#ender's shadow

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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#scifi #books #Ender's Shadow #Orson Scott Card #poll #result: no #l: English

[thelastofthebookworms]

You'll find the other polls in my 'sf polls' tag / my pinned post. I also have a 'fantasy polls' tag and 'fairy tales' tag in my pinned post.

#polls #sf polls #science fiction #the word for world is forest #ursula k. le guin #ursula le guin #the martian #andy weir #all systems red #martha wells #foundation and empire #isaac asimov #the fall of hyperion #dan simmons #ender's shadow #orson scott card #the restaurant at the end of the universe #douglas adams #consider phlebas #iain m banks #iain banks #wool #hugh howey

[argido]

#pencil artwork #pencil drawing #achilles #ender's game #ender's shadow #achilles de flandres #life ruiner #childhood books #traditional art

[jodjuya]

One of the things that happens some times with ebooks is that the original text's kerning will be slightly off enough to fuck up the OCR and you end up with minor typos. "rn" will become "m" or vice versa, for instance.

This is the funniest fucking typo I've ever seen in my life:

#ender's shadow #Bean Enderverse #bean delphiki

[reading-sometimes]

Bean Delphiki SHC Sorting

I'm sorting Bean from Ender's Game. I'm going to mostly be focusing on the book Ender's Shadow, since it's a retelling of Ender's Game from Bean's perspective. A basic explanation of the system that I'm using by @wisteria-lodge be found here.

Bean would be a villain in any other story. He has low empathy, and he's a Burnt Snake who doesn't care about anything but his own survival. He grew up homeless on the streets, and when he finds a gang he immediately tells the leader of it, Poke, to kill a bully.

He's even treated like a villain in-universe. He has to tell people that he's not a machine and that he has emotions. A teacher believed that Bean was lying to them no matter what he said, because of his Snake secondary. Petra tells Bean that it's a relief that he has feelings, or that he "thinks it's worth pretending to have them, nobody's sure about that yet."

He has a strong Snake primary, even though it burned before the beginning of the book. He says that it's a mistake to think of anyone but himself. He doesn't understand it when people are homesick, or why anyone would be nice to him without an ulterior motive. When a nun saves him from the streets and gives him a home, he doesn't trust her, or love her. He was on guard all the time, and he didn't think that he was safe. When he left, she hugged him, and he couldn't understand why. His only goal is to survive, and he doesn't care what he has to do to achieve it. He wants to "kill someone who is helpless, just because they might pose a danger later".

He unburns his Snake primary as he makes friends that don't leave him or die, like his brother Nikolai and Ender. He liked Nikolai even though he was "nothing special, except to me", which is a big improvement over Bean not understanding why hugs exist. He puts Nikolai into the army with him because of nepotism (and his Snake Primary). He says that Ender gives his life meaning, and that serving with Ender is its own reward.

Bean has a very strong Snake secondary. He crawls through the air vents to spy on the teachers, he pretends that he's a drunk guy's son so that he can talk to him alone, and he uses his power as the smallest kid to be able to get soup from the homeless shelter. He says that it feels terrible to be cornered. If he "thought of something that might get him some advantage later, he did it." Soldiers, at least in Battle School, where they tend to have more agency than in the real military because they're being trained to lead armies, are practically made for Snake secondaries. Bean says it himself. "Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to the enemy and outnumber the other bastard every chance they get."

When he first hears about Ender (a Badger Snake), he doesn't understand him at all, which is only made worse by his low empathy and his Burned Snake primary. He doesn't understand why Ender's practicing with people who can't do anything for him, and he sees Ender as more human than he is. The teachers are suspicious of Bean hiding all of the things that he's not supposed to know, so to throw off their suspicion he decides to act like their favorite student (Ender). He creates a Badger Primary model so that the teachers would like him more. Granted, this could be Bean using Actor Bird from his Bird secondary model, or face-switching as a Snake secondary. He's creating a persona for the teachers, which seems like he might be modeling an Exploded Badger. He wants to "become what they hoped their perfect commander would be" and "make himself into the kind of child that the teachers would trust, would rely on". He realizes that the only way to advance in the military is to please his superior officers, fitting into the system and thinking in ways that they're comfortable with.

His Badger Primary model becomes less Exploded and something that he likes using for himself throughout the book. He says that everyone should be "learning from each other, sharing information and ideas." They should work together to "explain what they were thinking, why they did what they did." This could also be from his Bird Primary model, but given the focus on cooperation, I feel safe using it as a Badger primary example. He "used his inside information to give himself the illusion of belonging to the community." He slowly changes his worldview to match Ender's, culminating in Bean not wanting to kill the villian anymore. He "hadn't realized how much he needed the honor of others until he finally got it."

He also has a Bird Primary model. He "never fully trusted his own guesses." He "acted on them, but always kept himself open to the possibility that his interpretations might be wrong." He wants "as much control over his own future as possible" (which could also be his Snake secondary). His Bird Primary model is probably immature, since he calls people stupid a lot, and part of his character development is Bean realizing that other people's perspectives are valuable. He seeks out other people's opinions because "it was hard to break free of his own assumptions. One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself."

He also has a Lion Primary model, which means that he's collected them all. He gets emotional pings (explained by Bean unconsciously noticing things, or survival instincts). He follows the pings when he notices them. His "heart was still jumping; something is wrong". I considered that he was a Lion Primary, but he's so Snake that he couldn't be anything else. He also acts like a Glory Hound Lion sometimes. He purposefully created Ender's army so that Bean himself would have the greatest chance of success. He's doing it more for Ender to notice him than anything, but one of the teachers does say that he has a vain streak.

Bean stands back and watches before jumping in most of the time, indicative of a Bird secondary model. He even has a list that he follows: "know, think, choose, do." He's prideful about how he doesn't let his feelings influence his decisions. He wants "order, finding out how things worked, getting a grasp on the world around him." This could also be his Snake secondary, but they generally don't want order (even though it could also be his Bird Primary model). He "had to get more information in order to have some hope that his analysis was correct and that his choices would be valid." He says that he should "follow the script" in a conversation, indicative of an Actor Bird (and his autism).

He feels proud of himself for making bold decisions, which could be a Lion secondary model. He has fun goading bullies. He tells a teacher to "swallow hard and back down", and that he needs Bean's cooperation more than Bean needs his. He does all of that for Ender, not for himself, but he feels cowardly for choosing to run away from everything.

The differences between Ender and Bean (and Badger and Snake primaries, as well as high and low empathy) are obvious at the end of the book. When Ender defeated the enemies, he was absolutely horrified, because he'd committed genocide and he felt like he was worse than Hitler. Bean thinks that "the death of Poke was more important than the death of an entire species that I never saw." He "didn't know them, so how could he grieve for them?"

#bean #julian delphiki #bean delphiki #ender's game #ender's shadow #shc #sorting house chats #this boy has so many models #I feel like I overused quotes #especially long sentence quotes #but I love this series so much lol

[effusive-eschatologist]

where the hell is the ender's shadow fandom on this website

#ender's game #ender's shadow

[coolcomicbookcovers]

#ender's shadow

[jimmawww]

Fave Game Over Screens 2

Ape Escape

Cruelty Squad

Cyberpunk 2077

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

Kingdom Hearts

Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil

Persona 3

Shadow of the Colossus

Tales of Vesperia

Undertale

Viewtiful Joe

Zone of The Enders

Bayonetta

The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

F-Zero GX (worst)

#Ape Escape #Cruelty Squad #Cyberpunk 2077 #Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance #Hitman 2: Silent Assassin #I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream #Kingdom Hearts #Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil #Persona 3 #Shadow of the Colossus #Tales of Vesperia #Undertale #Viewtiful Joe #Zone of The Enders #F-Zero GX #Youtube #AeternoBlade II #Bayonetta #The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

[yoonyia]

I need to draw more enders game stuff, if you don't have content create your own and die with grief that there's no fandom.

be the fandom

become the hoard of brains

I need help I stayed up way to late last night

#enders game #ender’s game #ender in exile #im getting the shadow books soon i swear to god

[kenonade]

he would never do such a thing 🥺

#ender's game #enderverse #achilles de flandres #peter wiggin #bean delphiki #shadow saga #how tf do you tag for a fandom that has never existed #kenon.art

[ralexsol]

wonder if tealor briefly had a sense of deja vu when looking at the prophet for the first time. like they were strangely familiar. through the fog of his memories, he sees a flash of 3 years before, when he was approached by a shadow figure who emanated the same otherworldly aura. the prophet is naive and untrained. but the shadow god, despite still being early on in their quest, was already ready and waiting to take on fate

#enderal #enderal: forgotten stories #nehrim #nehrim: at fate's edge #sureai #vynblr #whatsupray? #thinking about how enderal was about lack of freedom and nehrim about demand for freedom #the prophet accepted the terrible options before them #but the shadow god denied the universe what it wanted

[electricsh33ps]

When the main character starts to slowly change appearance as they defeat more bosses.

#I've only played like 2 games that do this but I'm sure there are more #ender lilies #shadow of the colossus #my post

[ehhgg-art]

achilles in my head: anarchist, realistically psychotic, a scholar, artistic/creative

achilles in canon: R rated looneytoons villain

#he’s so cool in my head but so fucking lame in canon #achilles de flandres i will save you!!!! #achilles de flandres #enders game #enders shadow #orson scott card #osc #fuck that guy

[argido]

#orson scott card #ender's shadow #ender's game #achilles de flandres #pencil artwork #pencil drawing #childhood books #traditional art

[jodjuya]

I finished reading "Children Of The Mind".

It got much much better once I made it through those initial garbage chapters set on The Japanese Planet.

It wrapped everything up neatly enough at the end, aside from any answers whatsoever about the Descoladores. (Which will probably annoy me forever but oh well you can't have everything.) And the story's momentum really picked up very nicely past those aforementioned garbage chapters set on Divine Wind.

I didn't even give a shit about much of the rest of the things that I've seen other people on here complaining about. I could easily write apologetics for most of it.

But the one really nasty thing that truly shocked me out of the story was one of Jane's allies being named as "Abo University on Outback".

Non-Australians may not realise, but that is a straight up slur. Like, every friend I have would drop me on the spot if I sincerely used that term, and I wouldn't have much respect for any that didn't. It's on par with Card having, hypothetically, instead written that one of Jane's allies was "N***er University on the planet Mississippi"

If you squint, his one saving grace could be said that Card was merely a breathlessly ignorant American, as so very many of his countrymen are.

But even in 199X, or whenever it was he wrote that, that term was still a slur and everybody in Australia knew it. And that was something that he or his editors or his proofreaders could have verified so incredibly easily.

So yeah, fuck that guy. He writes good books but man, what a cunt.

And then I read "Ender's Shadow" all the way through in a single sitting and cried multiple times!

And so I have to somehow reconcile that somebody who can craft such stories can yet still be such an utterly wretched piece of shit.

Death Of The Artist: easy-mode.

#children of the mind #ender's shadow #orson scott card #Enderverse

[astarionbae]

SHADOWS OF A LEGACY

Sixteen years after the defeat and fall of the Sith Eternal and First Order Nova Palpatine and Ben Solo, along with Jedi Rey and Finn, have began teaching the newest generation of force users. Ender Solo, daughter of Nova and Ben, struggles to find herself and a balance between the light and dark side. With her two best friends Jace and Phee, they set out to learn their place in the galaxy. But they soon discover that the Force is so much bigger than any creed and philosophy that's been written in history books.

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#allaboutocs #ocappreciation #fyeahstarwarsocs #queerocs #ender solo #jace volanaro #adelpha nox #plus the droid that ender makes by herself fashioned after bb8 and bd-1 #fic: shadows of a legacy #my ocs #my creation #mine