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 Hey, to you sci-fi/fantasy writers out there (and maybe some others, but this is mainly for things that can’t really be researched irl), if you want to write a character who is a driven, passionate expert on something, don’t write about them rambling indifferently about some boring, mundane part of it. Give them a deep, intense hatred of some oddly specific wow-I-did-not-even-know-that-was-a-thing-and-it-would-have-never-occurred-to-me-that-it’s-a-bad-thing thing they’ll gladly rant about.

 Write a dragon rider who really fucking hates it when a dragon is trained to bow while being reined. A space ship engineer who is pissed off when perfectly good antimatter ship has been adapted to run on neutral matter. A historian who is still not over the massive failures of a general who lost a specific battle 300 years before she was born.

 The guy currently giving us a series of lectures on the restoration of historical buildings really, really hates polymer paint. At the artisan school our stained glass teacher really hated this one specific Belgian artist - we never really figured out what did that guy even do, but he’s been dead for over 200 years and our teacher was glad that at least he’s dead.

 Experts don’t just know things you’ve never thought about. They’ve got strong opinions about it.

#predecessors

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So I deleted all the raybans things from my queue and changed my password, I hope that’s it?

#what do

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After a delay from covid, my story “The Aromatic Lovers” is out in Common Bonds, a speculative aromantic anthology! I think the ebooks and print editions are only going out to Kickstarter backers at the moment, but I’ll post again when it’s available. I’m very excited it’s finally out!

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So. Ray bans, anybody?

@merlissa?

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never mind me just busy imprinting on earthsea like a baby duck

#a wizard of earthsea #earthsea

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Broken objects, beyond repair.

Or: You thought I was over Imperial Radch? I’m never not going to be emotional about Sphene’s tea set being a metaphor for Everyone’s Trauma.,

(psst open the images in a new tab to read the text better)

#imperial radch #aaaah

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alright here it is! the “which ds9 character are you” quiz you’ve been waiting for! 

disclaimer: shit may be in a weird order and there are no descriptions with the answers bc i was too tired to write any 

#bashir! #that is pretty accurate actually.

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me: yes i know gay villains are a dangerous trope

me when villains are straight: this is boring. who cares

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“i am an accountant. i deal in costs, not faiths.”

my feral arithmetic ghoul baru cormorant, words can’t describe how much i love and am in awe of these books <333 they’re absolute works of genius

#the traitor baru cormorant #the tyrant baru cormorant #baru cormorant

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Nine for the Tomb, and for all that was lost

Ninth House

Second House / Third House / Fourth House / Fifth House / Sixth House / Seventh House / Eight House

#gideon the ninth #locked tomb trilogy

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yet more Harrows! ft. my interpretation of the various sacramental skull facepaints mentioned in HtN

#love this #harrow the ninth

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I wonder if she kept any of her fancy tourist clothes…

#this is really pretty #imperial radch #ancillary justice

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how to antagonize your necromancer feat gideon nav part 1 (part 2 coming shortly stay tuned)

#gideon the ninth

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when one of your three (3) girlfriends dresses you up to help you commit a murder

#htn spoilers #harrow the ninth

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Griddle’s Morbid Muppets: “Harrow the Ninth” as told By Gideon

#highly accurate and extremely cute #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb trilogy

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Back on my bullshit with the Seventh House. 

I’ve accepted that Protesilaus will always just be HeMan in my head. 

#oh i love #gideon the ninth #dulcinea septimus #locked tomb

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Gurathin and murderbot are both little binches and I love them so much

#op this is perfect #the murderbot diaries #murderbot