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diddlesanddoodles · 7 months

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Tonight's Temeraire musings (slight spoilers for the series but not really):

In the book series, it's discovered that nearly all dragons have an inate and deep understanding of complex mathematics. They're all incredible math nerds. And the story takes place during the Nepleonic wars and afterwards, the dragons start taking their place in society and end up with their own dragon representive in parliament.

So if you fast forward to modern times, would that mean all the math teachers and professors would be dragons? I'd have probably understood trigonometry a whole lot better if my teacher had been a dragon.

Just saying.

#Temeraire #random thoughts #why couldn’t i have a dragon math teacher #dragons #naomi novik #his majesty's dragon #book musings

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quinn-gaither · 2 months

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just finished plague, going into fear and thinking A Lot about the dekka and sam friendship. and the way that like… they’re just constantly on the same wavelength. they’re not the affectionate sort of friends nor are they always out here confessing their adoration of each other but it’s so! genuine! he’s SO worried about her becoming reclusive. dare I say one of my favourite friendships in the series 🥲

#sam #dekka #the gone series #the fayz #gone michael grant #.txt #book musings

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neonthewrite · 1 year

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did Jacob ever meet the little old elder from the beginning of the Bowman of Wellwood book? The one who warned that legends of humans were bloodthirsty carnivores who'd eat sprites. I feel like even after becoming an ally to Wellwood shed hold onto the legends, and Jake probably wouldn't know how to be anything other than socially awkward lol

(Hello this got buried in my notifications, whoops)

I don't think I ever thought about Jacob meeting that elder, or any of the other ones that held some similar thoughts in mind. Wellwood has remarkably few records in their story halls of their last interactions with humans, and they weren't the best... over time the message really got warped and the elders in Bowman's time have thought of them as mythical monsters for so long.

After hearing what Jacob did for them, though, and how he helped Wellwood itself stay safe, they'd have to reconsider those old biases. Which, as we know, can be hard to do, especially after so long.

Jacob has learned how to be very careful and gentle around sprites. As awkward as he'd definitely be, I bet he could win them over at least enough to not terrify them anymore. They probably wouldn't go near his hands, but they might try to chat with him from a high platform (for their own peace of mind, of course).

#jacob andris #bowman leafwing #bowman of wellwood #book musings #wood sprites

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morgynemberisagenderfluiddaddy · 2 years

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I deserve a medal for reading twilight in 2022 as full grown ass adult please but by god I finished it

#as a story itself didnt really hate it i liked the characters BUT MY FUCKING GOD THE WRITING LORD #and i feel safe saying this I HATED THE WRITING SO MUCH SOOOO MUCH just big big big yikes #also i feel REALLY safe saying this made me hate my own writing style a little less #so yeah in conclusion stephanie meyers can bite me and ms alice can BITE ME if you catch me drift 👀#jasper can also BITE ME im an equal opportunist #izzy speaks but i really shouldnt #book musings #twilight #tw*ilight #gif #nonsims

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caitykat · 2 years

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Book musings- Ringworld by Larry Niven

I’ve been listening to this as an audiobook while driving, running, biking etc. I’m only on chapter 8 but one thing has really been bugging me.

Is Larry Niven a mysoginist?

His Kzinti species is identified as male with non-sentient females for reproduction. His Pearsons Puppeteers have three individuals involved in reproduction with the one who is not labeled with the pronoun “he” as a non-sentient.

And his main female character is literally a 20 year old involved In the plot because she was having sex with him and had potentially been “bred for luck. ” The male MC keeps expecting her to be an idiot and not understand the danger she’s facing and is trying to make decisions for her.

I get that this was published in 1970 and all, and that science fiction is filled with mysoginistic bullshit that can’t even pass the Bechdel test. But it’s bothering me.

Will it get better? Is all his writing like this? Is the story worth listening to with a grain(boulder) or salt?

I’m listening to Ringworld by Larry Niven, narrated by Tom Parker on my Audible app. Try Audible and get it here: https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B002V5D7KC&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow

#science fiction #larry niven #ringworld #women in sci-fi #sci fi misogyny #bechdel test #70’s sci-fi #scififantasy #sci fi #book musings #book review #audible #classic science fiction #classic sci fi

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septemberkisses · 4 months

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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

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my-rheality · 9 months

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Started reading Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis. On pg 60 of 158 (including the postscript) currently.

And like. as a person who is made very uncomfortable/afraid by thinking too deeply about space, there is a certain level of creeped out that I have arrived at.

But also it's C.S. Lewis so the writing is dang good. I mean, we already knew that, but how well this is written provides a little comfort for the creepyness of ~space~.

How Ransom at least starts learning to communicate with the hross is so interesting and insightful imo. In a way it reminds me of why I had considered studying linguistics at one point.

Slowly but surely it's becoming more and more enjoyable to read.

anyone else read this book and have thoughts???

#Out of the Silent Planet #C.S. Lewis #book musings #I may do more of these #esp as I go more through the book

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vodkatales · 2 years

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For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.

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iphigeniacomplex · 5 months

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it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

#it speaks!#sondheim understood this with into the woods; the deconstruction of narrative itself is able to happen because we are able to believe in ->#<- the fairy tale logic he employs prior to this.#its a kids book but adam gidwitz understood this with a tale dark and grimm!!#cant speak for the rest of the series but that first book uses the absurdity of fairy tale logic to speak about the absurdity of ->#<- adulthood and the pedagogy present in many fairy tales to discuss the ways parents hurt their children.#rule of threes is important but theres so much on my list ive yet to read; always welcome recommendations.#fairy tales #into the woods #<- this comes from musings on how successfully i feel that musical functions so it gets the tag

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scarlethoodi · 1 year

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January and February Reading Log

Favorite January book: Legendborn

Least favorite January book: The Atlas Six

Favorite February book: Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute + Love Radio

Least favorite February book: Ace of Spades

13 out of 50 books read

#bookblr #book musings #reading log #reading goals #I had a pretty good time these past months #taking the last 2 days of February off #ya books #ya fantasy #ya romance #adult fiction

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words-at-night · 7 months

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melanthaeunomia · 29 days

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Do y’all ever reread an old unpublished fanfic you wrote and then get invested on the storyline but get sad because you never wrote the next part of it, just me?