#great cities

[forever-a-lake-effect-kid]

ponderance of the day: you guys know those cities where like. the population doubles or triples during a certain part of the year due to tourism and summer/winter residents? i bet that must be really fucking creepy for cityhumans. like. does it seem like possession? like for half the year, all of a sudden, your friend is a brighter, shinier, different version of themself, even when just last week they were bitching with the rest of you about those damn tourists? or is it the other way around: the off-season hits and they fade, recede into themself, don't seem quite all there and take a minute to respond when you call their name? or is it both? do you start to wonder, eventually, which one is the real city? is there a real city, anymore?

#i went to bar harbor in march once and it was spooky. anyway #not super sure which fandom this should go in #cityhumans #great cities #wttt #why not all of them to be safe ig. lmao #factory towns is a sort of similar but also different horror that i will expand upon later if asked #sonder's posts

[littlegreenhouseplant]

nyc 🌻

#aesthetic #nyc #New York city #city #Central Park #architecture #New York #nature #concrete jungle #high rise #high rise building #greenery #trees #spring #summer #street photography #view #great cities #great view #mine #urban photography #decor

[nkjemisin]

I guess I should mention that I have a new book coming out, lol. THE WORLD WE MAKE, second and final book of the Great Cities duology, is due out November 1st! Note that the map shown here, made by Lauren Panepinto (Art Director at Orbit Books), is NOT FINAL. Neither is the cover on the Advanced Reader Copy shown. Also, the audiobook WILL be voiced again by the superb Robin Miles, who got nominated for an Audie for the last book! Preorder available at any retailer, and it’ll be in most libraries too.

#mah bookses #great cities

[keplerspacecraftofficial]

sometimes a family is an indigenous lesbian professor who beat up an informant at stonewall, an anxious indian math whiz who occasionally breaks the law(s of physics), a guy with a twenty in charisma and skeletons in the closet, a local politician who nukes a bajillion interdimensional spiders with some sick bars, and the embodiment of the full city of new york

#not featured (affectionate): #wannabe private eye who gets a stat buff from smoke and desserts #and the guy who is his partner. up for interpretation #not included (derogatory): thirty year old virgin #the city we became #thoughts from the stars #great cities

[bread--quest]

[ID: Three digital drawings of the characters Padmini, Manny, and Veneza, from N. K. Jemisin's Great Cities series. All three are very simple, lineless drawings of the head of the character. Padmini is a woman with brown skin and long, darker brown hair, and she is smiling slightly while looking off to one side. She is drawn against a blue background. Manny is a man with light brown skin and short, curly light brown hair, who is looking away with a neutral, unamused expression. He is drawn against a dark green background. Veneza is a girl with dark brown skin and curly dark brown hair in two buns, and she is grinning confidently at the camera. She is drawn against an orange background. All three have skylines drawn around the top of their heads in glowing white lines; the Queens skyline for Padmini, the Manhattan skyline for Manny, and the Jersey City skyline for Veneza. End ID.]

tcwb fans today i bring you: skyline halos. tomorrow? who knows....

#i had to redraw this like 3 times bc they kept coming out horribly crunched :( #sondart #wow look something original!! #great cities #the city we became #fan: restless city #nyc: manny #nyc: padmini #nyc: veneza #sorry i didnt do the others yet ghdhshsn these 3 are my special favorites so i did them first #might do the others later. perhpas. #not sure what neek's would look like... #also shout out to the silhouettes of the queens/manhattan/jc skylines i referenced. no idea why they existed but im glad they did

[centersy]

Manny: Neek is playing hard to get…

Manny: But it’s okay. Good thing I’m really hard to get rid of.

Neek (later in confessional): I’m only playing hard to get because pretty boy likes a challenge. He thinks he’s seducing me, but I’m seducing him.

#manny x neek #nyc avatars #the city we became #the world we make #great cities #n.k. jemisin #nk jemisin #booklr

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Padmini from Great Cities is asexual!

#padmini #great cities #the city we became #canon aspec #asexual

[lakecountylibrary]

Fav Books with Lesbian Characters

Oh ho ho it is Lesbian Visibility Week?? We have books for that.

There are SO MANY good books with lesbian characters out there these days! In my day, we had to walk 15 miles in the snow uphill both ways for just a lingering look between two ladies that might be interpreted as sapphic. Now we have CHOICES. Here are just a few of my favs:

The Wayward Children Series (particularly Down Among the Sticks and Bones and Come Tumbling Down) by @seananmcguire

I'll stop reccing Wayward Children when everyone has read it. The whole series features queer characters, but Down Among the Sticks and Bones (book 2) and Come Tumbling Down (book 5), featuring horror twins Jack (lesbian mad scientist) and Jill (I won't spoil it) are particular favorites of mine. And don't be intimidated by how many books are in the series - they're novellas!

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell

Speaking of not having time for full-length novels, how about an anthology of short stories? It's so wonderful to have story after story centering queer characters, especially for historical fiction fans. You'll find plenty of wlw rep in several iconic eras, from the 1700s to the 1950s.

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

Yes, yes, we've all heard the lesbian necromancers in space tagline, but a catchy tagline isn't the only reason people rave about this book. The storyline is absolutely wild, and so is the writing style - a dizzying blend of baroque gothic intensity and modern linguistic turns of phrase. And that's before you even get to whatever is going on in book 2 (second person???? How? Why??) It shouldn't work, but it does. There are murders, conspiracies, politics, duels, horrors beyond human ken, and yes, lesbians. Start with Gideon the Ninth.

The Great Cities duology by @nkjemisin

New York City is awakening into a Great City, and each of its boroughs has manifested a human avatar. There's a big cast of characters, but you'll never feel confused about who is who, or bored with one particular viewpoint. The character work in this book is phenom. There's also Lovecraftian horrors, very little romance, the best found family on the Eastern Seaboard, and a lot of love for New York. If you liked Neverwhere by @neil-gaiman, you'll like this. Start with The City We Became.

See more of Robin's recs

#lesbian visibility week #book recs #lesbian characters #lgbtq reads #lesbian books #wlw books #sapphic books #wayward children #seanan mcguire #all out #saundra mitchell #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir #great cities #n.k. jemisin #robin's recs #LCPL recs

[whitewaterpaper]

Vad tror vi @kulturdasset? Du som läst boken?

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#böcker #tv #n.k. jemisin #great cities #the city we became #science fiction #fantasy #Walden Media

[charon30030]

A little book review

I never use this account for squat besides liking random posts so I may as well make a little informal book review for a series that I really enjoyed.

Last night (no, this morning. I was reading till 2:00 AM) I finished The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin. It’s part of the Great Cities duology with The City We Became, which I read about a year ago so my memory’s not as clear with that one. And it is, uh... It’s a really good series!

I don’t really know how to review books...

Well, if you like New York, if you like found family, if you like Lovecraft but not the xenophobic junk that comes with him, if you like a wee bit of body horror, if you like queer stories and POC stories, and if you like poetic prose, you’ll probably jive with these books. The main cast is really endearing, each of them represent a borough of New York and one of them is New York. Jemisin definitely took a lot of care when it came to research and using many perspectives, along with her own experience as a New Yorker.

I also think Padmini (AKA Queens) is asexual? I mean, it’s a throwaway line...

“I don’t like women that way, either! I don’t like sex!”

She’s also just least horny of the bunch, so I can definitely see it. If that’s what Jemisin was intending, then hell yeah! Ace rep!

On a more personal note, for the past, I dunno, five or so years? I’ve been dealing with depression. The year before I actually reached out for help and started therapy and antidepressants, I had just completely lost the motivation to read, and I used to read all the time. The World We Make is the first book I’ve been able to read since I got out of that smog, and it’s just nice to be back again.

I had also lost the motivation to write. It’ll take a bit more effort to get back into that.

#book review #sortof #asexual #nkjemisin #great cities #the city we became #the world we make #book #series #New York #urban fantasy

[lifblogs]

Raise your hand if Bronca is your favorite character in the Great Cities trilogy by N.K. Jemisin.

#there’s so much to love about her! #great cities #the city we became #bronca #n.k. jemisin

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

i really am gonna finish this architecture book by the power of Too Sleepy To Start New Fiction, huh

#text #personal #books #reading #obsolescence #obsolescence: an architectural history #daniel m abramson #as opposed to #great cities #which is what i really have been meaning to start since i posted the pic 🫣😂 #i have also recently received New Nonfic in the mail and i wanna start those too #gotta finish this one first tho 👀 #its interesting but its kind of dry lol #and i feel like the focus is so narrow for claiming to be An Architectural History #like US and Britain and thats It #japan has been mentioned once #like its both too narrow and too broad i guess #keep it in the US or cover more of the world?? feels like a weird mix as is #basically obsolescence was made up by city planners to sell more buildings is my takeaway so far 😂

[sentientcitysmackdown]

ROUND 1, MATCHUP 14

Port Cecil! The chess-obsessed coral colony that came out victorious in the battle of the Sunless Sea cities! Not exactly London, but close enough to a certain variant that I felt it fitting to pair it off against London! The other one! The one from The World We Make! She's beautiful, she's insane, she's 32 warring factions mushed together into a brilliant contradiction of a city who manages to unnerve New York. Which of these two weird, weird cities will go on to the next round of the LONDON BATTLE?

#london (great cities) #port cecil #sunless sea #the world we make #great cities #failbetter games #sentient city smackdown #round 1 #LONDONBATTLE #in my mind london was wearing a top hat at all times

[inferior-fairy]

none of you understand I'm throttling this book I'm making sweet love to it I'm stabbing it in the alleyway I'm cuddling it in a movie theatre I'm introducing it to my parents I'm driving us both off the cliff as I whisper threats and love in the same breath

#the city we became #great cities #I'm genuinely going insane over this book #a better worded review to come #and I'm BEGGING ppl to read it #and for other fans to talk about it #do we want a discord??? I'll make us a discord #pls 😫😫🥺🥺 i need to talk about it with ppl before my heart explodes #also nkj if u see this know that I love you and thank u for giving us this 💙💙💙

[bread--quest]

neek and manny's dynamic is still so hysterical to me. neek is very reasonably like "he's hot but there is something wrong with him" meanwhile manny is like "i would absolutely die for/kill for/be killed by this guy. anyway google 'am i gay quiz'"

#wow look something original!! #fan: restless city #the city we became #great cities #nyc: neek #nyc: manny #i need to reread the world we make sooo bad

[mauricioelnarcisosympatico]

N.K. Jemisin's Great Cities duology reignited my love/hate relationship with new york. Its exactly the thing Veneza reminds Brona of in The City We Became, everyone from nyc says they hate the city but we never fuckin leaveee and we go hard for the city. So fuckin true, trust you can take the person out of nyc but ur not taking nyc out of the person. I have been recently unemployed and had just been re-exploring the city and these books came at the right time as I traveled through buroughs and just took them in and got involved in the community again. There's something about walking the streets and visiting the neighborhoods that the book describes that made me feel like I could feel the city breathing too. Mostly it was nice to read a queer fiction novel set in nyc or with new yorkers that ACTUALLY felt like new york, especially the main characters. I have met Bronca irl (an old college prof i had a crush on) I've met Brooklyn (past mentors), I've met Padmini, Neeks (classmates) and Aislyns (Pre school teachers who gave me the accent I have now cus they came to work in my burough from Staten Island smh), I'm glad i havent met Manny's yet jaja, but im sure he's walking around somewhere here too. I think it's a must for native New Yorkers!

Its been a while since i was blown away by a book and to have it be a series set in the city that raised me was a very neat treat. I'm excited to dive into more of N.K. Jemisin's work after finishing this.

#the city we became #the world we make #twwm #thank you N.K. Jemisin #great cities #books & libraries #newyork #nyc #nyc living