#that they Know its evil they swear. but conquest alone is evil it doesn't matter how they do it ornwhat conditions the colonized ppl are in | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

llycaons · 3 months

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trying to listen to ancillary sword but it's going excruciatingly slow bc it's a sequel, and in fact I think the first sequel I'm listening to on audiobook. even very good sequels (which I expect this will be) will pepper in exposition and background info in the first chapter to catch up readers, which tend to take place in between lines of dialogue. I wouldn't mind except I always forget what was just said and have to go back and check, and it's comparatively much more difficult to rewind an audiobook to the right place than to glance back over a page. so I've been listening very very slowly aha. but I've finally gotten to ch2 and I'm glad I'm reading the sequel right away bc the story picks right up from the finale of the first book and I'm already intrigued by the new characters and entertained by the new plot direction

#I'm also very fond of the undying loyalty a formerly extremely arrogant bastard asshole is exhibiting #she saved his life and he's never going to abandon her even tho he used to think he was inherently superior to him #oh and the gender this is also rly interesting bc it doesn't rly exist in their society. I say him but that's only what the doctor assigned #to that characterm none of them truly have gender identities. even tho they all use she/her and call the kids daughters and neices #none of them really identify with womenhood. it's simply an identifier. they are a single-gender society #on more than a linguistic level #which is neat to think of the characters. remove gender from the equation entirely and try to imagine someone described as so-and-so #these ARE humans these ARE individuals with hormones and sex organs and those who can carry children #but it just doesn't matter as a social force or an identifier #and I can see someone whos passionate abt their gender feeling very disheartened by that #but maybe this is bc EYE use she/her but I find it all so natural and freeing. and they do use 'my lord' and 'sir' like there ARE markers #that are typically for men in english that are used for this society. it's just everyone uses she/her under the linguistic system #but it doesn't even really indicate a woman so the author may as well have used they/them and it amounts to the same thing #world of nonbinary people #weird that the cultural assimilation associated with the destruction of gender markers and presentation isn't brought up. ever #BUT THIS BOOK DOESN'T SEEM INTERESTED IN THE IMPACT OF IMPERIALISM ON COLONIZED PEOPLES 😭😭😭🔪#like this is literally genocide and the characters are all way more interested in the inner working of the empire while claiming #that they Know its evil they swear. but conquest alone is evil it doesn't matter how they do it ornwhat conditions the colonized ppl are in #afterwards. which historically haven't been great anyway? damn what's your thesis here on empire ms leckie #cor reads

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