#TTOU

[secondimpact]

you know ttou got you when you see the acronym tlou and first thought is someone typoed ttou, second thought is figuring it out like time lost orbit unknown??? third thought is remembering the last of us exists

[kactusnz]

Time To Orbit: Unknown has to be more than this.

Have you ever finished a book that was over 800 pages?

[i-am-snowils-admiral]

Please enjoy some fun and possibly outdated memes for Time to Orbit: Unknown by @derinthescarletpescatarian

I want to say this is spoilers for up until chapter...75 or so? I can't put enough love for this story into just these 12 images and can't possibly capture everything happening because SO MUCH happens. Would highly recommend.

[kolos013]

Aspencore

EDIT:

The amount of people in the notes going "yeah sure it may not be the answer for you but it absolutely is for me," is honestly concerning. It's very much like that one "I'm sorry your hubris was your doom but I'm built better" post that lives rent free in my head. These guidelines are there for a reason ya'll. (Also I'm not removing the wierd caption.)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Curse your friends and family with a completely normal story about a completely normal spaceship this Christmas. It's not horrifying.

It's normal.

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Locked Tomb series (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, and others) by Tamsyn Muir

Endorsement from submitter #1: "An extremely fun, humorous romp! A heart-breaking, soul crushing catharsis inducing tragedy! A thoughtful piece on imperial structures and trauma. On queerness, Muir flawlessly and without announcement, cracks gender open like an egg and spills its disproven guts across the page. The Locked Tomb does it all also bones, bitch."

Endorsement from submitter #2: "Lesbian necromancers in space. So many fascinating, sort of fucked up sapphic relationships going on."

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier.

Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. Of course, some things are better left dead.

Fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, humor, series, adult

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala (Time to Orbit: Unknown series)

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI.

Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.

Science fiction, mystery, series, adult

[alastair-made-me-undo-it]

[queerforscience]

Read this story about a normal and functional spaceship

Read this normal article about football

[lost-in-frog-land]

"Why do we need three thousand, nine hundred and seventy dandelion flowers?"

"So that every person on this planet will have a flower crown"

Oh my GOD this really got to me for some reason. Augh. Flower crowns...

[calandrinon]

@derinthescarletpescatarian I can't find where I got the original meme now, but nevertheless I fixed it

[skrytch]

Okay so @derinthescarletpescatarian books arrived in the mail today and I'm wondering whether I should read the collection of short stories first to kind of dip a toe in and acclimate myself to to their writing or just jump speed first into the deep end with perfectly normal spaceship

*EDIT*

I finished the books

My live blog is here

[fred-the-dinosaur-draws]

[its-not-a-pen]

seeing a cover i drew at the library is so wild lmao

WAIT 3 PEOPLE IN LINE??? Feeling a lot of pressure ;0_0 sorry to the people in the queue behind me. im reading so slowly rn

[toasted-buguette]

FUUUUUUUCKKK, it said "I" It referred to itself as "I"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Get in the normal and functioning spaceship.

[alastair-made-me-undo-it]