Unexpected Incoherency

Ooouuaghh themm 🌟

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

this is my avatar, who’s appearance is based on what i think jared leto will become in 2 years if nobody intervenes in the next few months. the website itself boasts that you will likely play for days without ever encountering another player. not only is this true, but it makes it fucking terrifying when you do. traversing the desolate landscapes, thriving only off of water, rabbit and horse meat (i assume) you will piss your pants when you finally encounter someone, even if you plan to meet up with a friend. i know the screenshot doesn’t do it justice but i need you to trust me on the terror i felt at seeing cliff wife

TOP FIVE BOOKS!!!!

Like anything else I list, my ‘top 5′ is not necessarily in order and I fully admit that they may change by the day! However, at this time:

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - Lesbian necromancers in spaaaaace! This book was such a fun ride, I love the prose (it just!!! crackles!!!!) and it’s so dedicated to its Aesthetic with the gleeful necromancy, and all of the characters are wonderful, fantastic disasters. I borrowed it from the library, absolutely devoured it, then bought my own copy. And now I have the sequel (Harrow the Ninth) to read!!!!

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett - Really, it’s difficult narrowing down any of the Discworld books, but this is one of my favorites and a great stand-alone introduction to the series. There’s just so much going on there about gender and nationalism and I still have feels over Mal and Polly and the ways that stories (about identity, about history, about figureheads) change with what we need or want them to do.

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire - Poetry! I am due a reread on this, but I went through a poetry binge a bit ago and this was one of the volumes that remains etched on my bones. It’s concise and raw and guts me with feelings.

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine - An ambassador is sent to a mighty empire that wants to devour her tiny space station whole! Also, the incomplete and flawed ghost of her predecessor is living in her head! Except he’s not really a ghost, he’s part of her station’s living memory lines, a secret kept from outsiders to allow for continuity of experience and cultural links and asdfsdg this is a beautiful, meaty novel with political intrigue and science fiction and all sorts of really interesting things going on. Also, canonical queer characters, including romances of varying disasters.

But this also has issues, because while the Chairmen are probably the most fun of the three, and Benny is a character that a lot of people like and sympathize with (even if they kill him), the other Families are portrayed as straight-up evil and have very little depth outside of the 1-2 quests you get while in their casinos. One group wants to murder and eat people, and the other one wants to kill everybody on the Strip while profiting off of what is implied to be sex trafficking, and the game seems to imply that they would be even more terrible if Mr. House and the Securitrons weren’t there to keep them in check. Which, needless to say, isn’t a good way to portray natives??