#wayfarers series

[thekawaiifruitworld]

Okay, so that one little sketch was so much fun that I had to expand it a bit... :D

[a-mymble-that-mumbles]

I know that a Wayfarers fandom exists somewhere. SOMEWHERE.

AND I CANT FIND IT.

Hear me now

I will find you

I will join you

And I will never be seen again.

Thank you for your time.

*i know it exists but not as much as I want it to*

[devils-sacrament-catering]

Becky Chambers really said neopronouns are the norm thousands of years from now in basically every species/language and only doubled down harder as her series went on and I love her for that.

[callmemanatee]

I've heard fans say there should be a movie adaptation of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, but consider this instead: a YouTube channel with a series of "vlogs" where characters from the Wayfarers books talk about what they're up to these days.

It would be small-scale, personal, and sweet. Just like the books we've grown to love.

[carcinogenetiicist]

The book Record of a Spaceborn Few is about so many things. It’s about the unbroken human spirit. It’s about how humans fear change but also desperately want it. It’s about how humans are reluctant to accept help, and also feel left behind when none is offered. It’s about human nature’s wariness of outsiders against our better judgment, but also unending curiosity. It’s about human unending optimism and the drive to survive.

But also it’s about 4 protagonists ending up at funeral for a guy they didn’t even really know.

[rewcana]

everyday i think about how i wish the dent bots from the wayfarer's series were real

[pop6squish-uhuh-cicero-lipschitz]

I recently devoured all of Becky Chambers’ books and they were exactly what I needed. I was reading a lot of Octavia Butler before and got really into sci-fi fantasy, but her books are really unsettling (as they should be) and I needed a little break. I love how Chambers’ style embodies a lot of what I adore in Octavia Butler combined with Star Trek and a few other things. It’s very hopeful and comforting while still shining a light at the terrors.

I’m gonna try Annalee Newitz next— does anybody have any recommendations for authors with similar styles and subject matter? I’d love recommendations, especially if you know there’s an audiobook!

[b-plot-butch]

is it time for another a closed and common orbit reread

[tgirlsunshine]

fuck, i just reread the long way to a small angry planet and i'm so.. incapable of being normal about the Aandrisk. half the characters in that book are like your family structure doesnt make sense or why are you so physically affectionate with everyone all the time at their entire species and meanwhile my poly ass is out here like i would literally deal with all the hassle of being a cold-blooded reptile if it meant living in a culture where casual intimacy could just exist, and where families work in a way that makes fucking sense, and where you can just HUG PEOPLE and be NORMAL ABOUT IT

in retrospect when i read this book the first time (before realizing i was poly) that could've really been a big fuckin clue huh

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology.

Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

[thekawaiifruitworld]

I've just finished reading "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" (Wayfarers Series, Becky Chambers) - which sat on my to-read list for far too long and which I loved! Its been a bit since I've last read through a book in one go, completely forgetting time - So here's a little sketch of Sissix & Ashby. :)

[boyduroy]

Please do yourself a favor and go read the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers, it is such amazing queer science fiction that explores themes of family, belonging, and Identity

[limnrix]

So this was inspired by the Exodan ships in Becky Chambers' Record of a Spaceborn Few and how they're laid out in recursive hexagons. I kind of just did it to see if I could, and started thinking architecturally / city planner style, so things aren't necessarily how they're described in the book, but how I would want a utopian nested hex city. I put in actual doors in the residential areas which was maybe unnecessary. It doesn't include manufacturing really, and I'm not totally sure where education goes, but there's some flexibility for a lot of things under the "retail" category. I preferred to make it all symmetrical rather than making district centers different. There could maybe be a bigger park around the Center, for composting, instead of "administration", which a society with internet may not need actual rooms for. Instead of handwaving that there's a transport level above this, I specifically tried to lay out a way to walk/ride through from any place to another, with some consideration for privacy, although sometimes traffic will go through your yard. Arguably there could be a 7th scale level, but I'm not going to torture InDesign any more.

The smallest unit is the hexagonal room. Homes are 5 rooms (sometimes 1 or 4 depending on throughway placement) and a half bath around a living room, which has a hallway going to the center of each hex. Hexes are made up of 6 homes around a yard and eating area with a kitchen in the middle, with households taking turns making one big 30 person meal a day. There are six hexes in a neighborhood around each park, and each park has a gym, pool, and public bath center servicing about 180 people. Six neighborhoods surround each district with shops, public spaces, services, and a clinic in the center for around 1080 people. The districts surround an administrative center, and death services in the middle. The whole ship houses around 6500 people.

[callmemanatee]

I finished The Galaxy and the Ground Within about a month ago.

And I am still Having Feelings about Akaraks' lifespan being only 20 to 25 standards.

Speaker and Tracker deserve more time to enjoy the universe.

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Rosemary is WLW and uses she/her pronouns!

[meetmeinmyden]

Wayfarers Series microfic: A Closed and Common Orbit

Re-finding Owl

Seeing Owl’s face on the scrib made Pepper’s heart feel like it was bursting free from her torso in every direction. She flattened herself against the wall behind her and wailed, waves of relief rising through her as the years of grief knotted in her chest broke free at last.

Sidra and Tak had done it. Owl was free. Owl was here.

Owl was crying, and Pepper knew she was too, though she could barely feel it. Her world was complete, she could stop searching. She suddenly felt exhausted; the years of guilt, of never knowing, of never truly being able to rest, were over.

‘Let me try something’, said Sidra, and she leaned back and went quiet. A moment later, Pepper saw her expression change. Sidra looked as she had done briefly just before Owl had appeared on the scrib, soft and nurturing: a part of Owl was in the kit. Pepper knew that this would be the only time Sidra would invite Owl to share her body, and she knew why Sidra had done it. Pepper leaned in to Owl/Sidra and unlike 15 standards prior when Owl had patched herself into the Big Bug Crew, Pepper could feel Owl holding her as she cried.