#programming poll

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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

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala

goodreads

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.

Mod opinion: I haven't heard of this book before, but I love trans sci fi mysteries, so I'm hoping to check it out some day!

[is-it-a-mainline-mario-game]

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[mouthtapedguy]

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@reading-comp-posting

This blog was featured in the video ‘Depths Of The Tumblr Gimmick Blog Iceberg’ on the YouTube channel ‘STRANGE ÆONS.’

Unlike a lot of other gimmick blogs, this blog actually adds something relevant to the post they're doing their gimmick on. But reading-comp-posting elevates itself even above other relevant gimmick blogs by both being educational and encouraging others to engage with the post--and with their questions!--in a way they might not have before. Identifying an animal in a photo is relevant, but reading-comp-posting invites the reader to engage with the post and the gimmick in a way that elevates their understanding and improves their skills! Seriously, there's no other gimmick blog like it.

This person is God's strongest soldier for trying to introduce media literacy to the piss on the poor website.

It's both funny and actually straight up good and useful. It reminds me to stop and think, even on posts it does not touch. It takes some actual work and reflection to make these questions, and I think that should be celebrated.

its good :>

Stopping people from pissing on the poor one post at a time

@critter-creature-or-beast

Delightful. Folks often submit their pets for voting on (adorable, all of them). Get to see animals I've never heard of before.

[bubaboos]

okay so... are we interested in "choose a song to get banned from figure skating vol. 3" poll for worlds?🧐

[lapdogchase]

if you've used it in middle/high school And in college, vote for the most recent one

[kaqzu]

Since I don't like to wait or make people wait… I'll end this quickly.

[izicodes]

Taskbars Into The Past | Polls

I saw this image on LinkedIn and was wondering which one was on your first-ever Windows computer? 🤔

E.g. for me, number 2 was on my first ever computer (at primary school back in the early 2000s) 🥰

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SEMIFINALS: Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Endorsement from submitter: "That book was written in 1969 and yes, not everything hold up today, but for the time is very progressive"

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Science fiction, classics, speculative fiction, anthropological science fiction, distant future, adult

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

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

[lemonynesser]

ok i asked this exactly a year ago but only got like 12 responses and i have more followers and such so here we go round 2

rb for larger sample size pls!

[asgardian-angel]

Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Ahoy thar! Tis an entire year I've been waiting fer this here day, and fair warning to ye I'm gonna scupper yer dash with all things buccaneer!

Weigh Anchor!

The weather is fair, the wind is high, and you've been shanghaied aboard Captn' Bleary's frigate!

[unnonexistence]

inspired by this post and my confusion at the results