#earth girl series

[avaloque]

when people ask me whether i was a harry potter or percy jackson girlie, i would have no answer because i was an earth girl, a the unwanteds and a charlie bone girlie

#the unwanteds #lisa mcmann #charlie bone #children of the red king #jenny nimmo #i would choose pjo btw #fanon hp is way better #i wouldnt reread it like pjo #readers #books #published books #readers problems #earth girl series #janet edwards

[highladyluck]

Vorkosigan Saga Readalikes

I was going to wait to write this until I had three options, but I haven't yet thought of a third series that really gives me those Vorkosigan Vibes, and I don't want to sit on these any longer. Both the Earth Girl series and the Merchant Princes series remind me of the Vorkosigan Saga in various ways.

It's some combo of similar themes, characters, setting, multiple installments, and compulsive readability. Like with the Vorkosigan saga, I eventually lost the ability to wait for friends/the library to deliver the sequels to me, and I ended up buying later installments/the whole series on my ereader so I could have them on-demand.

Vorkosigan Saga…but YA The Earth Girl series by Janet Edwards

2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. Eighteen-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make.

Jarra is a historian-in-training with a lot of experience excavating ruins on Earth, who joins a class of newbie offworld students under false pretenses, basically to show them up and get proxy revenge on the galactic society that's made her a second-class citizen. Then the false military background she concocts for herself- and the relationships she makes with her classmates- turn out to be more real than she ever intended.

Like Miles, Jarra is desperate to prove herself and does all sorts of stupidly heroic nonsense. Her disability is maybe even more of a cultural construct than Miles's is, while still having enormous influence on her psyche, childhood and career goals. The military in this series, which Jarra hero-worships, is (now) strictly a space exploration/terraforming force.

Hilariously, this series also has a Beta (sector) with a cultural tradition of looser sexual mores/trio marriages. There's also a sort of 'second career' arc for Jarra that's very satisfying, after you get lots and lots of fun and suspenseful archeological excavations (I'm not being sarcastic, they're fascinating!) The secondary cast is also really interesting, and there are installments in the series that explore their backstories and post-Jarra paths.

I read this as an adult (it was a tumblr rec!) and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I would absolutely recommend it to adult Vorkosigan Saga fans. It is firmly in the YA bucket in terms of being a coming-of-age story, so you could also gift it to somebody who might be too young for the Vorkosigan Saga and its' bucket-o-content-warnings, but who you otherwise think would love Miles. (This is not really a Vorkosigan similarity, but I also want to give the series a shoutout for realistic-seeming teen slang, which is harder to do well than you'd think.)

Vorkosigan Saga…with extra Cordelia please The Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross

By the time we meet them at the dawn of the 21st century the Clan of five families who by careful arrangement can produce offspring who world-walk [to parallel universes] have become, in their home world, richer than Croesus. But all this wealth comes at a cost, and envious eyes are watching them just as a business journalist in Boston loses her job and discovers a family heirloom that topples her straight into a cliché that can only end badly in real life: the orphan who discovers she’s the long lost daughter of a noble house, and the subject of all their expectations.

Miriam Beckstein reminds me of Cordelia- a high-tech, driven woman who suddenly finds herself enmeshed with a group of literally feudal relations and embroiled in their political/personal schemes. Like Cordelia, she also sets out on a modernization process for her adopted culture(s), although she has less oblique strategies at her disposal than Cordelia does.

There is also a thematic focus on genetics in this series, and some of the power dynamics connected to that are explored in even greater detail than in the Vorkosigan Saga. The world-walkers have a complex arrangement of arranged marriages to keep the genetic ability to teleport to other timelines, and so like on Barrayar (and Cetaganda), the grandmothers who arrange these marriages are the ones really running the genetic show. (There's also a similar plot thread of 'culturally traumatic nuclear bombings'.)

My favorite part of this series is the latter half, when Miriam meets a political dissident in yet another alternate timeline and works with him to transform his world, and hers in the bargain. If you wanted to see Cordelia winning on a faster timeline, you'll love Miriam and her 30-year plan. There's also a sequel series that explores another member of the family, which has a lot of spy thriller elements and a lesbian romance. (Not going to say too much there, because spoilers.)

My spouse says this series is too 'of its time' for him to really enjoy it, by which he means that the ultimate villain is Evil Mastermind Dick Cheney. This doesn't bother me, but I mention this in case you, too, think Evil Mastermind Dick Cheney is a somewhat dated plot element from the vantage point of 2023. It's definitely more of a Cordelia-and-Aral readalike than a Miles readalike, although the sequel series has some superficial similarities to the introduction of Mark, now that I think about it!

I hope this gives you some new books to check out, all 10 of you Vorkosigan fans that might see this.

#vorkosigan saga #the vorkosigan saga #earth girl #the earth girl series #earth girl series #merchant princes #the merchant princes

[elveny]

I so badly need a continuation of Jarra's adventures on Fortuna it's not even funny 😩

#earth girl trilogy #earth girl series

[soleildrawsstuff]

The future of all witches

#atelier of witch hat #coco atelier of witch hat #digital art #fanart #soleildrawsstuff #my art #witch hat atelier #witch hat coco #witch hat fanart #wha #tbna #brushbug #this series means so much to me #and Coco is one of the most well written down-to-earth common girl ever written #yes make a characters empathy be both her virtue and undoing and the very challenge in the story #and to not kill her kindness in the process #just please read Witch Hat Atelier

[guntapon]

RIP to director Tiw’s artistic vision. 😞 (And also his arm. Ouch.) 

+ Bonus: MLM/WLW solidarity seething jealousy 

#my school president #my school president the series #tinngun #guntinn #fourth nattawat #gemini norawit #mark pakin #thaidrama #userjjessi #scheduled post* #* #msp* #gemfourth* #i haven't seen this scene giffed yet so here u go #3 days after the fact #also i'm dying at the girl's face in the bonus gif #she looks like she's vividly imagining running up that pier and shoving tinn directly into the lake #and then gun's literally CRAWLING out of his skin #gun baby that is a wee lesbian and the gayest man on earth- you can relax

[dogerbooger]

Pearl, we are going to take her down together.

Non text versions!

#tumblr is fighting me over this post #girl please work this time #Anyway I hope the cloud scar on Scar’s face comes across. i wanted to add more but idk how i was going to do that #Thats all i have to offer on Scar is Earth propaganda #In general I hope this art makes sense lol I think I made it a bit confusing #life series fanart #secret life #life series #trafficblr #secret life fanart #secret life smp #mcyt #mcyt fanart #pearlescentmoon fanart #gtws #gtws fanart #goodtimeswithscar fanart #smajor fanart #grian fanart

[respectthepetty]

Green - Aylin

Blue - Ongsa

Yellow - Sun

Color Exchange for their girlfriends & 💕PINK💕!

The colors mean things

#23.5 the series #23.5 degrees #space is for the queers #and so are the colors #background noise #the sun x the earth #the alien x the moon #the colors mean things #color coded girls in love #color coded people in love #the color exchange #the colors are coloring

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Doctor Who is a story where humans make themselves gods, become myths staining the tapestries of the universe, and the last member of a race of gods is made human, cowardly and vulnerable and kind in a way no other god would dare make themselves and this is the very thing that allows the god-made-human to survive and even win at the end of the day (and the very thing that often dooms the humans-made-gods)

#listen this is a line that came to me on the airplane #and I'm gonna try to find a way to incorporate it into one of the fics in this series #the original version starts with “This is a story” instead of “Doctor who is a story” but it honestly fits the show as a whole #like bad wolf #the woman who walked the earth #the most important woman in all of creation #amy bringing back the doctor in the pandorica #even the impossible girl (though I'm still not a fan of how the show executed it) #the one thing I have to give the moffat era is how it leaned into one of my favorite vibes in that it felt like sci-fi told as fairytale #(that does come with its sexist drawbacks but when it hits it HITS) #rose tyler #martha jones #donna noble #amy pond #clara oswald #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #bro when the Doctor was bridal carried by Bill #or had his memories erased by clara #whenever you can overlay sisyphus or orpheus or prometheus over both companions and doctor...good shit #bill potts #thirteenth doctor #we get less of this with thirteen #tho in late flux/2022 specials yaz does get to come closer and closer to godly/Time Lord like when she learns how to pilot TARDIS/lead #i just wish the show DID SOMETHING with it #gave her an epic finale moment like other companions got #yazmin khan #like even some of the other companions

[queerism1969]

#marvel comics #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt pride #nonbinary #lesbian #sapphic #nonbinary lesbian #lgbtq community #gay girls #queer #earth 616 #marvel 616 #ultimate universe #beta ray bill #loki series #loki season 2 #loki #lokius #loki finale #loki laufeyson #loki s2

[veveisveryuncool]

adeleine <33 she invades my brain with her stupid artist whims and human angst so. her <3

#tbh this isnt the most changed design i have. but she is fun to draw #guys what if i made her a little bit cantonese #she has that ethnically ambiguous swag that i kin #tbh. earth by the time she comes around would probably be very mixed so. its not far off #were gonna take over the world #ANYWAYS #go read my one (1) cringy adeleine fic #she is my favorite actually i love her sm #little girl swag!!! may nothing bad ever happen to her #actually no give her an existential crisis #kirby series #adeleine kirby #veves ultra cool art

[dramaism]

vegas + apologizing to pete

#vegaspete #kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #vegas x pete #bible wichapas #bledit #lakornedit #thai drama #thai bl #mufaloedit #kinnpedit #oh no baby girl realized that they treated the love of their live so wrong((( #hope you’ll treat pete like the most precious person on the earth in the future #tbh i pity vegas too i’m soft

[avaloque]

for the record, on goodreads ‘22 challenge:

i read 143/140 books (it was 150 goal but i changed it because their was no way in hell i was reaching that number with the reading slump i was in)

that was 60,944 pages

avg. book length being 426 pages

i have discovered that the earth girl series needs to be known more 

avg. rating is 3.8

lancali is the best - she was my first review on goodreads

 that’s all. thanks

#readers #books #published books #goodreads #goodreads 2022 reading challenge #goodreads 2022 #reading challenge #earth girl #earth girl series #janet edwards #lancali #lancaliii #i fell in love with hope

[lauraeszter]

Percy when he realizes how many times he walked in on his mother 'finding comfort in the rain' aka having the longest enging rainsex known to mankind with the eartshaker poseidon god of sea:

#sally jackson is my spirit animal #you go girl #he can make the earth AND your legs shake #percy jackson #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #sally jackson

[casualavocados]

By the way, I had a dream last night. I saw a silver necklace. A silver necklace? Yeah. I walked into the woods. I found it on a tree stump, kind of. Let’s look it up.

Mark Pakin as SALENG and View Benyapa as PRAEW in MOONLIGHT CHICKEN (2023) dir. Backaof Nopparnach Chaiwimol

#moonlight chicken #mlcedit #moonlightchickenedit #midnight series #mark pakin #view benyapa #lengpraew #earth pirapat #hipranparakul #userkit #usernuria #tosnimeat #userjjessi #*cajedit #*gif #ok so today im in a different corner playing with different rocks but this just stuck out to me- #this show is SO HARD TO COLORRRRR #anyway i hope they have a baby girl

[majimassqueaktoy]

The customer is king, you see.

#goro majima #majimaedit #yakuzaedit #rggedit #rgg #ryu ga gotoku #Y0edit #yakuza 0 #majima #Lord of the night #goddddddddd #they couldnt have done anything sexier on this earth for his opening #i went into this series expecting to be a Kiryu girl #through and through #and i do love him so much. I do. #but majima man....... #too good

[cantsayidont]

November 2023. I've long since accepted that solo Power Girl stories are probably always going to be dreadful, and the dreary first issue of the new POWER GIRL book by Leah Williams (following on her equally dreary POWER GIRL SPECIAL, which at least had Marguerite Sauvage) suggests that that's not going to change any time soon. Some creative highlights of this bold new direction for Power Girl:

A stupid name-change. Rather than calling Power Girl "Kara," which is of course her actual name, or "Karen Starr," the name she's been using since 1977, she's now called "Paige," an arbitrary suggestion from the "Super-Family" so they won't confuse her with their real cousin, the one they care about. Come on.

Still more insufferable gay-baiting. The New 52 WORLDS' FINEST series with Power Girl and the Huntress was relentless in this regard, and of course anything involving Harley Quinn is always on beyond zebra. This time, Power Girl is gal-palling it up with former Teen Titan Lilith Clay (now calling herself Omen). If you just flipped through these books without reading closely, you would assume Kara and Lilith were girlfriends — they live together and walk around holding hands, and they share some kind of astral-psychic bond — but rather than finally committing to Power Girl actually being gay, there are various wink-wink-nudge-nudge ass-covering asides to assure us that "Paige" and Lilith are totes no-homo besties. Come on.

More screwing around with her powers. DC has been through this repeatedly with Power Girl: de-powering her, changing her powers, trying to give her weird magical abilities that aren't part of the standard Kryptonian power set, rinse, repeat. This time, Power Girl has been made over as "a rookie psychic" with a reality-shattering "astral-punching" ability obviously stolen, quite shamelessly, from Marvel heroine America Chávez — who, if you aren't familiar, is a reality-punching, super-strong lesbian from a utopian all-lesbian parallel dimension. So … Power Girl is now a totes no-homo DC knockoff of America? Come on!

Then, there's the cumbersome yellow explanatory caption box:

Does this mean EVERY version of Kara must now have been sent to Earth "to look after her younger cousin"? That was not part of Supergirl's pre-Crisis history, and it certainly wasn't part of Power Girl's! At the risk of being a joyless feminist buzzkill, defining DC's most powerful superheroines in terms of their erstwhile caregiving role for a younger male relative (in the face of the near-extinction of their world and people, yet) is a really bad look. I hate it!

How much of this should be blamed on Williams and how much is editorially imposed is hard to say — DC has always struggled to find anything to do with Power Girl, or even ways to portray her that don't just come down to "What if Supergirl were kind of mean and really stacked, with a more confusing origin?" — but it certainly isn't good.

#comics #power girl #leah williams #eduardo pansica #júlio ferreira #kara zor l #lilith clay #i'm also not convinced that the “refugee from a lost timeline/dimension/parallel world” plot is sustainable for an ongoing series #it was a millstone around the neck of the N52 worlds' finest book #and the tomasi/gleason superman rebirth series finally had to just drop it arbitrarily #because it was confusing and didn't have any real direction #i am also not keen on earth-0 being renamed earth prime #that used to mean something very different! #prime earth is not the same as earth prime #which was supposed to be OUR real world