#justice of toren

[cat-dragron-arts]

Hey go read Ancillary Justice it's so good I'm insane.

[winter2468]

Reading Ancillary Mercy rn and Seivarden has really been on the journey of all time. In a coma. Woke up. Whole family dead. Only person who recognises her is her former company car, who's decided to go and shoot the president. Not kill, just shoot. The car shoots the president several times. The president gives the company car her own company car. Seivarden can come along. Seivarden is in love with her former company car. The company car never liked her. Her company car is now in love with another company car. The company cars are openly discussing this in front of her, including Seivarden's own feelings for one of the company cars. Sequence of events of all time.

[laatmaar]

"'Five years ago it was noncitizen. In the future, who knows? Perhaps not-citizen-enough?' She waved a hand, a gesture of surrender. 'It won't matter. Such boundaries are too easy to create.'"

A very loose rendition of lieutenant Awn's conversation with the head priest in Ors.

[asaethiel]

fleet captain!! are you okay, you've been awake for an hour and you've been crying the whole time 😰

[a-side-character]

I am once again thinking about Breq and Mercy of Kalr.

Specifically, I'm thinking about how and why their relationship is so different from any other relationship in this series, and what that means for them as characters.

I'm thinking about Breq's response to being told by other people, often people she likes or respects, that they don't see her as an ancillary. Because they (for the most part) mean it as a compliment, a way of validating her and expressing that they care about or think highly of her. But she never takes it as such, and is always made uncomfortable by it.

Because she IS an ancillary, and by using "I don't think anyone here sees you as an ancillary" as a compliment, or as a reason why her life matters and she deserves to be taken care of, only furthers her belief that what she IS is wrong, is inherently less deserving.

I'm thinking about how the only time people use it/its pronouns - the identity she used for 2,000 years and continues to use to refer to her cousins and fellow AI - to refer to her is when they're trying to disrespect or demean her. How her crew looks at her, horrified, and says "sir, none of us would ever call you it" while continuing to use those same pronouns to refer to their own ship. It shows her that the only reason people think they care about her is because they're too caught up in the version of her she pretends to be (human, Radchaai, she), however wrong that viewpoint may be.

I'm thinking about how, in Ancillary Mercy when Breq breaks down and repeats the line "ships don't love other ships", Mercy of Kalr responds with "ships love people who could be captains." It doesn't say 'well that's okay, because I don't see you as a ship', it doesn't treat her as some exception to the supposed rule that ships and ancillaries aren't people worthy of love, it tells her 'you, Breq, Justice of Toren, One Esk Nineteen, YOU are my captain, and I can't help but love you.'

I'm just. thinking

[riseandfallofsecunit]

Not what you were expecting out of your life, is it?

[unbizzarre]

Good Morning, One-Esk

Fanart of the moment Justice of Toren One Esk was woken up from cold storage.

REFERENCE IMAGES:

1) I came across this pose on Pinterest and screenshotted it right away, cuz like it’s such a kickass expressive I had to try drawing it. Sadly I know next to nothing about the original artist. Maybe a person named Kiera Paulsen? Idk I can’t find the original post and only have screenshot rn 😭.

—- edit: a kind soul in the comments found the artist!! Thank you! Artist is @saltweave on twitter https://twitter.com/saltweave/status/135964282496724976

2) a quick doodle I did years ago of a random weird photo I found that had a satisfying half-told-story feeling to it. No idea title of the photo I referenced for the doodle tho.

Even though I imagine the ancillary hookup process would be a lot more organized/less tangled wire-y than what I drew, the chaotic bony mass of wires and hookups is just such a fun look to draw, and I really wanted to put it on the frightened pose so… voila fan-art with artistic liberties taken.

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

Athoek Station asking breq if it can be a cousin too and breq being like "duh' melted my whole entire heart

has a ship ever considered a station family before? i would die for Station. breq was ready to die and kill for Station. the remnant of the giant ancient Justice of Toren troop carrier space ship id'ed so hard with Station and respected it always and was like "of course you are family" and i love that for Station

Station: wat if i captured one of the immortal god emperor's bodies like a bug....even tho i wasn't built for war what if i was ready to kill her to protect my ppl, what if i was very sad when she poked holes in her container, keeping me from suffocating her like a pest... anyway someone get this thing off of me. she neglected and endangered the people living on me and i hate her. viva la resistance. i love my new rebel space ship cousins <3

[vehicularmotorcycle]

Seivarden just wanting Breq.

[queercoldreviews]

I remember when I was reading Ancillary Justice all I could picture whenever Seivarden and Breq were bantering was this lol

[valeriana-dioica]

So I finished reading ancillary justice yesterday

[winter2468]

Falling for Breq has to be far and away Seivarden's most understandable decision in the entire series. My only surprise is that more people in those books didn't fall for Breq's ship AI swag and lack of facial expression.

[friendamedes]

seivarden, a room over: SHIP WHAT IS “MOISTURIZER”

[laatmaar]

Another imperial radch piece! Can’t seem to get this scene out of my head

[asaethiel]

1/2 of the messiest polycule in the queer housing facebook group AKA i just finished imperial radch