Tak! quoted Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
I’m curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right.
— Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
That's cat logic
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I’m curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right.
— Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
That's cat logic
It’s hard to resent someone when you’re eating the potato dumplings they left you, but I tried.
— Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
Wolfe Studios released a tarot deck’s worth of stories about me over the years.
— Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
As a consequence of living under capitalism, I am sometimes forced to tell people about the books I write.
Today, I want to talk about 🎲 Non-Player Character ✨
NPC is a novel about a highly anxious autistic person in their 30s who joins a tabletop role-playing group...and then all of them get transported to the world of their game.
It's cosy, it's queer, it has asexual romance, and it's very much about found family.
You might like it! You can find buy links here.
Content warning I don't have anything interesting to say without spoilers
This could have been titled The Radicalization of Lin Chong.
One thing that was striking to me was how almost all of the actors self-identified as working for the good of The Empire, but for some of them that meant the people in the Empire, and for others that meant this idealized abstract structure.
I appreciate that Lin's superhuman abilities were created/"unlocked" by a random experience she had, rather than heredity/Chosen One/etc.
As the sun rose and the drums beat out the first watch of the day, Lu Junyi forced her hands to tie a sash, to slide slippers onto her feet. To twist her hair back and secure it in her usual polished style. As if she could don a new skin firmly enough to howl another reality into existence.
Only those who had money could dismiss its concerns as gauche.
Content warning spoilers
I also appreciate that the author chose not to go all in on monsterfucker erotica
It kept very much to the themes of the original: genocide, greed, betrayal, and the sheer amount of damage a few bad-faith actors can do in a system not designed to account for them
Finished just in time for #SFFBookClub sequels month 😅
I would like to see us have a trifle less approbation from men and a trifle more fear.
Every morning just after dawn, Lin Chong taught a fight class for women.
I’m old-fashioned that way. I like to keep my entrails inside my body cavity.
That was the trouble with people who thought they were going to heaven. They just didn’t take death seriously enough.