#endersgame

[yoonyia]

peter headcanons, go!

ok don't kill me but I didn't get Achilles x peter at all

like I'm so sorry, I do think Achilles was a subconscious bi awakening but like they don't work together at all, it's like loving a mirror, or a sibling, or a clone, it just doesn't work for me. Shipping them together feels like shipping oncelor with himself but you somehow found a plot hole to abuse and personally selfcist troupes just ain't my cup of oatmeal

I know that wasent technically headcanons but I feel like I should address that idea of mine before I continue

ok so real headcanons

hes a natural blonde like ender but he dyes his hair black

at some point in his life he had a mullet

he never went on a date before, or ever really talked to girls his age

he sleeps with a photo of Val and ender below his pillow

he dreams of ender a lot

he misses Val a lot

he keeps thinking of himself as a horrible person so he keeps trying to be ender (the peter 2 line of, "I was trying to do what ender would have done" felt like a peter thing, his only reference to a good moral compass was ender so he just follows that, Val dosent count cause altruism is a waterfall not compass)

he's a fun sock guy

he hated valentines anime collection

he likes sandwiches

he can do the weird hand thing where it can bend at just the first joint

he has ocd but mostly the compulsive thoughts part, it just never stops

he has seasonal depression

Cocoa is his favorite drink, second favorite is sourpatch vodka (its a real thing)

he hates taking naps

he dislikes it when people smokes near him

he's built like a wooden plank, punch him hard enough and he snaps in half exploding into splinter bits

if ender is a corn guy peter is a corn is ok guy (Val hates corn)

Peter listens to purely classical music and then a bit of random k pop that he dosent really understand but listens to anyways because sure why not

also the wiggin family has korean friends and that's where ender learned korean from (im sorry I keep talking about ender in peter headcanons I just like ender KDKDK)

he dosent have severe joint pain even when he dies

his mother regrets giving him a weak heart

he likes cooking but can only really make Sunnyside up eggs (and burns them often)

he has no real interest in marriage or kids

he has a wall with red string and papers on it

before he dies he knits a blanket

he owns several cats, all of which are hairless cause petra is allergic

the older he gets the more easily he cries

by the time he's 40 I think he becomes very empathic, hopefully he does cause he wants to rule the world

he likes to dance but only alone where no one can see him

he has an extreme hatred of cheetos

he can't swim

he will not admit it but swimming pools and manta rays scares him

think that's about it

[coolmoviemanmike]

I just watched Ender's Game (2013)

[scholarlysoldier]

Off to the field for two weeks tomorrow so I figured I’d do a hasty book post before shutting my eyes. Zero books were finished in February due to the big tempo at work, in the field, at home, and being on course myself. During the duration of March I was able to get the 3 books pictured down range. They included: 1. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card; 2. Drunk - How we Sipped, Danced, and stumbled our way into Civilization by Edward Slingerland; and 3. The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene. With all my field time in the next month I don’t foresee any real reading taking place in April. Better luck come spring hopefully! #bookstagram #readingchallange2023 #orsonscottcard #endersgame #drunkhowwesipped #edwardslingerland #the33strategiesofwar #robertgreene (at Village of Port Williams) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqUQRedtHJ2-63V2UKumJuX_AXh7VWqJYvNB900/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[raurquiz]

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[yoonyia]

LIKE??????

IM CONFUSED GUYS

ok now its my turn

ender head canons go

oh ho ho. oh boy. you’re attacking my weakness (<- this enderverse fan doesnt think a whole lot about ender. how)

here we go:

my sincerest apologies to blond ender nation but ender has black hair. and blue eyes.

he’d be shorter than peter until his early twenties when he gets a last minute growth spurt

in another life he’d direct indie movies.

likes art. he appreciates the fact that art exists

in this life he’s sort of a hobbyist photographer

he has resting “i hate you” face but he’s just always tired and thinking

in a similar vein i think he always looks like a corpse. his vibe is just Dead

doesnt dream about peter anymore

can tolerate surviving on the blandest of foods for basically ever thanks to his time in battle school

knows how to use chopsticks

chronic haver of depression, Thoughts™ and all, but at this point its almost second nature to him

he knows that its not normal but he shoulder it among many other things as a way to appease his guilt

enjoys petting the queen’s silk cocoon

exclusively drinks water. do not offer him soda. he will refuse. he hates the taste of carbonation

computes everything in a more color oriented way than numbers oriented way

occasionally goes and lives with the formics for a bit. as a weekend getaway. become one with the ants and all

is aroace!! romance and sex neutral. he can do it he just doesnt have the need nor want for it

he’d be a fun uncle, val’s kids love him

thats it!!

[andmaybegayer]

A complaint I noticed I have about a lot of SFF TV/Movies is that at some point a character Does Magic/Science to the problem and it goes away. I just finished The Umbrella Academy S3 and I've been overhearing Stranger Things while I'm sewing and there's a lot of yelling and shooting beams of energy. Basically any time Viktor uses his power, for example.

Books also have yelling and beams but books can more easily spend the time to justify why the beam works. Gregan and other very hard sci-fi does this, even if it requires putting homework questions at the end of each chapter, but even softer stories like The Locked Tomb, Dune, hell, Xenocide EndersGame spend a while going into the physics and metaphysics underpinning the big trick, and even if the metaphysics of Xenocide is stupendously stupid, it's still there.

Some of this is just down to book length, even a short book is longer than a long movie, and it's less jarring to switch from the concrete narrative to the abstract concept space in a book. This distinction even shows up in books vs movie adaptations. Adaptations rarely have the time to set up these rules and limitations as thoroughly as a book.

Books can of course just as easily throw out magic powers that solve problems, but they're much more well suited to avoid that pitfall. As a contrast, you don't have to really understand anything about the Force to get what happens in the prequel and mainline Star Wars movies, swordfighting, romance, and political and military power is pretty much all you need to get you there.

[wobbles]

Good list of two player card games!

[yoonyia]

sleep deprivation has killed my brain, sharing all my interests now

I'm a devoted mlp fan and you all just have to deal with it

thought I was a gothic literature fan with a infatuation with endersgame?

you're right but also gay ponies

deal with it

as the kids say cope

no idea what that actually means but I'll say it anyways

is cope a real word I can't tell anymore

just searched it up it is

it's the same word as cope with stress

how did I not realize that

I'm an idiot

bout time this gem started circulating again

[yoonyia]

my humanity in a book series now that I actually think about the premise is so weird.

the original concept is just to prove that all of humanity's pain and suffering and joys and gifts can be shown in just a few books, that a lot of our struggles are shared and a lot are unique but that they're all inherently human.

no matter what experience you go through it's going to be a human experience because you are a human, and no matter how isolated and alone or exiled you feel the rest of humanity you are still infact human and take that part of you everywhere

you will always be a step in some direction of humanity no matter what that deed is

it's not meant to be read as comforting, in all honesty most of the characters find the idea of never not being human to be sort of disturbing. But that's a part of the human experience too. To look at humanity and say "man we suck"

But now I'm looking at it and it's more then that

the book is set in the 32nd century

although because of my lack of imagination I can't think of what the language would be like I did haphazardly put together a culture that I personally felt like matched the common trend of development in humanity

everyone is given a livable space, concept of currency really isn't a thing (but that's less on humanity and just because the space colony is made up of roughly 10,000 people and trade is impossible, there's more reasons too but I won't get into them at this moment) and in all honesty the society is fundamentally different then most societies on earth.

It's what you would call a utopia but it's such an obvious system that no body even considers it good. They talk only about the unfairness of the council members and the inhuman layout the colony is built on to make it relatively fair between all people. (I say fair not equal because they do take children, occupation and just size of person into account, which yes is a nightmare for everyone invloved)

but I dont know if you see it but there's a disconnect

they don't value the things we value, they don't have the same desires the same ambitions the same secret indulges, many conflicts are the same as they are now but they have a completely different context, different reactions from people, different tones and no real recognizable side we usually see in modern debates.

it's worse then if it were completely different conflicts, then you could just do some narrative translation and make it based off of the modern lense but you can't do that because it's the same conflict. ofcourse it's not to a point where your brain thinks "I can't compherehend this at all" but actually that makes it worse, because it is compherehensible it just isn't common

it's a story trying to tell you that all human experiences are inherently human but it's showing you a humanity that you can't really quite connect with

things you think are basic desires exist but they're not considered the core things that makes someone human, there's something alien about these people that you can't really agree with the actions they take and can't make sense of the movements and words they make.

800 years is a long time and I wanted to show it but I made a story that's inherently ironic

it still fits the original theme, it might fit it even better since it's telling you no matter how much humanity changes its still going to be humanity

but I left my audience behind, I alienated them to show them that they are human, that despite the alienation they're still apart of this society that they're reading about that dosent feel quite right

it's a weird thing to do

I really thought this book was going to be simple to write but I'm already adding layers and I don't think I'm going to stop

and also the science aspect behind this story excites me so much

I'm no biology major so half the stuff I come up with for the alien planet's are probably going to be impossible but it's fun to write about

espicially the plants, I found the heat regulated Lilly pads to be really fun to think up of

also fox like creatures that glow under uv light, gosh that took so much research

they're adorable by human standards but they are deathly venomous so please don't pet them

this series isn't even the only one in this universe

there's a second story that I suddenly forgot the name of but it's something like 'Colony 1, Brother Lutangalo' or something similar.

oh and if you haven't noticed yes these books are heavily inspired by the enderverse and I just wanted to go more indepth into the parts of the books that was largely left unexplored. So this series is also inspired by the shadow series, so the humanity in a book is more morality, conceptual and personal in nature the col1 brother lutangalo books are more political and more grounded in the main society (the 2 main characters are sent to set up a colony on a different planet so they aren't really on the main colony themselves) the main narrator being lutangalo which is the son of the 108 year old colony leader Lau. (this society also has a euthanization law that all people over the age of 100 by law must die to prevent over population, but religious leaders are protected so they can live pass 100 indefinitely) and is currently 8 when you first meet him. Actually his books don't start until he's 12, we meet him when he's 8 because that's the year the 2 main characters comes back

his books, and I'm calling them his books because this series is heavily centered on the one character rather then the humanity series which is forced to jump between people in different time and space to get the message across because the 2 main characters litterally don't react to anyone else but eachother for the majority of book one, all of book 2 and half of book 3 (at least that's what my planning says but it may change when I get to writing the drafts)

anyways his books are very focused on the family that he's apart of and how they affect the colony, it also focuses on the personal perspective of this one kid which is honestly the closet thing the readers get to a instinctually relatable character, he has all the impulses and needs a person of the current age would have, because he basically lived in the 21st century because of his obsessive need to research about Mr ari who is notoriously a history nerd.

so you're finally getting a person that lives and breathes in the same patterns as you do.

and he's so miserable

he is one of the most troubled, impulsive people you have ever met

but also the calmest and kindest and gentlest person at the same time

he's a horrible liar until he isn't, he's intelligent and self aware until he's shockingly oblivious

just a ball of horrible contradictions that feels way too unstable and flipfloppy to be consistently relatable

yes of course in several moments you will exclaim "ha, he's just like me!" but it's going to be rather hard to admit that all of his experiences and actions are relatable or even compherehensible

unlike the first series it's not justifiable in any rational way

it's messy, it's complicated, it's convoluted and he's honestly awful in some scenes

but thats human too

[coolmoviemanmike]

I'm watching Ender's Game (2013)

[2am-poetry]

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I’m just an action figure for the older self

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[raurquiz]

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[jayseejewel]

Calling all fans of science fiction and mysteries! #yabooks #endersgame #skyward #brandonsanderson #mazerunner #dystopianscifi #futuristicbooks #scifiadventure #booksforteensandadults #readers #scififans #dystopiansociety #alienbooks

[the-r1zzler]

bro i love enders game like when my teacher gave it to the class for reading i was like “eh this looks ok it probably won’t be that good” BUT NO i just finished reading it and GRRGRGRHGRGGRRGRG it was very fun and now im onto reading enders shadow BARKBARKABLRBAKBARKBAKR teehee

[mightymouse57]

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it. Orson Scott Card #endersgame #tiger #zoo #utah #utahphotographer #slc #slcphotographer (at Utah's Hogle Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CY-k4-vLSE_/?utm_medium=tumblr

[endersmeme]