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holiday_wishes is a comm for posting wishlists of up to 10 items in the ~spirit of Christmas~ and maybe someone will fulfill one of them. Or maybe you'll find someone to make happy! Anything from the small to the big and the fandomy to the RL, though I don't think many people could put one in touch with a second-hand spaceship.
19. A song that makes you think about life
Amaranthe - Leave Everything Behind
(lyrics)
This song makes me think about me and society. In typical Amaranthe word salad way, it's not all that clear WTF is going on, but it reads as being on leaving behind society's ... restraints? modes of thinking. And wondering if there's a way to liberate oneself from all that and leave society's biases behind.
While procrastinating from the ongoing pants-on-fire that is my todo list, I accidentally read Martha Wells' All Systems Red. It's a nice novella, I'm glad I read it, and I read it just after FFA's SF vs Fantasy thread, so I'd been freshly reminded that I like science fiction for the fact it presents alternate consciousnesses not as lesser or needing to be made human, but as just ... different. (Also the one source of spergie rep that was not condescending if-only-I-were-cured shite.) Murderbot is a hilarious narrator, and I enjoy its asides, and the fact it's so obsessive about its TV series. <3 I'll def be getting the sequels in ... January I think. When I have time to read.
holiday_wishes is a comm for posting wishlists of up to 10 items in the ~spirit of Christmas~ and maybe someone will fulfill one of them. Or maybe you'll find someone to make happy! Anything from the small to the big and the fandomy to the RL, though I don't think many people could put one in touch with a second-hand spaceship.19. A song that makes you think about life
Amaranthe - Leave Everything Behind
(lyrics)
This song makes me think about me and society. In typical Amaranthe word salad way, it's not all that clear WTF is going on, but it reads as being on leaving behind society's ... restraints? modes of thinking. And wondering if there's a way to liberate oneself from all that and leave society's biases behind.
While procrastinating from the ongoing pants-on-fire that is my todo list, I accidentally read Martha Wells' All Systems Red. It's a nice novella, I'm glad I read it, and I read it just after FFA's SF vs Fantasy thread, so I'd been freshly reminded that I like science fiction for the fact it presents alternate consciousnesses not as lesser or needing to be made human, but as just ... different. (Also the one source of spergie rep that was not condescending if-only-I-were-cured shite.) Murderbot is a hilarious narrator, and I enjoy its asides, and the fact it's so obsessive about its TV series. <3 I'll def be getting the sequels in ... January I think. When I have time to read.