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I just finished reading Provenance, and 

This is an especially nice in contrast to the hyper-competence of Breq in Ancillary.

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I just finished reading Provenance, and 

Ingray's fear and overwhelmed-ness resonated with me.

I super appreciate this depiction of someone who displays incredible courage while also still just sort of muddling along, trying to deal with situations outside of her experience and internalized ability.

The part where she had a gun pressed to her head really did convey "she is facing threat of imminent death and can't really deal" so much better than most stories.

@Vulpes_Absurda okay I have to ask now
how big is your stash of cute fox pictures
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Provenance is set in a different culture than Ancillary (within the same universe) and is approaching a somewhat different set of themes, but it's written in the same voice and is undeniably a work of the same author.

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I /think/ that Radchaai culture has zero genders and not one, but am curious to hear if anyone feels otherwise :)

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The last few books by Anne Leckie were set in a culture that had zero genders. The newest one is set in a culture with three :)

specially trained navigators use pumpkin spice to guide ships through pumpkin space

"sword lesbian" is officially the best D&D paladin archetype, it's scientifically proven

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@nire@witches.town yeah there's a bag inside that collapses as the wine is used so there's no empty space for oxygen to fill.

It's really bag wine but that's even less marketable than box wine.

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@nire@witches.town yeah the spout doesn't let any oxygen in.

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@nire@witches.town bottles going bad if they're not finished within a day or two.

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Box wine is a brilliant invention and almost entirely fixes the most annoying thing about the drink.

@vahnj :D are you running another one-shot for mastodon folks?

One thing that's really fascinating about tabletop RPGs is how permeable the barrier between what's inside and what's outside of the fiction is. Diagesis is a matter of negotiation.

Sometimes when I'm in the house and can't tell where my partner is I'll say "mew?" as a ping to get the "meow" locating response back.

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