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ivanaskye replied to your photoset:
                   Ivana took this because my eyes hath the Bigness…                

   it goes bounce!!!    

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   The most Perfect Curl™   

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   Bigness   

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   o, Goddess of the Ringlet    

these testimonials are all going on my futuristic screencap-collector-wall once i sue the federal government for all their student debt and it’s over for those hoes

Hello everyone HAVE YOU READ THE STARS THAT RISE AT DAWN by my glorious, beautiful, fierce, sweet, brilliant girlfriend @ivanaskye?? If not you can buy it here, see a promo here, read the prologue here, and download a free prequel short story here! It’s part of a trilogy named Šehhinah (a reference to the RL concept of the manifestation of God’s presence, found in rabbinic texts and, more flexibly/plot-relevantly, in the Qu’ran), which refers to the central magic system (Theurgy) and worldbuilding principle of the series, the physical earthly manifestation of a person’s soul – that of God’s, that of angels’ and demons’, and that of regular humans.

Anyway I decided to draw the three main characters: from left to right there is Yenatru, the incredibly shy and even more incredibly gay faildude who is really good at theurgy but too lame to show people; Tamar, who is So Kink for God’s Fire that she asks God to manifest Their soul in her eyes under the principle of Don’t Stare Directly At The Sun (oops), and Elīya, who is too fixated on Being Right about the minutae of ethics to understand anything about herself or how to live and therefore how to theurge….theurgify…..do theurgy? yeah, since in this particular universe, unlike ours, ethics and spirituality have only interacted like, Twice, in the history of the world, lol.

I also drew the other main character, Lucifer, but they wound up being way too Extra to include here. They need their own post lmao.

  • ivanaskye replied to your post:
                       i observed my girlfriend @ivanaskye write 10,000…                

    •    ALSO only 6000 of that was actually drafting, I finished the novel
    at that point and was outlining the next one after that. Get it
    straight, jeeeez    

  • ivanaskye replied to your post:
                       i observed my girlfriend @ivanaskye write 10,000…                

    •    No???? 5000 was in like 4 hours but the other 5000 took like maybe
    two whole hours on top of that. We’re talking six hours total here    

    ok but u definitely hit 5,000 in about 3 hours not 4! i’m p sure abt that

  • actualmermaid replied to your post:
                       Andie’s ‘to-read’ books on Goodreads (24 books)                

    •    I had a 10-book goal for 2018 and… I don’t think I’m going to make
    it, BUT I did read some good books and I’ve started holding myself to
    writing a short review for each new book I read so that’s a plus!!!   

    I actually did write a goodreads review for one (1) entire book! which was my girlfriend’s book!! but still!!!!!! an improvement!!!!!!!!!

    ivanaskye replied to your post:                   Andie’s ‘to-read’ books on Goodreads (24 books)                

       I understand that you’re busy but you’re literally reading slower than I write

    fuck yooouuuu lol

    also I have mostly been reading your books, which i need to annotate with ~hilarious comments every 4 paragraphs SO THERE

    actualmermaid replied to your post:
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       The “Uglies” series is kind of in the same vein as “aren’t the
    Youths and the Internet and Culture so Vapid and we’re all being Kept
    Stupid By The Powers That Be”    

    omg i have a vague recollection of reading the blurbs of this series while haunting my high school library and they looked dumb as shit even then when i was a super snobbish I’m Not Like Other Teenagers type of kid

    ivanaskye replied to your post:                   anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…                

       ALSO OBVIOUSLY how could I forget siddhartha by herman hesse. Most
    orientalist imaginable take on Buddhism. I swear half my totally
    inaccurate impressions of Buddhism I had before u corrected me came from
    that one book SPECIFICALLY    

    O MY JESUS i have thankfully not even attempted to expose myself to hesse’s take hhhhhhh burn down european intellectuals’ hot takes on religions

    chestnut-podfic replied to your post:                   ivanaskye replied to your post:
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       I think Malka Older’s Infomacracy books are good enough hot takes on
    the Internet by actually being excellent hot takes on democracy and
    super specific classical-IR conceptions of interdependency in a
    multi-state anarchic arena. It’s like political scientist porn with
    Internet shenanigans thrown in for good measure. Interesting enough to
    excuse the cardboard characters!    

    omffffggggg i am a poly sci major……classical-IR hot takes sound hilarious are there any realism burns

    duckwhatduck replied to your post:                   ivanaskye replied to your post:
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       Canticle for Liebowitz was written in 1959. The one on-screen woman
    may in fact be two named female characters rather than one? She
    certainly thinks she is. 90% of other characters are monks. It’s an odd
    book. (I love it but recognise there are a lot of reasons Not To)    

    hhjdhjsd yea i know that feel….

    ivanaskye replied to your post:
                       anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…                

       ALSO Canticle for Leibovitz which in addition to assuming that
    obviously in the inevitable apocalyptic future we will have medieval
    Catholicism 2: electric boogaloo….. manages to, as a sweeping SF epic,
    have exactly no female characters. I think there is only one named woman
    in the story at all and she’s some disfigured woman who gives prophecy
    and is vaguely motherly I think. Yup.    

    ……WHAT year was this book written in………

    ivanaskye replied to your post:
                       anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…                

       Oh you PERSONALLY would hate the Samaria series by Sharon Shinn bc
    the big reveal is that Actually, all the angels and abrahamic coded
    stuff now is due to genetic modification and “God” is actually a
    spaceship and it’s in the far future. However mostly it is just a cute
    series abt angels falling in love with humans so I was ok w it    

    IUHEFHERFUJEHEFJED [elrond voice] CAST THIS CONCEPT INTO THE FIIIIIIIRE…..DESTROOOOOOOYYYY IIIIIITTT…..

    ivanaskye replied to your post:                  chestnut-podfic replied to your post:             …                

       OH. Speaking of magical realism YA HOW ABOUT MAGONIA, the one where
    the character’s chronic lung disease is bc she’s actually supposed to be
    a bird person (yup) with a bird living in her lungs (uh huh) and
    there’s a secret society of air ship bird people in the sky who actually
    cause sunsets when they have funerals. Yup, that’s what sunsets are.
    Not a feature of the world being round or anything    

    hfhfhjfjfjfd AND ON THE FLIP SIDE OF UR ABOVE ANTI-REC…..THIS SOUNDS CUTE AS FUCK TO ME……TOTALLY MY JAM…..especially the sunset thing ^_^

    ivanaskye replied to your post:                   anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…                

       Also, Dawn Song, which is utterly joyless all the way through, and
    even disregarding that one scene which very directly states that all
    diagnoses of what is now called dissociative identity disorder are false
    and due to lying psychiatrists (yikes), it strongly STRONGLY implies
    that one of the main character’s suicides at the end was a good thing bc
    the world Just Sucks That Much.    

    ok this sounds like Some Extreme Bullshit what author was this by?

    ivanaskye replied to your post:                   anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…                

       Also also Feed by M T Anderson is the MOST sour grapes abt like,
    internet implants in ppl’s heads… this is bad terrible bad bc uhhhh
    Technology Corrupts. Gotta love conflating the concept of a technology
    with its worst possible manipulation under capitalism.    

    hey bab…..what percentage of the books u have read in ur life have u LIKED…..anyway hot takes on the internet age have all been embarrassing so far as far as i have heard….if there are any good ones they’ve never crossed my path

    ivanaskye replied to your post:                  anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…                

       Uhhh SABRIEL. Some cool afterlife stuff I guess but slow paced,
    largely due to there being a curse upon the characters such that they
    can’t talk about the worldbuilding and also I wish I was kidding    

    awwwwwww i don’t mind slow paced-ness tbh…….the fanarts and stuff i’ve seen of this looked super cool but also lmao that SURE sounds convenient??

    OH OMG I went through my old goodreads account and how could I forget. Wildefire. Where p much being non-white gives you superpowers bc uhh (spins wheel) traditional Gods of uhh (spins again) almost entirely not researched cultures.

    bab i should look at your goodreads reviews or smth……

    ivanaskye replied to your post “i don’t know whether you have probably ready the rest of the time…”

    Also only males can do this one kind of magic and only females can do the other time but THEN the man magic got blocked by DARKNESS so now only women are mages which you’d think would prevent the amazing magical main character from being a dude anyway but. Nope.

    buffmaedhros replied to your post “i don’t know whether you have probably ready the rest of the time…”

    in
    universe a character is like “what the fuck we had magic and they had
    physical strength (BLEH im vomiting) but now we don’t even have magic”

    ok but not only that (continuing what ivanaskye is saying) but then the guys get magic and are inherently like x10 better at it

    hey guys lmao what the fuck

    siadea replied to your post “anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty sure that i would…”

    Piers Anthony. Xanth. Puns, misogyny, Florida.

    I HAVE DEFINITELY BEEN WARNED OFF OF THIS ONE

    ivanaskye replied to your post:                  anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…                

       Oh I also only got through one volume of Wheel of Time but even that
    was enough for me to gag at the intense gender essentialism. Also the
    main villain is named Shai’tan which 1) seems at first glance like too
    obviously Satan But Fantasy and 2) is almost exactly the name of a major
    angel in the RL Yazidi religion which is famously persecuted to the
    point of genocide partially bc of having an angel with a name similar to
    Satan so mAYBE DONT    

    hhhhhhhhh W O W ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 

    actualmermaid replied to your post:                   actualmermaid replied to your post:              …                

       Apparently it’s inspired by the author’s experience with coming back
    from the Vietnam war to find that Everything Has Changed While He Was
    Gone, but with aliens. This shit won the Hugo AND the Nebula AND the
    Locus    

    ……he…..couldn’t have come up with a better metaphor for that….than…..gay people……..?

    actualmermaid replied to your post:                  ivanaskye replied to your post:
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       OKAY so Pern at its best is very good. The worldbuilding in
    particular is breathtaking and basically inspired every other book where
    people ride dragons. Some of them are SO BAD because the author wastes
    this beautiful setting ripe for all kinds of different plots and
    characters in favor of focusing on the political machinations of like 12
    high-ranking characters for 3734728 books. Also they were
    “groundbreaking” for the depiction of women in 60s-70s sci-fi and then
    just…   

       …didn’t do any better. Why is there so much rape-but-she-wanted-it?
    Why are we supposed to like all these abusive relationships? Why are all
    the antagonistic women huge dirty sluts (or fat)? Also, congratulations
    on including gay characters, but why are they so deeply stereotyped and
    how is this world so deeply heteronormative when like 70% of your
    dragonriders are theoretically gay men??? I could go on    

    OHHHHH HMMMMMMMMMM……having….alarming buffy flashbacks….

    thelioninmybed replied to your post:                   ivanaskye replied to your post:
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       @vardasvapors​ per the blurb it had the same plot as the novel we
    just finished drafting and I wanted to scope out the competition. …I
    think we’re good    

    omfg but……how……ok u know what nevermind i don’t even wanna know

    ivanaskye replied to your post:                   anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…                

       All the windwracked stars by Elizabeth Bear has at least 10 major
    worldbuilding concepts and 15 plots, none of which really go anywhere or
    lead to emotional investment,    

    THIS KIND OF THING IS SO DISAPPOINTING!!!!!! i hate it. also that’s a cool title to add to the waste.

    ivanaskye replied to your post:                   anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…                

       There was that one YA book published by a Mormon press (Deseret
    press; I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN) which I don’t want to give any publicity by
    mentioning the name of but was basically “in a dystopia where everyone
    is trans…. our main character gets lost on an island where True
    Christians live and realize how Right it feels to find it wrong to touch
    a boy before marriage!!!”    

    ……………….wut

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       i feel like i must have come across a good take on a matriarchy….
    somewhere…. all that my memory’s giving me tho is sarah rees brennan’s
    elves >_>    

    i apparently have not actually ‘read any fantasy’ in my life. i haven’t heard of like almost any of these.

    actualmermaid replied to your post:                   ivanaskye replied to your post:
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       Also the Temeraire books gave me a weird vibe whenever they talked
    about non-European people but I don’t know that I could break down the
    weird vibe very well    

    dhfjddhgd DON’T WORRY I KNOW THAT FEEL >>>___>>> i think in my experience the one i am currently remembering is stuff that might be somewhat along the lines of this post….

    actualmermaid replied to your post:                   simaethae replied to your post:                  …                

       Lmao so in The Forever War this dude goes to war against aliens and
    comes back to earth to find that gay people are suddenly normal and the
    govt encourages people to be gay and he’s like repulsed. It goes
    downhill from there    

    uh…………….why………..was this written…………..

    ivanaskye replied to your post:                    ivanaskye replied to your post:
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       To be fair sour grapes MIGHT not be the right term here but just…..
    slow burn setup for this character to a) save a country and b) have a
    cute gay relationship but then PSYCHE she’s a traitor (just like the
    title says amirite) and the last scene is her impassively watching her
    gf slowly die    

    this sounds like something i would do in like high school if i couldn’t figure out how to finish a creative writing assignment by the deadline