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fun character types
character who is not allowed to kill themself
related: suicidal character who physically can't kill themself
alive character who has successfully committed suicide
character who hasn't died but has committed thematic suicide of the Self
character who thinks they're suffering karmic punishment for killing/trying to kill themself
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work like a red onion
play like a white onion
fuck like a green onion
omg please (only if you want of course) expand on what you said about omegaverse being Wrong about dog sex
well there's a few different things but here's my primary objections, based on my personal experience assisting with dog breeding:
- knotting itself REALLY does not seem fun for most dogs (Glimmer disagrees but she is. an outlier in my experience.) they definitely are compelled to mate, and I think that must be enjoyable, but once the tie happens most dogs are immediately like "goddammit" and just stand around in a state of chagrined regret for twenty minutes. the most extreme version of post nut clarity. some of them REALLY hate it and you have to grab the bitch to prevent her from trying to run off with the dog's dick still in there bc she could potentially really hurt him. so there is a lot of comedy potential there imo. firstly you're stuck together for half an hour and it's deeply inconvenient. what if one of you needs to get up and grab something off the dresser. imagine the stupid little shuffling walk they'd have to do. and then also imagine if there was a very real danger that someone would freak out and try to Escape your dick in a blind panic and you'd have to try to keep them calm so they didn't give you some sort of dick injury? very funny.
- on a more social implications level, I think it is cowardly to not do a left hand of darkness thing where when someone ISN'T in heat, sex simply Does Not Occur. Ever. as in it is physiologically*not possible* to have sex outside of heats, and no one has any interest in it. that would change human society SO much & is a really fascinating world building scenario, imo, and I think it's really weaksauce that ppl aren't exploring it. heat cycles exist because of a very very different model of ovulation cycles that result in pretty extreme physiological and therefore social differences re: sex, and I think that's interesting to think about in terms of human social structures and how much they would be changed if our reproductive cycles worked more like dogs!
anyway. obvious disclaimer that I have not Read Every Omegaverse Fic and I'm sure some people are exploring things thoughtfully because the world is full of a diversity of human experiences. but IN GENERAL, in the most prevalent media depictions, there is a profound intellectual laziness that I simply cannot respect. i understand that it's just about being horny. but please can't ppl try to be horny in a more thoughtful and interesting way. incurious horniness is nothing to me
I was googling pictures of foxes and found this one. It has definitely made a good attempt at ruining sexy fox fics for me. Look at them. They hate their lives. They're making the world's worst small talk. They are both imagining how great it will be to go home to their own bed. They are counting down the seconds.
YOU GET IT!!!!!!
Which passion brings you your greatest fulfillment in life?
Preyjoy - the pursuit / hunt of something
Prajna - to be alone in pure knowledge / discovery
Caryatasis - as a disciple binds themselves to a teacher
Geashade - inevitable heartache
Hesper - the quiet action that fulfills a need
Rath - rivals clashing over and over
Serendure - trusting codependence
all these sound alien to me
can't I just say some trite "family" crap like a normal person?
I'm in survival mode and don't know when / if I'll be free
being a fox party at the mossy wood at 10 dont be late
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yeah i just love it when a character is in an inescapable torment nexus for a huge portion of their life and it defines every aspect of their existence forever. also whats cptsd
Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that donβt have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This speciesβ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a personβs death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, itβs a thing that is done as an imago after youβve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.
@derinthescarletpescatarian Have you seen this yet?
No, but I've been incubating a society similar to this since reading Sheri Tepper's Grass about a year ago.
there are a lot of female characters where you can say that lesbian sex would fix them but it's kind of even more fun when it wouldn't. like clearly she wants to be having it but it would make everything worse and ruin her life. and i would like to see it.
ok I need to issue a clarification. often the lesbian sex would result in consequencesβyour marriage is ruined, you get run out of town, the city is destroyed. but it can still Fix You in the psychological sense.
an example getting tagged a lot is eve of killing eve, but listen. my girl was self-actualizing. she was born for that shit. she probably could have gotten there with less collateral damage by divorcing her husband and finding some hard kink leatherdykes, but she's a lemonade-from-lemons woman.
"make [her] worse" demands some kind of severe psychological damage. maybe lesbian sex could have saved her 20 years ago but now it would make her suicidal <3
Reading Ancillary Sword and I just realized that while the soldiers on Mercy of Kalr acting like ancillaries is a holdover from the previous captain and not a thing Breq likes or encourages, nobody outside of the ship/crew knows that. To the station administrator and the governor and Sirix and Fosyf and everyone else... it probably looks like fancy-pants Fleet Captain Mianaai prefers to have her soldiers act like ancillaries. Like she's that kind of person.
I mean, why would they have any reason to think otherwise?
the thing about the republic of two systems is that i am a softie and a breq apologist so i do want to believe that she succeeds in improving some things. however i also recognize that a) breq is a former imperial weapon who, in her own words, thinks she's learned to question that but hasn't learned as much as she thinks and b) even under the best circumstances trying to improve society somewhat is extremely complicated and often runs into massive logistical problems. so i feel like my ideal radch sequel would be set in the Ro2S but focused on marginalized citizens dealing with a government that is trying to be better about listening to them but often fails. i want imperfect solutions i want systems that end up hurting the people they're supposed to help i want people falling through the cracks i want it to be messy
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"It has all been for Taranoke."
β the traitor baru cormorant
I really love how misgendering is an act of colonial violence in the Imperial Radch universe.
Like when the Radch shows up and calls somebody "she" when they're not, it's not just getting their gender wrong, it's a statement that this entire part of their society doesn't matter and is going to be erased. And even when they gender someone "correctly", it's not any better. Because it's just the word that they're using, not a recognition of identity. It's insulting in a different way, and it must sting for the women who hear it and know that it's just happenstance that they're not being misgendered.
And it's constant. We talk about other people constantly. There's no escaping that violence when talking to the Radchaai.
And even when a Radchaai is trying to be respectful, they are so bad at figuring out gender that they constantly get it wrong, so even someone trying to be respectful is a reminder of the way that this imperial force erases identity and culture.
"Baru saw in the city what she felt in herself. The two-faced allegiances...."
β The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Chapter 15
"You are not half blind. The wound runs deeper than that. [...] Your brain can no longer understand that half of the world."
β The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Victory
Analyst Shuos Liis, who studied Cheris while smiling languidly. She had lavish ripples of dark hair framing a heart-shaped face, and a beautiful mouth, but not a kind one. "Don't worry," Jedao cynically. "You passed." "Passed what?" she asked, using subvocals. "Tell you later."
...
Shuos Liis was watching her with knowing eyes. Cheris wasn't immune to the woman's striking beauty, but she desperately wanted to know what test it was she was passing, and what Jedao knew about Liis.
...
"General," Liis said. Her eyes were deferential, but her voice was not. "Why the Immolation Fox and not some other weapon?" "I looked at his record," Cheris said. She turned away, not wanting to invite further questions. "Still passing," Jedao said.
...
"I wasn't specific enough. She's been surgically altered to resemble Shuos Khiaz, who was a heptarch during most of my lifetime." "And this is a test?" "Not for you. For me. If we were more closely linked, you might have shown a particular reaction. She hasn't gotten that reaction, so that's a point in your favor." He was being awfully vague about--she figured it out. "You did what with a heptarch?" "Subvocals, please." His voice was as cold as a knife's edge. "It's a reminder, that's all. I'm a Shuos, but I'm currently Kel property because Heptarch Khiaz signed me over to Kel Command after Hellspin Fortress."
Speaking of scenes that hit different on a re-read. The first time, I thought, and Cheris appears to as well (and I think Jedao subtly encourages or at least allows this interpretation) that he had an affair with Khiaz, and the reaction that the Shuos are looking for is arousal, or at least significant personal interest.
On the re-read, of course, we know that Jedao has just been presented with a person wearing the face of his rapist from four hundred years ago, and everyone in that group of Shuos knows it, because they're all looking for a reaction. This is one of the first moments we see him get sharp with Cheris, when she makes that comment--"You did what with a heptarch?"--out loud in front of the Shuos, who will guess that she is talking to Jedao.
What reaction they were looking for, he never says exactly. Fear, maybe, or disgust, a flinch, revulsion. Not only do they not get it, he doesn't even seem surprised by this ("cynically") and at least he doesn't present any sign that he's been ruffled by it. Have they done it before? How many times have they put him and his anchors through this test? What happens to Liis when their little "gotcha" moment is over? Does Kujen know, was he involved? Mikodez at least must have approved this, if not set it up himself (In this same conversation, Jedao remarks that Mikodez disapproves of him even more than the other hexarchs, and will surely have him executed for real if Jedao is returned to the Shuos.)
Neither does he ever say exactly what the reminder is (a reminder, presumably, from Mikodez), but I would assume something about his own lack of power, both personally and vis-a-vis the empire. Here is both a reminder of a time when he was personally abused by his superior officer, as well as evidence of how easy it is for the hexarchate to twist his arm, just to see his reaction. As if he needs that, after centuries in the black cradle with Kujen as his only point of contact.
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oh my god I'm going crazy, I need them to fuck nasty
Heated Tribaldry
Baru is a savant at field hockey. A once-in-a-lifetime talent midfielder. On Taranoke, everyone fights over who will get Baru Cormorant on their team. No matter what the rest of the team is like, Baru's canny coordination between offense and defense always brings out the best in her teammates.
But field hockey isn't a respected sport in the Empire of Masks. They don't even have proper leagues. And her friend Aminanta points out that field hockey players have a reputation for being notorious tribadists. (She got a sour look on her face when Baru pointed out the navy had that same reputation.) It does trouble her, though. She's a student-athlete who dreams of going to Falcrest to look at different stars through the most advanced telescopes in the world. What if the sport's reputation holds her back, no matter how well she performs on the Imperial Service exam?
Some people say that she should stick with field hockey. Stick with what she knows, and stay on Taranoke. But Falcresti talent scout Cairdine Farrier sees potential in her as the missing piece in his federated ice hockey team, which will represent Aurdwynn in a friendly exhibition match against an all-Falcrest team.
So Farrier whisks her off to Aurdwynn--the best place in the world to learn how to take her field hockey skills to the ice. (Well--the best place safely under Imperial control, anyway.)
Offensive Striker Tain Hu isn't impressed by this girl who's never even played on ice before. At first Baru thinks she hates her. Slowly, she comes to realize that politics are at play. That Duchess is maneuvering to be Team Captain, and is afraid that the team newbie will reflect poorly on her, if she can't get her skills on the ice up to par.
But it runs deeper than that. The Duchess chafes at representing the empire in any way. She doesn't want to be team captain in this foolish exercise of soft power. She wants to be a team player in the confederation of duchies--ruling independently, with no Governor, no Imperial Agents.
This revelation happens after Farrier sends Baru off to Tain Hu's lands in Duchy Vultag. Of course her duty is to report treason. But she's isolated from any other loyal imperial citizens. And Tain Hu is teaching her ice hockey, to present a convincing front for Cairdine Farrier until it's too late. Tain Hu says she's talented. She says Baru shows promise. And sometimes, when Tain Hu corrects her stance or her grip, her hands linger...
The more they work together, the more Baru learns of the reclusive duchess. Part of Tain Hu's rejection of the Empire is the rejection of Incrastic thought. She plays for the other team off the ice, too.
The only remaining question is ... which team will Baru play for?
[Smash cut to montage of sweaty ice hockey practice and indoor calisthenics, with increasingly longing looks, which eventually escalates to a montage of Tain Hu introducing Baru to tribadism, and Baru displaying savant-like aptitude in this arena, as well.]
