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What I Know About the Ancillary Justice Series From Tumblr:

first off, it’s not actually called the “Ancillary Justice series”; that’s just the title of the first book. but I’ve no real intention of calling them anything else.

they’re by @annleckie, and the order is Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy

Justice, Sword, and Mercy are all types of ships

scifi premise is that there’s a huge, expanding human(?) empire where spaceships are run by AIs - one per ship - housed in multiple human bodies, called “ancillaries.” the human bodies are possibly clones but equally possibly former convicts or prisoners of war (never to be released)? it’s a little Sketch, morally.

everyone uses she/her pronouns b/c this is futuristic space opera and language changes, bitch, what are you gonna do about it

it’s polite to wear gloves, to the point that fingerless gloves would be like lingerie (thank you, that one post about Bro Strider)

Her Imperious Condescension the ultimate ruler of this empire is a very old (collectively) person named Anaander Miannaiaiaiai

I have no idea where her name stops

there’s an Anaander Minaiaiaiaiaiaiai in ever space station, planet, and possibly soda bar. There might be an Anaander Mianiaiai in your backyard right now.

(she’d never be caught dead in an orange blanket like that, though. I’ve seen fanart of Anaander Miainaiaiaiai on the Iron Throne looking like exactly my type of egotistical manipulative asshole. I’m p excited ngl.)

OUR HEROES, HOWEVER:

okay, scifi premise done; Plot Premise is: Breqander (or possibly Esk something?) is the last living ancillary of the ship The Justice of Toren. She is Pissed about this (she is pissed about a Lot Of Things) and determined to...fight whoever killed everyone she was supposed to take care of and also every other part of her? Or whoever got them all killed? I’m unsure. I literally haven’t read the back of the book.

Breq wants to fight a LOT of people. consistently. she is a manifestation of the “*is smol* FIGHT ME” post

at the start she’s utterly a loner but at some point (probably by the end of Book 1) she makes some sort of peace with the imperium and gets a job again? as a ship captain, which is weird for an ancillary b/c they aren’t “supposed” to be proper people?

obviously that is BULLSHIT

the “not supposed to be people” thing, I mean

Breq is not, however, very good with the Talking About Emotions thing

I don’t think she’s going to get along with Anaander Minaiaiaiaiai

she also has a somewhat Vimesian sense of justice. really, this “working with authorities” thing isn’t gonna fly at all

speaking of not working with people...another main character, whom Breq fishes out of like a backwater moon in a fit of angst (they’re both probably in a fit of angst at the time) is Sevardein. Seiverdan? There are vowels and they go in some order.

Sev was a lieutenant on Breq’s ship, one of the few survivors, and they didn’t really get along then but now they’re gonna figure it out because neither of them likes the Empire or really anyone else. They will bond over vengeance and antipathy and loneliness. and maybe cookies? I can only hope? Let these people have some small amount of joy, please.

she’s noble-born I think. I’ve no idea how social structure works in this empire. I think there are big merchant houses?

other characters include:

Mercy of Kahl, who is a ship with a crush on Breq. Probably does not show up until 2nd or 3rd book. A friend-crush or maybe a romance crush, but Mercy doesn’t realize she’s a real person yet so she THINKS it’s just a “wow you’re so cool can you be my captain” crush

Sphrene (Sprene? Sphen?) is a ship who got lost in the Phantom Zone and so shows up in Book 3 fifteen minutes late with Starbucks. and possibly bugs crawling in her. in the shp and in the ancillary(ies?)

Tisariwat (or something like it) is a name I’ve seen but I have no idea who she is

I think there’s two people (ships? humans? idk) who are basically Those Two Guys and one of their names is Ziyat

...that’s all I got.

I mean really, that’s it. I thought I knew more but apparently I’ve done a good job avoiding spoilers

I feel like I’ve seen fanart of Anaander Mainaiaiaiaiai drinking coffee?

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