#tchiakovsky

[dryococelas01]

Just finished Day of Ascension by Adrien Tchiakovsky!

Genuinely quite good

Short at around 190 pages, it's the tale of an ambitious and bitter Genetor tech priest who discovers something interesting in the genes of the human population of his world, and a mechanicus clerk who's part of a strange cult worshipping a many handed emperor, who wants to overthrow the tyranny of the mechanicus.

There's nothing suspicious going on here.

A story of rebellion, religion, and corruption.

Some genuinely great moments, a good end, makes me want to make a kitbashed play-as-mechanicus army that's definitely a normal mechanicus army nothing weird going on.

Both of the perspective characters are great.

I am a bit of a fangirl for many of Adrien Tchaikovskys works. Got a signed copy of Dogs of War, a lovely book.

"Again, the youth that was Davien shied away from their massed attention, but then she could hear the singing, just an echo of it, coursing in her blood. She thrilled to it even as it terrified her. Xenos taint, Triskellian had said, and she had an image of vast wings unfurling in the void, ravenous jaws and segmented limbs. Hunger, for that song was all about hunger. It was terrible, but it was beautiful. To be part of something greater, to go on forever. And better the angels in all their fearful glory than the engines of the tech-priests. If we are to be ground up and devoured, I choose the jaws. "

[obi-wann-cannoli]

2025 Book Bingo!

I’m doing 2 book related challenges this year, storygraph’s 2025 genre challenge and @batmanisagatewaydrug’s book bingo! (I’ll follow along with the book bingo on storygraph!)

I’ve mostly figured out what I’ll read for the book bingo, though I probably won’t start reading books for it until mid-January. They’re in the queue though.

These are the books I’ve figured out so far:

Literary fiction: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept by Elizabeth Smart

Short story collection: A People’s Future of the United States edited by Victor Lavelle and John Joseph Adams

Sequel: Fire Dance by Ilana C Meyer

Reread Childhood Fave: The Oracle Betrayed by Catherine Fisher

20th Century Speculative Fiction: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler

Fantasy: Halfling by S.E. Wendel

Pre-1950: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Indie Publisher: The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar

Graphic novel: Monstress vol 5 by Sama Takeda and Marjorie Liu

Animal on the cover: The Bear and The Serpent by Adrian Tchiakovsky

Set in a country you’ve never visited: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

Science Fiction: Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty

Memoir: An Indian Among Los Indigenas by Ursula Pike

Zine: Fat is Beautiful by Crystal Hartman. Second entry: Let Me Cook by Cydney Hayes

Essay collection: Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

2024 Award Winner: Crooked by Nathan Masters

Nonfiction: God Save The Queens by Kathy Iandoli

Social justice and activism: White Tears/ Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad

Romance: Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey

Read/make a recipe: American Cookie by Anne Byrn

Horror: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Published in the aughts: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

Historical Fiction: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

I’m waiting on the 2025 debut authors (though I have some ideas) and bookseller/librarian rec. but for now I know every book on this current list I either own physically or can get from the library! (Was lucky enough to have a bookstore near me that has zines for sale!)

[zibanejad]

tagged by @chriskreider!

tag 9 people u wanna know more about

-last song: hurricane drunk, florence + the machine

-last move: i think it was inside out 2? watched it a couple of weeks ago, it was cute!

-currently watching: im not really watching anything right now, i haven't had the time to get into a show

-currently reading: the scarab path by adrian tchiakovsky

-current obsession: josh hart & jalen brunson comparing the bats volpe gave them on their podcast last week.

thanks for the tag!! i will also tag the girl reading this <3

[varchaiiart]

being a student into fandom is trying to focus on studying by listening to tchiakovsky and getting sidetracked doodling mizu as a ballerina. i'm so glad i got back into drawing this year but there are downsides 😭

[nickandros]

11 and/or 17 for book asks! :)

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

giovanni's room!! there is nothing i can say about it that hasn't already been said by people much smarter than me, but it did make me go out and by some of james baldwin's essays which i plan to read this year!!

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

city of last chances technically because i had never read any adrian tchiakovsky, i'd just seen him review other scifi and so i picked it up entirely on a whim, had 0 expectations and it was by far and away my favourite book of the year. really good. i'll think about this book forever.

[papaya-inspiration]

2024 Reads in Review Asks for you 📘

1, 2, 7, 16, 17, 21.

Ooh, so many to answer!

Faves of the year

This is extremely hard to pick, but I have to go with The Lady Astronauts series by Mary Robinette Kowal, starting with The Calculating Stars. These books are just so amazingly written, and so for me. They have some of the best character writing I've ever seen, some of the most thrilling plots, and some really fantastic merging of real space science, real history, and just enough speculative fiction freedom to make them soar.

Honorable Mentions: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Significant Zero by Walt Williams, and Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (a reread, but always a fave.)

2. Flops of the year

House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. Without a doubt. I have ranted and raved in several places now about what an absolute heap of soggy cotton candy this book is. I cannot for the life of me understand why it's gotten all the buzz it has. It's saccharine, condescending, thematically confused, boring, badly paced, and nearly every piece of the established world building falls apart the minute you think about it for two seconds.

Two other lesser disappointments included: Kingdom of Ash and Birars by Hannah West (generic YA fantasy with middling to poor execution) and Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Talked by Eric Larocca (good first story, but the other two in the collection where confused, shock-value nonsense.)

7. Wasted Potential: Great premise and/or characters but fell down on execution

Elder Race by Adrian Tchiakovsky for sure. It's stuffed full of tropes that I love (a stranded scientist struggling for meaning, the meeting of science an myth, and even a good dose of eldritch horror at the end) but I just couldn't connect with the characters, and there were some odd story telling choices that I feel really hamstrung the overall experience. I'd love to see this same concept written by an author I connect with more, like Becky Chambers, who could add some much need texture and heart to the whole thing.

16. Biggest surprise?

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson! Based on the cover and blurb, I expected this to be a middling YA fantasy with an unwelcome enemies to lovers plot that I'd read for book club and then forget about a few weeks later. Turns out it was an extremely well written, fast paced story about two very traumatized people helping each other grow--and the particular EtL relationship I was worried about never even materialized. Instead, we got several different really heartfelt friendship plots and a cool magic system and I am HERE for it.

Honorable mention also goes to Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa, which is a novella I pulled off a bookstore shelf almost at random and then devoured in an afternoon. I don't know what I was expecting, but what I got was strange, sardonic, and quite enjoyable.

17. New author (either to you, or with a recent debut) you're hoping to read more of?

Victoria Goddard! I read The Hands of the Emperor and The Return of Fitzroy Angursell and really loved both. They are excellent hopepunk high fantasy, and she has a sprawling world of interconnected novels that I would love to dive into more. Though I hope and pray someday she gets picked up by an agent and published by a traditional publisher with a more intensive editing style--all her books are self published and while they are fantastic, they are prone to bloat and inconsistent exposition manage ment. I think the work of a professional editor could really take them to the next leve.

Honorable mention for this is Ann Leckie. I will absolutely be finishing the Imperial Radch series this year, and hopefully reading the side books in it as well!

21. Best recommendation from a friend

I'm not sure if I should count my book club books in this or not. If not... I think I'll go with either Witch Hat Atelier or Significant Zero.

[defilededandies]

The Nutcracker Suite - Tchiakovsky-Berlin Symp (Baz Kuts Mix) .mp3

[ask-canterlot-musicians]

Lyra’s really blowing up with these puns.

And here’s the 15 minute overture for you Tchaikovsky fans.

Planning to do a stream tomorrow around 1pm PDT, going to continue working on the illustration from last time. Hope to see you folks there.

Here’s a time zone translator for that. Many links tonight.

[mendelssohn-kin]

Descriptions of some composers

Beethoven: angry and described by this old book in like 1973 as a natural born antagonist. Good hair, yelled a lot,

Mozart: a little shit. No literally. He had a thing for poop. Check the wiki. Mozart and scatology. But he was a cool dood aside from that I guess, good at music and had a smirk like :V

Jean baptist Lully: I'm only including him here because I enjoyed his death, and yes I was there. He was stamping the beat, stabbed himself in the foot with the cane with which he was using, refused to get an amputation, and then got infected and died. Nerd.

Schubert: never got famous, wore neat glasses, had a cool group of friends. Died of syphilys Or however you spell that so at least he had some action???

Schumann: the physical embodiment of depression

Clara schumann: oh fuck bless her amazing all around genuine 10/10

Mendelssohn: pretty stable childhood, nice sideburns, fuckin love his music, wrote The Violin Concerto. Had depression I think

Fanny Mendelssohn: never got the right credit even thought her pieces are beautiful. Made fun of Felix Mendelssohns new name (bartholdy)

Brahams: grew up in a bad hooters. Helped Clara raise the kids and composed some Gucci shit

Tchaikovsky: gay sad gay sad gay sad oh look cannons gay sad death

Elgar: idk enough abt his personal life but love his music

Sibelius: I'm sad so I'm gonna hide in this forest and say I'm not composing but I totally am also here's a violin concerto

Liszt: I eat human hands for lunch

Chopin: sob while listening to my music

Shostakovich: Stalin is bad but at least I have a piglet so?? Everything's fine and the world premiere of my 7th symphony totally didn't have a dying orchestra playing it

I wrote it all rushed trying to get it to a friend so forgive me

[lavilladeste]

Tchaikovsky Trio: Heifetz, Rubinstein, Piatigorsky (part 5)

[teotoffee]

with wagner as tchaiko and bada's new producer, i wanna see how things turn out

[ajkunballettheatre]

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[haya-haya-iamthatiam]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTH-3HdjvF8): 

Andrei Rublev (short verson with subtitles in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MUJc... Complete version in Russian -- for non-Russian speakers, it's worth looking at the icons in color at the end of the film.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsEbr... i AM BETWEEN THE PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD ,AND THE PLEASURES OF THE NEXT.  Russian Icon of St. Andrei Rublev, holding one of his worksVenerable Father (Prepodobne)Born1360-1370DiedJanuary 29, 1427 or 1430 in Andronikov Monastery, MoscowVenerated inEastern Orthodox ChurchCanonizedJune, 1988, Trinity-St. Sergius Lavraby Holy Governing Synod of the Moscow PatriarchateFeastJanuary 29, July 4AttributesClothed as an Orthodox monk, often shown holding an icon

[moxieestar]

Playlist: Felix Yusupov

I was hoping someone would ask this!!!

Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)

Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker (Tchiakovsky)

'Sempre Libera' from La Traviata (Verdi)

'Quando me'n vo' from La Bohème (Puccini)

Entrance of the Shades from La Bayadère (Minkus)

None But the Lonely Heart (Tchaikovsky)

L'indifférent from Shéhérazade (Ravel)

Theme from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)

Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)

Italian Polka (Rachmaninoff)

I hope you like it :)

[melmothblog]

Renata Shakirova (2015 Vaganova Ballet Academy graduate) and Alexey Timofeev in "Tchiakovsky Pas De Deux".

Video by Rafail Zakirov. Photos by Natasha Razina and Valentin Baranovsky.

[theoriginalladya]

I like Aubrey. Just saying. (Please use this as an excuse to throw a bunch of random rambling about him here as well.)

Hehehehe. A bunch of random rambling? Hmmm.... let me see....

The person who helps keep him safe on Omega introduces him to music as a way to help him find calm when he needs it, to re-center and focus; not the club stuff you hear at Afterlife, but human classical - Handel, Beethoven, Tchiakovsky, Mozard, etc. - and other genres, as well as music from other species - asari, turian, salarian, even batarian and elcor. He loves all of it, though to be fair, some genres are more soothing than others. He takes a particular liking to human jazz and classical, as well as elcor and an asari genre that sounds a bit like human fusion, but not quite.

Aubrey's favorite color is a dark, rusty orange.

(metallic burnt orange)

Aubrey isn't afraid of the dark, but he does get a bit nervous in very small, very tight quarters. He has a couple of moments where being in tight spaces nearly send him into an anxiety attack.

I suppose I ought to bring Kaidan into this, since their story is, technically, an mClone Shenko story. Aubrey and Kaidan do NOT get along well together at first (for reasons that will be explained in the story). I haven't quite decided yet who the first one is to give enough for that to change, but right now it seems to be an unconscious thing on Aubrey's part (but don't hold me to that! lol).

Much later on - maybe even after the main story is over, not sure yet - Kaidan and Aubrey head back to Earth where Kaidan takes him to the Orchard. It's the first time Aubrey goes to Earth. Kaidan introduces him to his mother, a cousin or two who survived the war, maybe an uncle or an aunt (I need to think about his background in this one more). Takes him on a tour of the orchard. It's autumn. Aubrey's never seen trees (or at least trees like this) before, and Kaidan picks an apple for each of them. Aubrey isn't quite sure what to do with it until Kaidan shows him how to eat it. The first rush of tangy, appley tartness that crosses his tongue leaves Aubrey laughing in delight as juice dribbles down his chin. (Suffice it to say, it's an image Kaidan will never forget)

That's about all I've got right now. Check back later and we'll see what else he pops in with! :D Thank you again for asking! <3