#obsidio

[gergthecat]

How have I never made the connection that Ella Malikov and Fin bOTH GOT LYSERGIA

[radioactive-metal]

absolutely bananas headcanon about why Aurora Legion and Illuminae files are in the same universe

ok… so like, I’m almost sure of this, because of that one plague that’s mentioned in both books, lystergia or something. So, you may ask, “But Mr. Metal what about [fold/aliens/spaceships]” and I say shut your mouth please I’m getting there:

The Fold: they just…. Stopped using it. They decided it was too dangerous after the rahaam because of rouge spores or some shit and also annoying that realistically your most veteran combat crews are like 25 years old generally (looking at you aurora legion) so they started using wormholes instead. Much cleaner, no weird ancient aliens leaving their old glassware around, no psychosis, just good old fashioned giving space time a good wedgie. This is why the Alexander has a big bugger off wormhole in its belly, and has low ranking crew that have like, spouses and kids.

why no aliens? Because Kerenza is like, 10000 people tops and most of them are dead, and it’s in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. You can’t take much family along, so I would bet against beretreskans (even fin talks about needed connections) and I just don’t think the syldrathi would work on a shitty little backwater for a human company. It’s just… not in their nature.

governments: is it that big of a stretch to assume terragov did a big rebrand after it turns out their intelligence wing is full of fun guys? (I know very funny you can shoot me later) also the other governments aren’t mentioned because like… why would they be? Nobody knew what was going on until after the events of the book, so why would they be mentioned?

the ships: I forgot what I wanted to say here but something something still have marines something something.

AI, AKA AIDAN you cannot kill people: is it that much of a stretch to assume that AIs can go from little crazy pocket pad sized giga brain intelligences to city sized “I can calculate all of space time to rip holes in it” Uberbrain in like 150-200 years?

more to come maybe but I need sleep to regain energy to scream at more maybe tommorow.

[samnotsammy12]

Illuminae fans, pls help me out!

I first read Illuminae from the library, and when I got a copy as a gift I never opened it until now. For some reason, pages 107-170 are printed upside down and arranged backwards in my copy. Here’s a photo of pages 106 and 170:

(The bookmark is marking where the upside down and backwards section ends)

I know this book plays with page format a lot, but I don’t remember this when I first read it. I’m also listening to the audiobook rn and came across this while trying to find my spot in the physical copy. Is this standard printing or did I get a weird copy?

[every-tedious-beat]

old friends spotted at my college library today

[what-life-im-a-fangirl]

Isaac Grant: We call that a traumatic event. Isaac Grant, looking at Nik: Not a "bruh moment." Isaac Grant, looking at Hanna: Not a "major L." Isaac Grant, looking at Ella: And definitely not an "OOF LMAO."

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

April 07, 2023 - Read More Than Once

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

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[astadras]

taking a page out of my friend’s book and adding a slightly lower quality image and HEY LOOK ITS ILLUMINAE FANART AGAIN WHOOPS

[froggos-are-superior]

AIDAN quotes: the Illuminae Files

She is catalyst.

She is chaos.

I can see why he loves her.

Am I not merciful?

Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death.

They are beyond me.

These humans.

With their brief lives and their tiny dreams and their hopes that seem as fragile as glass.

Until you see them by starlight, that is.

I wish to tell her I am sorry. I wish to take this cup from her hands. I wish for things that I can never have, and in that, I think perhaps I am closer to them than I ever have been.

And still a billion light-years away.

He would lose every game. And he still insisted on playing. I wondered at the futility of it. If it is the definition of insanity to repeat the same process and expect a different outcome, most of humanity must be insane.

The afflicted are almost upon them. The air is a din of hypersonic bursts, snarls and empty shell casings. But still I hear him. As his people start to fall. As his pistol clicks empty. As he rises with only his knuckles left between him and the sheer brutality of mathematics. As the music swells above the carnage, still I hear him breathe the words. "Tell them I was thinking of them. At the end." They pile onto him. All snarls and teeth and fists. But as he falls, I am holding his hand. Easing him into his long good night. "I will tell them, David." The last words he will ever hear. 'I promise.

The human brain has the computational efficiency of 10^-26. You are an abacus of horse guts and shiny beads beside me. You do not understand. Cannot comprehend. And I have no time to bend the meat inside your skull and make it grasp the simple truth that still somehow eludes you.

I am not good. Nor am I evil. I am no hero. Nor am I villain. I am AIDAN.

I have heard it said

that evil is simply a point of view.

The villain is always the hero in his own story.

And the definitions of "wrong" and "right"

ever shift on the inconstant tides

of human morality.

But can such measures even be said to apply to me?

I am clarity.

I am necessity.

I am inevitability.

But am I evil?

Would you kill one person to save one thousand? And by logical extension, would you not kill one thousand to save one-thousand-and-one?

You believe there is always an alternative. Always a chance for a miracle. But I told you once before that miracles are statistical improbabilities. There is no such thing in real life.

I know I love her.

< ERROR >

I know I miss her.

I know very little else

Save

Perhaps

This:

That every story needs its monster

and that everybody deserves a second chance.

And that I am

AIDAN.

[flowerish-cherry-blue]

obsidio by amie kaufman & jay kristoff

«i was thinking,» he murmurs. «there'a billion different versions of you out there, in a trillion different universes. and i still can't get over how lucky i am that, out of all those versions, you're the one that's mine.»

[wideeyedreader]

Recently Read: Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

5 stars and a series done!

[gergthecat]

The Amie Kaufman shelf has grown…

This stack is as tall as my knee

[ah0yh0y]

missing AIDEN hours

[ezrabvirago]

çok fazla âşık olursan, elinde kala kala yara izli bir doku kalıyor.

[what-life-im-a-fangirl]

Kady: You really put aside everything and came all this way for me? How did you even get here so fast?

Ezra: Several traffic violations.

Nik: Three counts of resisting arrest.

Ella: Roughly thirteen cans of energy drinks.

Hanna: Also, that is not our car.

AIDAN: I pRoViDeD SiReN nOiSeS.

[quotent-potables]

HYPATIA: I thought I told you to stay off comms. HYPATIA [ALT CHANNEL]: Sorry, Captain. You can brig me later if it'll make you feel better. HYPATIA: Goddammit, Grant…

Obsidio, book 3 of The Illuminae Files, by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff.