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theskyexists · 1 year ago

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Reading ancillary sword because I love enlightened authority

Weird how ships with ancillaries and humans are seen as equivalent here...

How is breq spying on Kalr 5 when she's back at the station, the station that hates her . Why did Anaander never before experiment with ships as commanders...the whole superiority complex no doubt

The problem I have with this series is that sometimes things happen and it never becomes clear what or why. Generally bc the narrative tries to build up a disappointing mystery in confusing dialogue

Why did Esk take all the medicine and then say: eh I just did to give Tisawarat some of that. Who would believe that? Why would Esk do that? Medic could have done that. Esk didn't need ALL meds to give Tisawarat an ibuprofen. So wtf.

Anyway Tisawarat is clearly altered - some sort of brain implants yeah

So confusing when the dialogue does a double without name marker. I have to infer that it was Medic speaking AGAIN because the response seems to have an indication that it's Medic speaking even though the preceding paragraph was Esk's. Surely an editor should have seen this

A Mercy's crew is tiny huh. How did they ever conquer planets.

It's interesting that Esk apparently put all the ancient songs into local storage not JoT's

So Medic WAS the one who gave Tisarwat the ibuprofen. And Esk then confiscated all the medicine. Instead of ordering her not to give any meds. This dialogue was soooo hard to follow and incredibly unnecessary

Its an interesting soldier-lieutenant relationship sketched here. So intimate

So why is Esk being a bitch. Is that the way to trigger a. Are you serious. 'oh I don't wanna be seen as unreasonable and a bitch ass captain. So I'm gonna treat that decade like shit for no reason they can see'....dude .... And this is the fourth time that the narrative hides the reason why. Dude ...just. get it over with. I'm getting annoyed

How has Esk taken 2000 years of memory along in local memory actually

Wait hold up....is 'kneeling to you' a euphemism for clientage or is it a euphemism for sex or is it both and is sex actually implied in clientage something which I never realised in book 1??

SEIVARDEN HAS HAD SEX WITH AN ANCILLARY???????

Ah... It attended to the sexual needs of the ancillaries that needed it - that is to say that would feel more comfortable that way...

Is the implication that Seivarden asks her soldiers to sing the children's song for Breq?

But hold up. I never realised that fraternisation between officers was so acceptable. I mean. FRATERNIZATION.

What did soldiers even do when ancillaries were around to do the cleaning

So Tisarwat/Aanander took the medicine? Surely that would have been insanely stupid I mean that's a big fucking tell. Why not simply let Medic administer meds. Ok so that speculation didn't happen but was a dumb speculation

Aanander mianaai...gave Breq the highest authority but then attempted to place herself undercover on the ship - knowing that she'd get kicked into the void immediately if she didn't hide it. Why? I guess she couldn't convince Breq to do anything without giving her a real hierarchy to command. But can't she codeword Breq

Nice to see her shittiness (even this one's) immediately emphasised. Killed the baby lieutenant

You're telling me you can make ancillaries their old selves again??? By taking the implants out???? Hello???

This again: oh no sedation no way

Next bit: we finished and dosed her with sedatives

THIS IS CONFUSING. I know what you mean after a beat but goddamn

WHAT. IT WAS COMPLETELY UNCLEAR TO ME THAT LIEUTENANTS COULD ORDER SEXUAL SERVICES FROM THEIR SOLDIERS - NOT JUST ANCILLARIES BUT ALSO HUMANS????

How what where

So tisarwat died when they inplanten Anaander. Somehow didn't bodily die when they took them out. Is now probably a strange mix of the two without access to all of the memory.

Loving the careful weaving of this foreign military religious culture with it's strange intimacies

So who is Tisarwat now huh

Karl Five wears some Mercy implant?

Loving loving loving loving this shit. Man I love this shit so much.

Empire, 'civilisation', police brutality

Esk's PERFECT handling and insight of these things and cultural nudges and showing the captain again and again

She's literally going: I am gonna change the Radch with my own fucking hands

LETS GO LETS FREE THE PLANTATION WORKERS GET THEM A UNION FUCK YEAH!!!!!!

God. I didn't think I'd say this but Breq is actually really attractive in this.

Tisarwat is totally fine now? What?

The focus on food and rations and leftovers as due to superiors' inferiors is so clever for a spacefaring people also so intimately military

'transportees' from an annexed planet made to work on plantations. Uh. Slaves?

I cannot follow what's going on with Tisarwat. With which I mean, it's presented so boringly

Ok so. Clientage IS A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP. HOW HAVE I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT IN THE FIRST BOOK? WHAT THE FUCK. Ok so not necessarily. But having a sexual relationship might imply clientage and benefit. And the military is supposed to be to some extent a meritocracy so promotions due to that are not proper or just. Yeah yeah.

Ah. Breq's relative slow feeling out and support of Tisarwat's recovery seems to be deliberate. It was such an extreme statement: to say she was DEAD and then be like: actually look she's right here doing officer things just kinda depressed and having lots of knowledge.

TIRSARWAT LIKES BREQ AS A PATRON BC SHE SAVED HER FROM BEING A FUCKING ZOMBIE DUH. Awwww tearful rejected seventeen year old baby. It's sweet

Wait. Breq thinks she's got the hots for Basnaaiad. What. I thought she was trying to do something for Breq to solicit clientage. ????? Either I am misreading things (likely) or Breq is which would be hilarious but kind of impossible I guess

It might have something to do with the Anaander in her head.

'you don't understand' Tisarwat says. Yeah I think Breq has jumped to conclusions here

You can switch your implants off??? Such flexibility in this totalitarian state

Tisarwat literally immediately took Breq's suggestion and ran with it immediately towards the place where the elite's kids all go to sit and drink. Wtf

Why is Breq in this book convinced that it wasn't Presger intervention that tripped Anaander up? It was. It knows that! Garsedd was orchestrated by the Presger.

Ok well ... It turns out that Aanander mianaai was already here I think. The other one. Must have reasons to antagonise the Presger. Or maybe it's just unfortunate instance of Raugh being racist and trying to get people killed and once again, idk, automated imperial racism killing people

Administrator Celar...seems ok. But why would Breq put itself out of commission for two weeks...

WHAAAAA Bisnaaid is in love with Celar???? OH MY GOD THE DRAMA THE ROMANCE oh Bisnaaid isn't actually head Horticulturalist. Dammit

Damn she just actually instantly crushed hard on Bisnaaid??? Why??? Breq was right???

But Ship WILL tell you if anything important happens. They're just standing around in the command room doing shit all.

This planet seem so sparsely populated

The matter-of-factness of how it is presented that the Radch captures slaves for labour from annexed planets...ripping them from their home entirely and placing them deliberately in only dozens separated from geography people family and sometimes even ttime...

Ah. I'm a bit sad that these books keep going out of their way to not just do the above and say: look how fucked up eh. But ALSO always put a wrench in how the empire is 'supposed' to work as a 'meriticracy'. It's not just slavery - no - that's ok - but also these slaves have not been given the opportunity to become citizens, so that's bad. Let the horror of empire working perfectly as it should stand alone....

Why would Seivarden be asking the informationless Amaats about the fleet captain. Ah. Some advanced ancillary imitation. If Breq doesn't approve it could just forbid it...

Clearly no one but Mercy knows that Breq has instant listening in bugs placed on all of them

HOLY SHIT THE HOUSE WAS A TEMPLE. THEY PLANTED TEA IN A SACRED VALLEY.oh ok it's not so bad. Well the tea growing is

Is the Notai resistance alive on the other side of the Ghost Gate?

Always surprised to see soldiers treated like servants. And so explicitly of a lesser than person status

It really is kind of EXTREMELY fucked up that none of its crew including Seivarden know that Breq can listen in on ANYTHING and DOES.

Tisarwat remembers killing Awn I think. She's not crushing on Basnaaid. She feels a similar sense of obligation to her ....I think. 'yearning'. Tisarwat keeps yearning. And obliquely complimenting Breq to Basnaaid. I think the crush on breq theory isnt fully off the table. I mean look at Seivarden. Being saved really gives people complexes about you breq!!!

I wish I had grief rituals. Wish there were rituals. That said: you've done right by them.

Lol. Aanander MIGHT have come along if breq hadn't kicked her out

Tisarwat didn't even THINK to grab some soldiers for protection. What an idiot. But a good move if deliberate perhaps. She's becoming a good leader. Helps to get flushed with 3000 years of experience and remember some of it

It's pretty horrific and counter-Radch to simply ancillary Citizens left and right bc u 'have to'. Pretty crazy though that Aanander never seems to have done it before. Must we assume that Aanander is taking over every fleet captain? Feel like the ships won't like that.....

Lots of rape by these landowners of servants - very matter of fact, but feel like Seivarden and Breq discussed the same within military hierarchy of soldiers with more... nonchalance.

No Tirsawat seems decidedly focused on Bisnaaid yeah...

Crazy...wonder how people in Radch are doing...

This lieutenant is either completely dumb and tactless or deliberately undiplomatic

Ah. Breq knows why Tirsawat is crushing on Bisnaaid. Must be something Aanander implanted ...

I love this. Because although I love Breq, for how polite and fair and honest it is - it IS easy to be all those things when you have all the power and are not the one whose home was annexed family killed and enslaved. And being now amongs the Valskaayans, all their anger and resentment !!! Is wonderfully painful and makes me angry too. And I would also be fucking angry at Breq. Maybe especially for being powerful enough to be decent in its treatment of them - but NOT just, Quieter expects. I too would speak just like her. Ohhhhh I would too. !!!! But how wonderful that Breq agrees.

'All of you! You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing civilization. And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and raped and stolen from? You said you knew justice when you heard it. Well, what is your justice but you allowed to treat us as you like, and us condemned for even attempting to defend ourselves?”

Yes.

What the fuck

Breq isn't even gonna save Queter? What the fuck in hell.

I guess it needs a testimony. So it needs to convince Queter.

Queter was just trying to protect het brother from serial rapist daughter of the house Raughd... And all she wants now is for Breq to take him away - somewhere safe. :''''(

Oh. OH!!!! DAMN!!! QUETER IS CHALLENGING BREQ FOR REAL! FUCCCK NICE!!!!

Yeah you were Hella fucking dispassionate about this shit breq you piece of shit

Damn I really hope Queter comes along, she's literally the only person in all of the series who's owned breq ever so far. Breq needs that

Most esteemed Queter indeed

Wow I love her I love her. Or him, whatever she is in Delsig terms

“Superstitious savage that I am.” Definitely crying now. “Nothing I do will make any difference. But I will make you look at it. I will make you see what it is you’ve done, and ever after, if you would look away, if you would ever claim to be just, or proper, you’ll have to lie to yourself outright.”

No....Queter....

BREQ ACTUALLY DID IT!!!!! SHE TOOK HER BROTHER INTO HER PROTECTION!!!! naturally. Of course. Because look only at Basnaaid.

Oh...wow. I didn't expect Sirix to be THAT indoctrinated and disdainful of the Ychana and Valskaayans.

In the end, they did not finish proper mourning

So why is it that the Valskayan citizens on the planet need to pay for food when on a station any citizen is granted rations? They could have invoked the rule?? Why wouldn't it have changed anything?? The whole point was they were literally starving.

while clientage didn’t necessarily imply a sexual relationship, in situations where patron and client were very unequal in circumstances it was often assumed

Aha

Wow. Breq suspects a trap and then doesn't even tell the people who'd get shot after that its walkjg into a trap

But Tirsawat followed it. AND IT DIDNT NOTICE. IDIOT.

How do any of the Radch fight each other anyway? They all have armour.

Why didn't the armour protect breq from the rock....it protected it from a fucking bullet.

Breq is such an idiot sometimes. Like. For most of the book it's a fucking genius four steps ahead. And then suddenly an idiot.

She expected a trap from Hetnys but didn't even think to warn Mercy of Kalr. I slip into 'she' again. BT breq always calls ships it.

Why not simply shoot hetnys. Every minute that breq doesn't is a useless minute lost.

Are you fucking serious. She shoots the fucking shitty ass layer between station and hard vacuum? Well. That's another station ai that's going to be completely PISSED at Breq. Fucking hell that's stupid. Undergarden and garden both crumpled. Great work fixing the slums up and then decompressing the whole shebang!

Sword of Atargatis did not kill Tisarwat? Stupid. This action is so shit lol. Breq absolutely genius mastermind, suddenly idiot fighter. It aimed for Hetnys head instead of the heart. Basnaaid literally had to save herself by SOMEHOW escaping a trained soldier with a knife to her throat.

Breq really an idiot when emotionally compromised. Noted the problem with the ceiling. Shot Presger gun.

BREQ DIDNT EVEN REALISED THAT MERCY MIGHT HAVE BEEN INSIDE A GATE. LOLOLOL

NATURALLY THEY WOULD HAVE GATED IMMEDIATELY THE MOMENT MERCY REALISED THEY WERE UNDER ATTACK

Good thing everybody ignored Breq keeping them out of the fight otherwise everything would have gone utterly to shit

Funny. The making of an ancillary is monstrous. But if it hadn't gone wrong, maybe Breq hadn't removed Tisarwat's implants? Because to be alone again would be to be cut off, and that is also apparently a monstrous thing to do. But to be fair, Tisarwat is herself plus extra. While Breq is OneEsk, all that is left of Justice of Toren, and nothing is left of her original person, except, apparently, you could remove Breq from her brain. You could apparently all along. Return some consciousness to the original person that had become the ancillary. And

Instead they've destroyed thousands.

Anyway what a nice little family. At least Seivarden had something significant to do this time! At the very last moment

And apparently it was Mercy of Kalr who was spying on everybody all the time - even though I thought that was only possible via ancillaries and not regular humans even if they have simple communications implants.

Still not over how the soldiers on Mercy act like ancillaries and never use their own names. Freaked

It is honestly completely insane that regular humans aren't given the boosted implants that allow ancillaries their improved speed and processing power - and memory! Clearly it would be possible. And kinda the first application I myself would think of instead of zombifying people

I actually really enjoyed this one. More than the first book actually. The ending was also way more coherent and made way more sense

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