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An exclusive summary has been leaked to GoodReads:

The million-copy, New York Times bestselling Murderbot series is back in another full-length novel adventure! Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize. But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast! Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.

At the time of posting, no update or announcement has been made to Martha Wells' Dreamwidth or Mastodon, nor has any announcement been made on Tor dot com's site or Twitter.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #system collapse #huzzah! it must be mine! #ooh nobody expected a direct sequel! #more Three oh boy!!

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After the judge dismissed Wallace, she turned to Heckel, who sat flanked by JCPS attorneys.

“I just want to say I’m so sorry you have to deal with this,” Leibson told Heckel. “I admire your courage. … I wish you had been my librarian when I was a kid.”

Heckel, a 22-year employee of JCPS, declined to be interviewed for this story. She did, however, offer a brief statement before the hearing.

“Books are mirrors and windows,” she told LPM News. “And any reader deserves the right to choose to see themself in what they read.”

#librarians #lgbtq #queer people need books too! #good news

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I accidentally opened this side blog in the app and now apparently I have to make a post in it before I can do anything else in the app? This app sucks. Sorry to disturb you.

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That wraps up Retropleasantspot for an unknown period of time. If you wish to travel through time and space to a completely different, yet uncannily similar, experience, may I suggest following My Broken Strangetown? Already in progress.

#my broken Strangetown #follow me all over tumblr why not?

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And some background shots, without which no rotation of mine is complete. 

#Pleasant #Hart #Land #Broke #Gavigan #Yukon #Rumiez #Kat #Hogg #Beech #Caliente #Goodie #Ramaswami #Newson

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Sandy goes out to breathe the sweet air of relief where no one can recognize that this is what she’s feeling. She misses Rhett; but he’s engaged to Penny, and if the truth ever comes out, she’ll be a middle-aged single mother with no work history or source of income. And it’s not as if she doesn’t love Hamilton. If she can learn to resign herself to coming first with no one...or if she can continue to come first with Lindquist now that he’s starting to engage with the world more...if she can cut her coat according to her cloth and not be always wanting More...

Virginia is still at the stage of life when wanting More is not discouraged. If she’s to be the first of her family to go to college - and Daytona’s made it plan that she is! - she needs to knuckle down to the homework and extracurriculars. 

#Beech #Sandy #Virginia

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Bullets dodged, one. Daytona’s  not satisfied; but Hamilton is and that’s good enough for now.

#Beech #Sandy & Hamilton #Lindquist #Penny #Daytona #Alexander

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nerianasims replied to your photoset “Hart Recent upheavals have left Valentine and Candy...”

My Candy's always been a good mother. She let someone who could connect with babies take on most of the childcare while her kid was a baby, rather than sticking the poor baby with a distant caretaker. Then she took over when the kid grew into someone she could see as a person. (As definitely NOT a baby person, I identify.)

Good point. Personally I’d have been a terrible mother, the kind who starts off giving too much and then having a breakdown and having nothing to give. Candy in my regular Widespot is a pretty good mom, too, all things considered. She let Goldie, Val, and Rhett do most of the raising when Arden was a baby, got a little more involved with him as a toddler, and then moved downtown with him when her income from writing books and wringing money out of Rich and Junior was secure enough.  She even fought a burglar who got too close to his room once.  She won, too.  And never told him about it, because she wants him to feel secure.

Maybe she spoiled him a little and gave him Mommy Issues, but she’s got Daddy Issues herself, and it’s not as if anybody knows how to raise kids without those, anyhow.  If we demand perfection before we acknowledge good parenting, we’ll never see a good parent. 

#nerianasims #Candy #Hart #parenting

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Can’t throw a party till Daytona and Hamilton get home from work.

It’s not a birthday party, but an air of suspense hangs over proceedings anyhow. Hamilton’s trying not to get sucked in to his Mama’s suspicions, but...Mama’s always right. Happiness hangs by a nose.

#Beech #Sandy & Hamilton #Virginia #Penny #Daytona #Angela #alexander

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Lindquist is a surprisingly quiet baby, so Saturday at the Beech household is fairly quiet: Chess, reading, greeting random walkbys because they’re Popularity sims and that’s what they do...

#Beech #Virginia #Rocky #Sandy

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The party tuckered Angeline out, but by the time Grandpa gets home with the new dress, she’s raring to go.

#Hart #Angeline #Candy

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Valentine ran out to get some clothes for his granddaughter that aren’t a pink tuxedo, and did his best to broaden his acquaintance among female elders while he was at it.

But sometimes, you just have to stop fighting.

#Hart #Valentine

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Junior broods, Angel is unable to resist a party, Rhett realizes Dixie’s legal now, Valentine and Mary can’t overcome the gravitational pull, and one way or another the roof gets raised. 

#Hart #Valentine & Mary #Angel #Junior #Goldie #Candy #Rhett #Dixie

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And then it’s downstairs to meet her guests, but her father has other things on his mind.

#Hart #Valentine & Mary #Valentine vs. Junior #Goldie #Dixie #Angeline #Scot #Candy #Gavin

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Goldie is the one who gets up to help with birthday, but when she runs off to contact her friends for a party, Candy steps in like a boss.

#Hart #Angeline #Goldie #Candy

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Valentine heads to the pool alone and tries to make connections with a woman decently close to his own age. Daytona’s a prickly one, though.

#Hart #Valentine #Daytona

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Recent upheavals have left Valentine and Candy uncharacteristically content to stay home and put their house in order.  Candy is hardly besotted with her child, but does not have the energy to want much beyond looking after her, figuring out how to use Mama’s huge kitchen, and keeping up with her favorite romance authors.  Valentine is putting his house in order and trying not to think about Mary, or any other young lady who’s still fertile, too much.

And Goldie’s life is looking up, along with her grades.

#Hart #Valentine #Candy #Goldie #Angeline