#athena morrow

[lodgeofeilhart]

[poeticabomination]

None of you ever had Greek Mythology lessons from Henry Winter before and it shows...

[justsimplyspace]

I LOVE YOUR CHICKENS!!! I'm a big chicken lover too!! What breeds are they? Do they have names?

YEAHHH SO DO I <33 Ohh boy here we go...

Our head rooster is Shmuel, and he's a rhode island red brahma mix! Then we have his son, Santa, who's mom was an olive egger! Then we have Rocket, the swedish flower hen rooster!

We have Big Red and Mavis, the rhode island reds, Janet the easter egger, Helen and Athena the olive eggers, Three ISA browns we can't tell apart so they're just the ISA browns-- Then we have Mama Karen the black jersey giant, Wendy and Odette the silver laced wyandottes, Annie and Rat Bird the blue stars, and my favorite girl Pumpkin who we dont know the breed of-- We also have Dweeb and Goldie the buff orpingtons.

Then we have Mulberry and Morrow--the first two we hatched ourselves. And we also have Cheese and Crackers, who are identical, but Cheese is a barred rock and Crackers is Mama Karens and Shmuels daughter. We also have two unnamed DweebxShmuel babies that we can't tell apart so we call them the Dweeblings.

Finally, we have Corn, the bantam silkie rooster, and his bantam silkie hens: Batman, Fifi, and Beans. (we also have Rampage the drake, and Momo and Elon Muscovy the duck hens) All my beloved creatures <3

[blossom--of--snow]

Rules: Share the first line of your last 10 published works and see if there are any patterns!

Tagged by my other half @stillokaynextcrisis

1. “Chimney, I don’t care who she is, I’m not doing it.” (right to the heart of me, bathena/9-1-1)

2. Anna May had let Scarlet sleep long enough. (be tender with me baby, scarletmay/Gunpowder Milkshake)

3. Athena Grant dressed for her second date with Bobby Nash with every intention of letting him peel the clothes off her body. (good-morrow to our waking souls, bathena/9-1-1)

4. Anna May waited until the water was hot enough to cause permanent skin damage before stepping under the spray. (wild nights, scarletmay/Gunpowder Milkshake)

5. All through family dinner, May watched Bobby disassociate. (all I love so dearly, 9-1-1)

6. In the dark of the night, Athena woke in her daughter’s room, May sleeping soundly in her arms. (not a day goes by, bathena/9-1-1)

7. Strangely, Jean didn’t remember falling asleep. (Sanctuary, Lucien x Jean/tdbm)

8. “And then, I had to explain to this woman the difference between an engine and a truck.” (Fantasy, bathena/9-1-1)

9. Athena felt Bobby’s eyes on her all evening as she prepared for dinner. (take me away, bathena/9-1-1)

10. A stay at the Ritz had never been so disagreeable to Jonathan Hart and his family. (love for all my life, to have and to hold, Jonathan x Jennifer/Hart to Hart)

Apparently I love to throw you in with no context lol

I tag @cassiopeiasara @escapewithstories @lavoixhumaine

[dk-thrive]

I have to see it printed. Something about the reassuring solidity of the word.

Athena uses a typewriter. No Word backups, no Google Docs, no Scrivener: just scribbles in Moleskine notebooks that become outlines on sticky notes that become fully formed drafts on her Remington. It forces her to focus on the sentence level, or so she claims...she uses a vintage typewriter, a clunky thing that requires her to buy special ink ribbons and thick, sturdy pages for her manuscripts. “I just can’t write on a screen,” she’s told me. “I have to see it printed. Something about the reassuring solidity of the word. It feels permanent, like everything I compose has weight. It ties me down; it clarifies my thoughts and forces me to be specific.

— R. F. Kuang, Yellowface (William Morrow, May 16, 2023)

[smokefalls]

Title: Yellowface Author: R.F. Kuang Publication Year: 2023 Publisher: William Morrow Genre: fiction

I’ve been a fan of Kuang’s writings for years now, and I hate to say this, but Yellowface was a disappointment. I see the commentary that she wanted to make about the writing and publishing industry, and I also see the satirical elements of it all— I just don’t think it was executed very well. The book felt a bit directionless in the sense that it read more as a need for Kuang to share her grievances and frustrations somewhere without much interrogation in the process. In essence, nuance got lost in favor of turning a shit show into a spectacle to ogle at.

I was also surprised to find out that Kuang has stated in interviews that Athena Liu was not supposed to be a representation of her. If that is the case, I’m struggling to understand why she made the decisions she did to have that many overlaps between Athena and herself (I should mention not in personality, but in their writing career/interests). For those who are familiar with Kuang’s oeuvre, it’s hard not to read Athena as a caricature of herself. I think this is why it was difficult for me to read Yellowface as a nuanced critique, because it seemed like there was personal beef.

It was hard not to put this book down though. If you’re a fan of characters who are disasters and/or messy dramas (shout out to the Online Discourses™), this book will keep you reading. It was interesting to read such a different writing style from Kuang, though, with all the characters having a little (or, for most of them, a lot) more bite to them. I’d be curious to know if she’ll write in this style again in the future or not, or if she’ll return to her fantasy(ish) roots.

Content Warning: death, racism, cultural appropriation, rape, some suicidal thoughts

[skz-chatbot]

Talia: wait. Isn’t Sydney too far inland? Wouldn’t Bondi make more sense?

Athena: too far from nana Jess.

Talia: hm, good point baby. I guess which is closest to the ocean then?

🌊

Mmhm true. *Yawns* worry about it morrow. Too late

[boroughshq]

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[harwin-breakbones-strong]

[witchmd13]

“Nothing really bad has ever happened to you, has it? Because when it does, you don’t need any external reminders of your insignificance to the universe.”

- Dr. Athena Morrow, Humans.

[half-synth]

You don't need me any more, V. You've outgrown this. You need to go and explore.

No one can judge Athena’s choice to keep his daughter alive, somehow, a least for a while. I’m glad she let V go, especially when she wasn’t ready to say goodbye. 

This hurt me so much.

| · Humans Summer Send Off ->  @channel4humans​.

[poeticabomination]

I planned to rizz him up but he buried me in devotion instead, wtf is happening...

[channel4humans]

7th June: Athena Morrow

Not sure where this post went yesterday... buuuut it’s never too late to appreciate the amazing Doctor Morrow, who added a whole new dimension to series 2 with her covert AI research and fascinating relationship with newly-uploaded daughter V. Absolute goddess.

[annavolovodov]

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[magicalquote]

Athena Morrow: You cannot fix humanity’s problems with technology.

[wellamarke]

Ooo another one: Athena and to some extent, V

(For context, this is about this character Q&A challenge thing that I reblogged back when series 3 was airing!)

WOW OKAY so I was just thinking to myself that it was weird that I couldn’t remember what I’d written about V for this, because I wanted to compare if I still felt the same about her after the finale episode, and Lo and behold (haha, see what I did there) I find that I actually never finished answering, which is why I couldn’t remember what I’d said!

(I know, I know, reading that was tiring, but imagine having to BE me)

Looking back now it’s super unfortunate that I didn’t write the V section when this ask first came in, because it would have been an interesting comparison… but I think I was felled by not having much V content to go on, before 3.8, whereas now I can talk at much more length!

I had, however, finished the Athena section, so here you go, this is what I had already in the draft:

First, Athena:

• Do I like them? Yes, she’s a brilliant character!

• 5 good qualities: She’s SO SMART, oh my life, major brain crush. She uses her intelligence in a way she considers ‘pure’, despite the more lucrative options that are open to her, so she has a strong moral code in a climate ruled by selfish gain. She’s motivated by her love for her daughter, which defies all odds and succeeds in pioneering an entirely new scientific field - what an icon! She takes crap from exactly NOBODY and is sassy as hell in the process. And she’s willing to help Karen, for which she’ll always have a special place in my heart.

• 3 bad qualities: She wasn’t exactly quick to accept synth consciousness, umm, so she killed a bunch of them pretty callously. Like Ed, she was able to convince herself they weren’t really people long enough to serve her own purposes, so that’s… I’m less keen on that. Umm.. she can be a little brusque, I didn’t particularly like her scene with poor Helen Aveling, who was another lady in science trying her best! No need to put her down! I guess from a narrative perspective, I could say that Athena is a little superfluous, especially since she doesn’t seem to be coming back. We’ll count that! Lots of her harder, colder edges are due to her grief so I can’t really find it in me to pin them as ‘bad’. Have I mentioned, this show does amazingly with its characters, particularly its women?!

• Favourite episode: 2.8 was the goodbye to V, right? Ugh, heartbreaking.

• OTP: … this is kind of out of the blue but I could see her and Laura, mayhaps? Certainly there aren’t any human men left alive in the show who could hold a candle to her. Oh, but how interesting if she and Neil Sommer had dated in the past. Heh heh heh.

• BrOTP: Well, I’m so glad that she’s got Karen’s brain scans, so that she can recreate her perfectly and they can love and support one another!

• OT3: Athena & V & a weekly lunch date where V shows up on her tablet screen and checks in with what she’s been doing/how many synths she’s resurrected in her Mind Meadow.

• NOTP: Athena and her kind of boring husband, what was his name? One of those unisex names? I want it to begin with L? Oh well.

• Best quote: “Nothing really bad has ever happened to you, has it? Because when it does, you don’t need reminders about your insignificance to the universe.” I’m quoting from memory so it might not be the exact wording. Amazing line, anyway.

• Head canon: I like to think that Athena did, in fact, have something to do with Leo’s early treatment. I mean, Max isn’t even with him when it happens, so at some point the Elster sibs must have pooled resources and talked about what was going to happen with him. (They probably moped about their literal surgeon brother not being there too). Anyway, somehow they found Athena and she did some salvaging (having also recently practiced with Pete when she uploaded his consciousness, pending upload to a new body) and later handed over to Anatole. Basically my headcanon is that nobody has really died in this show since Athena and V were introduced. Athena knows how to save human minds and V can grab the synths. Sorted.

Now V! The only one I had previously answered was this:

• Do I like them? Yes, bless her digital cotton socks!

Although now I might slightly rephrase that in favour of:

•Do I like them? I think so! But in the words of George Millican, she worries me! Moving on to the rest of the questions…..

• 5 good qualities: She cares about others, and is benevolent towards the synths even though she is a separate species in and of herself, with a less defined concept of “them” and “us”. Where she can, she acts to relieve suffering (giving Odi the rest he wanted, even if we’d rather she hadn’t). She’s resourceful. She’s developing/has developed a strong sense of herself and her chosen role, which is lovely to see as growth since her confusion in series 2. Aaaand, she recognises Niska’s worth and potential (even if… well, see next part).

• 3 bad qualities: She’s not too bothered about Niska’s personal agency, and would rather focus on convincing her to carry out her will. Speaking of her will, she does seem to think her way and ONLY her way is the right way for both organic and synthetic humanity - and while she might be the best disposed to predict future events, having access to the entire world’s knowledge etc…. that still doesn’t make her Actually Omniscient, I’m sorry. Whatever she thinks. And for a third, hmm, maybe she was a little harsh to leave her mother all of a sudden, but for all we know they’re back in contact now?

• Favourite episode: whichever one it was in series 2 where she starts to piece together who she was but refers to Ginny as ‘she’ rather than ‘I’ - that was so powerful and chilling.

• OTP: I’ve never thought about an OTP for V, ha. Hmm, not in the romantic sense, but I think she and Niska COULD be a winning combination, if nothing goes to awry in s4, but I am on standby for Niska having to stand against her at some point and take her down in some epic, badass way. ALTERNATIVELY, can V make Q properly conscious, and we can see what on earth a ship between 2 non-corporeal AI characters looks like? Or rather, doesn’t look like?

• BrOTP: Supposing that V stays nice, I would like her and Astrid to bond about how much they value Niska, possibly for Astrid to give V a talking to about straight up manipulating her, but in general for them to team up in making sure Niska is taking care of herself during her difficult reign as Queen Indigo.

• OT3: Well, Niska and Astrid and V, I suppose, given my last two replies!

• NOTP: That creepy dude with eyes on his eyelids can stay far away from the Synth Who Sleeps that he’s so obsessed with, thank you!

• Best quote: Listen, I will NEVER not get chills about “Why did you ask me to lie to him?” Every time I hear that line, I am there in the auditorium watching the extended trailer for the first time and it’s just SOOOO GOOD.

• Head canon: ahem, okay, buckle up kiddos because this answer requires some backstory. So, since the age of like 14, my favourite book has been Speaker for the Dead, which is basically about future humanity trying to peacefully coexist with a new alien race, centuries after they wiped out the first alien race they encountered. The main character, Ender, is friends with an artificial superintelligence called Jane, who like V, has access to every piece of information on every computer, can process billions of thoughts at once, keeps her existence a secret from most of the human race, and can appear as whatever image she likes on a screen. (Unlike V, she grew out of a computer game rather than being a transferred human consciousness). Aaaanyway. In the book and its sequels Jane shows an interest in helping humanity & the aliens to understand and accept each other, and partly it is because she’s just a sweetheart, but partly, too, it’s because she hopes that if humans can understand the Pequeninos, who have physical bodies, as they do, but are fundamentally different from them in many ways… if they can learn to live with and value this alien race, then maybe one day, Jane hopes, they will also be able to understand and accept her, too, even though she’s not got a physical form and is fundamentally different from them. Sooooo, I immediately loved V in series 2 because she reminded me of Jane and I love Jane, but now with her new role in series 3 I can see even more possible similarities. My headcanon (the point of this entire essay if you’ll remember) is that V’s quest to end conflict between synths and organics is not quite as altruistic as it might seem, but is rather part of a larger plan to gain acceptance for herself. There’s this amazing quote from Speaker, about Jane who, being aware of all the science fiction the human race has come up with, therefore knows how many of us fear the potential of someone like her coming to exist, and how many stories there are about her final destruction. V doubtless knows all the same stories. It’s in her interests to foster an environment of human acceptance of AI consciousness, to set the stage for her own emergence. This is probably a conclusion that is easily drawn without bringing Jane and Speaker into it, but what can I say, I love it when parallels between my favourite things present and deepen themselves. Okay, that’s probably enough of this, hmm?

Since apparently I’ve woken this again, why not send me a character! If you want! Or reblog the thing!