof against internal corruption and collapse. I really hope that is possible. I am not afraid of entropy but I am afraid of conquest and cancer, the two great threats to organized positive-sum systems.

...but I think the part people will find funniest is where they reveal it all started as a Bionicle fanfiction.

When I was in high school I wrote a Lego Bionicle fanfiction where the Bionicle world was invaded by aliens, and one of the aliens defected to the Lego side to help them fight back against her people. I thought she was a pretty cool character, because I was fifteen, so everything seemed pretty cool.

Second interview is mostly lighter, but has some all too real shit re the SFF 'community'.

Also James C Scott gets a nod! I really gotta read Seeing Like A State.

#SEEING LIKE A STATE mention!!!! God I knew I loved them. mwah #reading tag

[deanmarywinchester]

new seth dickinson interview

#oh this is very interesting. I’ve been thinking about Clayton as the baru analogue when maybe I shouldn’t be. #reading tag #baru cormorant

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augh no wonder there has been relatively little rosamaria in this book. that’s what happens when Anna eats her place in the story and becomes her. guys I am NOT getting across what this book is about but trust me that it’s a huge win for the Baru likers, the desire triangulators, and the code of honor enthusiasts

hello nobody told me Exordia slays incredibly hard and additionally that it began life as Bionicle fanfiction. i am so obsessed with seth dickinson I want to use an electron microscope to observe their bueaitful mind

#I’m almost done with it but it’s gonna take me several business days to Absorb A Thought #reading tag #my posts

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sickos YES. of COURSE seth understands that sometimes sticking your hands in the gunshot wounds of your lifelong best friend and nemesis is sex. god I am so obsessed with everything Erik/Rosamaria/Clayton (Obama advisor guy) have going on. it’s like “what if baru didn’t have a taranoke but she DID have a lawful good paladin acting as her conscience (when it suited her) and also another person they were both obsessed with.” chewing on them.

hello nobody told me Exordia slays incredibly hard and additionally that it began life as Bionicle fanfiction. i am so obsessed with seth dickinson I want to use an electron microscope to observe their bueaitful mind

#this book is taking me SO long to read because it’s insane so I am a little afraid to read it #my posts #reading tag

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sorry i can't come in to work today. yeah sorry they killed me off last night. yeah i just wasn't relevant to the plot anymore. i should be in tomorrow but i'll let you know.

#Interior and I cannot stress this enough Chinatown #reading tag

[deanmarywinchester]

people should give me money so i can get more tattoos and look hotter and sexier

#the amount I’ve been staring at my own thighs and pointing them out to my friends since I got my birds should be illegal

[deanmarywinchester]

a man told me today that his dog, which was so fluffy he had furry jowls that made him look like a cartoon pig, was an “F2 Golden Doodle.” sir you simply must be fucking with me. that’s not a type of dog it must be a kind of woobified military jet.

#‘yeah man I think I have ptsd from flying F2 Golden Doodles for the air force during The War.’ #personal #this was. to be clear. at a park during a rowing regatta. lots of fancy silly dogs there

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this is not related to the ethnicity of any portrayals of silver/it’s your own theory

#Sephardic silver sweep #black sails

[deanmarywinchester]

it's important to mock and belittle military and law enforcement to signal to others that these are not respectable professions, both to dissuade entry and to devalorize the institutions in the public eye

#the nypd is tweeting today like ‘every day we get hatred and vitriol just for the uniforms we wear’ and it’s like no it’s for all the other #things you do. and you can simply remove your uniforms if you want.

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The remake reboot prequel sequel industrial complex is killing me but the good thing is I don't have to watch any of that. I can just think "that sounds boring or otherwise doesn't interest me in any way" and do something other than watch it

#I read this post in Lou Wilson’s voice every time I see it #it’s the ‘I don’t find it necessary’ #posts

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hey, new york has cashless bail so I checked out the Columbia link because I was afraid it was a scam. It’s not a scam—it’s just not a bail fund either. It’s a legit-looking way (the instagram promoting the venmo account, also @ bcabolitioncollective, is followed by other community groups i trust) to donate to the Columbia and Barnard protests for other purposes. donate elsewhere if your goal is getting activists out of jail specifically, but if you just want to support, donate away!

bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

#Palestine #nyc tag #also all the student protestors in the city are out as far as I know