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Re-read, here we goo~ fucking Mohiam "I enjoin you to practice the meditation of peace."

Oooh this one reminds me of a certain Black Mirror episode.

Omg, this is so sad. Unexpected

I feel like so far, it's stronger than Strange Houses but weaker than Strange Pictures

"Is it more respectful to treat him like a human being, or to accept that he isn’t one?"

Is it evil of me to not want the digients to become incorporated

Ted Chiang is so big brained

Yess I'm loving the continuation of the free will debate in this book. Except it seems there is even MORE. That's increasingly becoming one of my favourite themes of all time

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate was a really good short story. Love

This last short story is very good

Naur, not the eugenics of it all.

I went to the beginning after "Story of Your Life" and read the other short stories. "Understand" was so good.

Ugh so good... I'm skipping around and reading this short story first

Ahh I am saurrrr sorrie, but I just cannot with Jude. I understand why he's the way he is since I know spoilers, and I obviously feel bad for him, but he's so frustrating. Pleaseee. I think my main gripe is that I wanted a story that was about 4 friends, and then it turns into the Jude show.

JB is such a bro LMAO. Why is he like this. But also some of the diaspora stuff is a bit relatable.

Seriously, with how insane I am about checking dates and details, I should be a consistency editor. Already I found one inconsistency ahh

"One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, 'It’s not like you don’t have a choice, because you do—you can either type or kill yourself.'"

Omg this is so helpful. I'll have to use that.

"for a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death—the greatest leisure of all."

The way Murata always makes me feel seen...

"Men at death's door are not my type."

"Cannibalism is relatively rare among birds, a fact that may be related to one aspect of their specialized anatomy—their beaks."

Condolences, birds. Impeded by the beak

Wow, Natsuki is so me-coded. The comments that her mom makes about her = 1:1 with my childhood wowie