Anyway I just finished the Imperial Radch series and it changed my life and on the one hand I objectively recognize the myriad issues in the Radch and with this desire but on the other hand.
Can I please just be a ship so that I never have to worry about gender again and I can just take care of people and be all knowing all the time?
Welcome to the tiny fandom
*shows up two years late with steaming hot feelings and Starbucks*
Things Lois Lane does not envy Wonder Woman:
- Her friendship with Superman. Lois knows that they’re close friends and nothing more, and that her own relationship with Clark is deep and pure.
- Her power and respect. Wonder Woman has earned that and more.
Things Lois Lane does envy Wonder Woman:
- That goddamn lasso
- Why do you even need a truth lasso Diana
- Think of all the stories she could get with that thing goddammit
^^ An aspect of feminism as explained by comics and tumblr tho.
(via phil-the-stone)
To anyone following me who has yet to read the Imperial Radch trilogy by Anne Leckie: please check out this amazing series about a 2000 year old, vaguely-gendered, incredibly gay spaceship on a quest for vengeance. You won’t regret it
In retrospect, my favorite part of the Imperial Radch books is when the big bad tyrant of the empire asks Breq, ‘WHY DO YOUR LIEUTENANTS CRY SO MUCH? WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?’ and Breq’s like ‘they were like this when I found them, I swear’.
the best part of ancillary sword is how breq has access & insight (through ship) to, like, all of seivarden’s actions and physical responses and can basically read her mind and even heard her talking about how she’d be happy to have a (sexual) relationship w breq if breq wanted to, but still, somehow, breq is fucking clueless?
“for some reason seivarden seemed really nervous talking to me about love and what real love looks like” FOR SOME REASON “when talking to me about sex and whether ancillaries have sex, seivarden became inexplicably embarrassed” NO I ASSURE YOU IT’S QUITE EXPLICABLE “when i was in mortal danger seivarden was like freaking out and having severe anxiety, i don’t get why”
like istg seivarden could say “breq, i’m in love with you and want to spend my life with you forever and ever if only you said you wanted that too but i know you’ve only ever loved lieutenant awn” and breq would be like “seivarden crossed and uncrossed her arms in that nervous way she does, she was probably sad about her past or something”