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Intrigue! Subterfuge! Circus Folk! In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out …
Content warning Late book remark from Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess
“Try to stay good.” She enveloped Agatha in a tight hug and whispered. “But if you simply can’t , at least remember to enjoy yourself.”
— Agatha H and the Clockwork Princess (Girl Genius novels #2) by Phil & Kaja Foglio (97%)
Is "antivillain" a thing?
Intrigue! Subterfuge! Circus Folk! In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out …
The cabin was small and compact. The only sign of the regular occupant were a few framed tintypes of various women who apparently had trouble properly dressing themselves and a lovingly polished French horn hanging from a silk strap.
— Agatha H and the Clockwork Princess (Girl Genius novels #2) by Phil & Kaja Foglio (95%)
lol
I knew going into a horror book I'd be hard pressed to finish. Turns out I was right. I got through about a third in six weeks and I can't see powering through the rest.
While I'm fine with mind control as a kink, I'm not a fan of it in horror settings. I guess it's consent.
Intrigue! Subterfuge! Circus Folk! In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out …
...I've realized that Agatha's voice in my head is my feminine one. Albeit with a lot more maniacal shouting and laughing than mine. Lucrezia's however is lower with more menace and calculated lust in it.
Hm.
Intrigue! Subterfuge! Circus Folk! In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out …
(It is here, with great reluctance, and a full awareness of how a chronicler should report a story without being the story itself, that one of your professors enters this narrative. Surely the tedious whys and wherefores of how he came to find himself in this particular prison at this particular time have no significant relevance to the greater story, and thus, shall be ignored *68 .)
*68: Except to say that, when engaged in the perfectly legitimate art form known as Storytelling amidst the general public, one should always be aware of any and all local ordinances regarding slander, gossip, and defamation of character regarding a town’s leaders, who usually regard freedom of expression as something reserved wholly for themselves. Just saying.
— Agatha H and the Clockwork Princess (Girl Genius novels #2) by Phil & Kaja Foglio (79%)
Sounds legit.
@klara@wandering.shop Back in the day it got me to appreciate the song Low Rider.
Requiste xkcd mention: xkcd.com/691/
How small are we talking? While my current laptop's ability to be opened is rated PITA, I do want to shove a second OS drive in there to dual boot Linux on it.
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @escapetofreedom@mastodon.social
Solidarity y'all from a US union member! ✊
The ship was already moving, burning away from Ganymede as fast as its engines could carry it. When it had gotten to a safe distance, its fasterthan-light drive switched on. Artemis was surrounded by an intense gravitational field that blurred the Line between space and time.
— Paradise-1 by David Wellington (Red Space) (8%)
Surprised they didn't mention that it was being done with a "mass effect."
(I only noticed this because I started playing ME2 again this week.)
Whaaaaat, starting another book before finishing another? Shocking.
I saw the sequel on the shelf and it looks interesting. I'm a sucker for Space Horror...but I don't finish a lot of them. We'll see if this is a mistake.
Content warning Gettin' morbid with the comment
@bascule@mas.to I hope he gets a booze riot like Jackson. I doubt he's as spry though.
Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it’s hard for a robot to …
Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it’s …
Well, I think that's the fastest I've read a book this year. Mostly popcorn, but entertaining. Hell of a third act too.
If you like retro sci fi and or noir, it's well worth the read.
Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it’s …
I snatched away his rifle and crushed it into a ball the way Superman always does it. It was an immensely satisfying show of power. . .
— The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez (Page 56)
lol
Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it’s …
Of course, they'd known I was Lying. That was okay. It was one of the marks of sentience, the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy and still indulge in fantasy. In other words: I Lied, therefore I thought. For whatever reason, I always felt bad among Less fortunate robots. Even an old Mark Three that, from what I could tell, would've been a real exhaust port.
— The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez (Page 43)
That is one of the interesting things with this book. The question of sentience and what make something a being rather than an object.
