#Ingrays

[winter2468]

I get that Leckie is making a point about how even nice people have their own prejudices when she makes Ingray think of AIs as 'chilling', but I also can't not find it hilarious.

"the AIs are chilling" Miss Aughskold I watched an AI sing "peep peep peep a little chick is born". I watched an AI get into multiple situationships by accident.

[air-of-the-waterfall]

THE WOMEN KISSED EACH OTHER!!!

[lecherouslesbian]

Bloody stick figure baring fangs meme about getting so immersed in a book that all other plans I had for the day dissolve and I come out 6 hours later 400 pages deep many thoughts head full of love for obscure characters only 3 other people on the internet care about

[imaginariumgeographica]

It's not a perfect parallel but im thinking about garal telling ingray "I decided it would be better to stay with you" and seivarden at the end of justice telling breq again and again she's sticking with her

[dangopango00]

The bride and the ugly Silly ass groom (ft my prom dress)

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I am so BUSY so i have not posted but been relapsing on the old ass crusty hardly legible games cinderella contract drug (Addicted to the plot rewrite i made up in my hesd bye) I love wife guys so much like 😭😭😭 dude just loves his wife (me 😻😻🫶) When making up the rewrite i mashed two old ass games together (cinderella contract and princess of the moon) Also recently watched Cyberpunk Edgerunners so that made me relapse even harder bc moon 🌙 whew

[aibeelicious]

#olabs #olabsme #onegoodday #onemorning #itsme #aibeelicious #mevibes #aibeenture #fun #pretty #gray #ingray #mirror #mirrorselfie #selfie (at OLABS اولابز) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpf1uwqrcsr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[plethora-of-ferrets]

Just finished reading Provenance and there is exactly one (1) Radch in it. The main character who is of course not a Radch keeps talking about how her accent sounds like a villain in her shows. And the Radch lady keeps talking about tea. Ingray's whole impression of the Radch is just "all they do is drink tea, be bisexual, and lie"

[morhath]

Ingray and Enae should hang out. I think they could form a club.

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Provenance by Ann Leckie

goodreads

Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingray is determined to at least be considered as heir to the family name. She hatches an audacious plan--free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned, and use them to help steal back a priceless artifact. But Ingray and her charge return to her home to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future and her world, before they are lost to her for good.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this book yet, but it sounds like a really interesting look at alien genders and trans aliens.

[poisindonottouch]

Queer books: Provenance, by Ann Leckie

  In honor of Pride Month, and the fact that this is technically a book blog, I bring you 31 queer books I like. Today, 2/31.

Ann Leckie is known for the Ancillary books, and I love those so so much, but I want to mention this book, because it doesn’t get the love it deserves.

This book is set in the same universe as the Ancillary books, just after the end of Ancillary Mercy, but the humans in this book are not part of the Radch. Ingray, our main character, is the foster daughter of a politically important family on her planet, and she just wants to be recognized as a worthy part of that family. This book has aliens, found family, and really fun little creatures with too many eyes. Also, queers.

Ann Leckie’s new book comes out next week, and I expect it’ll have queer people in it too. I’m very excited.

[rjalker]

like this.

[ID: A reaction gif of someone in the foreground dancing in place and listening to music on large headphones, oblivious to the people fighting in the background. The person in the foreground is labeled, "Ingray embroiled in the plot of the book", and the fight in the background is labeled, "Taucris figuring out that being trans is a thing you can do". End ID.]

[air-of-the-waterfall]

I have mixed feelings about Ingray. On one hand it’s interesting how she’s either so desperate for her mom’s approval/to one-up her brother or so generally trusting that she just believed this guy when he went “WHAT what do you mean of course I’m not this guy I obviously am!” Knowing I can’t trust her judgement makes it interesting to see the world through her eyes. Frankly, I don’t trust anyone in Provenance and I don’t think I’m supposed to.

Overall, though, I find Ingray and the plot pretty boring so far halfway through :(

It’s the same problem I had with Enae where we don’t see a lot of who they are and they’re just blank vessels being dragged through everyone else’s drama to show the world building. The world building is great, as always in Ann Leckie’s work, but in the Ancillary books and TS it was the really compelling cast who made it meaningful to me.

I don’t see a lot of talk about Provenance, so I’m interested in what others think about it.

[wearethekat]

December Book Reviews: Provenance by Ann Leckie

Reread, book club book. In an ill-advised attempt to gain her foster-mother's favor, Ingray has a politically valuable thief stolen from prison. But Pahlad Budrakim claims to not be Pahlad Budrakim after all-- and meanwhile, Ingray is entangled in not only the consequences of her ill-advised prison kidnapping, but also Geck ambassadors, a mysterious murder, and her adversarial foster-brother.

I like Provenance, although not as much as I enjoy Leckie's linked Ancillary trilogy. Ingray is very much out of her depth for most of the plot-- and also riddled with anxiety. This can be difficult to read at times, but it's convincingly written. I found the murder mystery is oddly placed in this book. It's a central part of most of the middle of the book, but it's never thoroughly investigated or even resolved by the end. There's still some very fun moments in the book-- for instance, the bit with the Geck ambassador swap was priceless.

A book worth revisiting for me-- although not at the cost of hearing some of the worst takes in existence (Provenance is not "a book for young children").

[punyamacademy]

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[eruditetyro]

what gets me about leckie’s work is the relationality, btw. the ways the characters sit at the center of their own personal webs of influence and connection. the way each culture depicted has different structures and modes to relationship. i like the ways it really is a web, with so many different threads connecting all the players, different feelings between them that shift over time. i like how trust works in leckie’s work, and how planning works, and how sometimes in provenance ingray will say something acknowledging that someone’s expression changed and she’s not sure why and then she figures it out two pages later, which is simply relatable. a lot about ingray is relatable except her inability to keep her hair up with hairpins. come on it isn’t that hard

[sixdegreesofstarwars]

We are here to talk about a gem of Malian cinema, and tripping over our own words as we try to sound smart and also fight against the ingrained cultural biases as products of the West! Results may vary, but sometimes, the journey is what matters.

Kyle’s original Yeelen video: