#delarua

[blueiight]

Love the reverse aunt viv recast w claudia bc ww cant project their miscegnation faux feminist anxieties onto amc claudia no more. they still do it w poor bailey but im xcited for s2

[shadow-words]

Book Review: The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

I really liked this romantic science fiction novel. This review is a repost, and can be found on Goodreads.

The Best of All Possible Worlds involves a science fiction setting vaguely reminiscent of Ursula LeGuin’s Hainish novels (mostly because the worldbuilding involves a loose federation of related humanoid species). Our protagonist is a woman named Delarua who has the task of assisting refugees settling on her home planet. During the course of the novel, she has various adventures and eventually…

[sauriomundo]

INFORME 18: Semana del 5 al 12 de julio de 2019

[german-lorca-blog]

MENTIROSOS COMO PUEDE SER QUE HAYAMOS ELEGIDO SIEMPRE TAN MAL. #politicos #mentirosos #menem #delarua #macri #cristina #peronismo #ladrones (en Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires)

[thecherrybluesproject]

THE CHERRY BLUES PROJECT - ESTADO DE SITIO (PARTE IV)

“Chaos” es un disco de Paisajes Sonoros de carácter documental sobre la crisis y el estallido social en Argentina del año 2001. The Cherry Blues Project busca organizar y darle un orden a ese caos a través de piezas sonoras, que sirven de representación de ese momento y quedan como testimonio. Todo está plasmado en paisajes sonoros únicos. Tomando los sonidos aisladamente, parecería ser imposible ordenar el caos reinante, pero Cherry & Blues se convierten en directores de una orquesta caótica: gritos, sirenas, disparos, corridas, voces, cantos y bases electrónicas todas entremezcladas para documentar tan trágico suceso.

"Chaos" is an album of "documentary soundscapes" about the crisis and the social outbreak in Argentina in the year 2001. The Cherry Blues Project tries to organize and give order to that chaos through sound pieces, which serve as a representation of that moment and serves as testimony. Everything is embodied in unique soundscapes. If we take the isolated sounds alone, it would seem impossible to order the chaos, but Cherry & Blues are the directors of a chaotic orchestra: screams, sirens, shots, riots, voices, chants and electronic soundscapes all mixed to document such a tragic event.

thecherrybluesprojectchaos.blogspot.com/

[drkarenlord]

I’ve been forgetful, keeping my new DikanaMai art to myself and my twitter. Here’s a major update. Enjoy! I love how she portrays these two!

[florderubi]

Murió De La Rua Se fue sin dar respuesta por el asesinato de: Acosta, Graciela, 35 años. Almirón, Carlos "Petete", 24 años Álvarez Villalba, Ricardo, 23 años Arapi, Ramón Alberto, 22 años Aredes, Rubén, 24 años Avaca, Elvira, 46 años Avila, Diego, 24 años Benedetto, Gustavo Ariel, 30 años Campos, Walter, 17 años Cárdenas, Jorge, 52 años Delgado, Juan, 28 años Enriquez, Víctor Ariel, 21 años Fernández, Luis Alberto, 27 años Ferreira, Sergio Miguel, 20 años Flores, Julio Hernán, 15 años García, Yanina, 18 años Gramajo, Roberto Agustín, 19 años Guías, Pablo Marcelo, 23 años Iturain, Romina, 15 años Lamagna, Diego, 26 años Legembre, Cristian, 20 años Lepratti, Claudio "Pocho", 35 años Márquez, Alberto, 57 años Moreno, David Ernesto, 13 años Pacini, Miguel, 15 años Paniagua, Rosa Eloísa, 13 años Pedernera, Sergio, 16 años Pereyra, Rubén, 20 años Ramírez, Damián Vicente, 14 años Rios, Sandra Riva, Gastón Marcelo, 30 años Rodríguez, José Daniel Rosales, Mariela, 28 años Salas, Ariel Maximiliano, 30 años Spinelli, Carlos Manuel, 25 años Torres, Juan Alberto, 21 años Vega, José, 19 años Villalba, Ricardo, 16 años #HastaNunca #DeLaRua Texto y Foto Emergentes. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzsuvwSgXfB/?igshid=mt2tevx4v23u

[accidentalspaceexplorer]

The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

I have gotten terribly far behind on talking about my reading on here once again. Thus, despite reading this early last year, I’m talking about it now!

Grace Delarua is reassigned from her civil service job to help the Sadiri settle in to their new home on Cygnus Beta after the destruction of their homeworld. Dllenahkh is still grieving the loss of his homeworld, his family, and his friends, but as the de-facto leader of the Sadiri on Cygnus Beta, he has to set all of that aside to try and build a sustainable community on their strange new planet. As Delarua and Dllenahkh try to navigate the changes in their circumstances, they find that more than the Sadiri community is being built between them.

I really enjoyed this - the romance was cute and incredibly slow-burn, the world-building was really neat, and the narration was really enjoyable. I had such a fun time following them around the world, learning about all of the various cultures on the planet and how the various alien races were combined on it. I enjoyed that the planet wasn't monolithic, because of course it wouldn't be! Too often people fall into the trap of "every culture on this planet is the same" because that world-building is hard. My only frustration was at how disjointed the narration could be, at times - there wasn't a great flow between scenes, and things would get brought up really suddenly without much foreshadowing, although I thought they were all followed up on very well and organically. I just wanted more hints about their deep conflicts before we were introduced to them. For example, (spoilers follow!!! until the *** - I repeat, spoilers!) Ioan isn't foreshadowed well at all, and I think he really should have been, since it was such an important part of Delarua's life. *** And since the actual event is then wrapped up pretty fast, it made it feel less important than it was, despite the continued references to it down the line. But ultimately I had a really good time reading this, so I'm still rating it 4.5 stars! Emotional enjoyment takes precedence over nitpicky stylistic complaints any day.

My Rating: 4.5/5

[lxvegxdherself]

Irmã, eu não quero disputa, brigamos entre nós e ele ainda diz: PUTA! E a fúria não é porque a palavra insulta e sim porque vocês devem respeito a nossa luta! 

Então escuta: 

As mina é livre e resiste a esses macho que acha que droga e buceta é letra de hit, EU Não SOU LETRA DE HIT! NÓS NÃO É LETRA DE HIT! 

"Tá bom, mas não se irrite, todo Mc é assim, vai ficar sem ouvir?” 

SIM, VOU! Não compartilho som escroto e nem escuto MC ruim, pô! Preciso me impor e por isso não me calo, mimimi é o caralho! Eu tô cansada dessas falcatrua. Não engula a chacina do Cabula, NÃO ENGULA! 

Trago um cigarro e trago novidades:

Minha roupa curta NÃO TE DÁ ESPAÇO PARA INTIMIDADE! Não quer dizer NÃO! E sim quer dizer sim... e se for NÃO, tire suas mãos de mim que eu sou dona do meu nariz, eu traço meu caminho. 

E se esquecer disso, lembre que COBRANÇA é no FEMININO!

LaEla x Suja dFato x Delarua - BRUXAS LENDÁRIAS (2018)

[dikanamai]

Again, thanks for tagging me in this, @starberry-cupcake <3 (he estado de viaje y toca ponerse al día, juasjuas XD)

Rules: Name your top ten favorite female characters from different fandoms. Then tag at least ten people.

Perhaps not from “fandoms”, exactly, but I’m going to name my favorite female characters ever, from different stories.

1. Grace Delarua (The best of all possible worlds, by Karen Lord --- a HIGHLY recommended novel, btw)

2. Commander Shepard (Mass Effect --- I’m talking about FemShep, of course... did MShep even exist? XD)

3. Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist, by Hiromu Arakawa --- though I could fill this thing with all the superb women of FMA, I love them all)

4. Sophie Hatter (Howl’s Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones --- read the books, for God’s sake)

5. Lara Croft (Tomb Raider --- I loved the original Lara, but I love even more the new one from the reboot)

6. Kaoru Kamiya (Rurouni Kenshin, by Nobuhiro Watsuki)

7. Imelda Rivera (Coco --- she must be here, our queen <3)

8. Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran Host Club, by Bisco Hatori)

9. Michael Burnham (Star Trek Discovery --- OMFG, I ALMOST FORGET MY GIRL)

10. Elizabeth (Bioshock Infinite)

... and as a plus:

11. Miyako Inoue (Digimon Adventure 02 --- yes, YES, I said 02, I love 02 even with all its flaws, and Miyako is one of the best female characters of the original Digimon cast, along with Mimi. Though Sora has also been improved a lot in Tri, tbh)

Ok, ok, you can do this thing, @probablefox, come on XD Mmmm, do you feel like doing it too, @dogbearinggifts? I suck at tagging :’D

[oakstrand]

Hiring real estate agents in Delarua, Florida

[sauriomundo]

INFORME 18: Semana del 5 al 12 de julio de 2019

[maradanewrites]

Book Review: The Best of All Possible Worlds

In an effort to not duplicate the efforts of my fellow citizens of Romancelandia, who are doing the Lord’s work in reviewing historical romance, I am doing something a little different. I’m looking at books that don’t fit neatly into any one genre, but are definitely at least romance adjacent. 

I’m addressing the idea that tropes or genre conventions limit creativity and innovation by exploring the periphery. The things that don’t quite fit. 

BUT - the books I review will have happy endings. Maybe they’re romance novels, maybe not, but I want to show that a happy ending does not limit a writer’s ability to tell an engaging story. ANYWAY, ON WITH THE REVIEW ALREADY. 

If I told you this book was a sci-fi romance, I would be telling the truth - and completely setting the wrong expectations. If you’re picturing alien alpha males with psionic powers mating with spunky-but-out-of-their-element Terran lasses, and “this is bigger than two people” issues of galactic politics keeping the leads apart, you’d be ... sort of right, but also so. very. wrong.  It’s definitely science fiction (Caribbean-influenced solarpunk). And it’s definitely a romance. The main plot centers around a refugee race of telepathic humans desperately seeking mates after a genocide nearly wipes them out, and disproportionately eliminates the women. The main characters are Dllenahkh, one of those telepathic Sadiri men, and Grace Delarua, the woman charged with helping them find viable communities where they can intermarry without losing their distinctive culture. 

As far as tone goes, the thing that kept springing to mind was Jane Austen. The Sadiri are not emotionally expressive. They come across like Vulcans in Star Trek (so if you were hoping for SPACE BARBARIANS, sorry, not in this book). Because of their telepathy, they exercise huge restraint over their emotions and instincts. Their favorite word is “appropriate.” Which all ends up making Dllenahkh feel very much like your typical cold-and-reserved-on-the-outside, a-roiling-mass-of-feels-inside Regency lord, tbh. But with telepathy and the ability to politely lift a truck when needed. Grace is mostly Terran but also partly Ntshune, a race gifted with empathic projection. So yeah, he’s the repressed aristocrat and she’s the cheerful chatterbox. You either like that dynamic or you don’t. YMMV. 

It’s also very much a comedy of manners, as the different cultures and classes interact. The Sadiri were highly influential before their catastrophe, and tend to act superior to the three other races of humans. Now they’re the object of pity, but at risk of wasting the current sympathy directed towards them because they can’t stop acting like the arrogant aristos of the Universe, despite being refugees on the brink of extinction. 

The plot also has that Jane Austen “episodic string of events” feel to it. Each chapter almost reads like a self-contained story, but they’re all slowly building on each other, and bringing our leads closer. It’s very much a travelogue, and getting to see the very different communities on Cygnus Beta is part of the enjoyment. If you’ve ever thought “Vulcans are basically elves in space” GUESS WHAT? One of the communities is literally called Faerie. There’s a Seelie and Unseelie Court, and a faerie queen I couldn’t stop picturing as Eartha Kitt.

Assorted other considerations

main character is a WOC (come to think of it, all the races are described as having hair, eyes and skin “somewhere on the spectrum of brown”)

a secondary character is nonbinary and probably asexual

GIANT FLASHING NEON trigger warning for narcissistic manipulation and gaslighting

fade-to-black

the question of exactly why the Sadiri homeworld was poisoned is never conclusively answered. 

SUMMARY: If you dislike wry Vulcans, beta heroes, anthropology, Jane Austen, pastoral romance (IN SPACE!), sci-fi, and HEAs, you would probably dislike this book. If the whole Pride & Prejudice & Zombies “Jane Austen + Horror” thing has you wishing someone would similarly mash-up Austen/Bronte with Star Trek, READ THIS BOOK IMMEDIATELY.  

[note-a-bear]

For anyone curious about Galaxy Game, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s the follow-up/non-sequel-sequel to Best Of All Possible Worlds (a travelogue style, in the vein of Ursula K. Leguin, political drama) by Karen Lord. Galaxy Game picks up with the same universe and various elements already introduced in the first book. According to googlebooks:

For years, Rafi Delarua saw his family suffer under his father’s unethical use of psionic power. Now the government has Rafi under close watch but, hating their crude attempts to analyse his brain, he escapes to the planet Punartam, where his abilities are the norm, not the exception. Punartam is also the centre for his favourite sport, wallrunning - and thanks to his best friend, he has found a way to train with the elite. But Rafi soon realises he’s playing quite a different game, for the galaxy is changing; unrest is spreading and the Zhinuvian cartels are plotting, making the stars a far more dangerous place to aim. There may yet be one solution - involving interstellar travel, galactic power and the love of a beautiful game.

It came to mind courtesy of @ultralaser and @princessnijireiki talking about that /classic/ and its recent adaptation. Some of the structure and plotting are recognizable from the Ender series, but the overall mission and focus on relationships–as opposed to isolation–shifts the moral anchor into one of healing rather than destruction. Similar to Worlds, Game is about restoring sense of self and identity, rather than domination or retaliation.

Anyone, big rec from this bear

[thecherrybluesproject]

THE CHERRY BLUES PROJECT - COMPATRIOTAS (versión IV) “Chaos” es un disco de Paisajes Sonoros de carácter documental sobre la crisis y el estallido social en Argentina del año 2001. The Cherry Blues Project busca organizar y darle un orden a ese caos a través de piezas sonoras, que sirven de representación de ese momento y quedan como testimonio. Todo está plasmado en paisajes sonoros únicos. Tomando los sonidos aisladamente, parecería ser imposible ordenar el caos reinante, pero Cherry & Blues se convierten en directores de una orquesta caótica: gritos, sirenas, disparos, corridas, voces, cantos y bases electrónicas todas entremezcladas para documentar tan trágico suceso.

"Chaos" is an album of "documentary soundscapes" about the crisis and the social outbreak in Argentina in the year 2001. The Cherry Blues Project tries to organize and give order to that chaos through sound pieces, which serve as a representation of that moment and serves as testimony. Everything is embodied in unique soundscapes. If we take the isolated sounds alone, it would seem impossible to order the chaos, but Cherry & Blues are the directors of a chaotic orchestra: screams, sirens, shots, riots, voices, chants and electronic soundscapes all mixed to document such a tragic event.

thecherrybluesprojectchaos.blogspot.com/

[drkarenlord]

Art and original pillowtalk by DikanaMai!

With bonus flirty Grace ...