#Ada Hoffmann

[remnantglow]

Life is a lie; death is a lie. Why should I care? These people were always in the thrall of lies. And yet. I am trying to be more human, aren’t I?

dr. evianna talirr from the outside trilogy by ada hoffmann 💕 sorry for falling in love with the mad scientist woman it'll happen again

[thiscatiscreepy]

Dr. Carmilla and Dr. Evianna Talirr should make out sloppy style methinks.

[lacependragon]

85% of the way into The Outside by Ada Hoffmann and I love Dr. Talirr and Yasira so much I might actually puke.

[fuwafuwashi]

Finished reading The Outside by Ada Hoffmann and god I love the worldbuilding so bad. What people do to be priests for the machine gods? SELLSOULS? ANGELS???? Oh this is so cool. The exposition is also balanced really well between telling and showing- you get enough info to have a basis you can build off of when new things are shown- the moment when Ev says she prayed and Yasira says that it’s impossible because she Doesn’t Have The Circuitry For It- AAAAAA??? THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE? Like it’s not a twist so much as it is another fact of the world but it felt like a puzzle piece clicking in, it fits so perfectly into what we know of the world and it’s such an interesting take on what prayer would look like in this kind of world

[sapphicbookoftheday]

The Outside by Ada Hoffmann

Today's sapphic book of the day is The Outside by Ada Hoffmann!

Summary: "Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents. Instead of simply executing her, they offer mercy – if she’ll help them hunt down a bigger target: her own mysterious, vanished mentor. With her homeworld’s fate in the balance, Yasira must choose who to trust: the gods and their ruthless post-human angels, or the rebel scientist whose unorthodox mathematics could turn her world inside out."

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

The Infinite

end of The Outside trilogy

AI gods, heretics, cosmic horror, aliens

some extra backstory!!

autstic lesbian tries to kill god

[qbdatabase]

Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents.

Instead of simply executing her, they offer mercy – if she’ll help them hunt down a bigger target: her own mysterious, vanished mentor.

With her homeworld’s fate in the balance, Yasira must choose who to trust: the gods and their ruthless post-human angels, or the rebel scientist whose unorthodox mathematics could turn her world inside out.

[domwho11]

This is a short story by Steven Moffat that was posted on the Doctor Who official website in 2020. I feel as a neurodivergent person there are things to unpack here. My main issue with the story is that the neurodivergent main character (a DID system named David) is portrayed as murderous. And it's only the Doctor's influence (a so-called superior being) that stops him from burning down his orphanage. The Doctor in the story pokes fun at David throughout and is openly hostile to him at one point. I personally don't see the Doctor acting like this to anyone except obstructive bureaucrats, bigots and at times military personnel. There is however a moment when the Doctor empathises with David when she describes the cruelty and abuse he has been through because of his neurodiversity. I should note at this point that I am not a DID system (I'm autistic and have psychosis). I just find this ND character's portrayal somewhat jarring as he is pretty much puppetmastered by the Doctor into doing what she wants. (In fairness what the Doctor wants is to stop David burning down the orphanage) I find the ending sinister as the Doctor says "It won't be easy. None of it will be easy, ever. But I'll always be there." As well as the part where she says "A few of my hits (referring to David knowing the Doctor's nicknames). I'm glad you've been paying attention." These two exchanges put me in mind of Ada Hoffmann's novelette Fairest Of All. In which two autistic characters are routinely demeaned and insulted by two faerie monarchs. Who each demand that the autistic characters address them as "Fairest of all". I feel like this is a similar power imbalance that we see in Terror of the Umpty Ums. In which a person of greater intellectual power (the Doctor) strong arms (albeit gently) someone of ostensibly lesser intellectual power who is already stigmatised for being neurodivergent. Steven Moffat is a very great writer, don't get me wrong. But this particular offering of his has left a bad taste in my mouth. Moffat's intentions were possibly good (as the Doctor says at one point "I'm in your head now, keeping you right. Never cruel. Never cowardly. Always the Doctor.") I just can't help but be a little uneasy with how neurodivergence is handled here. If anyone has any comments I would love to hear them. Thanks a lot all.

[pajorko]

Goal fest in Freiburg!

SC Freiburg 3-3 FC Köln [2023/11/20]

34' Marie Müller 39' Hasret Kayikçi 45+2 Martyna Wiankowska 72' Meike Meßmer 76' Adriana Achcińska 83' Giovanna Hoffmann

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Out December 2023 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose 🧡 Heartstopper #5 by Alice Oseman 💛 This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede 💚 All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows 💙 Vampires of Eden: Book One by Karla Nikole 💜 Not My Type by Joe Satoria ❤️ Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck 🧡 Eternal Embrace by Luna Lawson 💛 A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford 💙 Tomb of Heart and Shadow by Cara N. Delaney 💜 Through the Embers Volume 2 by Adriana Sargent 🌈 Lucero by Maya Motayne

❤️ The Poison Paradox by Hadley Field & Felix Green 🧡 Second Chances in New Port Stephen: A Novel by TJ Alexander 💛 Matrimonial Merriment by Nicky James 💚 Under the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Ramsden 💙 Every Beat of Her Heart by KC Richardson 💜 The Memories of Marlie Rose by Morgan Lee Miller ❤️ Playing with Matches by Georgia Beers 🧡 Always Only You by Chloe Liese 💛 Fire in the Sky by Radclyffe and Julie Cannon 💙 Nuclear Sunrise by Jo Carthage 💜 The Naked Dancer by Emme C. Taylor 🌈 Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann

❤️ Destiny’s Women by Morgan Elliott 🧡 Framed by Kate Merrill 💛 The Spoil of Beasts by Gregory Ashe 💚 Catered All the Way by Annabeth Albert 💙 A Cynic’s Christmas Conundrum by L.M. Bennett 💜 Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn ❤️ One Swipe Away by Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue 🧡 The Gentlemen’s Club by A.V. Shener 💛 A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold 💙 Secrets of the Soul by Holly Oliver 💜 Like They Do in the Movies by Nan Campbell 🌈 Limelight by Gun Brooke

❤️ Heart First by S.B. Barnes 🧡 Grave Consequences by Sandra Barret 💛 Haunted by Myth by Barbara Ann Wright 💚 Invisible by Anna Larner 💙 The Murders at Sugar Mill Farm by Ronica Black 💜 Coasting and Crashing by Ana Hartnett ❤️ Fairest by K.S. Trenten 🧡 A City of Abundant Opportunity by Howard Leonard 💛 The Dark Side of MIdnight by Erin Wade 💙 Mending Bones by Merlina Garance 💜 Transform by Connal Braginsky & Sean Ian O’Meidhir 🌈 The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill

❤️ TruLove by Nicole Pyland 🧡 Structural Support by Sloan Spencer 💛 Whiskey War by Stacy Lynn Miller 💚 Overkill by Lou Wilham 💙 Heart of Outcasts by Nicole Silver 💜 In the Shadow of Victory by J. E. Leak ❤️ Just Like Her by Fiona Zedde 🧡 Gingerbread: Claus For Christmas by Miski Harris 💛 Lies are Forever by C. Jean Downer 💙 The Boys in the Club by M.T. Pope 💜 Lasting Light (Metal & Magic) by Michelle Frost 🌈 Tell No Tales by Edie Montreux

❤️ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman 🧡 Even Though We're Adults Vol. 7 by Takako Shimura 💛 The Accidental Bite by Michelle St. Wolf 💚 Mated to the Demons by Taylor Schafer 💙 Someday Away by Sara Elisabeth 💜 Gatherdawn Luminia Duet Volume 1 by Lee Colgin ❤️ Curse of Dawn by Richard Amos 🧡 Healing the Twin by Nora Phoenix 💛 Ride Me by KD Ellis 💙 How to Bang a Vampire by Joe Satoria 💜 Cthulhu for Christmas by Meghan Maslow 🌈 Prestige by Toni Reeb

❤️ Don't Look Down by Jessica Ann 🧡 Winter and the Wolves by Chris Storm and Kinkaid Knight 💛 Hat Trick by Ajay Daniel 💚 Starborn Husbands: Return to the Pleiades by S. Legend 💙 Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy 💜 Practice for Toby by Amy Bellows ❤️ The Siren's Song by Crista Crown 🧡 Hers to Hunt K.J. Devoir

[sentience-if]

I also love thinking up different first names for my (female) Io. I will freely admit my frame of reference is very Western, so limited.

Do you go the Greek mythology route (Athena, sprung full-formed from the head of Zeus? Cassandra, the doomed seer? Galatea, the statue that was so loved by its creator that it became human?)?

An ode to classic android/cyborgs of sci fi (Maria from Metropolis or Pris/Zhora/Raechel from Blade Runner? Olympia, the wind-up doll everyone thought was real from the stories of ETA Hoffmann)?

What about famous AIs (Eliza, the real chatbot from the 60s that fooled people into thinking it was real, who also has the bonus of sharing a name with Eliza from My Fair Lady, which is possibly loosely based off the Galatea myth although i recently read an Australian story that I'm pretty sure is a more direct inspiration?)?

General women's names with significance (Eve, the mythical first woman? Ada after Ada Lovelace who did very early work on proto-computers?)

I'm currently using Pandora - the first woman in Greek myth, molded from earth, and made as a punishment for humans after they received the gift of fire, and the one who released all the ills of humanity into the world. Idk if it totally works, but I like it well enough. I always think of them as Io first.

anyways, just nerding out. Great story, one of my faves.

all of these are genuinely perfect you have no idea

[remnantglow]

hi! i was wondering if you know of any nonbinary sci-fi authors? i'm taking part of a storygraph challenge and one of the challenges is to read a scifi novel by a nonbinary author so i thought maybe you'd have a rec! thank you and hope you have a great day <3 (btw do you still have the link to the doc you had of all the vintage lgbt scifi novels? thanks again!)

DO I!!!! :DDD

Sarah Gailey - The Echo Wife (domestic scifi thriller with gone girl vibes)

Ada Hoffmann - The Outside (cosmic horror)

S. Qiouyi Lu - In The Watchful City (mosaic novella with stories that range from scifi to fantasy)

Ness Brown - The Scourge Between Stars (scifi horror ala Alien, good for some low brainpower horror thrills) CORRECTION: while ness brown goes by they/them pronouns, i don't think they've actually confirmed if they identify as nonbinary, my bad!

Avi Silver - Pluralities (bit hard to categorize but i'd recommend this one if you'd like a weird scifi novella with gender and transness as a main theme!)

Neon Yang - The Genesis of Misery (science fantasy with mechas) (i haven't read it yet, but i'm a huge fan of neon yang's other work!)

Rivers Solomon - An Unkindness of Ghosts (generation ship scifi) (another one i haven't gotten around to yet, but it's by all accounts exceptional - though, note, very heavy from what i've heard - and i really enjoyed the author's fantasy novella The Deep)

and a couple more whose work I haven't read, but who are pretty high on my to-read list:

Emma Mieko Candon - The Archive Undying

Nino Cipri - Finna

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor - So You Want to be a Robot and Other Stories

Xiran Jay Zhao - Iron Widow (tbh i've heard some mixed opinions abt this one, but it is also undeniably the most popular book on this list)

Bogi Takács - The Trans Space Octopus Congregation: Stories, Power to Yield and Other Stories (i also wanna shout out eir reading blog, which has an absolutely incredible list of resources, including the trans and intersex fiction and poetry timeline and the neopronouns in fiction timeline!!!)

as for the vintage LGBT scifi doc: why yes of course. here it is in all its 150+ book glory <3

[readaspecbooks]

February Reads: Aro Short Stories

Kicking off the group and celebrating Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week this February, we'll be reading four free, online short stories with aro-spec main characters!

These stories are:

“And If The Body Were Not The Soul,” by A. C. Wise

“How My Best Friend Rania Crashed A Party And Saved The World,” by Ada Hoffmann

“How to Become A Robot in 12 Easy Steps,” by A. Merc Rustad

“Nkásht íí,” by Darcie Little Badger

There is a chat open for each story, plus a complete list of the stories voted on available on our Discord server. We'll also be doing the first round of official nominations for March's read within the next few days, so join now!

Discord link is in the reblogs and this account's pinned post. You don't have to be aspec to join, just excited to read and discover new stories.

[storekn1fe]

book covers:

[layaart]

Sorry/not sorry for spam reblogging (to my angrycryptic account) but you have the most amazing taste in sapphic books!!! And your art for the characters is so perfect. I'm making a list of books I didn't recognize from your fanart tag bc I need to read them all ASAP.

Do you have a top ten list?

Hi, thank you!!! idk why I never got a notification for this but I just happened to find it in my ask box now, lmao, sorry

tbh if you want me to make a top 10 book list of anything you need to be a little more specific than that because i don't think i can narrow down 500+ sapphic books into a top 10 LMAO. also if you want book recs my book blog is @aroaessidhe!!!

but heres a random list of the first 10 good sapphic books that came to mind:

the space between worlds by micaiah johnson

sorrowland by rivers solomon

girl serpent thorn by melissa bashardoust

the unspoken name by ak larkwood

the misadventures of an amateaur naturalist

the scapegracersb y h a clarke

a half-built garden by ruthanna emrys

extasia by clare legrand

the outside by ada hoffmann

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

[alienvampyr3]

reading the outside by ada hoffmann and its really fun so far