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Ok new game. What's the thing you're a fan of that you're the most pretentious about. NOT the most pretentious thing you're a fan of, I mean the thing that makes *you* act like one of those "oh yeah? Name five of their albums" people. There is a difference

I love the random replacements for clichés writers insert in science fiction shows. like when a 21st-century human would say "stop pacing you'll wear a hole in the floor" but in a space show the alien/future human says "you're oscillating like a Betelgeusian night badger" or some shit. like fuck yeah he is. amazing drive-by worldbuilding. I'm gonna spend the next half hour wondering why the Betelgeusian night badger evolved to do that

I'm back on my bullshit (the bullshit being bad TLT memes)

listen, fuck "to each their own", sometimes your mutual gets into some batshit insane rarepair that they're a little embarrassed about and it becomes your sworn duty to put on your jester bells and jingle jangle proudly by their side for moral support. don't be a pussy. it's ride or die motherfucker

"I am aware, sure I am aware. Catastrophically aware."

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

ok, the OTHER thing is that Tamsyn Muir's writing style is -- it's exactly everything I've ever wanted or loved. By turns insanely technical, rich, evocative, and also *deeply* irreverent. You have high level vocabulary and an obvious love for language and worldbuilding pressed right up against the memes and sex jokes. There's nothing better. and it's even better that it very much isn't one-note, that she has a strong understanding of character voice, which is *so* important in this story where souls are all possessing each other's bodies. I fell in love with Gideon and Harrow, but I was just as struck and pleased with Nona, so happy seeing the language pare down and simplify, as the tone of the story morphed perfectly to match Nona's own way of perceiving the world around her. what a writer

February hopefuls:

🦢 City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim

⛵ Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

🏺 Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans

☠️ Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (audiobook reread)

imagine if you were the angriest, most passionate hater in the universe, and you died(?) and a pagan god-like figure (that you've been worshipping) who is hellbent on revenge possessed your body, but the process of possessing you gave her amnesia, and some really nice people who love you took care of her, so instead of being fueled by revenge she was fueled by love. then she grows out your hair in a sacrilegious way because she thinks you look hotter like that