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that feel when you're really into the ebook you've been reading a bit of every night and you check anxiously to see how soon it will end and there's still like 80% of the story left to go, aw yeah
in other news i am suuuper enjoying gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir
Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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side note why am i the only one i know obsessing about this series? am i not friends with enough goth teens? is this series actually mainstream and i am a poseur? srsly i get more boosts talking about shitty ol' GNU M4 than badass necromancers in space
dozens ✅
@pho4cexa Oh man, don't know how I have entirely missed this whole thread. I loved loved Gideon. Still haven't read Harrow.
Feeling the urge to go back and re-read the first so I can read em back to back.
So you know how this world has its Houses? I really like that in a story, when everybody has a unique role/ability, and I don't know what to call it. Pantheons? Voltrons? Houses. Factions?
Also GNU necromancers and badass M4 in space??? 👉👈
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knew i shouldn'tna overdone it with those tamsyn muir books
having withdrawl episodes
like forgotten midnight purchases of non-cis-dude scifi to take the edge off until the third locked tomb comes out... late next year? augh
arrived today: a pile* of becky chambers, to join some linda nagata, kate elliott, sue burke, elizabeth bear, ada hoffmann
* i get used dead trees when the ebooks have drm slime on em
today i want to press these through my brain like hot water through espresso
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the third locked tomb isn't coming out until 2022?! i'll never make it 😩 😩
she has at least five more books coming up besides Alecto, including a trilogy of undersea cyberpunk?! i must cling to life 😀 😀
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even though all the press and the reviews and the blurb on the cover is like "lesbians lesbians lesbians!"
—something i have complex feels about because it feels borderline voyeuristic if not for the absolute dearth of queer representation in scifi—
i implore you, yes even you who look like me, to read the locked tomb trilogy, it's so fricken good
realize that "but is it not written for me?" is what everybody who is not a straight cis white dude must have felt for all the other scifi you love
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the first time through i was feeling "lost and retconned for half the book"
the third time through i'm appreciating once again how this author can be ridiculous at times yet internally consistent and coherent, all the pieces click, the reread is a whole new experience
even if it turns out to be difficult, even if i have to reread five times to Get It, i can't fricken wait for the next book in September, and the promised book after that
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the strongest criticism i have is that the trope "character is mid-sentence in revealing crucial information but entirely by coincidence is interrupted" happens about a hundred times,
i wish the author would just hang a lampshade on it so we can laugh at it
could even be a literal lampshade
considering we're not above having characters somehow accidentally quoting eminem lyrics at least ten thousand years in the future
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🧠 read it again
👨 nope
🧠 read it again
👨 not yet
🧠 read it again
👨 stuff to do
🧠 read it again
👨 it hasn't even been a week
🧠 read it again
👨 last time we liked a book so much that we read it twice we were 16 years old
🧠 you listened to the same techno song on loop like 30 times yesterday, read the gideon books again
👨 sleep would be a fine thing
🧠 fuck sleep, read it again
👨 okay just... just a little bit
🧠 muhaha
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"like yoking a doughnut to a cobra"
"wetly depressed"
"if my heart had a dick you would kick it"
The Locked Tomb is full of poetry and somehow i love it
i'm halfway through a reread of the second book. i fear i might reread my favorite parts yet again until i can rehearse them from memory (luckily i'm almost to that point now)
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glad i'm rereading this. my recreational reading is mostly in pieces, in bed, until i've fallen asleep
no wonder i felt lost the first time around
i wonder how many other good books i've underappreciated because i've missed something important due to reading while falling asleep
(not many because i don't read nearly enough)
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my love for this book and this author increases with every page
squee the sequel is even longer and i'm certain i'm going to buy it the very second i reach the end
squee it becomes a trilogy next year
dark, funny, horror, endearing, lgbt rep, terrible puns, delicious turns of phrase, just a perfect mix
there's a weensy bit of "that seems far fetched" but then i remember this is more like good anime than hard scifi and i adore it again
i think i got this recommend from thestorygraph.com
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the second book thrashed me in its jaws since last post and finally spat me back out gasping
the first is a masterpiece and i want everyone to read it
the second, was like a guilty pleasure? i loved it but not sure most would
it's a strange one
2nd-person pov, feeling lost and retconned for half the book 😬
super sharp dialogue, so quotable, like the first
perfect innuendo, funny, raunchy and tension-building
suddenly koolaid man explodes through the fourth wall with a decade-old meme? wat
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🧠 again
👨 huh
🧠 it's time to read it again
👨 wait what? we haven't even had time to read half the pile we picked up 6 months ago
🧠 i demand locked tomb
👨 you can quote it from memory already
🧠 not enough of it. can't recall page numbers for some of the quotes that are on the merch
👨 there's merch?
🧠 also buy the merch
🧠 but first, read it again
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the last recent purchase finally arrived
gonna belly up to this trough and gorge myself filthy
24 new (used) acquisitions that i hope will take the edge off until the next locked tomb drops. authors:
elizabeth bear
sue burke
becky chambers
brenda cooper
nicky drayden
kate elliot
ada hoffman
kameron hurley
ann leckie
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i mean srsly if you follow me you might as well get to reading this thing already
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when i noticed this jewel of a joke i could only picture the author giggling, thoroughly satisfied with her own wit
for readers with stupendous foresight and attention to detail it's another clue to make you feel smart when you correctly predict the reveal
for idiots like me it's a flower that blooms only upon the second (or in my case third) read through
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shoudn't have gone scrolling through locked tomb tumblr.
but i am already losing my mind having to endure waiting another four months for my copy
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if you are (like me) a philistine then harrow the ninth glossed is an enjoyable read after Harrow the Ninth. warning: spoilers!
These next two are on the same page, which I think is truly and magnificently emblematic of the high culture/low culture shit that Tamsyn Muir pulls.
i think i must have a thing for high/low culture shit
reminded of my favorite shitposter whose toots made me go look up The Cask of Amontillado so i could re-read, get the joke, and laugh
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