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astramachina · 1 year

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no. no absolutely not. "this name that has stumped every scholar ever is actually the name of an island in Scandinavia and somehow nobody caught that" cut the shit. you're devising a way to lower the speed of light to one-tenth of its capacity and yet a Norwegian word stumped all your collective asses i am going to rip out someone's throat.

#please make it end. just make it end.#as a former STEM major with a special interest in astrophysics it's like. the science makes sense.#the scientific leaps done in the name of sci-fi makes perfect sense to me.#but everything else just lights a fire of ire and anguish in the depths of my heart.#he cannot write relationships of any kind romantic or platonic. he cannot write women. his abuse of the word 'suddenly'.#his inability to grapple with pacing.#it's like they gave an intro to philosophy student a typewriter and told him 'show me how you really feel about humanity'#and skipped right over any form of writing class.#it's tired and boring and overdone and i LIKE pessimistic stories i do love tragedies #but this is so empty and soulless and the fact that i can feel his disdain for queer people and women in general #i resent every board member across all lit orgs that awarded him and this series the highest honors.#reading tag

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