#senkovi

[goblinguistics]

this is basically the premise of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin

I wish octopus could learn how to read. They could be pen pals with middle schoolers.

[lichfucker]

happy tess day! 🥳😎

thank youuuuuu 🥰

[excessive-moisture]

One of my favorite tropes is when a character gets so caught up in a project that it ends up killing people

[astronomalyy]

terraformers and their worlds...

[acid-vanir]

To answer OP's statement. This is exactly what Children of Ruin is about and it is fucking masterful there. Self aware translation software literally stops the destruction and assimalation (idk if thats spelt right) of all earthborn life and the two (thats right two!) first contact species are built around language and the compatibility problem with communicating with aliens. Also Senkovi is so well written i knew he was neurodivergent the first paragraph he appears, highly recommend it and its prequel Children of Time as well as just most everything written by Adrian Tchaikovsky, guys a sci fi powerhouse

theres lots of first contact stories, and usually they mostly gloss over the establishment of a pidgin, like theyll mention it but its not the main focus, and thats fine, not every first contact story should be about linguistics, but it fills me with a longing for more stories about trying to bridge a communication gap like that, especially ones that question the ability for advanced abstract translation at all

[who-do-i-know-this-man-s3]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[butchratchettruther]

The Children of Time series is so funny it’s just autistic scientist terraformers trying to make their special interest animal sentient to varying degrees of success

[lossis]

Terraformers

The quality is terrible, but here ya go, there isn't enough art for this book series

The constellations in the backround are a spider, a crow and an octapus

Here's the sketch

[approximateknowledge]

disra senkovi really laid he foundation for the most technologically advanced society in the setting just by being autistic about cephalopods hard enough

incredible

[azure-sorceress]

The best part of Children of Ruin is when Helena realizes that Senkovi's octupuses (octupi!) were capable of feeling empathy and he never knew. They were his whole life - a life filled with so much tragedy - and they cared about him. And he died never knowing that!

[bracketsoffear]

Children of Ruin (Adrian Tchaikovsky) "Thirty-one light years from Earth, a fraction of humanity's terraforming project survives the collapse of civilisation. When the universe falls silent, the five remaining scientists turn their attention to the planets below. Disra Senkovi continues the mission, isolated from his crewmates as his engineered aquatic life grows increasingly erratic, while the others study the planet Nod's seemingly harmless fauna, gathering data for no one to read. Their research abruptly halts when a native parasite jumps the gap between alien and human, devouring the minds of its hosts in an attempt to understand them. Senkovi, the mission's sole survivor, spends the last century of his life protecting the mutated denizens of his terraformed planet, whose civilisation he can no longer comprehend.

It's a book about isolation, literal and metaphorical; about incompatibility, inter- and intraspecific. It's about the fear that communication barriers can never be broken, about suffering that arises not from malice but misunderstanding. It's about the aching solitude we inflict on ourselves."

Main Street (Sinclair Lewis) "Sort of a literary forebear to the TMA episode Cul-de-Sac in its brutal portrayal of small town American life as the narrators attempts to connect with her neighbors and revitalize her town are met with failure and scorn."

[matrose]

dashboard from an alternate world where children of time series is big on tumblr

🌠isal41n

are we gonna adress how toxic kern was in regards to meshner or are we just gonna continue worshipping that evil bitch lmfao

🌌🔁lesbianspider

Says the person with a Lain url? As if she didn’t literally manipulate Holsten and also BABYTRAP HIM. Check your own faves first maybe, Ignoramus

🌄nodian-org

one reblog = one forehead kiss for senkovi :3

🎆h0lsten

"more morally grey women in media!!" you guys couldnt even handle isa lain

🌃octopi-in-the-sky

if i have to see another fucking person shipping senk////iel im gonna end it all. its not cute and senkovi didnt even like him and hes asexual so?????

🌇🔁s3nkiels

ok first of all he can be asexual and still be with yusuf and its not even confirmed so maybe do some research second of all youre being limiting and homophobic and you might as well just stop reading these books because theyre not FOR YOU. third of all if you maybe take a

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🏞️miranda-lain

guys i‘m crying about lain and holsten again ☹️

🎇oldearth-angel01✅✅✅

A NEW FEELING (PART 7) [18+]

AVRANA KERN x FEM!READER

A/N: You Guys wouldn‘t stop asking for another part so I am here to humbly deliver! Hope you like it and thanks to Bun for beta-reading, as always! 💜

Wordcount: 4.7k

Kern - no, you were supposed to call her Avrana now - smiled her sardonic smile at you, her lips curling. "Do you really understand what you are

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🩻com-putergirls

"more morally grey women in media!!" you guys couldnt even handle dr. avrana kern

🌁meshn3rs

just posted my new lante/kern/meshner ff on ao3 🙈🙈 nsfw warning y‘all 😝

🎑kalveenrani

guysss its so hard being like the only fan of a character 😭😭 why is there no content for my girl rani 😭

🌅lanterma

portia and bianca are sooo wuthering heights coded for real

[clonerightsagenda]

Reading Children of Ruin and Senkovi is really like heeeeeey guys don't get mad but my octopi may have taken over the spaceship

[astronomalyy]

rereading children of ruin again... for the third time... in less than a month...

[cassini-or-antillean]

Senkovi's Guide to the Torchwoods: Ruinous Arc

“People leave. Their bodies might be rotten or forgotten. Yet, for those who take their time to look for them, there always remain remnants. Monuments overgrown and houses abandoned are where the memory of them live.” - Clio Chronalectia

I have long had this fascination with the Ruinous Arc at the southern edge of the Torchwoods. Mother used to haggle with the toll collector. He was a large man, whose short legs barely held his body. Gleaming pauldrons reflected the sun, which made his forehead produce a river of sweat that parted at his tweezer-curated unibrow. Back then I thought he was a peculiar man, but years of travel have proven that that’s just what toll collectors look like. While he convinced her to pay the legally required fee, the man shielded himself from my mother’s verbal assault with a worn Code of Law. I, however, marveled at the arc’s limestone statues. They depicted heroes whose names and stories were unknown to me, and the ones I made up were riddled with outdated misconceptions and historical contradictions. The copper lettering across the inner edge of the gate read: "Angel of Rain. Bless us with your gift. Shield us from its ruin." 

The architect's plea went unnoticed. I later came upon an article in the Royal Observer, with an aptly drawn illustration. It showed the equally unibrowed master of the toll collection guild amidst a flood. He was hauling a sack of sand toward the arc-adjacent river Rubicon. Unbeknownst to him, an elemental water spirit was closing in with a piece of driftwood and murderous intent. It is extraordinary how the illustrator captured the territorial anger of what is basically just a large drop of water.

When returning to the Torchwood region, I used the same route my mother had taught me was safest. She and I were unaware, that the guild had moved their operation westward. The elemental attack had weakened the arc’s structural integrity to a point, where the toll collector’s union (No. of members: 3) had to step in. Forced to hide behind the fallen statue of one of the limestone heroes, I now spied on a small group of creatures. I dubbed them Curators, after their seemingly innate drive to collect pieces of foreign civilization. Their small heads were each hidden by skulls of various origins, underneath which they communicated in a muffled foreign tongue. Giving each other a boost, they created a fragile living tower along the Ruinous Arc. The topmost of them was the smallest and therefore their leader. Fidgeting with a screwdriver, it one-by-one carefully pocketed the copper letters. It started with the A, which was the only sensible choice, considering that the text began with it. The tower then shuffled over to the B, where one of the lower Curators made a comment. I imagine it was something along the lines of “Pick up the pace.”, to which the top answered something like “Shut it!” The tower then moved a few steps back. Rubbing the chin of its skull helmet, the leader then decided they would move onto a lowercase D and then three separate Es. 

Attentive readers will have noticed a pattern by now, but will be disappointed to hear that the Curator’s next choice was an O.

[remnantglow]

main characters from books i've read this year who i think are autistic (incomplete list):

pippa fitz-amobi from a good girl's guide to murder (literally special interest in true crime girlie <3)

lila-mae watson from the intuitionist

senkovi from children of ruin

edwin from a marvellous light

uriel from when the angels left the old country (autistic angel my beloved)