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gettingovershame · 2 months

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Schaffa in The Fifth Season vs Schaffa in The Obelisk Gate gives the same energy as “How my parents were with me” vs “How my parents are with their grandchildren”

#WHERE WAS THIS ENERGY WHEN I WAS GROWING UP!?#the broken earth trilogy #broken earth trilogy #fifth season #spoilers #broken earth trilogy spoilers #the broken earth trilogy spoilers #obelisk gate #the obelisk gate

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living400lbs · 2 months

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"For all those who have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question"

- dedication from The Fifth Season by N.K. Jeminsin

"To those who have no choice but to prepare their children for the battlefield"

- dedication from The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jeminsin

"To those who’ve survived: Breathe. That’s it. Once more. Good. You’re good. Even if you’re not, you’re alive. That is a victory."

- dedication from The Stone Sky by N.K. Jeminsin

#n.k. jemisin #fifth season #broken earth #obelliak gate #stone sky #dedication

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tiredtiresias · 5 months

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Tonkee from the Stillness

Hope she gets some time with her trinkets when all’s said and done. Girls deserve trinket time even in the apocalypse

#fifth season #the fifth season #fanart #transfem #fav transgirl

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hiromicota · 1 year

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It’s a super busy day in RPG fundraising! I know of THREE excellent titles that just launched.

Constellation vol. 1! It’s a RPG zine anthology that collects 12 different games by cool designers!

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The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game! It’s based on N.K. Jemisin’s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth Trilogy, and you can play the QuickStart that I wrote and developed now!

Realms of Pugmire second edition! It’s a brand new and OGL–free edition of the best fantasy game where you can be good dogs, trying to make the world a better place.

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#TTRPG #ttrpg community #fifth season #Pugmire #hit point press #green ronin #onyx path publishing

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normal-draws · 2 years

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Hoa, from the broken earth. You know when a character is introduced and something about their description just lands perfectly for you and you can see them crystal clear? Yeah. Hoa, from the broken earth. Genius books.

#fifth season #stone sky #obelisk gate #broken earth #sci-fi fanart #Hoa #Essen #nassun #nk jemisin #fifth season fanart #art by op #illustration #fanart

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gepwin · 10 months

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“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at these contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they’ll break themselves trying for what they’ll never achieve.”“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at these contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they’ll break themselves trying for what they’ll never achieve.”

The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin

#book quote #fifth season #n. k. jemisin #respectability politics

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jaydubz98 · 1 year

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I just finished Gideon the Ninth and that book has changed me in a way that a book hasn't since I read either Way of Kings or the Fifth Season. I desperately need someone to talk to about this book. I walked away from that book a changed man.

#Gideon the Ninth #locked tomb #Books #harrow the ninth #I need to get the next book from the library #Way of Kings #Fifth season #I'm gonna be normal about this book #(lying)

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pixiewithpens · 6 months

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the downside to reading a really great book is that afterwards you’re just like now what. how could i possibly follow this up. any book i read after this masterpiece is gonna have an unfair disadvantage by comparison

#thinking about fifth season by nk jemisin #been days since i finished it and i have read another book since and maybe i’d have liked that one more if it didn’t come after fifth seaso #booklr #reading #fifth season #(obv i will follow it up with the rest of the series i’m just waiting for them to arrive)

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austinhardwicke · 8 months

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First Impressions “The Fifth Season” by N. K. Jemisin

First Impressions “The Fifth Season” by N. K. Jemisin I know absolutely nothing about this book, but the title makes me think its going to be an allegory for global warming

Prologue

Well I already broke my own rule, cause I will have to re-read the prologue of this book.

The story begins with a lot of words above my reading level. We are described a world that is not Earth, but extremely Earth-like. The few towns that exist are on the equator. There's a “display only” emperor that hangs out in a pyramid I think?

We cut to an angry man and his stone wife who he hates. Angry man talks about stone magic, and how much he hates noise, even from his bitch stone wife who makes no sound, which is also bad. Then he…MAKES VOLCANOES BLOW UP AND BLOCK OUT THE SUN?!

This is when I realized that I had checked out, and I was desperately trying to remember what “the stillness” was, or what a “parlance” is. (I think The Stillness is the name of the planet?)

There are floating obelisks, but the people who made them are losers.

The author references “Father Earth,” so you either remember this isn't regular Earth, or to build up to a possible patriarchy later on. It's distinct enough to have value at least.

I am trying to remember the names of the people and towns, which were all introduced in a machine gun faction, but they're slipping out of my brain as fast as they enter. We were introduced to a woman, and introduced to her son, told he was beaten to death, and then the story just moves on. Stone Lore is more of folk tales than magic. And the world is hinted at superstition and racism. They talk about “Rogga,” which I can only assume is this world's version of wizard.

After the cataclysm, we’re told of a big, torso shaped rock that, over days, pops open, and gives birth to some weird boy. If someone is born out of a rock, you know that they’re magical. Since the we just heard about a random boy getting beat to death, and the prologue ends with the narrator flat out saying that one story ending is another's beginning, I can only assume that stone boy is either A. Dead boy B. Going to be taken care of by mother of dead boy

C. Endlessly compared to others children who have died (in death we find life)

Now I'm going to re -read the prologue

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I might have some severe reading disabilities, because I completely spaced out on the book starting out on a woman holding her dead son's body. There's something about my own brain, and this book's writing style, that lends itself to information not sticking at all.

My current impression of this world is that I can expect amenities that I find on earth (like asphalt) but in low supply. There IS magic in this world, but it is ALSO in low supply.

#fifth season #writing #first impressions

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banannabooks · 2 years

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The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin

Holy. Shit. This is an excellent piece of fiction, and it has rocked me to the core (pun intended). The story follows three people: Damaya, a girl with great gifts that the world hates her for; Syenite, a powerful student who wants nothing more than to prove her worth; and Essun, a mother looking for revenge. Knowing nothing about this book is the best way to go into it. I only knew that it had good representation and was well written, so I suggested it for my book club, and boy was it amazing. It is masterfully written, the story ties together in such a gorgeous way, and even though it's confusing at first, the payoff at the end is more than worth pushing through this confusion. Immediately after finishing it I had to go back and read the prologue, and it was so satisfying. This review is all over the place, but just read this book okay?? Oh and check trigger warnings, for the love of god.

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a-selkie-abroad · 11 months

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finished Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin a while back and, wow.

First of all, a lot?? Darker then I was expecting? But man was it good! I went in pretty much blind and was pleasantly surprised by how awesome and in depth the world building is, as well as how well the dark themes were handled. The magic system being tied to plate tectonics and geology and all that was especially fun, since it let me apply a lot of the info I’d just learned in my uni course on it, lol. Jemisin obviously did a lot of research while writing this book and it pays off spectacularly.

And the format of the book? Executed amazingly! I don’t want to go into too much detail lest I spoil someone but I really loved how it all came together. I really fell in love with the characters. They’re all so fucked up and are going through some shit and so many aspects of the world are so expertly communicated through them. Would definitely recommend reading to anyone who likes scifi-esque fantasy. It’s very much a fantasy series, but it grounds itself in real geology, and that’s really cool. I’m already halfway through it’s sequel, Obsidian Gate, and I’m loving this book too.

#Broken Earth Series #book recs #bookblr #selkie.barks #Fifth Season

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wtfuckevenknows · 1 year

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Kölle Alaaf 🎉

#it’s that time of year #fifth season

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news-tey · 2 years

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'Bad Sisters' and the Wrath of Women Without Any Options

‘Bad Sisters’ and the Wrath of Women Without Any Options

There’s something about John Paul Williams, the deceased nucleus of the new Apple TV+ show Bad Sisters, played with gleeful intensity by the Danish actor Claes Bang. Bang’s typical role is a thinking person’s toxic crush; he simmers with intellectual self-satisfaction in the art-world satire The Square and indulges in casual fratricide and a spot of naked, fiery volcano-side wrestling in the…

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