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valenshawke · 5 months
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"'think of the children' always gets support unless what you're thinking about is leaving them with a better world. Somehow, we never need to think of the children when we're talking about climate change, or preventing pandemic diseases, or anything else that costs money. But here we are." - Unbreakable by Mira Grant.
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leveragehunters · 9 months
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Feed is on sale! For 2.99!
Amazon link.
This is a bloody incredible series, and it hits even harder now that we've experienced a full blown pandemic. It's takes place in a world where we won a zombie apocalypse, but I describe it as: "It's about zombies the same way Animal Farm is about pigs."
Seanan McGuire AKA Mira Grant gives an overview of the series in this fantastic interview (from 2012):
The basic concept behind the Newsflesh trilogy is that in 2014 the Zombie Apocalypse happened, and it took us about three years, but around 2017, 2018, we actually managed to win. A lot of people died, a lot of land was permanently ceded, but we came out on top. So 20 years pass, and you have an entire generation of people that’s grown up in a world where zombies just are. They’re not something special. They’re not something exciting. They just are. And people go on, people do what they do.
It also includes gems like:
I would call [the CDC] back and say, “If I did this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And every single time they would say, “No.” And I’d say, “OK,” hang up, and go back to working. After about the 17th time, I called and said, “If I did this, this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And got, “Don’t … don’t do that.” And at that point, I knew I had a viable virus.
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offonaherosjourney · 1 year
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Unbreakable by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) is a book about magical protectors and cosmic horrors.
If you like the magical girl genre you will love this book.
If you liked Madoka you will love this book. But also, if you didn't, you will love this book.
If you want a more nuanced and dark take on the magical girl genre (while still keeping the sparks and rainbows) that doesn't introduce mature and gritty themes just for the sake of subverting expectations, because it was written by someone that understands how to embrace and successfully marry the magical girl genre and the cosmic horror genre, while at the same time packaging it all with a realistic portrayal of how our world would react to/deal with magical protectors, you will love this book. And if you have already read this book please come talk to me about it.
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after-the-end-times2 · 11 months
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bitterkarella · 7 months
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Midnight Pals: Tapeworms
Mira Grant: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the parasite that makes you into a zombie Grant: so they genetically engineer a tape worm that cures everything Grant: so everyone gets one implanted Grant: but they were, all of them, decieved
Grant: so everyone has an implanted tapeworm Grant: and also people start turning into zombies King: oh that’s a weird coincidence! Poe: I bet those two things are related King: wait King: wait you think? Poe: well it would stand to reason Grant: have you guys heard this story before?
Grant: our hero is this girl who got in a massive car accident Grant: that gave her brain damage that made her more agreeable Grant: she got reverse Phineas Gaged
Grant: now that this girl is so agreeable, everyone she meets wants to tell her their life story Grant: which is really convenient for me, the storyteller! Grant: let’s get some exposition goinggggg
Grant: so the tapeworm makes people into zombies Bogleech: you act like the tapeworm is doing this on purpose Bogleech: it’s just trying to survive in its own way! Grant: people are dying Bogleech: [huffing indignantly] I don’t have to sit here and take this slander!
Grant: now civilization is collapsing because of tapeworm zombies Poe: oh careful this story’s getting a little intense for dean Grant: but also our hero got a dog Koontz: a dog?! Poe: think you’ve had enough dean, you’re getting hyper Koontz: i want to stay up and hear about the dog! Poe: come on dean let’s go Koontz: you’re not the boss of me! I want to stay and hear about the dog!
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ramavoite · 1 year
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We made a vow, unshakable: In starlight, we're unbreakable. We’ll protect the world with all we are, And when we fall, we’ll fall like stars.
- Mira Grant, Unbreakable
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quirkycatsfatstacks · 9 months
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Review: Unbreakable by Mira Grant
Author: Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire)Publisher: Subterranean PressReleased: March 31, 2023Received: Own Book Summary: Unbreakable Starlight was one of many groups of girl warriors tasked with defending the planet. Unfortunately, their name was not quite accurate, as most of the group fell – alongside every other warrior. Only two survived the massacre. Piper and Yuina. Now the government has…
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berrymuttbb · 1 year
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into the drowning deep by mira grant moodboard
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timemachineyeah · 5 months
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a major theme in seanan mcguire’s work is ‘the ocean is terrifying. fuck the ocean.’ and you can read that as a savvy horror movie line said by a doomed character or a sexual suggestion, either and both vibes are correct.
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freckles-and-books · 5 months
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Read this one yesterday, and I loved it.
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aninterstellarmess · 1 year
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I'm sorry but I have to blame @seananmcguire for creating a pavlovian reflex in my brain, 'cause yesterday when my landlady called me a lovely lady... I couldn't stop myself from completing with "of the sea".
Picturing myself as an amphibian anthropophagous creature was not something I was ready to do on a regular wednesday.
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words-and-coffee · 2 years
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We said ‘pretty women in the sea,’ and that was good enough, because who doesn’t want there to be pretty women in the sea? We turned monsters into myths, and then we turned them into fairy tales. We dismissed the bad parts.
Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep
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pjo-obsessed-nerd · 2 months
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I just fucked up and committed the cardinal sin of reading the last paragraph of story text in a book… it wouldn't be so bad if that paragraph wasn't the final paragraph of the next book's first chapter, which just gave away SO MUCH INFO AHH (like, don't get me wrong, its also encouraging me to finish the damn book but i only JUST STARTED CHAPTER FOUR. AHHHHHHHHH)
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faejilly · 2 months
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Week(s)-In-Review
Since I was too heavily invested in potato-ing to do this last week, this is technically two weeks worth. 🥔🥔
Watching: is actually REwatching M*A*S*H yet again. -ish?
As in letting it run on the tv in the background a lot. I'm already at Charles! He's such a better foil than Frank ever managed. (Glorious bastard vs snivelling ninny, the glorious bastard always wins.) I did stop and watch Mulcahy's War properly tho, since that's always been one of my favorite episodes. It is also where bb!jilly first learned the word 'tracheotomy' and bb!jilly wanted to be a pathologist when she grew up, so that's a pretty formative influence. Or something?
Adulting: Still enjoying my job, and they don't seem to want to get rid of me, either. 😄 Not so great with non-job to-do list, but whatever. Adulting is hard, no one's dying/starving/injured/fired, so we'll take it.
I finished my first "race" of the year! I don't have my medal yet though, you'll have to wait on that. I'm only averaging about a mile and a half a day which means I'm gonna need to be *over* three miles/day for the rest of the year, but I did the same thing last year, I just suck at January/February so it's not actually that discouraging. (I also lost a bunch of steps because I wasn't wearing my watch while I was shoveling out the driveway when we finally got snow last week, but whatever. 🤣)
Reading: Mermaids & Murder & Toad, oh my!
I liked Into the Drowning Deep more than Rolling in the Deep, but I'm glad I finally tracked down a copy so I could read it, it is very good. If tragic. But I knew that going in.
Adèle from Jane Eyre is an excellent heroine of her own, and for all I do actually adore the original, this is visceral & self-aware in a way I think Bronte would have appreciated, even as it does emphasize different conclusions.
Hey look I've had T. Kingfisher in *every one* of these so far, so are we surprised? No. Is Thornhedge spectacular & somehow adorable even around all the terrible fae violence? Yes. (I should let my mother know I'd like the hardcover for my birthday, since it was a library read. 🎁)
Playing: Cult of the Lamb, to poke around the new Sins of the Flesh update. It's a very silly game, but again, I knew that already 😅😅😅 (Thing 1 got it for me, I'm glad he knows I've put an embarrassing number of hours into it.)
Creating: No writing or podfics or fanmixing, despite the occasional intention for all of the above. However!
I did actually get Gerald & Piggie onto the bookshelf:
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Only now I don't know what I want to try and make next...
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bitterkarella · 7 months
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Midnight Pals: Moonland
Mira Grant: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the super rich woman who bought the moon Grant: but it’s okay, it turns out she’s one of those nice super rich people Grant: who just wants to do whimsical things
Grant: but that’s all in the past Grant: that woman is a relic of a by-gone age of exploitative capitalism but now they realized that letting rich people buy moons might not be a good idea Grant: but they let this one moon sale stand Grant: you know, for fun 
Grant: so in the future, this super rich woman builds an amusement park on the moon of Saturn Grant: but it’s earth moon themed Stephen King: what’s that mean? Grant: cheese Grant: lots and lots of cheese
Grant: so the moon amusement park exists in perpetuity Grant: luckily the rich woman left in her will that nothing bad can ever happen Clive Barker: how’s that work? Grant: oh you know Grant: lawyers wrote it down that nothing bad can ever happen Grant: pretty boilerplate stuff
Grant: so the descendants of the super rich woman are going to the amusement park Grant: but they’re just ordinary folks, you know, just like you and me! Grant: despite being scions of obscene moon-buying wealth
Grant: they might be super rich but they’re just like you and me Grant: just your average polyamorous bisexual commune Barker: oh damn! they ARE just like us 
Grant: so the descendants go to the moon amusement park Grant: but, uh oh, someone tries to kidnap their kid! Grant: don’t worry, it doesn’t work Grant: so they all lived happily ever after Dean Koontz: phew! that had me worried
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