#Aspen greaves

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Locked Tomb series (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, and others) by Tamsyn Muir

Endorsement from submitter #1: "An extremely fun, humorous romp! A heart-breaking, soul crushing catharsis inducing tragedy! A thoughtful piece on imperial structures and trauma. On queerness, Muir flawlessly and without announcement, cracks gender open like an egg and spills its disproven guts across the page. The Locked Tomb does it all also bones, bitch."

Endorsement from submitter #2: "Lesbian necromancers in space. So many fascinating, sort of fucked up sapphic relationships going on."

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier.

Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. Of course, some things are better left dead.

Fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, humor, series, adult

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala (Time to Orbit: Unknown series)

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI.

Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.

Science fiction, mystery, series, adult

[forest-posts-and-reblogs]

@derinthescarletpescatarian Aspen is fuckimg awesome

[aekulina]

Late to the party, how'd I do?

[confusedbyinterface]

If you want to understand Aspen Greaves, imagine someone who really loves gothic literature being stuck in a social circle with like two steampunks, so whenever they try to talk about Frankenstein or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde everyone's like "Oh, cool, so you're steampunk too?" and they have to go "NO MARY SHELLY ISN'T ROTTING STEAMPUNK SHUT YOUR ROOTROTTING MOUTH"

[propalitetz]

tal (left) aspen (middle) dr friend (right) from @derinthescarletpescatarian webnovel are in cool fits rn and this is how im picturing it

[sleepymccoy]

I have, like many others before me, fallen down the rabbit hole that is Time To Orbit: Unknown. So here's (ex) Captain Aspen and Public Universal Friend who seem to keep accidentally getting along

[patheticbatman]

My Squishmallow got chewed so now it’s moose-Aspen! Moospen*! If themed skin grafts were a thing I’m sure Tal would talk them into a citrus patch for sure I totally didn’t have to post this to discord and have someone goodnaturedly point out the irony lol

*also stolen from discord ^_^ thank you @ Moshicat

If you have no idea what I’m talking about you should check out Time to Orbit Unknown by @derinthescarletpescatarian . You definitely won’t lose hours of your life to an excellent serial!

The culprit

The inspiration chat from discord (see description below I ain’t typing all that into alt text)

Moshicat Today at 8:37 PM

Oh no the citrus! Is Moospen going to be ok? (Funniest fabric choice you could have made)

😆🍊

Pebble Today at 8:39 PM

oh my god it IS an orange fabric i love that

❤️

Deathsmallcaps -... Today at 8:40 PM

Oh dag I didn't even think of that XD. I had a cheap-fabric apron | was never going to use to l used part of its smock (?) as the patch and the apron string as their eye (edited)

Moshicat Today at 8:54 PM

It adds to it. Those are clearly exposed synnerves

🧠

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[strangequarked]

On Throwing One's Self Forward

this ramble was prompted by Time to Orbit: Unknown's ending, so yeah spoilers for that.

I enjoy, probably a more-than-normal amount, the feeling of acceleration. Breaking into a sprint, screaming down a hill on a bike, flooring the gas pedal, the roar of take-off thrust on a jet, I find all those not only exhilarating but comforting. Thus, I can't help but wonder what it must feel like to be in the Courageous, to be the Courageous as it engages its engines, screaming across the void to chase the stars. The beauty of it all...

and in general, I loved TTOU's ending. A story that was equal parts grim and joyful ends on an optimistic note and a very particular one at that. The Javelin Program was billed as a mission of hopeful exploration, of venturing into the unknown to discover what lies there, and the crew of the Courageous had finally made it come true. No more murders, no secret Antarctican project, no half-mad experimental AI. We saw the worst of humanity, but we also saw the best. Aspen's resilience, muscling through the void of space all on their own. Dinesh and Tal sticking a failing starship back together. The way everyone on the crew protected each other. Ultimately, we see that we are indeed capable of surmounting dire odds and that is cause for optimism all by itself. Even when everything is falling apart, it can yet be saved. What should have been can still be.

I am perhaps a hopeless optimist but what we see in ttou is my hope for the actual future. I dream of humanity working together to go further than ever before, of an Earth that is more vibrant than ever, of a well-taken-care-of people, of a deeper and broader knowledge of the universe. It is highly unlikely I will live to see our own Javelins set out across the stars, but I hope someone aboard one of them feels the same comfort in acceleration I do.

[nidoskull]

VERY MAJOR TTOU SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 178

Go into the Time Void then look at this, thanks. There's art below the cut for those who've read up.

Aspen's not a fan of being tethered to places, are they.

[moshi-tehkitty]

[vampire-connoisseur]

i wish aspen would get an eye already because the longer they dont the more convinced i become that someone is going to die and they will keep their eye to honor them and it will poetically mirror arborean funerary practices

just as long as it isnt well. you know, the most important and lovable character. please.

[99redragons]

Aspen deserves a fucking break so they get real coffee and blankie time

+some expression sketches, i imagine their grin is somewhat unsettling

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

aspen greaves from time to orbit: unknown is aromantic and uses they/them pronouns (canon)

submitted by anonymous

[propalitetz]

i binge read a web series about a totally normal functioning spaceship by @derinthescarletpescatarian and i thought it was very fun