books & birds

thinking about ivan&gregor... very interesting dynamic to me. hi my names If I Stay Real Quiet They Wont Put Me In The Family Torture Nexus and this is my cousin Trapped In The Torture Nexus Forever. normal!!

goddd I forgot how much I missed cordelia. 5 minutes into Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen and she chugs half a bottle of wine and tells a man he should have babies with her dead husband. she spends so much of the vorkosigan saga in the background doing feminism that u forget she's the woman who ended a civil war by bringing her husband a head in a bag

I think the reflective pool should contain giant salamanders

The Vorkosigan saga is a series where the lingering legacy of past conflicts is nearly omnipresent. From the personal all the way to societal level, consequences of the Time of Isolation, Cetagandan Occupation, Mad Yuri's War, Komarran Invasion, and all the rest just keep on coming up. And in case any of the political or emotional stuff is too subtle for you, surprisingly often there is An Old Bomb that's important to the plot.

One of my favourite Murderbot quirks is it's absolutely refusal to acknowledge that Dr. Bharadwaj is it's therapist.

breaking my silence. book 5 of the aubreyad i still dont really understand how sailboats work.

One time I came home from uni very upset and my younger siblings asked what's wrong. I said that mutated flies in our lab escaped because someone broke their jar. I didn't even realise how scary it sounded to them until I saw their faces lmao. I was upset because we were short on said flies (they don't reproduce very well) and my siblings thought that some crazy radioactive fly monsters escaped and we are all fucked now. Love being a mad scientist in their eyes lowkey