#also besties in a somewhat progressive future it should be called Aotearoa!!!!

[aroaessidhe]

2022 reads // twitter thread      

A Half-Built Garden

aliens make first contact & offer to help humans evacuate from what they think is a dying earth

but actually human networks are trying to heal from climate change and don’t all want to leave

diplomacy, navigating different cultures, non-anthropomorphic aliens, parenting, family,

queer, trans, jewish

#A Half-Built Garden #a half built garden #aroaessidhe 2022 reads #ok overall i really loved this #really complex and interesting alien culture/human culture discussions #it felt a litle odd that of all of earth there was only like 3 groups of people talking to the aliens? I didn't get a sense of the global di #distribution of human society #like obviously if there were tons of different [countries] all there it would have been distracting but idk #(I think it did explain why there were only a few of them lol but) #obviously i prefer the intimate complexity of just focusing on a few anyway; so #The following is not really a critique of the book just something that was really distracting for me: #there's an artifical island called zealand which is south of australia; and is like. supercorportate/capitalist/antagonists #and im like. is this the future version of NZ? or is it separate? there's no acknowledgment of any of this other than its name #they also go there and there's none of our culture or anything. it's also in an australian timezone and has aussie native plants #and i'm like - are you implying nz is australian? also someone there is talking about fruit and calls kiwifruit 'kiwis' . #basically i'm just like why is this called zealand!! it's distracting!! you could have made up a name!! #also besties in a somewhat progressive future it should be called Aotearoa!!!! #like if there was mention of the fact that aotearoa exists and also this corporate zealand was made by the rich white billionaires? #i'd be like yeah ok. because there is mention/discussion of colonialism and indigenous cultures in other parts of the book! #the places they live in america are all the indigenous names!