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[–] unknown@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Gideon The Ninth

Harrow The Ninth

Nona The Ninth

All by Tamsyn Muir.

This series is scifi fantasy. It's about necromancers in an ancient religion that spans a planetary system, and some very dramatic lesbians.

The books are each from a different characters view point and you get to piece everything together through their eyes as you go. This results in puzzles nested within puzzles and lore so deep, it's going to be mined for fanfic till our world ends.

Book 1 is the easiest to read and a lot of fun as it unfolds and even more fun to reread once you've finished book 3. Also the battle scene in book 1 is probably the best battle scene I've ever read for how clearly all the chaos and carnage is depicted.

Books 2 and 3 will confuse the fuck out of you but you will eventually start to figure out what's actually going on, and when the dots start connecting they will feed into speculation and obsession, everything means something else and deciphering the narrative subtext is addictive.

Every reread of the series is so much fun as once you have an idea of what's going on, words will rearrange themselves in your head as you pass them on the page and suddenly there's a joke, or a bit of lore or something that clicks into place and makes sense in the most blindingly obvious way.

The 4th book Alecto The Ninth, is due to release soon, hopefully. Please.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 19 points 10 hours ago

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic scifi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

Tbf, I did actually try looking it up but I got no proper results, just globes with where ohio was pointed out on them, and it was too small to see the shape of and then I got distracted. This was a boring story, sorry. Thank you for the side by side comparison!

[–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Is Ohio Polska shaped?

[–] unknown@piefed.social 18 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

That's a crocodile, they have pointy faces. Aligators are the ones with the wide snouts.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Is that the Poland globe?

[–] unknown@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

and he heard it...

...because every electrical appliance in your house is now connected to the internet and recording you.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

If 1994 is your birth year and you're from the UK, I'm honestly kinda baffled by you not knowing what a chav is.

Did you like, not go outside or watch tv between 2000 and 2013? It was most prominent in that era, there were hoards of chavs in every town centre and was referenced everywhere from tv sketch shows like Little Britain and Catherine Tate, to politics where bloody David Cameron said 'hug a hoodie' practically every five minutes for what felt like years.

Chav was/is a working class youth subculture based around rap music and street fashion. Some are nice people and some are violent pricks, like with any cross section of society. As a queer goth kid, I mainly encountered the violent prick kind while growing up but I've known a few who were alright over the years too.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Lmao your brother is a chav

[–] unknown@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Many canal boats use coal stoves for heating. We got through quite a few of bags of coal each winter back when that was my life.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I totally misread the title of your post as 'medication' as opposed to 'meditation', apologies.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Stims as in fidgeting and fidget toys? Or stims as in amphetamine you bought on the black market?

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